NOMINATION OF MR LANDON

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21808, 13 June 1936, Page 15

NOMINATION OF MR LANDON

U.s. PRESIDENTIAL election republican C ANDIDATE CHOICE Gi ( EES ELAND CONVENTION % - .*; .' n MnaiofiT.) (Received June 12. 9.22 p.m.) CLEVELAND. June 11. ilr A M. La:.don. Governor of games, has oton nom.natcd as Republican candidate foi the United glutei presidential election. Mr Alfred Mos Moan Landon. Govemor Kansas .-.'nee 1933, was born «, We*t Middlesex. Pennsylvania, in .jU Re graduated 1.1. B. at the Univtnity of Kansas in 1903. and the degmg of LL.D. was conferred on him SIJ33, From 1912 he was in busitm a an oil producer, then serving „ , frst lieutenant in the United State* Chemical Warfare Service in tbe Great War. In 1928 he was elected of the Republican State Central Comnriltec. •frugal 4lf" is the nickname widely giicfi to Mr Landon in the United because of his apparent ability to cut expenses in the administration of hit own State of Kansas. One Ajgencan paper stated recently: "The advantage he has is that in his own he has met the situation and that ha knows how to say a true thing in ■ desr-and comprehensible way." Anotber testimony, from an independent Democratic source, is that Mr Landon. more than anyone else, seems to refnaeile the sharply conflicting interests within the Republican party, though his sympathies with agriculture are taken for granted, his inittcnce on strict economy in public espeoditure is considered to be enough to satisfy business interests. Interesting, if true, is the published Kory that Mr Landon wears in public, as in private, the same "battered, greasy-banded felt hat. and shiny blue sate suit." There are contrary views of Mr Laudon’s ability, typical being the statement by an American paper: "He is not intellectually profound. He is a small- town politician, sincere enough, and reasonably well fitted to hold minor positions of public- trust, but reaching entirely beyond the proper field of his capacities in seeking the Presidency,"