Editorial: Insidious stuff
All those who have been holding up a moistened finger to the wind profess to detect a determined slump in Democratic prestige for the coming election.
There is evidence to support the view that the fourth-term candidacy will have a harder row to hoe than the third-term candidacy.
But–
Some Republicans seem anxious to make out the best possible case against themselves and their party.
There are numerous examples, but one of the best was the recent speech of Werner W. Schroder, Republican National Committeeman from Illinois. Mr. Schroeder was the man picked by Col. McCormick, the great Chicago rabble-rouser, for national chairman, but Wendell Willkie upset that plan.
In a radio broadcast, Mr. Schroeder attacked the OPA, the burden of his speech being that rationing is being forced on us by New Deal bureaucrats who propose to imprison the whole country in a straitjacket so they may better impose their political “whims” on the people.
Mr. Schroeder, speaking of the bureaucrat, said:
He is with you at every meal telling you what coffee, sugar, bacon and canned goods you can consume. He prescribes the shows you buy and the cut of your suit. He limits your tires and gasoline, while Lend-Leasing it to all the world.
If that’s the kind of insidious stuff the Republicans plan to use, they’ll succeed only in making the most bureaucratic bureaucrat look like a statesman by comparison.