IN FULL SWING

Evening Star, Issue 22453, 25 September 1936, Page 9

IN FULL SWING

AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN MR HEARS! STIRS UP TEMPEST Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, September 23. The Presidential contest has assumed full momentum. Governor Landon, who is proving himself only an indifferent speaker, has eschewed all oratory, whereas President Roosevelt’s addresses are crowded with classical literary allusions. What Governor Landon has advocated may be summarised as a return to a Liberal, simple, non-dictatorial Government, while President Roosevelt has insisted that men of great wealth and power must awaken to full consciousness of their duty to the poor and disinherited. The campaign has not been _ without oddities, amusing and illuminating. The efforts of Mr W. R. Hearst to drag the Communist issue into the contest by persistent., allegations that President Roosevelt’s advisers are of Bolshevik sympathy, and the President himself is tie real, if unofficial, candidate of the Comintern, stirred up more tempest than it intrinsically merits, since the Communist vote in the United States in 1932, at the height of the depression, was less than one-tenth of 1 per cent, of the electorate. The New Deal itself continues to lead a Jekyll and Hyde existence. President Roosevelt .a few days ago announced that he would advocate crop insurance as ah anti-drought measure at the next Congress. Governor Landon immediately issued a statement giving excerpts from a speech he was going to deliver next day advocating a similar measure. The Republican made a great ado about _ W.P.A. workers being employed in building so-called Roosevelt monuments namely, large roadside hoardings reading “ Vote Roosevelt.” The Democrats immediately retaliated by so timing divulgence of the Nye munitions showing that a large American munitions firm helped to rearm Germany, that it coincided with another divulgence that the head of the same firm was a large contributor to the Republican funds in the Maine campaign.