The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-09
Landon Lays Down
Platform Clearly
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WAsH1NGToN' May '-Those persons who
w want real inside tip as to what kind of presi-
Dental campaign Gov. Landon will conduct if
nominated missed the whole point of his radio inter
view this week if they stopped when they read the
headlines, "Landon Attacks F. D." and skipped the
rest The news in this interview was not in the
headlines
Here are the tips in his broadcast that forecast
his campaign stand:
"Moderates will decide the election--our high
national ideals the call for social justice, goal
of maximum opportunity for every man, woman
and child being betrayed by wasteful, slip
shod incompetent, happy go-lucky administration
progressive government deserves something bet
ter than casual experiment it can succeed only
when accompanied by careful preparation COM
petent administration and sound fiscal policies.
The Republican Party must go forward along sound
and progressive lines. No other course will do.
Where humanitarian legislation is needed we
must provide it. Including improved social Sc
curty legislation Where labor and agriculture are
under disadvantages they must be removed
where business is hamstrung so that it can not
furnish Jobs must free it. Certain admnlStra-
ton detectives have been good but its methods have
been mostly bad. (. There should be regulation of
business wherever regulation keeps open opportunity
and protects, not hampers the people as whole in
exercising their rights such protection of children
and women in industry, workmen's compensation
enforcement of sanitary provision safety reasonable
working hours . and the subject of monopoly
commercial liberty for the common man.
T ANDON'S discussion of monopoly is especially
IL significant:
Monopoly is bad for every one including business
d. profits are not fairly passed on to labor and
consumer all other groups are put at disad-
vantage opportunity is closed to the small man
4. have to attack the evils of monopoly frankly
and resolutely and require the government to keep
the competitive system in force at all times 1t will
not do to think can put monopoly on its good be-
havor and forget about it,
And so on.
Actually Landon's broadcast probably is one of
the most significant utterances that has come from
the Republican side since the party began pulling
itself together after the 1882 cyclone 1t is Sgni-
cant because with the nomination almost in his
grasp. he chose to ignore the risk of laying himself
open to attack from inside the party and boldly
stepped fCcward to declare himself so that if he
nominated, there can be misunderstanding after
wsfd.
He deliberately served notice that he is intent
upon offering a constructive program, not upon
limiting himself TO 100 per cent damnaton of
Roosevelt He did not get down to specific sugges-
tons, but was concerned with spreading on the rec
ords his political and social philosophy and the gen.
eral outlines OF the policy which would guide him
THIEF JUSTICE HUGHES, before the American
~ Law Institute. justifying divided opinions by
the Supreme Court, explained that everywhere in
the highest ranges of thought find differences of
view and that likewise in the law we do not sud-
denly rise to a stratosphere of icy cersSinty"
That Is exactly the complaint of critics of the
court In the AAA decision, the ma jority did 60 I'D
into an atmosphere of icy certainty whereas the
three dissenting justices felt that the functions, of
government could be CONCEALED inside neaS molds set
$50 years AGO.