Evening star., 1936-07-15

Location of Democratic national cam
paign headquarters in New York City
and of Republican headquarters in Chi
cago typifieS the paramount geographical
importance which the two parties this
year bestow, respectively. upon the East
and the West. New Dealers, recognizing
that President Roosevelt faces his Stiffest
opposition in the industrial and financial
regions contiguous to the Atlantic Sea-
board. will conduct conSplcuouSly
vigorous fight in these ATTITUDES and
probably concentrate most of their
energy there The Republicans. con-
sidering New England and the East gen.
orally as territory friendly to Landon,
plan to center heavy fire on the Middle
West and West, where, according to re-
cent polls. the Rooseveltians appear to
be strongly intrenched. From Chicago
the G. o. P. will launch strenuous
drive in Democratic strongholds through
out the agricultural belt on both sides
of the Mississippi and in the far North
west and Pacific Coast areas. Broadly
speaking. New Deal victory hopes are
based on the expectation of holding
the West and the South and at least
three or four Eastern and Northern
States with big electoral votes. Reptb-
lican tactics, resting ON the theory that
the business East is lost to Roosevelt,
will be distinguished by particularly
intensive effort to rob him OF the west.
Republicans naturally welcome with
open arms former Senator William Ca
bell Bruce of Maryland as Democratic
Mugwump No. l of the 1886 campaign.
They think he is the trail-blazer OF an
impressive galaxy of Democratic anti
New Dealers who sooner or later Will
take a walk down the path along which
AL Smith pointed the way. Senator
Bruce is Virginian of stalwart Jef1er-
sonian and constitutionaliSt traditions.
While an undergraduate at the Unlver-
sity of Virginia he was in competltlon
with Woodrow Wilson and others IN de-
bates of the Jefferson Literary Society
and won a gold medal as its champion
speaker and eSsayiSt. Bruce was AWARDED
the Pulitzer biography prize In 1913 1or
his two-volume life of Benjamin Frank
lin. During his one term in the Senate,
ended in 1929, the Baltimorean was
outstanding as an advocate OF repeal,
seizinp on every possible occasion to
divest himself of a scholarly speech on
the wet side of the prohibition contro-
versy. He was one of the acknowledged
intellectuals of Congress and liberal OF
the old school. It's supposed from his
letter favoring the Landon candidacy
that Bruce may be ready to take the
stump against the New Deal if drafted
for that purpose during the campaign.
X 4
Signor Fulvio Suvich, newly appointed
italian Ambassador to the United States,
was born at Triest in 1887, when that
present Italian region was still under
Austrian domination. He was promi-
nent from his youth in movements Tor
its liberation, and was frequently in
dicted for his activities in political
causes. At the outbreak of the World
War Suvich took refuge in Italy with
his family. He volunteered for service
wk<EEhe Italian Army and on retire.
menE with officers rank at the end OF
the campaign completed his studies in
law. Having become one of the founders
Of the Nationalist movement, Suvich was
elected Fascist deputy In 1921, devot-