The Washington times., 1936-08-22
COP. NOMINEE
APPLAUDEDBY
THOUSANDS
Train Speeds Toward
Birthplace; Will Talk
At 3 P. M. Today
By WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON

ABOAFLD LANDON SPEC1AL,
EN- ROUTE TO WEST MIDDLE
SEX, Pa. Aug. % Q.N.SO.-Leav-
ing an aroused citizenry in his
wake on a 1,500-mile sweep across
the country, Gov. Alfred M. Ian
don, a Pennsylvania boy who rose
to national eminence in Kansas,
was hurrying back to his birth
place today to officially launch his
campaign for the presidency.
The Republican nominee will
deliver the first of three major ad-
dresses in the industrial East this
afternoon at the Tam O'Shanter
Golf Club, IS miles from his birth
place in West MiddleSex. He will
speak at at 3 p. m. (E.S.T.) on the
subject of AmericaniSm.
The other two speeches will be
delivered at Chautauqua, N. Y,
Monday night and at Buffalo
Wednesday night.
Entering Ohio early this morn
ing. after a triumphant swing
across Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa
and Illinois, Landon reminded
throngs that flocked to his train
that he had gone to school in his
youth at Marietta in the Buckeye
State. He also repeated his plea
for election of Republican Con-
gress to end must legislation"
and to restore representative gov
ernment in Washington.
Thousands Cheer Him
The Kansas Governor proved a
surprising campaigner on his long
trip East from brief vacation in
the Colorado Rockies. Time and
again, he drew crowds of from
$4,000 to $4,000 to hear him speak
from the rear end of his special
train. Time and again, the crowds
at small towns far outnumbered
the total population. At every
stop, he won wild applause by
protesting against waste and ex-
travagance in the Federal govern
ment or by attacking legislative
dictatorship in Washington.
The Republican nominee hurled
one indirect challenge at President
Roosevelt. It was a quiet warning
to the President not to inject poll
tics into his coming drought relief
conferences. Landon already has
accepted an invitation to confer
with the President on the subject
at Des Moines September /.
To several throngs in the
drought-scorched Midwest, he said:
Regardless of politics and the
1886 campaign, we face the
situation created by the unpre-
cedented dOught. / know from
personal experience the suffer
ing and the havoc which it
brings. The people of Kansas
have faced their problems brave
ly, just as know the people Of
other States have met them
with fOrtitude and courage.
MUST FORGET POLITICS
"It is a question which re.
quires the cooperation of every
individual and every OrganiZa-
tiOn, regardless of politics. And
no individual and no Organiza-
ton should meet this problem
from the point of view of
politics.
81 am not concerned with
where the credit goes for the
solution of this problem, just so
we meet the problem in a
humane, constructive and sens
ible way"
A group of Ohio Republicans,
led by Representative Chester l..
Bolton, chairman of the Repub-
lican Congressional C a m p ign
Committee, and State Chairman
Ed D. Schorr, boarded the train
at Lima and rode across the
State with Landon.
They told him his prospects Of
carrying the State in November
were very bright. Former Gov
ernor Myers Y. Cooper introduced
Landon to the crowd at Lima.
John w. Bricker, Republican
nominee for governor, made the
introduction at Ada. Both hailed
him as the next President of the
United States.
He will reach West Middle
sex at 1870 p. m. He will spend
tonight and Sunday at Newcastle,
Pa, leaving early Monday for the
home of his old friend, Former
Representative Charles Hamilton,
at Ripley, N. Y. After New York
engagements next week, he will re-
turn to Topeka.