The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30
KEYNOTER STEIWER'S RECORD

| When the Old Guard management of the Repub- can party announced it's selection of Senator Fred erick Steiwer of Oregon keynoter at the Ceve-
 land convention the general impression of the staff correspondents seemed to be that the choice was ideal. He accurately described " little oi this and little of that" Westerner sponsored by Messrs. Hilles Roraback and Dave Reed He hao voted for NRA, for AAA and all amendments fol IVA the Wagner Labor Act the Securities and Ex- change laws, but fought vaantly against the work relief bill, the 1935 tax bill to include bloated in- comes the famed utility death sentence and hold ing company bill Some commentators averred that the selection evidenced rather precarious predica- ment, considering that the theoretical task of a kcynoter is to personfy well portray the prin ciples of the party.
 However the concensus of COP. editorial opin- ion was most favorable None had more vehementy demanded suspension of federal expenditures even for relief, and completely balanced budget without another instant's delay But the impression sought to be conveyed that he "centrst," he had confined his efforts the floor of the Senate, they said, and there nothing to indicate that his per- formance at Cleveland would be partisan
 The truth i5 that Senator Steiwer had at least two trial heats at keynoting prior to his unanimous choice on April 2lst. On March 24th he the keynoter at the North Carolina Republican state convention. At Raleigh he said the issue this year is short and simple: Save America from the New Deal; liquidate it." In the Republican state con- vention at Bangor Maine, April 2nd he keynoted thus: "The paramount political issue at this time may be stated in question: Is the retention Of the New Deal as distinguished from governmental administration by either the Republican the Demo- cratic party good thing for America?"
 thousand times no, he thundered. The Roose welt administration he said, permits the American farmer to degenerate into peasant; is destroy Ours is government by politicians seeking personal gain with scant regard for the public interest and the trade agreements that are now gradually restor- ing foreign trade he asserted make an out right gift of American markets to foreign com petitors'
 In address to the Queens county Republican committee in Jamaica, Long Island May 2nd, Sena- tor Steiwer gave another foretaste of his Cleveland keynote follows:
 We propose to liquidate the Works Progress Ad ministration and to turn responsibility for re-
 lief to the States and local agencies Let's go back to the old America to the spirit that built up this country from the Original Thirteen colonies"
 If these declarations of principle any thing especially the determination to liquidate" the keynoter would wreck every policy adopted by Pres dent Roosevelt for relief recovery and reform Since he made exceptions in either of these three trial dscourses he would repeal the bank deposit insur- law. social security stock exchange regulation, the HOLC the CCC camps, all public works and relief and all else. And notwithstanding the fact that the people approved them by a vastly larger ma jority 1894 than they voted for their proponent in 1882