The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-17
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Six Leading Candidates for
Nomination Booked for
Series of Talks.


WASHINGTON, Jan. l7.-Six of
the foremost Republican presidential
potentialities have made speaking
plans for the next 30 days which
should go far toward defining anti
New Deal issues.
The speeches also are expected to
represent personal platforms of
some Of the political characters who
may win vital roles in this campaign
year. The Republican speaking cam
paign extends from coast to coast.
Lincoln's birthday has been Sc
lected as an informal springboard
for the Republican effort to GUST
President Roosevelt from the White
House. 1t Is to Offset the big Demo-
cratic Jackson Day show. On tine
night Of Feb. IL the nation will
hear from former President Hoover,
who will speak in Portland, Ore,
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R.,
Mich0 before New York audience,
and Senator L. j. Dickinson, r., la
in Greensboro, N. c..
Borah, Knox in Spotlight
Three Of the most active and in
some respects most interesting of
potential candidates will beat the
gun a bit on the Lincoln Day cere-
monies.
Senator William E. Borah R.,
Idaho will speak Jan. % in Brook
lyn, N. Y. Gov. ALT M. Landon of
Kansas and COL Frank Knox, Chi
cago publisher, are booked for the
next night in Topeka and Cleveland,
respectively. The January date is
merely one of a series for Col. Knox.
He will appear in Dayton, O., Gin
cinnati, Jersey City and Philadel-
phia during the fortnight following.
But for Senator Borah and Gov.
Landon the two approaching plat
form appearances may vitality affect
political events, at least for the cur
rent campaign year. Foremost in
the minds of politicians as these
two outstanding Republicans ap-
proach the speaking platform is that
neither has avowed his candidacy
Tor the Republican nomination.
Kansas Day Festival
Senator Borah has gone conSid-
erably beyond Gov. Landon in that
respect. The Senator has approved
plans Of supporters in several states
to round up delegates for the Cleve-
land convention which will meet
June 8. Gov. Landon has stuck
close to his gubernatorial job, gen.
orally refusing invitations to speak
outside Kansas, although he has
made occasional appearances.
His speech Jan. 90 will be deliv-
cred on the occasion Of Kansas
Day." prairie festival which this
year possesses major political i'm
portance. Gov. Landon is ex-
pected to tell his Kansas and out
state auditors how he would solve
IL problems Of troubled nation.
,Sov. Landon and Senator 30
rah appeared in recent months to
be avoiding the agricultural ques-
ton pending decision by the Su-
preme Court whether Mr.. Roose-
velt's AAA was constitutional. Both
have had ample opportunity to ex-
anime the majority and dissenting
opinions which commemorate the
disappearance of the New Deals
farm program. Both are expected,
under the circumstances, to explore
the farm problem and its solution.
Borah's Big Chance
Mr.. Borah's Eastern appearance
offers him the chance to demon
strate that he is not wild man on
questions of currency and farm re-
lief. His passive candidacy was dis
counted at the outset on the theory
that the Eastern Republicans never
would accept man who had
whooped it up for currency imitation
and who was sympathetic with the
silver money theories of his noun
tain state.
Harrison Spangler, Western Re-
publican campaign manager, re-
turned to Chicago headquarters to-
day after conferences with Chair
man Henry P. Fletcher of the ma
tional committee. Mr.. Spangler
said there would be hundreds of
Lincoln's birthday celebrations and
estimated that there already had
been received in Chicago requests
for 200 birthday speakers. The
Western headquarters was unable to
supply the demand.
Among the big Lincoln parties al
ready scheduled by the national
committees are dinners at Louisville,
KY; Providence. Wilmington, Dell.
Philadelphia, Beaver Dam, Pa; st.
Louis and Hagerstown, Md, where
Gov. Nice will preside at state
wide celebration.