Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume IX, Number 27, 15 October 1936 — Kansas Newspapers Boast Of Landon's Federal Aid Record [ARTICLE]

Kansas Newspapers Boast Of Landon's Federal Aid Record

' "The recor<3" to whieh Gov. Aif M. Landon invited public attention in his bitter criticism of President Roosevelt fpr using the Pejderal government's credit to relieve ciistress an d thereby bring the country out of depressioft by restored buying' power, need not be confined to statistics from Wasiiington insofar as Kansas is concerned. Senator Arthur Capper's To-! peka Gapital, (Rep.), overlooked no opportumty to relate alloeations ol loans and grants to the governor's home state, whieh have totaled. $448,198,000 And Gov. L"andon was given a full measure of credit for having ; officiaily requisitioned every cent advanced. He was pictured as hav|ng deluged Washington with telegrams, ielephohe calls and paid personal visits, invariably with assnfances that the funds were urgently needed to save his people from suffering. These circumstances have been tiie subject of caustic comment by Kazxsans, inclyding a number of prominent Republicans, since_ Gov. Landon iaunched his chargē of Roosevelt- extravagance, He is being remlhdefl by his home people that he himself is as moraliy responsibie as is the President or relief agencies, also that but for the thnely aid aecorded Kansas "the world wouts never have fixed its attent»on upon the drol! fact that our State budget has been balanced by law for three-quarters of a eentury," Senator Capper's Topeka newspaper quoted Gov, Landon as isaying in his campaign for reelection in 1934: the Democrats won't stand for the relief program and its administration, I will do it for them. I say that considermg t.he problems they have met. they have done a good iob and I am glad to have coonerated wlth them." The same authority quotes John D. M. Hamillon, now GOP nalional chairman, as haying said in the same campaign, as an argument against the elee- ' tion of Gov. Landdn's Democra- • tic opponent: * * * "there is no- | thing in the record to indicate I that Mr, Roosevelt or his assistants have distributed Federal I funds upon a purely partisan basis. ** * Thus from the facts 1 we KNOW that there is no basis in tnuth that a Deroocratlc Stat« | Administration would in itself | and of itself plaee us in a more i advantageous light with the Fedi eral. government."