Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-07-09

some of his old buddies retained their
interest in his doings.
All Of which Charles Dewey Hilles
did not know when he thought of head
| ing "Stop Landon" movement some
months back. There were no banners
and shouting about the work that
| Charley Hamilton did for Landon, but
how it told in New York state!
Hamilton not only retained his old
political friends and colleagues. He
kept the friendship Of important up
state editors. And the group popu-
larly known as the "Old Guard" sud-
denly found that New York state had
run out on them. In fact, the work
| done by Charley Hamilton had a good
deal to do with the surprise that came
when the Empire state delegation was
finally polled.
White Makes Slip
All of which is the more interest
| ing because of the rather surprising
| typewriter slip by William Allen
White. Aboard winning national
bandwagon for the first time in his
life, Mr.. White proceeded to do syn
Dictated articles for the newspapers
also. On the day after the conven-
ton adjourned, he told the story of
Landon's nomination, giving full credit
to Ray A. Roberts and his lieuten.
ants among the Kansas editors, and
to John D. M. Hamilton, though he
never did mention that Hamilton got
his political training at the knees of
the old boss Of Kansas, Dave Mulvane.
But, apparently forgetting that he
was in the inner Landon council and
lapsing to his old-time crusading self,
he talked about Hamilton John D.
NJ, not Charley, raising money in
downtown New York. "Not much"
he said, but some. And then he
talked about Hamilton (again J. D.
N.Y. walking in and out Of the higher
income brackets To which due at
tention will be paid by Charley Mi
chelson and the New Deal orators.
But the man who came back into
New York state politics after staying
out for four national administrations,
who came back for the man he had
grown to love out in Kansas, and who
ripped the heart out of the North
casts "Stop Landon" movement, was
Charley Hamilton.
All of which proves something
when added to the enthusiasm for Ian.
don of all his old classmates, who
have been working their heads off for
him wherever they might be. Charley
Hamilton never met Landon until he
had retired from politics and gone to
Kansas to seek his fortune in the oil
business. Hamilton is the kind of
person whose enthusiasm does not run
away with him. When he speaks,
it means something to his old friends
And he took them all with him for
Landon, though many of them had
never seen the Kansas governor!
Hit in the Dark
In framing their platform, and for
that matter in their oratorical at
tacks on the Roosevelt administration,
the Republicans had to hit without
knowing just what the new tax bill
would be-whether it would take the
form of the house measure, as de-
sired by President Roosevelt, or the
senate measure, which the Repub-
licans admit is much better, or be
hodgepodge compromise of indefinite
,soloring.
Two outstanding members of the
resolutions committee which framed
the Republican platform, Senator DAN
lei o. Hastings Of Delaware, and
Representative Allen T. Treadway
Of Massachusetts, ranking member
of the Republican minority Of the
house ways and means committee,
were also on the conference commit
tee which was supposed to be writing
the final draft Of the tax measure.
But that did not help them any.
For no member of the conference COM
mittee, whether he was in Washing
ton, or Cleveland, or on fishing trip.
had an idea what the final bill would
be before the final gavel at Cleveland.
The answer is simple. The only
man who knew what the answer would
be, assuming he had made up his
mind, was Franklin D. Roosevelt. And
he preserved a discreet silence. Nat
urally he could not even confide in
the little group of newspaper men who
go wherever he goes. For to do so
was to admit that he was giving the
orders, and, while every one knows he
is, it would not be tactful, nor even
perhaps polite, for him to admit it.
And Roosevelt is generally both
tactful and polite!
Difficult Problem
All of which made the problem Of
the Republicans at Cleveland on the
| one point on which they hope to score
more than any other in the campaign
| just opening - taxation considerably
more nebulous than is ordinarily con-
| ceivable with respect to the para
mount issue.
For normally, Of course, the party
which is not in power has been able
to determine what shall be the para
mount issue. 1t is up to the opposi-
ton to attack the administration, and
it is up to the administration to an
swer that attack. Where the attack is
fiereest, naturally, must be the main
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