The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-27
BEHIND THE SCENES
 iN WASHINGTON
The Republican Party While Very Quiet on The Surface, Is a Behive of Activity Be- hind The Scenes.
0V ROONEY 0UTcHER- Washington Correspondent
 Democrat

Washington, April N-The men in charge of the republican nachin- cry are far buster behind the scenes than the audience inagineS.
 Concerted effort to establish a party policy and a definite party record in Congress is being coTn- bined with unannounced efforts to line up republican and conservative democratic members in an unoffi- cial, loosely working alliance against measures supported by the admin istration.
 Although 1t is too early as yet
 to fOresee new political realign-
 ment of parties along liberal and
 conservative lines, recent events
 in both Senate and House have
 at least indicated that there exist the makings of it.
 Whether the political strategists at the Republican National Com mittee headquarters have had a def mite hand in amalgamating repub- licanS and democratic conservatives on certain occasions is not a mat ter concerning which you will find any documentary evidence. But 1t is important to repeat that these able gentlemen have been very busy indeed.
 G. o. P. Has -Truster
 Republican senators and repre- sentatives meet every weekend with National Chairman John Ham, ilton and experts in the field of po- litical and governmental problems available for such secret conference eS.
 With them sit Hamilton's keen minded assistant, former Under Secretary of State William R. Cas- tie, William Hard, Publicity Direc- tor Leo J. Casey, and Research Di- rector Olin Glenn Saxon.
 Saxon Is the college professor
 hired last year to head the g.O.p.
 "brain trust" whose creation led
 to some hilarity because repub-
 licans had been so contemptuous
 and vocal about the New Deal
 brain trust" Saxon, at the head
 of a small staff, is still brain
 trusting and has lately answered
 many requests from party sena-
 tors and representatives for facts
 or studies on current issues.
 The extent to which anti-admin- istration democrats, in the Supreme Court and other controversies, have received help from Saxon and oth- CTS Is not ascertainable. But the National Committee is always glad to help anyone who wants to sock the New Deal.
 E Saxon is supposed to have been the man behind Senator Vanden- burg's recent assertion that he be- lieved New Deal estimates of un- employment were about 5000, ,OOO too high. A new money raising campaign has collected more than hundred thousand republican dollars in the last two months, and $50,000 more in promises, accord ing to the republican record.
 Ready to POunce
 The republican record is a new and interesting four-page publica- ton of the committee, which is sent to key party officials, workers and members as part of the new ac- tivity of party leaders, who watch hawk-like for the first chance to start on the way toward overturn- ing the huge democratic victory of last November. It attempts to trace the general line of g.o.p. policy. strategy and accomplishment. Ham ilton started it off with message assuring the faithful that many Roosevelt supporters, hurt and dis appointed" by the Presidents Su- preme Court plan, "are pondering a new political allegiance" He said that he would have the republican party fight unfair employers just as earnestly as it fights the law iessness of the sitdown."
 The record boasts of republican
 unity behind the present Supreme Court. It explains on noble
 grounds the effort of republican
 leaders to keep silent on the court issue. while egging on the oppo- sition democrats. It doesn't ad-
 init the republicans saw that strong. united and articulate re- publican opposition might help Roosevelt. It says "the republi- can party has chosen, with it's at- titGde toward the proposal clear ly understood by all, to put aside
 any political advantage" 
 Defeating Tenant Plan Great stress is laid on recent vot- ing coalitions of republicans and democrats. Unity of republicans and a substantial democratic group is cited in the vote on the ByrneS amendment to the Guffey coal bill, which would have condemned the sitdown strike without mentioning any provocative tactics of employ CTS. (Chief purpose of the amend ment was to put Roosevelt on the spot by making him decide wheth- CT to place his signature under the entire measure. The amendment failed, but those who voted for it made a list almost comparable with that opposing Rooseyelt's court plan. The list included several senators whom republicans hope will vote with them in the future such as Adams, Bailey, Brown of New Hampshire; Burke, Byrd, Con- naly, Copeland, Gerry, Holt, King, Lonergan, Maloney, Tydings, and Walsh.)
 The National Committee publi-
 cation comments with satisfaction
 on the fact that republicans join- cd with seven democrats on the House Agriculture committee to