DOMESTIC ISSUES

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1936, Page 7

DOMESTIC ISSUES

THE COMING CAMPAIGN

PRESIDENT PLEASED

WASHINGTON, January 4.

At the White House today, President Roosevelt's advisers let it be known that the President is generally pleased with the domestic reaction to the message he delivered to Congress, while at the same time a studied silence is maintained on the flood of Press reaction to his biting reference to "autocratic dictators" from European capitals and Tokio.

The entire Administration appears to have taken an attitude to the effect that the President clearly stated his views on the world situation and the American policy in regard to it embodied in the. Neutrality Bill, which will be pushed through Congress, and that the Government is now prepared to concentrate attention on the domestic issues which the new session of Congress and the coming political campaign have brought forward. In other words, from now until November will be a lively political battleground and the less attention it is necessary to give to foreign affairs the more pleased the politicians will be.

Despite the dark picture President Roosevelt drew of the foreign war threats, the New York Stock Exchange witnessed lively trading today with prices generally higher. On the surface this is somewhat confusing, as President Roosevelt attacked conservative business interests almost as violently as he did foreign dictators, but the answer from Republican political sources is that the President's challenge to a fight against the New Deal laws to Congress has been accepted, and a constructive alternative . programme will be advanced.