Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-03
News Behind the News
Ldnd0n Takes Definite Stand
Against Wealth Sharing Schemes
ShOUS Shreicd Politics

NEW YORK.-Since Governor Landons trim
into the east was neither triumphal process
sion nor an obvious failure, current sizeups of
Its effect on the campaign necessarily influ-
enced by prejudice gueSSwork and wishfui think
ing on the parts of his opponents. and his sup
porters.
1t is in order, however. to summarize what
Landon really did on this invasion because
some of the angles have been overlooked To
enumerate:
l. Landon definite,y aligned himself in his
Buffalo speech against New Dealers who be-
lieve major national ailmsnt is the concentra-
ton of wealth and against those who believe
in redistribution of income, sharing the wealth."
or soaking the rich in form or another.
2 Landon spoke out definitely on certain
specific issues and demonstrated his possession
of some of the political shrewdness and cour-
age which his friends always have claimed for
him.
Landon made subtle but emphatic appeal
to Roman Catholic voters in New York and
other urban centerS as part of a carefully plan-
ned Republican effort to persuade Roman Cath
olcs that their parochial schools stand in danger
because of the implications of New Deal philos-
ophy.
A. Landon's speech at West Mddlesex was
sour from vote standpoint. His speech at
Chautauqua was honest and courageous eff
fort to serve notice on progressves that he is
really liberal. His speech at Buffalo was
the best-at least from a political standpoint
that he has yet made.
5. The Chautauqua speech, his friends say
was partly an effort by Landon to counteract
heavy Democratic propaganda based on the ef-
feet OF Landons budget-balancing on Kansas
schools.
6. At Buffalo, according to neutral observers
on the Sidelines, Landon dramatized the biggest
and most effective issue the Republicans have
in their campaign-taxes and federal expendi-
tureS.
Republicans were steamed up over both the
Chautauqua speech on education and the Buff
falo speech taxation. Democrats admitted
the former was the best public address the gov
ernor had made in the campaign and thought
the Buffalo speech perhaps even more
effective iemporarily-but at the same time in
sisted they could shoot most of Landons sate-
mentS full of holes.
They will tell the world that the corporate
surplus tax has resulted in billion dollars of
increased income for investors through div
idends. They will say that the tax doesn't
inhibit business expansion because stockholders
receiving dividends forced out by the tax can
reinvest their funds in the corporation if they
desire.
The bid for the urban Roman Catholic vote
is being taken very seriously by leaders of both
parties, although no admits 1t and the
matter is being handled very delicately.
The inside word among Republicans is that
there will be break between Landon and
Hearst even though the governor slammed at
Hearst's pet programs in denouncing the teach
ers' OATH and in opposing sales taxes as against
income taxes.
The speech education and its defense of
the Kansas educational system was planned
answer to Democratic propaganda, which says
Kansas schools are in bad shape.