The Washington times., 1931-05-01
GOV. ROOSEVELT
TRAINS GUNS
| On HOOVER

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And. Out of Date, Asserts
Democratic Hope for 1882
NEW YORK, May U.NS.l.
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, OF
New York, who is prominently
mentioned as the Democratic
uarty's candidate for President in
1882. today had stepped into the
national political arena as the
result of an attack on the Hoover
Administration.
In his first prOnOuncement
uhOn national issue-his Opening
gun" in the presidential cam
paign, according to astute pOliti-
cal ObServOrs-GOvernOr ROOse-
welt asSaiIed the Hoover Admins
eRatiOn as reactiOnary, timOrouS,
and opposed to fundamental
government reform.
50 Years Behind Time
He declared the people of the
nation were looking to the Demo,
cratic party. to lead the way to
o restoration of the basic princt>
Piles upon which the government
was founded.
The Government at Washing.
ton, he asserted, is "geared to the
pace Of so years ago.
Considerable significance was
attached in political circles today
to the governors speech, which
was delivered last night at a
dinner of the New York Young
Democratic Club at the Hotel
Astor and broadcast over nation
wide hook-up. Not only that, but
the governor praised the record
Of former Gov. Alfred E. Smith
and also had kind word or two
to say about Mayor James ].
Walker.
The Governors address was
made In a partly Tammany set
ting, for among the invited
guests were John F. Curry, the
big chief Of Tammany Hall;
John H. McCooey, Brooklyn
Democratic leader, and several
Tammany legislators and office
holders.
Doomed BY McDmfie
Congressman John McDuffie of
Alabama, the only other speaker
Of the occasion, characterized
Governor Roosevelt as:
"The man on whom the
Democrats are pinning their
hope for success in 1892"
Governor Roosevelt, as a mat
ter Of fact, did not actually de-
{ liver at the dinner several para.
graphs Of his set speech deal
ing with national politics :. 4Icn
asked about that today, how
ever, he said that his prepared
speech was intended as a state
rnent Of his position-that he.
stood BY it fully"
The paragraphs omitted in his
delivered speech. but which he
stands by, ran in part:
j. Even in Washington, the
ClOgged and cre9king cumbrOuS
wheels Of Government ma
chinery are geared to the pace
Of 50 years ago.
Whole Structure Weak
TimOrOus councils have per-
mitted no more than . con-
slant. patehing-a new rivet
here, an extra bolt there, in
terminable, struts and props
and additional parts without
correlation 10 each other, which
have been added until the
whole structure hesitStes at
every attempt to speed up in
keeping with modern life.
From the conservative and
TeaCtiOnary party now in power
ut Washington, from the tiInid
counSels Of the aged, from the
selfish grasping of tile power
full few who control sections
from behind the scene, the
people an over the United
States are looking to our party
to lead them into the broad
road that leads to real De
mOcracy Of which our fore
fathers dreamed-tO the real
Government Of the people, by
the people and for the people
which Lincoln pleaded for, but
which his party has since filed
In the archives Of their past,
only to be dragged out and
quoted for campaign speeches
and Memorial Day addresses"
Governor RooSevelt's failure to
actually say in his speech all Of
what he had written in his pre-
pared manuscript left a number
Of Democrats bewildered - and
rather disappointed. The governor
subsequently, explained to news
paper men that he was not con-
sciouS Of having left anything out
and he assured them he stood by
EH1e prepaPed address in its entity