The Key West Citizen

Map Out Program Covering Various Activities
To Be Carried On In Interest Of Party

By PRESTON GROVER
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—The extent to which the youthful, dynamic John Hamilton and other spokesmen for Governor Landon have been shaping their campaign fo woo dissatisfied Democrats is reflected in Landon's acceptance speech.

The governor's own approach seems to be read in the strength with which he stressed his disapprobation of the New Deal.

There were, for example, such statements as:

"The time has come to stop fumbling with recovery."

"We must be freed from incessant governmental intimidation and hostility . . . from excessive expenditures and crippling taxation."

Both Landon and his spokesmen doubtless realize that as against openly disaffected Democrats like Al Smith—to whom Hamilton has made gestures—there are both Democrats and Republicans who voted for Mr. Roosevelt in 1932 now swinging in the balance.

For Governor Landon to engage in pyrotechnics against the New Deal, say some observers, may throw this balance against him.

Landon Keeps Door Open

To point out mistakes in political judgment is one thing.

To condemn outright policies being pursued is another.

The Republican nominee admits that he himself has been mistaken.

"As a young man," he said, "I was attracted to the idea of centralizing in the federal government full power to correct the abuses growing out of a more complex social order. When the people rejected this alternative, I was as disappointed as any one.

But in spite of this rejection I have lived to see many of those abuses substantially corrected by the federal government in its field of interstate commerce."

In answer to that part of Governor Landon's speech, some opposition editorial writers were not slow to dig out excerpts from his speeches as recent as 1933, which they say show he apparently was of a different mind then.

One thing appears certain from a careful reading of the acceptance speech. Governor Landon has kept the door wide open for voters of both parties who were in the Roosevelt camp in '32, but who now are wavering in their support of the President for re-election.

Bid To Borah Seen

Politicians here, in analyzing Governor Landon's acceptance speech, were struck by his references to anti-trust laws and monopolistic control.

Could the governor be openly inviting Senator Borah to take the stump for him in the campaign?

Anti-trust laws and monopolies are the Idaho senator's pet issues.