Evening star., 1934-08-10
FLETCHER PLEADS
FOR TWIN ISSUES
Common Sense and ConSti-
tuition Urged at Illinois
6. o. p. Session.
By the Associated Press.


SPRINGFIELD. Ill. August 10
Common sense and the Constitution
twin standards unfurled at the Re-
publican State Convention. are the
banners flown by the party today in
It's campaign to rebuild broken lines,
The national chairman. Henry p
| Fletcher, raised the standards in a
! challenge to the Roosevelt admins
tration.
The Republican party demands
that the substitutes which the admin
istration Is now Offering for sound,
economic governmental policies be
abandoned and there be a return to
common sense and constitutional
| government"
Fletcher left little Of the adminiS-
trations program untouched. brand
| ing N. r. A. as a badge of servitude.
Ten thousand delegates and spectat tors
responded enthusiastically.
Illinois Republicans came to the
support Of the national challenge with
| speeches and a platform denouncing
the new deal in both Its Federal and
State aspects.
| LlDerty NOT Tor Sale.
The national chairman, calling for
verdict from the voters on the new
deal November g. said: American
| liberty should not be sold, even to
| ones government.
"If the Blue Eagle can be made to
bring industry to heel. why not have
| a black-crow symbol of scarcity and
crop reduction for agricultural"
He said there is no difference be-
tween new deal philosophy and the
| philosophy of the Soviet government. -
and that planned economy will not
| produce the kind of men and women
who have made the Nation a great
one.
The new deals N. r. A." he de-
clared. has strangled its A. A. A"
| In keeping with his announced SUBJ
| ject, THE New Deal and American
Ideals" Chairman Fletcher charged
that the Roosevelt program had done
psychological damage to the country
He declared it had undermined 1.-THE
morale Of our people" Saying that
millions" are being "lured and Sc
duced" into depending upon the Gov
eminent for their livelihood, he added
Admitting that farm prices have
increased since May, 1888, when the
| agricultural adjustment act became a
law, Fletcher declared that the rise
has been more than Offset by rise in
the price of manufactured goods and
called the crop control program
"thinly yelled Government control
and "alien principle"
Weird" Innovations.
After tolling of q whole catalogue
Of charges, the G.. o. p. spokesman
accused the Democratic party of vio-
lating its campaign promises by
weird" innovations in government.
In his attack on the financing OF
recovery measures, Chairman Fletcher
charged the administration with "un-
precedented profigacy," and contend
ed that the expenditures had yet
| shown no results
THE expenditure Of public funds
has reached the point that reliable
authorities state one person out of
every six In the United States Is re-
ceiving Government support in one
4 4OA III VI llC 6ulas
THE administration characterizes
this as printing the pump reer~a -n
There might be some shadow OF
| excuse for this IL there were
some indication that the pump we're
going to begin operating on its own
But there is no such indication.
Claims Violation of Pledges.
"The danger now is that in obtain
ing funds with which to prime the
pump we are drying up the streams
of private resources and public credit. "
Some of the Republican advocate IS
sharpest phrases were hurled when, in
| court room fashion, he accused the
Democrats of violating campaign
pledges.
They had, he said. created dis
honest dollar" erected State capital
ISM" and set up a perfect wilder
ness" of Government agencies.
For many Illinois Republicans, 1t
| was the opening of their first CAM
paign against a party in power, for
| Illinois placed no Democrats in the
Governors chair from 1916 till 1892.
| Planks criticized the State N. r. A.
bill which enacted codes and provi-
sions Of the Federal N. r. A. meas
ure into State laws, and fiayed Demo-
cratic policies Of agricultural aid and
emergency relief administration.
President Not Attacked.
The platform, adopted without dis
sent, followed the general pattern Of
speeches. There was no direct per-
sonal attack upon President Roose-
velt, but his policies were denounced
/ Virtually every activity of the Horner