Evening star., 1933-10-31
C. 0. ?. OPENS FIRE
UPON ROOSEVELT
Pamphlet Charges President
Fails to Live Up to Cam
paign Promises.

Under the title Lets Look at the
Record" the Republican National Com
mittee has published a pamphlet at
tacking the Roosevelt administration,
declaring it has not lived up to its
campaign pledges, that 1t has been
wasteful of public funds and has for
gotten its promise of sound money"
The pamphlet has been distributed
to members of the National Committee.
State chairmen and Republican men,
berS Of Congress.
Apparently the National Committee.
under the leadership Of Chairman
Everett Sanders, has decided the time
administration and its policies, in view
of the approaching congressional elec-
tion. For months the Republicans have
withheld their fire, believing it the bet
ter policy to refrain from partisan polit-
lcal attacks at time when the recovery
program was getting under way. Except
for sporadic criticisms leveled at the
administration, the Republicans have
kept quiet since March 4.
Orators Plan Drive.
With the return of Congress on jan
uary 3, it is expected the Republican
orators will get into action, opening up
on the administration money policy,
the N. r. A. and other sections of the
Democratic program. The work of the
National Committee, as exemplified in
the new pamphlet, is described as the
work Of the party's intelligence serv-
ice" and for the purpose of supplying
the Republican leaders throughout the
country with data on which to carry
on the approaching campaign.
The monetary program of the admin
istration is criticized and the President
is charged with having violated his
promise of sound money" made during
the campaign Of last year. Specifically,
he is charged with having violated
that pledge when he signed the farm
relief bill carrying the Thomas cur
rency imitation amendment, when he
declined to subscribe to the monetary
stabilization proposal advanced at the
London Economic Conference, and when
he advocated a managed currency"
The administration, the pamphlet
says, has failed to put 1000 900 to work
on public projects, as it promised to do.
and has provided work for only $4,000.
The charge is made that the whole
public works program has been delayed
by politics and the -'spoils system
Depositors Forgotten"
Depositors in closed banks have be-
come the forgotten men Of the admin
istration, notwithstanding what has
been the declared policy of aiding them.
the pamphlet charges.
Instead OF reducing governmental ex-
penditureS. 1t is charged, the admins
tration has set up two sets of books for
the purpose Of deceiving the people and
making them believe the Government
has balanced its budget One set covers
the ordinary expenditures of the Gov
eminent and the other the expendi-
lures under the new laws passed by the
Democratic Congress and made for the
new governmental agencies.
While the administration has sought
to reduce farm acreage, and so limit
surplus crops. it has at the same time
approved expenditures OF S86 900 900 for
land reclamation, to be used for agri-
cultural purposes, it is pointed out
The Democratic platform pledged the
party to get the Government out Of
business, yet the Roosevelt administra-
ton is now attempting to control all
private business, the campaign docu-
ment asserts Another plank in the
Democratic platform declared for sound
currency and urged q monetary con-
ference be called for the consideration
by the nations Of the rehabilitation Of
silver and related questions
Roosevelt Quoted.
Several statements made by PreSi-
dent Roosevelt on the money question
are quoted, including: 1T is obvious
that sound money Is an international
necessity, not domestic consideration
for one nation alone" and In line
with the plan suggested by the Demo-
cratic platform, l shall advocate i'm
mediate action by our Government In
cooperation with other governments
There are many ways of producing the
results without disturbing the currency
Of the United States"
President Roosevelt, the pamphlet
points out on November 4, 1882, speak
ing in Brooklyn in reply to statements
made by former President Hoover, said:
mo responsible government would have
sold to the country securities payable
in gold if 1t knew that promise-yes,
the covenant embodied in these securi-
ties-was as dubious as the President Of
the United States claims it was"
Mr.. Hoover had said earlier that the
country had narrowly escaped going of
the gold standard. President Roosevelt,
after he entered the White House, the
pamphlet continues, took the country
OF the gold standard by executive
order.