Governor London, far from being an old party regular joined Teddy Roosevelt when he formed a third parly against. Taft, Moreover the old Republican machine politicians fare nearly all of them dead or retired, The main trouble with the Republicans at the moment is. that the party machine has broken down. The Arst thing any party machine does Is to tle up the Republican dele-gallons from the Southern states. There is no active Republican group in the solid Democratic South and the delegations to the National Party Convention are usually tied to the apron strings of the dominant Republican group, This year they are entirely free, fa sure sign that the old guard are President Roosevelt may well prove to be his own biggest liability. So far he has managed in an astonishing way 0 dissociate himself personally from the unpopular features of the New Deal. They have been attributed to his advisers such as Prof. Tugwell or Mr. Farley. The opposition helped by concentrating their fire on these men and Teaving the President free from criticism, Now however they have changed their tactics and refer to the President's fantastic scheme and the President's abuse of the' spoils system amd party patronage.
Just _as Hoover, because "he was President when the depression struck the United States was held responsible for It, so Roosevelt because ko was: President when prosperity returned. again, will likewise. he held re~ sponsible. That Is his greater asset. The Republicans may protest that there would have been a greater improvement without so much experimentation and harassing of business! and pelvate enterprise; they may bring! forward figures to show that the rest of the world Including Canada just] Jacross the border has done very much better; but they will make little headway. All that matiers to the American public is whether or no. they are now better off than they
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