Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-23

the administration four times and
Wcarin five times.
Now, down in Florida, when Senator
Pepper prevailed over Congressman
Wilcox, the administration critics
pointed out that this was due entirely
to the White House influence. Just
why the White House influence was
enough to give Senator Pepper TO
l majority over the anti-New Deal
adversary and in Iowa the same influ-
ence, alleged by the Gillette support
ers, produced approximately the oppo'
site result has not been explained pJ
the political commentators or by the
administration IS foes who hail Gil
lette's denomination as a demonstra-
ton of the Democratic revolt against
the New Deal policies
A Highly Mythical Group
Some of those. who are insisting
that the administration has in Mill
campaigns to defeat all antiadminis
tration Democratic senator's advance
the argument that the result in Iowa
was not the effect Of the President g
support, which both claimed inferen5-
tally, but was a revulsion against what
they call the elimination commit
tee.n This is highly mythical group
in which they include any and a 1
people in the government who have
manifested any interest in the Demo-
cratic primaries. 1t seems to be the
theory that cabinet officers ana 9th
ers are some sort of priesthood pledg-
I'd to abstsntion from any political ac-
tivities. AS nine out of ten OF men 50
placed have history of political ae
tivity, this seems logical only to those
senators who are most active on the
other side. Just why cabinet mem
Der, for example, should be criticized
for advocating the nomination and Ell
cction of an administration senator.
while a United States senator shoal'
be exercising a legitimate, if not nee
assarily praiseworthy, effort to ac-
complish the nomination and election
of an anti-administraton candidate,
/ is rather puzzling.
So far as the President is concern
ed, it does not take ultra vivid mag
ination to believe that he would rash-
er have in congress men who agree
with his policies than men who oppose
them. 1t is supposed, too, that the
President is President of all the pao-
pie and it is equally true that every
President worthy of his job feels
bound to do the things that in his es-
timation are most conducive to pubic
welfare. He formulates policies that
| in his estimation are necessary to the
progress, prosperity and contentment
of the country. But under our system
of government, scch policies remain
barren unless congress enacts them "a
to laws.
No Courtesy from Political Foes
1t might appear reasonable that
| hat would be accepted as the explana-
| ion of any interest by President in
primary election, expressed or I'M
Piled declared or assumed, but IT
seems that the President of the United
States is entitled to no such courtesy
from his political foes. They ascrlbe
to him as the motive for his concern
in who comes to congress nothing
higher than desire for revenge, moth
ing less wicked than purpose OF pun
ishing those who disagree with him.
| This is on the same order as the the
ory, so often advanced during the past
few weeks by those who opposed TO
him in congress, that the President IS
purpose in seeking the large relief ap-
preparation, to be distributed by MIN
self or his agents, is with view , to
lbribing voters and communities in his
allotment of relief positions and re-
lief grants and loans. 1t is in accord
apce with this vicious viewpoint that
session after session in congress has
been wasted in the attempts to hamper
he getting of this relief into the hands
Of those people and those businesses
that need it; to impose limitations
and restrictions to make the Pres1-
dent 8 task more difficult