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T HE TYLER JOURN A L
FRIDAY. JULY 3, 1936
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Are You For, or Against New
Deal? Why? Party Incentives?
rible World War, and that much of
this cost money wilj be repaid?
Now, Margaret, having answered
your question in this off-hand way,
dn’t
may I ask you this question: “Hadri
you better come back home to your
old Democratic moorings and give
your voting support and your morat
support to this great man of cour-
age, of vision, of good cheer, and of
accomplishment?”
Margaret, I think perhaps it would
he well for you to fegl toward our
Democratic President like the', little
girl said her.Mother felt toward her
Father. It was'the first day, of the
new school term and she was a new
pufiil; the teacher asked her what her
Father's name was. “Daddy.” “Yes*
I know, but what does your Mother
call him?” “She doesn’t call him
anything; she likes him.”
Republicans’ Trouble
This is written before the Republi-
cans at Cleveland have nominated
their candidates or adopted their
platform. I am delighted with an
impression I have aboiit one aspect of
this Cleveland Convention. It looks
to: me like the younger and the more
progressive forces of the party a-jje
coming into a big sphere of influence
in that organization. Governor Lan-
don may not be a man of marked
ability, and he may not have had any
experience that particularly fits him
for Presidency, but I don’t believe he
will yield completely to the control
of Wall Street and the old guard
crowd.
(By an Iowa Democrat residing at
Washington).
Editor’s’Note—W. D. Jamieson is
A Washington Attorney. He for-
merly was a member of Congress, a
democratic member from Iowa. He
knows national politics, and usually
writes down the facts as he sees them
—and writes accurately, and with as
little partisan bias as most any cor-
respondent we know of. You will
read, with interest we know, his in-
dictment of the republican party. He
usually heads his Washington reports
“The Window Seat”, because he says,
he sits in his office at a window over-
looking Washington. Following the
Republican National Convention at
Cleveland, he wTrites us as follows—
do take time to read it:
Washington, D. C., June 12—Since
writing the WINDOW SEAT last
week I have had one of those happy,
old-fashioned visits with a school mate
and a playmate of childhood’s days.
Mrs. Margaret Owen Fouse, of Den-
ver, the widow of Reverend Fouse,
was here. She and I graduated from
the Columbus Junction, Iowa, high
school in 1891.
Margaret and I were oases in that
Iowa desert of barren Republicanism.
We endured the sneers and the con-
tempts heaped upon us by the herd
whose “superiority” existed only in
their own ego. But we withstood it
all and I imagined she was as firmly
rooted as I was. Political roots usual-
ly are deepest and strongest in the
soil of vigorous but unthinking oppo-
sition. Imagine my surprise and my
horror when Margaret told me she
was an “enrolled” Republican. Fee, fi,
fo, fum! How can such things be!
She emphasized the “enrolled” part,
and this emphasis soothed not a little.
inet to St. Johns Episcopal Church—
just across the park from the White
House—and there held a prayer meet-
ing—a serious and sacred search for
Divine guidance. Iti is a terrible
loss to the nation and to the whole
world that this was not constantly
followed up and persistently empha-
sized by him.
There are some other things. Among
them are waste and extravagance,
which after all are actually done- by
local people but which are charged
up against the President.
Roosevelt Credits
Now, Margaret, on the other side
of the ledger, he has turned despair
into hope and prosperity for nearly
all of the people.
He has provided jobs for many,
many millions.
He has fed hungry mouths and has
kept great groups of our people from
starving and from anarchy.
He has practically doubled the farm
income.
During the Hoover administration
more than t>,000 banks were closed,
Their platform makers are having
fearful trouble. They are like the
Chinamen charged with a crime—he
was sworn and the Judge asked:
“What will happen to you if you tell
a lie?” “Me go down below—burn
long time.” “Right; what will hap-
pen if you tell the truth?” “We lose
’em case.”
I think Governor Landon is the
strongest man the Republicans could
nominate among all the present can-
didates. If I were thinking only in
terms of the success of the Democrats
then I would not want him nominated.
But there is always a chance—in this
case a mighty slim chance—that the
Republicans may win. If they do,
then I want their successful candi-
date—who then will be my President
■—to be the best kind of a President
they can give us. Governor Landon’s
forces seem to be in control at .Cleve-
land and I'm glad of it.
The Wall Street-Old Guard crowd
are about as honest with the people
as the hubby was with his wife; he
telephoned to her from a night club:
“I’m working late at the office dear.”
Replied the wife: “Well, you must
be made of asbestos, your office burn-
ed down shortly after 5,”
h
you, yourself saw and experienced-
suffering Mothers, sweat shops, rag-
ged children, hungry and starving
liberties we want, and the kind we
don’t want.
One of my good friends jrs Otto
Koegel. He’s a near-the-top -partner
in the big New York law firm, of
which Chief Justice Hughes was the
head before he took hi,s place as Chief
Justice, and whose sdn succeeds this
illustrious Father. Otto can’t under-
stand why I’m a Democrat, and why
1 favor Mr. Roosevelt, and he simply
tole
tolerates my political attitude because
he likes tie' personally. In a recent
letter he sent me a clipping which
stated that although prohibition was
a failure, yet its repeal has created
a more serious problem than we had
rbu cmiurcii, nuiigiy uuu
toilers, ground doym by the .greedy
oppressors’ heels, 14,000,000 or 15,-
000,000 unemployed, banks failing
everywhere—causing universal ruin
and suicides, homes ancj farms fore-
closed by the hundreds pf thousands,
millions of boys! tramping the roads
and railroads, drifting hither and yon
and headed Straight for the devil, bus-
inesses going to pot on every hand in
every community, farm prices so low
that they , would not bring enough to
even pay interest and taxes, with al-
most everybody you saw without hope
and surrounded in' gloom and despair.
As you' think back, isn’t this the ac-
tual, the unvarnished picture of the
Hoovor “three long years”?
Liberties We Are Deprived Of
He’s depriving us of the liberty of
having our banks fail; he^ deprived
on our hands prior to prohibition. I
believe this is true. But what is the
answer ?
Three Years of Roosevelt Activity
Then Otto uses this sentence: “Of
course, I don’t think you will want to
mention that Roosevelt’s election was
in no small measure due to his stand
on liquor.”
Otto, T don’t mind mentioning it at
all if I thought it weie true, but I
don’t believe it is true. I think Mr.
Roosevelt’s election was due primarily
to ‘he general desire of the people in
the country to defeat Mr. Hoover. We
were having a fearful depression, and
everybody was sick and tired of Pres-
ident Hoover, and the people voted
against him rather than for Mr.
Roosevelt.
And then compare these with the
“three long years” under Roosevelt—
the hungry fed, sweat shops abolished,
many millions given employment, the
farm income raised toward a prosper-
ous condition, workers given lhore de-
cent working and living conditions,
bank failures almost entirely stop-
ped, business prosperous everywhere,
millions of boys taken from the
streets, and railroads into the COC
camps and employment, mortgage
foreclosures on homes and farms re-
duced almost to a minimum, stock
market graft wiped out, millions of
needy old people, blind, and depen-
dent children helped, spirits revived,
and gloom and distress turned into
hope and assurance.
This brings to mind an interesting j
query—what are the influencing fac-1
tors that elect people to office? My j
long experience and observation tell j
me there are three outstanding ones: |
(1) Partisanship, because of which
men and women vote their ticket in j
spite of all other conditions; (2) Per- j
sonality, which may mean personal i
conditions favoring the one who sue- j
ceeds, or personal conditions antagon- j
istic to his opponent and (2) or- j
ganization, by which voters are put
to work in the various precincts.
I believe all these three vital fac-
tors will be most largely in favor
of President Roosevelt this year.
I would think that if the Democrat-
ic managers were at all wise they
would pick up this slogan and song
of “three long years” and bring it,
as it actually is, and burn it into the
minds of every possible voter in the
country. This is the real question be-
tween the two parties—do you want
to go back to Hoover “three long
years” or do you want to continue the
Roosevelt “three long years”?
Perhaps the most important in his
case is personality — he personifies
great accomplishments, he exhibits
fine courage and keen sympathies, and
he has a radio and a speaking in-
fluence that reach, persuasively, into
the very hearts of men, women and
childien.
“Three Long Years” of FjL Hoover—
And of Roosevelt Ar£ Contrasted
Given For Information of Voters
Washington, D. C., June 19—Well,
the Republican Convention has been
bold, and Governor Landon, of Kansas,
With the consequence of disaster and j has been nominated for President', and
loss, almost beyond the telling and I Editor Knox of the Chicago News,
beyond the measuring, while the Pres- ! has been named for Vice President,
iderit has so re-arranged the situation | The platform has been adopted. What
that a bank failure now is almost un- , will happen to them ?
known. ---
He has guaranteed the bank de- | J may be pretty dumb, but as I am
posits for more than 50,000,000 of I looking out of tire WINDOW SEAT
American citizens. “window” this very minute, I can’t
He has shifted the money center of tell you what either of the chndi-
But Margaret is struggling to get
back home. I could tell this when
she asked, “What are the things that
you don’t like about Mr. Roosevelt?”
She meant what are the things he
hasn’t done that I wish he had done.
Well, Margaret, I’ll tell you some of
the things I don't like, and many of
the things that I do like.
But in making such an assessment,
you and I must always realize that
this man knows a great deal more
about the whole situation, and the
effect and relationship of each thing
to the wfyole problem, than you and I
possibly can know. We also must re-
alize that he is instinctively and by
training the most astute politician,
probably, in the country, and that he
many times must go contrary to what
be -would like to do in order to ac-
complish the bigger ends.
The Debit Sidri
I’m sorry, Margaret, he stood out
so vigorously for the repeal of pro-
hibition—I think it has made a bad
condition a great deal worse, and
I think he is at heart in favor of pro-
hibition—but the whole country, very
.evidently, was largely against it, and
so he went along.
I wish he had lived up to the plat-
form promise (to fix prices on basic
farm commodities above cost of pro-
duction.
•, I wish he had brought commodity
prices, generally, at least up to, if not
above, the general 1926 level. Instead,
they have gone up from about 65% or
60% to 77% or 78% only.
I wish he had deported all crim-
inal and deportable nliensr
I ,wish he had given more attention
to having loyal friends in government
Key positions
America from Wull Street to Wash-
ington.
He has saved a million homes from
foreclosures through the Home Own-
ers I-ioan Corporation.
Farm evictions prior to his admin-
istration were' at the rate of more
than 200,000 a year. He has loaned
about $4,000,000,000 and has saved
hundreds and hundreds of ‘thousands
of farms and farm homes from this
continued foreclosure.
He has saved and helped tens of
thousands of banks,, insurance com-
panies, railroads and otheri. business
institutions through the RPC.
He has taken a million and a quar-
ter boys from begging rides from au-
tomobiles on the highways, and from
'stealing rides on railroad trains, drift-
ing back and forth aimlessly -and
heading straight into crime, and has
put them into the health-giving, the
hope-giving, and the prosperity-giving
CCC camps.
He has outlawed the sweat shop and
abolished child labor.
He has provided for old age insur-
ance through the States,, with help
for the blind and the dependent chil-
dren.
He has given us the Securities Com-
mission which protects innocent in-
vestors from the lying and thieving
devices of the unscrupulous confidence
men and their worthless stocks.
He has given us the Tennessee Val-
ley electrical “yardstick”, and is now
bringing electricity into hundreds of
thousands of farm homes through the
REA, and its efficient Chairman Mor-
ris L. Cooke.
He has taken 600,000 farm families
—about 3,000,000 people—from relief
rolls and put them into self-respect-
ing and self-supporting conditions on
farms, through the Resettlement Ad-
ministration.
He has kept tens of thousands of
young people in schools and colleges.
Through the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration he has helped hundreds
pf thousands of people to build and
bny thfeir own homes.----------
In 1932, 900 corporations made a
average in 1932, was 38c a bushel.
Applying a 30% tariff payment, this
payment would amount to about 10c
a bushel, making a total price to the
farmer—on the Hoover basis—of 48c
a bushel for three-quarters of the
crop, which is the average amount of
our wheat crop consumed in this coun-
try. Does this 48o price meA* any-
thing to the wheat farmers except the
continued desperation and degradation
■which prevailed under the Hoover *re-
gime ?
The actual cost of producing wheat
to the average farmer, giving him fair
wages and a small return on his cap-
ital invested, i^ about $1.5(1 a bushel.
lates, nor the platform, stand for gen-
erally, except that I know candidate
Knox is a standpatter. I also know
that every reactionary and every rep-
resentative of monopolies at that
Cleveland convention fell over them-
selves to support Governor Landon.-
The one pronounced progressive can-
didate, Senator Borah, was so disgust-
ed with tfie standpat atmosphere of
the Cleveland convention that he,
didn’t eve# attend the convention nor’
has he endorsed the candidates since.
This whole set-up makes me have ruin for the hog producers,
less confidence in Governor I-andorr-
than before Cleveland.
The convention’s great demonstra-
tion, you know, was for Mr. Hoover,
and Mr. Hoover heartily approves
Governor Landon—therefore it would
seem that Governor Landon typifies
the Hoover “three long years,” es-
pecially as the Governor so heartily
condemns the Roosevelt “three long
years.”
Iioover-Roosevelt Contrasted
Let nie further illustrate the com-
parison of these two “three long
years” by giving some actual figures.
I will take the official prices for
some important fqrm products under
the Hoover “three long years” the ’32
having our lianas LZ r
52,000,000 depositors of the liberty of
having their deposits not guaranteed;
he is depriving millions upon millions
of men and women from the liberty
of not having a chance to work; he s
depriving hundreds of thousands of
home apd farm owners the liberty of
having their places foreclosed on
mortgages; he deprives women and.
children of the liberty of sweat shops;
he is depriving millions of Mother’s
sons from the liberty of wandering
aimlessly over the face of the earth
because they can’t find work; he is
depriving the country of the liberty
of being in a depression; he is de-
priving us of the liberty, as a people,
of being without hope.
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Can you put your finger on a single
liberty you want, and to which yon
are entitled, that you don’t have?
Of course vou can not. This howl
about President Roosevelt destroying
the Constitution and robbing us of the
liberties we prize is political libel, and
the height of balderdash. :
Political Announcements
SMITH COUNTY
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The Tyler Journal is authorized to
publish the following announcements,
subject to the action of the Demo-
cratic Primaries, unless otherwise
stated.
For District Judge, 7th Judicial Dis-
trict—composed of Smith, Wood and
llpshur Counties:
WALTER RUSSELL
For Legislative Representative
Smith County
EUGENE TALBERT
H. II. HANSON
TOM P. COOPER
(2nd Term)
For Flotorial Representative
Smith and Gregg Counties:
ROY I. TENNANT, JR.
Of Gregg County
WALTER C. HOLLOWAY
Of Gregg County
For District Attorney
7th Judicial District
prices, and the 15th of April prices
for the year, as the result of “three
Another thing that adds to my dis-
trust. of him was his quick notice by
telegram that he was for the gold
standard. The gold standard for this
country is as ridiculous as it is dam-
aging, but it is eagerly craved by
.every monopoly and every greedy
Wall Streeter in the-whole country. -
On the other hand, I liked his para-
graph in the same telegram announ-
cing he was for a change in the Con-
. stitution to give the States a right
This illustration of wheat is typical
of other farm products. For instance,
hogs; we export surplus pork prod-
ucts; the Hoover ’32 price was $3.44
a hundred; add, say 30%, and you
would have hogs at about 4.30c per
pa\ind for the part consumed in the
United States. Obviously this price
Platform Confusing
The more I read the Republican
platform, the more confused I become.
I get very little that’s specific out of
it, but I do have the clear idea from
it that any candidate can stand for
anything he pleases on most of the
vital questions and still find support
in this- platform.
the result of
long years” of Roosevelt:
Hoover wheat, 38c; Roosevelt wheal*,
86.3c; Hoover Corn, 31.8c; Roosevelt
corn, 57.2c; Hoover ohts, 15.7c;
Roosevelt oiCts, 25.4; Roover rye,
27.6c; Roosevelt rye, 40.8c; Hoover
cotton, 6.5c; Roosevelt cotton, 11.2c;
Hoover cottonseed, $10.35 per ton;
Roosevelt cottonseed, $31.28; Hoover
potatoes, 39.6c; Roosevelt potatoes,
81.1c; Hoover apples, 59.6c; Roosevelt
apples, 85.5c; Hoover hogs, 3.34c;
Roosevelt hogs, 9.38c; Hoover beef,
4.25c; RooscvnK, beef, 6.27c; Hoover
veal, 4.’.Ilf; RoWevelt veal, 7.57c;
Hoover sheep, 2.17c; Roosevelt sheep,
4.48c; Hoover lambs, 4.40c; Roose-
velt lambs, 8.46c; Hoover butter, 20c;
Roosevelt butter, 28c; Hoover milk,
$1.29 per one hundred pounds; Roose-
velt milk, $1.74; Hoover chickens,'11c;
Roosevelt chickens, 17c; Hoover eggs,
14.2c; Roosevelt eggs, 16.8c; Hoover
horses. $55 per head; Roosevelt horses
$101; Hoover mules, $02; Roosevelt
ules, $115.
FRANK BEZONI
For District Clerk Smith County:
CLARK SPARKS
For County Judge, Smith County:
HUGH (BUDDY) GILL
BRADY P. GENTRY,
(Re-Election.)
These are the prices received by j
the farmers. ,
For County Clerk Smth County:
’ HARRY W. ALBERTSON
BEN L. SALLEE
L. R. MORRISON ,
For Assessor-Collector
HORACE MILLS
HENRY ALLEN .
For County Treasurer, Smith Co.
Mrs. W. A. LUCKY ,
STEVE W. WALKER
C. F. JAY
For Sheriff
TOM SIKES
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New Deal (tains for Industry
(Re-election)
TOM B. CROOK
to fix minimum wages for women and
p^ilrlvori if* fViie vicrVtf nnnM nnf Vu>
children, if this right could not b<?
secured without the Constitutional
Change.
This platform can be interpreted
as they please by theseIhree groups:
(1) The standpatters who largely
shaped it;
\ (2) Governor I-andon and his ad-
visers; and
(3) The Senatorial and Corigres-
I will also give a typical industrial
stock—U. S. Rubber—further to em-
phasize the comparison of the Hoover
and the Roosevelt “three long years.”
The Hoover net income deficit for this
company in ’32 was $10,700,000; the
Roosevelt net income earnings in ’35
was $7,800,000.—The Hoover deficit
per share of common in.'32-was $11.^0
and the deficit per share of preferred
wa§.A$16.47; the Roosevelt net earn-
ings ppr share of common in ’35 was
$1.74, and the net earnings per share
of preferred was $11.91.
.1. R. (RUSH) BEASLEY
For County Commissioner, Prec. 4
(2nd. Term)
J. W. TAFT
For County Commissionef, Prec. 1
, JOE CARDEN • L
f" HENRY L. CARTER
(Re-election) .1
k'or County Com§nission«‘, Prec. 2
J. D. DRAKE
(Re-electiqn)
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sional candidates.
As a matter of fact, it means prac-
tically nothing to any of them, ex-
I could go on all day making similar
comparisons, but these I have given
tell the whole story. You can pay
you)- money and take your choice. Is
there any question in your mind as
to which "three long years" the people
will choose ?
For County Commissioner, Prec. 3
L. T. (Louie) SHAMBURGER
For Constable, Precinct 1
E. D. (Ed) HALL
It seems to me that both the Fed- cep't. they find in it permission to stand
eral and the State governments should j for what their own sweet wills dictate,
hhvo the right to fix minimum wages
fnr in^nolvino nrifVi n roncnnohln nni*.
for industries, with a reasonable par-
tition fence between these rights-Take
coal, for instance. Suppose only the
States have the right to fix minimum
wages. Do you think Pennsylvania
would do this to the disadvantage of
her coal operators if West Virginia
and other coal producing State!* didn’t
do it?' Where products of industry
substantially affect interstate com-
merce, the Federal government —- in
the interest of - humanity, and decent
livin# for workers in that industry—
should have the right to fix minimum
wages and decent working conditions-
a in nuw
tWftHtip nf
one of the greatest Departments in
the whole government which is prac-
net profit' of $142,000,000—last year
these sawn corporations made mote
I listened to some of the proceed-
ings of that convention with great in-
terest, and if it hadn’t been for the
possible tragedy to the country,1 I
would have listened with real amuse-
ment.- To illustrate, they stressed the
terrible “three long years” of Roose-
velt. They were so anxious to im-
press the idea of “three long years”
that they set it to the tune of “Three
Blind Mice.” Their bands played it,
they sang it, they shouted, it rind it's
in the first four words of the plat-
form. They did everything they knew
how to.impress the idea of “three long
'years.”
Another fearful convention howl
was that President Roosevelt is de-
priving us of many of our liberties.
Yes, this is true. He is. There are
two kinds of liberties—-the kind of
For Justice of (he Peace,
Prec. 1, Place 1 ^
W. E. BORING
For Justice of the Peace
Precinct 1, Place 2
R. E. (Rodney) BARBEE
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MONEY
{ J. I). Stringer, Pres Tyler, Texas
Fully Insured Up to $5,000 in the
East Texas Building, Loan
& Savings Ass’n.
Plbone 518
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Julian- Smith, Sec.-Treas.
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tically run, and almost ruined, by a
hold-over, sneaking, sniping Republi-
can under secretary, who has the or-
ganisation of that Department jittery
and seething with dissensions and in-
surrection—a real harm to the pub-
i
t ^uuu auu iiv euc
Away and above all of these, I wish
the President had taken an active
leadership in bringing our people up
toward the spiritual -mountain tops.
On his way to take Kho oath of office
at the Capitol, he summoned his Cab-
than ten times that — much prof-
it — $1 *568,000,000. On every hand
business is better and in somri in-
stances is booming.
He has increased our foreign trade
with many countries, in some as much
as 30%. ■ "'*
And there are a lot of oiher
benefits
-Repub. Platform and Farm Problem
Whet dees the .platform gi
solution for the farm problem? They
use a good many words, arid they
It seems to me this would,have been
the very thing they would have stay-
aecomplised.
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And Margaret, do you know ,that
this has all -been done—these great
enterprises of peace—at a cost of only
half as much as the cost of Oar hor-
adopt-Some of the things now being
done by the present administration.
To take care of farm exportable sur-
passes, they want to make reasonable
payments on the. domestically con-
sumed part of these crops “in order to
make the tariff, effective.” As I un-
derstand it, this would mean, for in-
stance,, on yiheat, that something like
ed away from. I jet’s you and me
think for a minute, about two sots j
•of “three long years”—the Hopver
“three long years” and the Roosevelt1
“three long years.” It is not only j
mighty interesting, the comparison, j
but ^ tells the very heart of the poli-
tical question confronting evpry voter
‘when he goes ihto Ms voting booth
on November 3.
possibly a 30% tariff Would be paid
to producers of wheat on that part of
the crop consumed in this country.
The Hoover price for-wheat, on the
“Thrde Long Years” of Hoover
In the first place you think of -th^
Hoover “three long years” from what j
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