The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-04-06
COP Leader Places Faith
In Simple Election Formula
Harrison Spanger, Party Chairman, Sees
Republican Victory as Result Of Complete
Effective Local Organization.
By BAUKHAGE
NeHs 4naiysi and Commentator.

best to meet with a small group OF
leaders, about 80. He also makes
his contacts with non-political organ
izations. (He, himself, is an Elk and
a Mason.)
The Farm Problem
The farm organizations will be.
handled en- masse. Representatives
of all the farm organizations have
been invited to attend 8 meeting in
Chicago early next month in order to
express their views for possible in
corporation in the party platform.
They will meet with members OF the
Republican postwar advisory coun-
ellis committee on agriculture. It's
chairman is Governor HickenlOoper,
who succeeded the late Senator Nc
Nary, father of the farm bloc.
Agriculture is one of the eight
problems" listed by the advisory
council at its meeting in September,
1912. The others are foreign pol
icy; postwar industry and employ
ment social welfare; federal ad-
ministration; finance and currency;
labor; agriculture, and international
economic problems.
A staff of experts under DR.. Neil
Carothers, dean Of the school Of busi-
ness of Lehigh university, has been
assembled, who assist the council,
which hopes to produce timber for
the party platform by scientific
methods.
Chairman Spangler admits that we
face a world in which conditions
which will affect the election in No
vember are likely to change radical
ly, perhaps before the conventions,
certainly before the elections. But
he believes that insofar as possible,
the various problems listed by the
advisory committee should be
threshed out in as much detail as
possible before the convention SO
that they will not have to be dealt
with specifically at the last mo
ment by the platform committee at
the convention.
Votes and Relief
I'VE made several surveys COW
ering different periods in the East
few years ago he said, land we
found that the New Deal vote rose
in direct proportion with the amount
of relief in the community. The
people were grateful for the help
they got and gave Roosevelt the
credit; they forgot that It was the
peoples money they were spending
When they are able to pay their own
bills, earn enough for what they
need, they want to be independent.
They want to shake off government
control and regulation.
Mr.. Spangler and his associates
believe that the Republican party
will Win--first, because of the ener.
getic response of people which has
made the rebuilding of an effective
political organization possible, sec.
ond, because they consider trends
already evident are factual indi
cation OF a turn Of the tide.
/ Mr.. Spangler did not attempt tt
argue the case of the Republican
party, nor are these columns place
for such political debate, but any
one can see that he and his staff be
lieve that they share popular feel
ing that the times have changed,
let nos mutamur ills (and we arr
changed with them). The we
meaning a voting majority Of The
| American people.
| OF such is the optimism which fill.
the workshop on Connecticut avenue
where the one concern is the practi
cal side Of politics-there, where Thu
shadow of the Blue Eagle once fel
across the portals, not even the flut
ter of ghostly feather can now b,
detected