"Stop Landon"

For weeks before the Democratic national convention in 1932 the Press boomed with news of the "Stop Roosevelt" movement. In the past fortnight supporters of the Governor of Kansas for the GOPresidential nomination have been encouraged by widespread reports of a "Stop Landon" movement developing among Eastern conservatives.

Massachusetts allows no formal entrants in its Presidential primaries, provides a space on the ballot in which the voter may indicate his preference. Last week 76,710 Massachusetts Republicans wrote in the name of Alfred Mossman Landon. That was more than ten times as many as scribbled the name of Herbert Hoover, nine times the total for the next three choices--Borah, Vandenberg, Knox.

This sweep left observers surer than ever that, if Governor Landon hurdles the California primaries this week, he can jog in an easy winner at Cleveland. Breaking his discreet silence for the first time with a direct statement on the Republican race, the happy Kansas Governor wired to the Boston Herald: "The splendid Republican vote in Massachusetts should give heart to the entire country. So far as its personal bearing is concerned, I am deeply grateful for the confidence in me that it demonstrates. But I believe it reflects something of more significance than any personal factor.

"It should be regarded as an expression of the voters' approval of an administrative record that seems to them in contrast to that of the New Deal.

"People are increasingly turning away from the waste, the uncertainty and the futility of the present Administration at Washington. If given a direct choice at the fall election between good government and bad government, there can be no doubt as to their decision." As the sole Presidential entrant in Pennsylvania's Republican primaries last week, Senator William Edgar Borah received the compliment of a pencil scratch from more than 300,000 voters. Only 20 of the State's 75 convention delegates had pledged themselves in advance to support the popular choice, were last week reported eager to weasel out of their promise.

President Roosevelt, who rode fast & free in Massachusetts, was opposed in Pennsylvania by Colonel Henry Breckinridge of Manhattan, Lindbergh lawyer and onetime (1913-16) Assistant Secretary of War, who has offered himself as a rallying post for anti-New Deal Democrats. Preliminary result: Roosevelt, 800,000; Breckinridge, 30,000.

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