The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-08-05
THE GREAT
GAME OF
POLITICS.
Copyright by the Baltimore Sun and
reprinted in The Republican by
special permission.
The Revolt In The South
By FRANK r. KENT

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The attitude of the South toward
the policies and program of the Roose-
welt Administration is worth consid-
ering. 1t should be of deep interest
to students of national affairs con-
cerned with political trends and party
conditions. AS things are, the feeling
exhibited in this section, where De-
mocracy is almost a religion, is the
most significant single political fact of
the day.
That the Democratic South should
come to so view Democratic Presi-
dent is really a sensational thing, and
the reason it is not fully appreciated
is because the picture has not been
presented as a whole. This is not to
say that there is not strong Roose-
welt sentiment in the South, because
there is. But it is to say that the anti
Roosevelt sentiment is stronger there
than in any other part of the country.
The facts prove it-that is, to anyone
willing to look them in the face and
add them up. Perhaps the best way to
make the situation clear is to summar-
ize a few of them concerning which
there is no dispute.
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First, for example, there is the unde-
niable fact that the revolt against
Mr.. Roosevelt's attack upon the indie
pendence of the Supreme Court was
strongest in the South. Such Senators
as Bailey, of North Carolina; George,
of Georgia; Glass and Byrd, of Vir-
ginia, and such members of the House
as Chairman Summers of the Judi
ciary Committee, were the stalwarts
of the opposition, and they were sup
ported by most of the more important
newspapers of the South.
Second, it is conceded that hostility
to the Presidents revival of the NRA
in the form of his so-called wage and
hour control bill is most intense in
the South, where regulation through
Federal board, it is felt, would do
great economic damage. Senator Har-
rison's speech last week was an illus
tration of Southern feeling on this
subject.
Third, it is from Southern represen-
tatives in Congress, such as Mr.. Cox,
of Georgia, and Mr.. Rankin, of Mis-
sissippi, that the strongest denunci-
alton of the National Labor Relations
Board has come. By them it is bitterly
assaulted as destructive of Southern
industry and so dominated by the C. 1.
o. as to be completely partisan. Mr..
Roosevelt's reply is that he has weigh
ed the charges that the board is pro-
employer against the charges that it
is pro-employe and finds that they bal
ance. AS in the case of the anony-
nous bankers whom he once said had
told him the country could stand a
debt of $55,000,000, 900, it would be
more convincing if the President would
give the names of those who made the
charge that the board was pro-em-
ployer. Up to the time he spoke there
had been on indication of the existence
of such person.
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Fourth, it is conceded that it is in
the South that resentment toward the
Presidents alliance with Mr.. Lewis
C. l. o. and his acquiescence in the sit
down strike has been most deeply re-
sented. The resolution offered by his
friend, Senator Byrnes, of South Car
DINA, that the advice known to have
been given him by the Vice-President
are strong testimonials to its strength.
Fifth, it is not denied that it is in the
South there is the greatest resistance
to the proposed new AAA, which Gen
eral Johnson, who still eulogizes the
President, after speaking of the Fed
eral Carbon" which would be set up
under the wage-and-hour control bill,
describes as acknowledgements as is
that medicine, it is soda mint COM
pared to Mr.. Wallace's Nazofcation of
Agriculture" 1t is Southern Senator
of South Carolina, friend of
the farmer and chairman of the Com
mittee on Agriculture-who is block
ing this Presidential proposal.
Sixth, it, Of course, is in the South
that real apprehension is engendered
by the potentialities involved in the
wooing away from the Republican
party of some two million Negro vot-
ers in the so-called debatable States
through the use of Federal patronage,
relief money and the social equality
legislation promoted by such New Deal
spokesman as Governor Earle of Penn
sylvania.
And, finally, it is from the Oldest
newspaper in Georgia-the Macon
Telegraph-that the first demand for
impeachment of Mr.. Roosevelt comes
in a hot editorial winding up with the