The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-07
The Political Hog Callers are at it Again
Philadelphia Record)

Philadelphia Record)
 Earth has sight more pathetic than Repub- can editor gazing sagey at the Washington scene and announcing that the Democratic party is disinte grating the Court fight is dead the revolt against Roosevelt" has succeeded
 How easily they comfort themselves with political narcotics of their own refining. Dsntegration The vote for ma ority leader was close 38 to 37 but both candidates Barkley and Har rson for the New Deal and both for the Court bill
 Barkley is the more thorough liberal of the two but the opposition candidate had voted for most of the New Deal bills
 The party is "cruely battered" say the COP. correspondents, but they fail to mention that con- servative Democrat had goats chance for the lead ership could possibly have made try for it. The party is split" say these oracles, forgetting that the man it has named as leader is fiery and vigorous liberal who led the recent battle for adequate relief appropriations who said in his Philadelphia keynote speech
 'Is the Supreme Court beyond criticism? May it be regarded as too sacred to be disagreed with? against the hosannahs of Hoover for the tortured interpretation of the Constitution of this nation, place the tortured souls and bodies of who work and pray of women whose God-given right is not full filled in the sweatshop and of children whom have sought to restore to the schoolrooms and the play grounds of the nation :"
 Court Fight Dead: The Court bill is in a bad
 
 the Court fight is dead. Supreme Court reform can not die It has arisen not out of any one mans whim but of political realities bigger than parties.
 Court reform cannot be killed because the desire of the American people for decent living decent homes decent working conditions decent wages cannot be killed.
 The Court fight is no mans political program. Ii arises from national aspirations for security for stable prosperity for what should be the American standard of living.
 has blocked these aSDlra- tions. peoples President and peoples Congress have voted to fulfill the American dream, but cor poration lawyers Court has voted
 If any man believes that such a situation endure ndefnnitely, then he must believe also that the American people donkeys
 They aren't. The clear issue has been confused by clever politics on the part of the Court by yield ing the Wagner Act on unemployment insurance, several other major measures. This, followed by the Van Devanter resignation convinced large group that we could have reform without unpacking the Court
 But note and note well that the Court has won a temporary political vctory-and only by yielding. It won breathing spell by surrender That is how it defeated" Roosevelt.
 The President may have lost the Court bill View the picture from historical perspective See how oligarchical Court ate crow this year and then the question: Has the President lost in his fight against Court dictatorship?
 Revolt Against Roosevelt: We intend to leave this question to the Senatorial and Congressional elections content to leave it to the Presi dential election last year. But would like from the conservative press list of the signs of revolt, apart from the national split the Court issue We fail to find any-and we commend attention to the successive American Institute of Public Opinion polls for proof of rise in Roosevelt popularity since December.
 Balance, balance. Your headlines are sus- piciously like those you the first and second days of last November The payoff came the third day