POLITICAL NOTE: Dear Frank

Identify yourself early and firmly with a national issue — Rule No. 4 of "How To Become President."

Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York is seeking the Presidency in accordance with all the rules of the game.

The issue he has singled out for his political identification is hydroelectric power. If nominated by the Democrats, he knows that his Republican adversary next year will be Herbert Clark Hoover.

Last fortnight Governor Roosevelt sought to bring his national issue into sharper focus by taking an early poke at President Hoover. Though he failed to draw the President out into a pre-campaign controversy...

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