Carbon County news., 1937-03-19
CHIEF AGAINST
PARTY PRINCIPLE CHANGES

the line of 3demarcation between
the more radically inclined and the
so-called conservatives becomes
more pronounced.
No Time For Surrender
However, the time has not ar
rived for the Republican party to
surrender. The seventeen million
persons who voted for Landon are
a militant minority and they are
not going to cease fighting under
their own banner until they have
once more gone before the people.
I say this in view Of my firm con-
viction that the last campaign was
not won squarely on issues in which
the people are interested. The ex-
tension of the vicious Tammany
and Kansas City spoils system, to
a more or less degree, into every
town and hamlet in the United
States was most effective. Millions
of people on relief were led to be-
lieve that they would go hungry if
Roosevelt We're not elected. The
wages of the relief workers were
increased materially fortnight be-
fore election and high pressure
politicians were put on the payroll.
Small merchants were intimidated
in my own home town in Miles
City as they were in all other towns
in this state.
Hundreds of names Of persons
long since dead, taken from the
tombstones in the city of Butte
were voted; likewise, hundreds of
additional persons who were work
ing at the Fort Peck Dam voted by
absent voter ballot in their home
towns and at Fort Peck also. The
same conditions obtained in other
sections Of the state. When I speak
about using the names of people
on the tombstones, 7 am not speak
ing figuratively but make the as
sertion as a matter of fact.
"The recent revelation in Kansas
City is but another illustration of
what transpired in bigger way.
Not only the merchants in the small
towns, but the big merchants in !
Chicago for the most part voted !
for Roosevelt because the money
was pouring in. Ten days after the
election 10000 relief workers were
laid off in Montana. Nothing could |
convince me that if these $4,000
workers in Montana had been laid
off before election they would not
have voted the other way. What is |
true in Montana is true of the ma
ton. Generally human nature is
the same everywhere.
"I am convinced beyond a doubt
that at certain stages in the cleo
tion the Literary Digest poll was
approximately correct. That was
before they extended the Tammany
and Kansas City methods of coer-
zion and corruption throughout the
nation. It is in view of all of these
circumstances that I say that the
asst campaign was not won on is J
sues that are nearest and dearest
% the people.
"I do not look for a solidified la
oor vote as a permanent thing, and
when relief work stops and when
aboring men generally again real
re that legitimate industrial pay
oils are the only ones that will
,ring happiness and prosperity
heir attitude will be different. La
,or, like our small merchants, was
iwept off it's feet in the last cam
,aign.
"PoIicies of the Republican par
v should be liberalized where it is
economically sound to do so and
without sacrificing fundamentals. !
f principle and honesty of pur-
,ose are to be sacrificed for polit- II
cal expediency, I should fight such s
policy to the last. We should take
mother good licking and be right {
ather than attempt to gain victory i
n unsound issues"