Evening star., 1936-06-05

Irleno OF Lne new Deal 10 run
upon it."
The foremost question confronting
the Republican party today is not
who can be nominated, but who can
be elected"
Bachmann remarked that "the time
had come for some one to tell the
truth about the political views of
| Gov. Landon" II a Republican did
not. he said, the Democrats would do
so later on. The quotations he gave
from Landon were previously printed
on the Congressional Record, under
date Of June l. 1886.
Front Porch Campaign Hit.
Former Senator George Moses Of
New Hampshire, ardent advocate of
the nomination of Col. Knox, in a
statement praising Knox because of
his active campaign, denouncing the
Roosevelt New Deal, said:
The convention wants to nominate
ticket which can win. In the cam
psign this year the fight must be
carried to Mr. Roosevelt. 1t cannot be
dispatched in paper balloons from
any front porch.
This was interpreted as a rap at
Landon because he has not been
more active and has not attacked the
New Deal strenuously.
Moses insisted that the Landon
boom was Subsiding.
While Bachmann and Moses poured
hot shot at Landon in Cleveland, Sen
ator Borah in Washington created
| considerable excitement in Ohio, with
| his charge that funds of the Repub-
| lican National Committee had been
diverted to this State to be used in
the primary campaign to elect Taft
delegates to the national convention
and to defeat his delegates.
Fletcher Denies knowledge.
Chairman Henry P. Fletcher Of the
national committee denied hatly that
he had any knowledge of such an
arrangement. He said, however, he
had asked Treasurer George Getz
about the matter and had learned an
item of $4,000 had been turned back
to Ohio to the State committee.
'"rhe matter was not submitted to
me, said Fletcher. L had nothing to
do with it. In the 1884 campaign we
had an arrangement whereby a GER
tain proportion of funds collected in
a State by the national committee
should be handed back to the State
organization for campaign purposes"
Fletcher said that William B. Bell,
chairman of the Finance Committee
raising money for the national COM
mittee. undoubtedly had all the facts
in his possession about the return of
the $4,000 to the Ohio State Com
mittee.
The Ohio State Committee made no
bones about being for Taft and
against Borah in the primary cleo
ton. Fletcher insisted that he had
taken no part and had insisted that
the National Committee should have
no part in any primary election
against any candidate for the presi-
dental nomination.
Borah Plans 10 Speak.
Senator Borah is due to arrive in
Cleveland Sunday night. If he is not
invited to speak before the Republican
National Convention, he and his
friends it was reported today are con-
sidering hiring a hall where he may
make q speech on Monday night, the
eve of the convention, or later in the
week.
Former President Hoover, who is to
address the national convention Wed
nesday afternoon, will not indulge in
an attack on Landon or any Of the
other candidates, it was said here
authoritatively. He plans to deal with
issues and the platform, and to make
his address to the delegates a cap
stone for the series of addresses he
has made in the last few months, at
tacking the Roosevelt New Deal. He
will leave the convention city almost
Immediately after he has completed
his address.
The Landon boom for President re-
ceived additional impetus when Frank
Burns. national committeeman for
Washington, announced that 13 of the
States Is delegates would vote for the
Kansan on the first ballot.
D. C. Fight Up Today.
The contesting delegations from the
District of Columbia, representing the
Colladay and Rover factions, will have
an opportunity to present their argu-
ments to the National Committee to-
day, probably this afternoon. They
have waited for two days while the
committee has heard contests from
several States. The District contest Is
the last on the list.
Samuel j. Prescott. veteran Repub-
lican leader of the District, has joined
the Rover faction and is doing all he
can to bring about the seating Of the
Rover delegation, which is headed by
Johsua Evans, ir.
Considerable interest has been
aroused over the contest from the Dis
trict. Edward F. Colladay has been
national committeeman for score Of
years. He is for Landon for President,
and his slate of delegates is instructed
for the Kansas Governor. The Rover
delegates, on the other hand, are un-
instructed. If these delegates are
seated. then Leo A. Rover, former
United States attorney, will become
national committeeman. The case for
the Colladay slate of delegates will be
presented by Paul Z. Lesh, and for the
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