Arizona republican., 1920-08-12
ROOSEVELT ASSAILS OLD
 GUARD IN FIRST SPEECH 0F DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN
Demo Vice-Presidential Candidate Opens Campaign In Chicago with Bitter Denuncation of G. O. P. Stand patters and Appeal for Support of Republicans Who Oppose "OId Guard"
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 CHICAGO, August 11.-Branklin D. Roosevelt, candidate for vice president opened his campaign here tonight be- fore 5000 people. He urged Republicans and independents to join the Demo- crats in support of their platform and ticket.
 He told Republicans their party had been split by a quarrel among leaders and that the faction represented by Senator Harding was the "old guard" Theodore Roosevelt had opposed.
 Seven hundred women were given the places of honor on the stage.
 He said in part:
 Tonight we are firing the opening gun of a battle of far-reaching i'm portance and once again the shots are going to be heard around the world, for the action of the American nation will be watched with anxious eyes by all civilization.
 "Goyernor Cox and I believe it Is the simple duty of the candidates to give to as many citizens as possible an opportunity to see and hear and form their own impressions of the men for whom they are going to vote It is only frankness to say that the great majority of the newspapers are owned or controlled by men affiliated with the Republican party. It is, therefore, doubly necessary for us to present our views and our aims in person. T hope on this journey to the Pa cffic ocean and in all my travels that I shall have opportunity to talk not only to Democrats, but also to those who are normally affiliated with other 1 parties and with men And women with out party affiliations-the fndepen- l dents
 Appeals to Non- Democrats. 'T want to address myself pArticu- l larly to those who are not Democrats | The day is past, except in the case of | T III s.1.z rNln kNn | case of a few narrowly pre1ud1ced newspapers, when 1t is either popular or useful to damn everybody and ev- erything connected with the opposf- | ton. I willingly acknowledge ana praise the fine citizenship which goes l to make up the rank and file of thes Republican party. The Republican l party is one of great traditions, or great patriotism. of great accomplish ments. I speak of the rank and file of that party even today with true re~s spect.
 "But for eight years-yes. for twelvs years7a conflict has been raging within that party, raging among thosms in high command. In the first eight years of this century, the Republican party was in large part under true leaders From 1908 to 1912 a group Of selfish men sought for their own pur- poses to gain control of the party ma l chinery. You know the result It was ! ment of protest that, in the elections ! of 1912, received the majority of the 1 votes of the Republican party. That vote was given to a great American leader, but it was even more than sup port of Theodore Roosevelt, the man it was the voice of insistepce that the | party control be taken out of the hands | of selfish men. Among those in that year who supported the ancient re- gime was the present Republican nom inee.
 | .aToday this same man and his 1 sponsors the old guard, show no signs | of having taken to heart the drastic lesson taught them. Once again we see them, unmindfui of the marvellous pro- gress around them. warped in their sell fishness, fault-finding and bitterly crit icising, but offering no real remedies or constructive program to meet the problems we face today.
 'sThe Democratic party offers not "a change, but the change; its platform pledges a definite program of construc- tive measures, not hodge-podge of vague compromises; definite foreign policy for immediately good permanent peace. not an undefined suggestion or new and unavoidable scheme; a pledge that the safeguards of working men and women already accomplished under | Democratic leadership shall remain; not the fear that "a Republican change will restore to power the influential few"
 The other speaker, former Senator James Hamilton Lewis, Democratic candidate for governor of Illinois, de- clared the issue before the Democratic party is mot what America will do for Europe, but what the citizens arc going to do for America He aSsailed the senate syndicate of select senators who named the ticket of Harding and Coolidge" and declared the scheme Of