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LANDON--“ picked for a gamble.”
HEN the bosses of the· Republican Party de- cided that Senator Borah was not "safe" enough to be their candidate, they made Governor Landon's nomination at Cleveland inevit- able. le pre-eminently a
safe" man.
There is no vital subject upon which he is pledged to any He has been specific views.
looked over by the big Interests and they are convinced of his
safety.
They do not expect him to win. They will be satisfied if he piles up a popular vote "big enough to give them hope for 1040. It, by some miracle, he should win, then they will have the most colourless personality In the White House there, has been there for thirty years, with the single exception of Harding. That is the Republican con- ception of an ideal President.
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OVERNOR LANDON Torty-eight years old. Banker and olt-dealer, he has now a comfort- able fortune; but he started from those comparatively humble be- ginnings which, because the Freal- dency is like nothing so much as a--... lottery, still persuades millions of Americans that the miracle of Lincoln is being repeated.
He was politically unknown until
-To-day's Thought ----- THERE never was a good war
or a bad peace. -BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,
1933, when he kept his state of Kanana in the Republican column at the time of the Roosevelt land- slide. He has remained in office there ever since.
The legend is now being manu- factured that he had done a great work as governor by balancing hils budget, in contrast to the reckless Inance of Mr. Roosevelt,
The truth is that the Constitu- tion of Kansas gave him no legal alternative; and it is doubtful whether, even so, he would have had the achleyement of that legal- ity to his credit if it had not been for the large sums poured into Kansas by way of relief grants.
As
Mr. Landon S Governor. has not done badly, though there is nothing In his record to compare with the constructiveness of La Follette in Wisconsin or of Leh- man in New York,
And there is not a speech of his
on any subject which suggests that In this era of crisis he bus elther the capacity or the ideas the Presi dency demands.
He la sald by his friends to be a pleasant man, with some fluency of speech, and with Mr. Bonar Law's gift of using statistics freely and interestingly in his public utter- Ances.
His campaign manager has been eager to depict him as the Cool- idne of Kansas, lesz, 1 imagine. because there is a single American left with any regard for Mr. Coolidge, than because the name atrikes a pleasant chord of memory. about the so-called ern of pros- perity.
He mixes well-always an asset in a campaign. He has an attrac- tive smile. There is little positive
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man.
He is, in the fullest sense, what American politicians menn by an "available" Roughly, that implies that he never took any risks in the past and that there is no reason
to expect him to take any in the future.
In the four years has been governor of he has and Kansas nothing of significance and done nothing of significance, Ho bas been carefully and strongly anti-Roosevelt, but in that highly con- ventional way which no hint of contains hcking danger.
Is against any Interference with He necessary American liberties.
is for the Constitution and against bureauerney. He disilkes monopo- iles all the nonopolists are on his sider.
He is against war. He thinks the debta should be paid. He dislikes the patronage system of Mr. Farley (though he conveniently forgets the indistinguishable patronage system of Mr. Farley's Republican predecessor, Mr. Browni,
Ile la for economy and sound currency and an adequate tarif.
He wants justice for labour and the farmer and the manufacturer. He is against America Joining the League
International and the Couri
He is strongly in favour of disarmament if other nations will disarm.
The best of Governor Landon is that verbally he
to be for half-n-hundred reasonable things and that no one really knows (not even. I suspect, him- self what he means by any of them.
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reat way to see what he means is to remember who are his supporters. lic has won the enthu- sinstle adherence of William Ran- dolph Hearst, the most sinister and malevolent influence in American politics,
A banker who is among the inost notable of Mr. Roosevelt's enemies. told me of Wall Street's enthu- 'The sinam for his candidature. Duponts of Delaware, the Liberty Leaguers, the big Corporation law- yers, the public utilities whom Presklent Roosevelt has so grimly exposed, will all be protagonists in his cause.
The men who have wrecked the New Dent will rush to subscribe to
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his campaign fund. "The Ameri- can Deal" that he embodies is kim- ply the first stage of an effort to put Wall Street back in the control. of that invisible empire from which It was driven in 1933.
For it is not enough to judge a the party by its professions; realistic way, is to judge it by the men upon whom it depends for its funda and its support.
For the arst, the legions of
big business will be assessed. In their programme the Republicans announce their belief in the right of labour to collective bargaining; and they are the men' responsible for the general strike in California, the textile strike, and the ruthless evasion of that Section 7a which sought, in the Industrial Recovery Act, to give trade unions an offec- tive
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the American economy.
They are the men who fought the Securities Act, the .Tennessee Valley Experiment, the Railroad Pensions Act, the Public Utilities Act: the men who could not re- strain their cager joy when the Bupreme Court set out to ruin every possible constructive effort of the Roosevelt programme.
Now that the election is at hand, their course, they protest, of enthusiasm for the legitimate rights of Latour. But they do not mean by "legitimate" what even a Conservative working-class means;
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He is, as he himself must know, a caretaker candidate. He keeps the party in being. He permits the semblance of a fight to be made.
And nien ke Senator Vanden- borg, who seemed his rivals a few months ago, will be congratulating themselves in November that they did not press too eagerly for the nomination this time.
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