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...significant fact in the Townsend movement is that to date it has refused to organize as a third party. Taking over the methods of the Anti-Saioon League, the clubs operate as an organized pressure group. Refusing to nominate candidates of its own, the organization dickers with the representatives of the two major parties and pledges its support to whoever will grantee to vote for the Townsend Plan when and if it comes up in Congress. It is this factor of non-partisanship which constitutes the strength of the movement as a political force. The Representative is definitely...
...numbers of their supporters. On the other hand, if they continue their present policy of remaining aloof from partisan issues, it is difficult to sec how the move can be checked. By organizing the electorate in the districts, by focussing attention on the attitude of the representative towards the Townsend Plan, they can exert a measure of power whose weight was vividly demonstrated by the Anti-Saloon League...
Questioned concerning his views of the Townsend Plan the governor replied flatly. "It's crazy. It's a gold brick. I think it will die out. It's too foolish to live. There are approximately ten million people eligible. At the late of $200 a month per person it would about to 24 billion a year, just about half the present income. It would cheapen our money, so that in a year's time the $200 a month would pay just about $30 rent and eventually the money wouldn't be worth anything. If we could get security that cheap...
...Townsend Plan a Racket...
...feared that the results are inconclusive because of the difficulty of replaying to the question by a simple "yes" or "no." Two persons each in favor of old-age insurance but each opposed to any plan approaching that of Mr. Townsend would have been in a position to mark their ballot either...