Evening star., 1932-07-04
The Governors New Deal. !"

Gov. Roosevelt's first move in that
'new deal for the American people
that he has pledged himself and his
marty to furnish has started the CAM
paign off with bang, and if his man
ayers have other tricks up thar sleeves
as spectacular as the Governors dash
through the air from Albany to Chicago
and his triumphant arrival before the
convention that a few hours befcre had
nominated him, the Summer months
ahead viii not be dreary ard time will
not falter nor lag.
For the most skilled of showmen
would have been hard put to stage a
spectacle that for tense and moving
drama, beloved of all Americans, could
have excelled the finale at Chicago.
Even in these days when radio and
travel by air are accepted as matters OF
course, there was something new in the
Governors decision to utilize both in
breaking hoary tradition. And every
b-dy loves something new. At the end
of a long and weary convention, with
the nerves and the bones of the dele
gates jaGed and full of aches. the Gov
ernor succeeded in putting new life in
them, sending them home full OF fight
and eager for the fray. From hum
drum occasion, traditionally marked by
the exchange CT carefully worded and
too-often dull speeches for filing in the
party archives, the Governor turned the
notification and acceptance ceremony
into an intensely exciting event. What
it lacked of the Message thrill
was made up in the dash and spirit Of
the Ride of Paul Revere
The Governor chose the manner of
his arrival as a symbol of the straight
m-the-shoulder directneSs with which
he proposes to deal with the many is
sues of this coming campaign. He met
those issues squarely and he toppled
them one by one. He accepted his
party's platform lone hundred per cent "
There was no equivocation or straddling
there. This convention wants repeal
Your candidate wants repeal and I am
confident that the United States wants
repeal" Nothing muddled or meaning
less about that. And he named his
campaign keynote in the end when he
promised a new deal-reminiscen OF
the square deal" keynote Of days gone
by-for the American people.
He made a fine and moving speech
that, with the setting provided by the
unprecedented occasion, came as vel
come relief to that oratory -drenched
gathering. He hurled his polished
words like javelins as he moved along
the familiar routes to open his attack.
First, the Republican party-no, not
the party, but the leaders-and then
the depression and the conditions re-
sulting from the failure of these same
leaders effectively to deal with that de-
preston. Then the picture Of the in
terrelationship of credit groups-topple
one and all are toppled, danger to one
is danger to all" The fault of the ad-
ministration is failure to recognize the
interrelationship of credit groups
craftsmanship and vision, my friends,
require relief to all at the same time. y
The cost of Government is too high,
Functions of Government must be
abolished. Governments big and little
must be made solvent. The people have
been robbed Of their savings. Search
ing light must be thrown on the is
suance of securities for investment
publicity is the enemy of crookedness. >
Public works for unemployment, not
mere spending on useless public works,
but on "self-sustaining'' public works
when they are to be financed by bond
issues. Reforestation, the reclamation
of idle areas, the employment OF one
million men, security for the bond issue
TO be furnished by the growth Of tre-
nendous crops" Abolition of govern
mental buying and selling of farm
products. A denunciation of the Smoot-
Hawley tariff; what We need is tariff
for revenue only and a conference with
the world on ways to stimulate trade.
A fine speech and moving speech.
But a new deal"? A new deal, per-
haps, but the pack Of cards from which
the deal is to be made has strangely
familiar lock
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