Henderson Daily Dispatch

OHIO WILL BE ONE
1936 BATTLEFIELD
And "Rights of Labor and
Cheap Money" May Be
the Big Issue

HARKS BACK TO BRYAN

Coughlin-Silverites
and
Industrial
Workers May Unite; They Re-
gard Roosevelt As Mere-
ly
a Stepping-Stone

By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer

Cleveland, June 18.-Ohio is likely to be an intensive battleground in the 1936 election. It was won only narrowly by President Roosevelt in 1932. It and Pennsylvania and Michigan probably will be the hardest fought-for states.

And here the issue already
has
been forming. It is the issue of 40 years ago-the issue of 1896, when William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska very nearly beat William McKinley of Ohio.

That issue is "rights of labor and cheap money"
versus
"industrial-
banking domination." Some persons do not like to hear that definition. It sounds too much they say, "like Father Coughlin." It is Father Coughlin. Except that it will be more definite than Father Coughlin's vague outlines.

Labor itself is creating a definite outline of a democracy it desires to

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achieve. It is not, as an organization,
much in love with "cheap money,"
but it is formulating a "bill of rights"
that will play an important part in
the 1936 election. It hopes to travel
its own road, fearing Father Cough-
lin may lead to fascism in spite of
himself.
The collapse and outlawing of the
NRA has worked to the Rooseveltian
advantage in the industrial regions.
Statements of his concerning
the
Constitution and protective rights
have swung large bodies of organized
men into his camp. There can be no
question concerning that, if one min-
gles among
the men in these indus-

trial regions.
The President may have no clear
idea of the road he will follow, but
these men are defining it.
And if the President goes even only
part way on the money program of
the Coughlin-silverites,
that
group,
too, will join forces with the indus.
trial workers in the President's sup-
port in 1936.
But the re-election
of President
Roosevelt is not so much the aim of
these groups, as a constitutional con-
vention. to make certain there is no
back-tracking hereafter
President Roosevelt is not looked
upon, by them, as a radical or even
as a progressive, but as a stepping
Between now and the 1936 political
conventions, there is likely to be in-
dustrial ferment.
Such industries as coal, steel and
rubber probably may unite to smash
the growing
organization of labor,
There is constant talk of that here
in the heart of the industrial region.
"It is now or never," the indus-
trialists say.
President Roosevelt's ingenuity with
both sides may be tested by the strug-
gle developing sporadically in this re-
gion.