Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1936 — Page 9
0. R. HOLDING EDGE IN 10WA, WILSON CLAIMS
Political Reporter Says President Is Aided by Business Gains.
Lyle C. Wilson, chief political reporter of the United Press, is making a preelection suryey of doubiful states.
"BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
DES MOINES, Ia., Oct. 15.—~President Roosevelt has a hair-line edge over Gov. Alfred M. Landon in Iowa because of the improvement in business conditions since 1932.
Democratic trenches are weakest in the sector where they must defend spending and taxes, present and future. That goes for the state Democratic ticket as well as for Mr. Roosevelt. Iowa prosperity is purely comparative. But by comparing today with the corresponding day in 1932 one obtains a show of prosperity which can not fail to have large influence in the polling booths. Mr. Roosevelt carried the state by 183,586 votes of 1,000,000 cast in 1932. Whether he can hold a lead depends largely upon the effective-
.ness with which Republicans are
able to present their thesis that Roosevelt prosperity is accomplished by sleight-of-hand maneuvers which merely are delaying a costly day of reckoning. The state could go either way.
Farm Prices Up
THere being no official figures for this day, take Sept. 15. On Sept. 15, 1936, Iowa farm prices hit an average of 136 per cent of the pre-war average. That is, the products of Iowa farms were being sold at 36 per cent more than the same quantities brought before the war, A great buying splurge last spring accounted for much of the increase. The John Deere tractor plant at Waterloo revealed a storage yard full of tractors—hundreds of them. But. my taxi driver reported that farmers had to order two months in advance last spring to obtain delivery and then came by truck from long distances to cart their trophies home. The Waterloo plant, incidentally, was running a night shift although a short time previously it had been on a restricted production schedule. You get another farm reaction in the political symposia conducted by the Register and Tribune here. For months they have been asking farmers here there and everywhere who they were for and why. The overall tally gives President Roosevelt a slight edge, about 6 or 7 to 5 over Gov. Landon. But many are undecided.
Many Undecided
The latest, in Republican Marshall County, gave Landon 6, Roosevelt 4, and eight undecided. Northern Franklin and Southern Cerro Gordo Counties, likewise Republican, reported: Landon 6, Roosevelt 1, and seven undecided. Here are some typical comments from these tests of sentiment: Charles Leise,
Rural Route 1,
Marshalltown, owner 240 acres: “I
don’t know how I stand. I'm not for Rnosevelt. Lemke is way off the handle. I haven't heard Landon speak. I'm guilty of voting for F.oosevelt ‘but never again.” F. A. Wilcox, R. R. 4, Marshalltown, rents 120 acres: “If I were voting I would vote for Roosevelt.” T. K. Benson, Lamoille, tenant: “Neither one’s going to have a walkaway. If Landon wins it will be just like Hoover's Administration—his
hands tied by a Democratic con- |.
gress. A lot of farmers knock Hoo-
_ ver, but I think he was all right un-
der the circumstances.” Walter Boehle, R. R. 1, Sheffield,
been taken at various hy Be ri Tors
curbstone gatherings. They are mere samples, Here is the summary, to date: Roosevelt Landon .......: Heads 210
There were 17 votes scattered elsewhere or undecided. Gov. Landon has been in the state five times and’ probably will be here again. Mr. Roosevelt was in Iowa on his
second trip last week, cutting across:
a corner of the state en route to the first speech of his present tour at St. Paul. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace was principal contact man for the presidential party and he heard a mixture of good and bad news.
Mr. Wallace and the President
, but by a small—dangerously im plurality. Mr. Wallace was warned by farm leaders to line up Iowa's small business men Where Landon strength is judged to the greatest. The small Iowa capitalist has been much impressed by Republican charges that taxes are going .up and that the public debt is Sis gerously high. There is no doubt that extravagance is the best Republican issue here agains! Mr. Roosevelt.
RE-ELECTED SECRETARY F. A. Doebber, Indianapolis, has been re-elected secretary of thte Associated Traffic Clubs of America. Election was held last night at Dayton, O., as the annual convention closed.
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Accounts: ‘Board Recovers - $147,000 More Than "in 1935.
More than $013,000 in public funds expended during the year ending June - 30, 1936, were recovered ‘by the State Accounts Board, W. P. Cosgrove, chief examiner, reported today. The expenditure of these funds was termed illegal, extravagant or
than the year before. The report also showed that net earnings to the general fund in the .board’s budget increased slightly over last year. After disbursements for personal services and equipment, and fees paid to the state, the ‘board had $1442 to deposit in. the general fund.
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William Everhart, Mason City, owner 240 acres: “The whole thing's politics and that's all I can say about it. I've always been Republican except when I voted for Roosevelt in 1932. I don't like the New Deal—we have to pay for it all, anyhow. I didn't hear Landon’s talk here but I read it. There's a lot of truth in what he had to say.” I was here last autumn in the first United Press political survey preliminary to this campaign. I was told of steadily improving trade. Retail sales from June to October, 1935, were 21 per cent over the same period in 1934. I am told now that business still is on the upgrade although the latest data to which I obtained access did not cover this summer’s drought period. It is estimated that farm income will be above 1935 and aggregate about $500,000,000 this year. Des Moines business activity was greater on Oct. 1 this year than last. New home permits, postal receipts, new car and trucks sales, check transactions and street car riders were up. The street car figures, sometimes taken as an index of employment, were 12,624,024 riders for the first eight months of last year compared with 16,292,046 for the same months qf 1936. A series of catch-as-catch can polls in Des Moines gives Mr. Roose= velt a considerable and probably
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