Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume IX, Number 29, 27 October 1936 — Landon And Hearst -- Two Of A Kind [ARTICLE]

Landon And Hearst -- Two Of A Kind

The attraction Gov. Alf M. Landoii held for Williani Randolpk Hearst that impelled the piit>lisher to take hīs retmue of top talent to To»eka last Winter for final ap- 7 ' * praisal, is more than met the"eye of the Kan sas City Star newsmen who-went along Exea h Mansion to make the introductions, It should have befn realized bv a neutral observer that there exi|ted the two men a certain spiritual relationship. ; ' This would have'been discernable to any save the uncomfortable member of the little coterie of Jayhawker iourr alists who had first sponsored the XBth f or was it the IJ»th, :onsecutive budget balan.cer of the state. For Mr. Hearst is by repute a very discriminating connoisseur; he has rarely let it be known that his selections were i»t hik owu m the first instance. As tfae campaign progresses this similarity of mental (jualities becomes more apparent. Recently the effort of Mr. Hearst to support the charge of Ogden L. Mills and Coi. Frank Knox that the chief aim of the Roosevelt Administration has been to further the ambitions of the Stalin regime in Russia has disclosed that> exactly as does Gov. Landon, the publisher is a staunch supporter, of pubiie policies during odd numbered years whieh he as vehemently denounces during even numbered years, There is a sameness in this trait that is peculiarly the property of the strong silenced man of Kansas and his liege lord of San Simeon. For example, Candidate Landon today asserts that I "plaimod economy is incompatible with the deinocratic l form of government. ft must lead to ever increasing exec.ut.ive authority, ,> i n 1933, as chairman of a petroleum conference in W'ashington, appointed by Secretary Ickes, Gov. Landon said: "A compact between the states (whieh jthis year he advocates) is an iridescent dream. .In .the end we must have the iron hand of a dietator."' And he"' | then insisted upon a price-fixing provision in the oil code. / i Today Candidate Landon refers to the NRA as an ! autocratic and alien phi!osophy of government "foisted. j,upon us in the misery of the depr.ession by a Federal adj ministration that assumed we had suddenly outgrow r n Amj erican institutions." j But in the odd year, to be exact in July, 1933, Gov. j Landon telegraphed to Secretary Ickes: "Federal control under present act (NRA), is our only hope, and if we are to be protected it will be necessary for a dictator to cise authority in the premises and fix allotment to states, ■»iso to poois within the sta£€s, also on storage withdrawal and imports." ell, this is so like Mr. Hearst as to go some distance toward explainiyg their affinity in the present crusade to defeat President Roosevelt and wreck his program for complete eeonomie recoveiy\ Illustrationg are innumerable but a auite recent one many suffice. Last Sunday the pubiisher issued one of his iaimitable edicts whieh included this sentence: ~ "Mr. Roosevelt compel!ed the recogntion of the bloodv dictatorship of Stalin in Moscow—a dictatorship born in riot and revolution and sustained by murder. and pluiider." But in the odd-numbered year of 1933, wherein all (hat Candidate Landon now excoriates was by Gov. Landon extolled asj essential, Mr. Hearst prociaimed in his New York American (Nov. 22) ; 'On the initiative of President Roosevelt, the United States and Russia have at last resumed normal relations on terms that are entirely mutually advantageous and m,harmony with 'a happy tradition of friendship." As the Hearst newspapers, in their long advocacy of the restoration of friendly relations with Russia have' repeatedly pointed out, friendly political relations promote trade relations and trade relations, when maintained on a fair. basis, promote friendly political relations."