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DEMOCRATS READY FOR 1936—GOP UNCERTAIN
( By Byron Price. )
Not much is said for publication, but under-surface ex
plorations preparatory to the 1936 presidential campaign
already have reached a highly active stage.
The lieutenants of President Roosevelt, whose renomi
nation is conceded, could give you from their confidential
files a detailed picture of what they expect to happen in
every state during the pre-convention season ending in
June of next year.
On the republican side the data is far less complete, and
anything but conclusive. In the main, it forecasts continu
ing confusions and controversy right up to the time when
the national convention makes its decisions.
One of the prime questions is how many other parties
will be in the field. The answer is conceded generally to
depend on the economic trends of the next few months..
If prosperity returns during the coming year, the poli
ticians expect to see little significant third-party activity..
If things go on as they are, or get worse, a bumper crop of
independent movements is looked for..
Evidently. Mr Roosevelt is backing, politically, on a
very appreciable economic upturn..
Recently his managers have not been taking the pains
they once did to keep the republican insurgents in the
democratic fold—that is. to keep them from going out on
their own and organizing against the administration the
popular discontent arising from the depression .
Democratic party chiefs are proceeding, instead, on the
theory that by November, 1936, improved conditions will
have wiped out most of that discontent, and that the natural
prestige of the administration will insure Mr. Roosevelt’s
reelection on a straight out democratic ticket.
A year ago there was talk, very high up in the party, of
putting up an insurgent republican as the Roosevelt running
mate . Now the talk is all for the renomination of Vice
President Garner.
In every state (except Huey Long’s Louisiana)—the
democrats are building up, and relying on. a down-the-line
democratic state organization, and frowning on all coali
tions. Of course if any discontented republicans want to
go along, they are welcome, but they are not encouraged to
expect favors.
There are a lot of possibilities in that A return of
the insurgents to the republican camp would be calculated
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to aggravate greatly the struggle for control already rag
ing there.
Republican Problems
Even as things stand now, no one seems able to figure
out how a prolonged deadlock can be avoided when the
republicans come together in their next national convention
More dark horses than figured in the 1920 republican
deadlock are edging into the picture. A candidate of the
type of Ogden Mills or David Reed might be able to organ
ize a formidable bloc of delegates in the east.. While some
one like William E Borah was collecting the left-wingers..
Beyond that, what ?
A compromise like that of 1920. which produced Warren
G Harding, already is talked about by many republican
weather sharps.. And, incidentally, prediction of such a
compromise is about the only prediction any experienced
republican is willing to tie to.
As to issues, as distinguished from candidates, the con
fusion is even worse. It seems almost assured that the
republican platform, tod, will have to be written—for once
—by the convention itself.
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Rabbits Drown
By Wholesale In
Seething Flood
A mound of drowned rabbits, esti
mated to be at least 500, found on
the lower reaches of Snow River,
told a pitiful story of wild life tra
gedy enacted during the recent
storm and downpour of rain along
the Seward Highway, says the Sew
ard Gateway
Many Perish
The dead rabbits were found by
Pack Olson, living at Mile 14, and
he hasn't any doubt but that many
others met similar fate, though to
date he has not found them. Prac
tically every little furry form that
he inspected had tufts of grass, or
twigs between the clenched teeth,
indicating that as the water drove
them to higher ground, encircled
and began to submerge them the
little animals attempted to stay its
force by seizing hold of growth.
Any such frantic effort at self
preservation, however, ended in piti
ful surrender, as the merciless wat
ers surged about the struggling lit
tle beasts, sweeping them to their
doom to lower levels as the rioting
floods subsided.
Rabbits Scare
It was reported by Albert Ander
son at Mile 18, that before the
storm rabbits were plentiful, num
bers of them being seen hopping
about the country, but that since
the big rains and heavy blow they
are rarely seen. The theory is that
a great many have been wiped out,
while others, escaped to higher
ground, have not as yet returned
to old frequented haunts.
Those familiar with rabbits and
their habits say that they would be
no match for any sort of water
menace; that their aquatic prowess
would carry them only a short dis
tance from dry land and that only
in the calmest kind of water.,
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To Old Tacoma
Clark Andresen, well known An
chorage young man, who represents
Hunt & Mottet of Tacoma in Alaska
returned to Anchorage from the
south recently, arriving here by the
freight train from Seward. He vis
ited Tacoma and was given a royal
welcome by his firm because of the
splendid showing he made in his
long flight from Valdez to Nome
just after the fire last September,
when he wras the first traveling man
to get there, and made a great scoop
in sales for rebuilding purposes.
Clark will leave on the northbound
passenger train for Fairbanks. He
is at the Parsons. On the way north
ward he was on the liner Victoria
the first time she grounded, about
New Years.—Anchorage Times.
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