The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-03
LandOn Speaking.

The accusation that the Roose- welt regime is spending money like the proverbial drunken sailor and getting nothing in return but a hang lover, has been made so often and so insistently by 50 many Re- publican after dinner, before din- ner, and between meals orators that it is gradually losing it's force. Last Saturday night out in Ne- braska Governor Landon harped on the favorite g.o.p. subjects of waste, incompetence, and par tisanship. The administration, de- clared Smiling" Ali, has taken "MiIlions and millions" of taxpay- ers' money Ito build up a partisan political machine out of want and misery" and in so doing has per- pctrated an "indefenBible thing" So much for Ali for the moment. Dirty Work.
 The speech of> the Kansas Coolidge" was broadcast over a countrywide hookup so there is no way of counting the ears listening to him. Obviously the publicity experts of the Republi- can National Committee could not have been tuned in. For scarcely had Ali signed off before Chair man Fletcher's press boys turned loose another broadside at the ad- ministration. This time the crime CD to which attention was direct- cd was not Democratic spending but failure to spend. The type writer wallopers had discovered, and made a digest of, report submitted to Congress by Pres ident Roosevelt on 1035 relief cx- penditurc. The Republican Ma tional Committee not only "dis- covered" the report but, as was to be expected uncovered at the same time Q dark and dirty plot cooked up by miscreant Democrats to keep the document secret. For some unexplained reasons the re- port, although sent to Congress has never been published nor made accessible to the press" screamed Chairman Fletcher's news mongers. Just how five hun dred odd congressman and sen- ators, some of them members of MT. Fletchers party, managed until March l, 1030 to keep secret from the Republican National Committee the details. Of MT. Roosevelt's report iB not disclosed. Nor is the failure of the keen scented news hounds of the Wash- ington press bureaus to get hold Of copy and publish its contents altogether clear. Apparently 1t is necessary to sense two hitherto accepted impressions One is that congressman and senators cannot keep their mouths shut and the other, that Washington corre- spondents know everything that goes on around them.
 The Discovery.
 lUC uibCOVcIy HudO " S sleuths of the Republican National Committee is fright- full to Q hair-raising degree. It seems that "of the four billion, eight hundred and eighty million dollars appropriated by Congress last session to enable the President to carry on his Federal relief program, in all It's phases, cnly one billion, six hundred and sevcnty-two million, three hum dred and ninety-four thousand, three hundred and six dollars AND EIGHTEEN CENTS@ have been spent up to the end of last year. The meaning of this state ment would appear to be altogeth- CT clear to the most uneducated, including the publicity agents or the Republican National Commit tee who could not let 1t go at that. "This means, they announce. "that in the nine-month period ended December 3l last. the Pres ident and all his spending mas