Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-07-23


ance speech at Philadelphia.
Those who must support him for
party regularity reasons but who
have been hoping he would be more
conservative if reelected = the
group following Senators Glass,
Byrd, Tydings and Adams-are
distressed. And the radical fringe
is delighted.
The thought of comparing the
New Deal fight against capital
against investments, if you please
to the fight of the colonists
against British royal domination
came to the President almost at
the last, moment. He did not pre-
pare his speech much in advance,
and it is pretty nearly an acct
dent that he took this particular
tack.
1t all grew out of the fuss and
furore that was kicked up when
announcement was made, little
more than a month ago, that the
President would make his trip to
Texas and other states at time
when the Republican national con-
vention would be in progress. 1t
was charged he was trying to steal
the conventions publicity, to de-
prive it of it's normal share of
front page newspaper display, not
to mention radio broadcasting and
newspaper picture sections.
So he announced that on that
trip he would make historical
talks" going into the history of
the sections he visited.
He not only did, but. found some
very adroit ways of working good
political arguments into them.
Even Went Further
But the conservative Democrats
are very unhappy as result For,
once embracing that theme, the
President went a great deal fur
Their, by inference, than he has ev-
er gone before. Just as, in the
platform, which of course he die
tated, he went a great deal fur
Their with regard to IVA than he
has ever gone before. In fact, he
approved language which might
have been disquieting to the Su-
preme Court in his IVA decision.
For. instead of talking about Incl
dental power, the President had
the platform boast about the yard
stick" which would force cleo
trio rates down, and make cleo
trio current cheaper to ALI con-
cJIYonrc
Naturally. the radical fringe is
highly pleased. They had been
somewhat disturbed at the soft
pedaling of their leaders at Phila-
delphia-the complete blackout of
DR.. Tugwell, the failure to men
ton Prof. Frankfurter, the absence
of most of the so-called Brain
Trusters. But a few hours before
the President was accepting the
nomination Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace was telling an audience
that competition must go, even in
manufacturing, eventually, and
that collectivism and co operatives
were the thing!
All of which spells a much wider
cleavage in the Democratic party,
next year, assuming that Roose-
welt is reelected. For beyond the
shadow of doubt there would
have been more thana2I Democrat
ic senators opposed to that tax
bill, aimed SO sharply at, corpora
tons, had the President and Wal
lace made. their speeches before in
stead of after that final vote in the
senate. :: $50
Humorous Mistake
Failure Of the Democrats at Phil
adelphia to make any statement
answering the demand of the Re
publicans at Cleveland that the
special power given the President
to mark down still further the gold
value of the dollar be revoked,
was not an oversight.
Senator Robert j. Buckley of
Ohio, one of the leading Capitol
Hill experts on currency, pointed
out to members of the resolutions
committee, when this matter was
under advisement, that the Repub-
Leans had made rather humorous
mistake, The special power which
the President still has, which would
permit him to mark down the gold
value of the dollar to one half it's
original value, along with the pow
er to issue paper currency, or to
adopt bimetalisn, expires by linn
itation just few days after in
auguration!
So that, Senator Buckley pointed
out, to demand it's repeal by a
congress which does not come in
to power until a few days before
that-nothing like sufficient time
to put such an important measure
through the house and senate-is
rather in the nature of a futile
gesture.
Even, the senator pointed out, in
what Democrats regard as the un-
likely contingency that the Repub-
icans capture the Presidency and
the house, there is no possible
chance of their obtaining control
of the senate for four more years.
So even if there were a Republi-
can landslide they could not re-
peal the provisions against the will
of the Democrats. .