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...Grand Old Party of Lincoln, McKinley and Harding last week received the ultimate insult. In the American Magazine shrewd old Charles ("Charley the Mike") Michelson, ace Democratic press-agent whose propagandizing since 1928 gets an owl's share of credit for returning his Party to power and keeping it there, published a straight-faced article titled My Advice...
...should publicly advise the Crimson how to come back. Depending on how they assayed his advice, readers guessed: that Pressagent Michelson was having some sly fun with his old enemies, that the wrinkled old battler genuinely longed to match his wits once more with a worthy opponent, or that "Charley the Mike," with Michiavellian cunning, was deliberately attempting to steer the tottering Elephant over a precipice...
...they could trust his sincerity, Republicans could have found no sager counselor than Charley Michelson. For, as he reminded his readers last week, when National Chairman John J. Raskob hired oldtime Newshawk Michelson as No. 1 Democratic press tactician and speechwriter in 1928, political observers were as ready to inter the Donkey's carcass as they are now ready to bury the Elephant's. "I am really trying to think with a Republican's head," wrote Charley Michelson as he set about planning a resurrection such as he once helped to accomplish...
What made oldtime G. O. P. bosses successful, says Charley Michelson, was "ignoring the mutterings of the Liberal group of Republicans." The same principle, he thinks, will work in the future. Only chance for a Republican comeback is to stop straddling the liberal-conservative fence, return to the "rock-ribbed citadel of oldtime, fundamental conservatism." That is why Alf Landon and John Hamilton, both tainted with Western progressivism, should be tossed overboard. The Republican National Chairman should be an emotional as well as physical resident of Manhattan, should "sit at the feet of the magnates, political and financial, and saturate...
...receiverships. The first obstacle to be removed was old Senator Mayne, who died of a stroke in a heroic but futile filibuster against a routine bill to pay foreign bond holders in present devalued currency. It took a good deal of very practical politics, but the appointment assuring Charley Squires' $100,000 was droned out unopposed in the hectic closing session of the Senate...