Evening star., 1934-07-08
c. O.P. CHIEFS CALL
TO BATTLE
Back to Constitution, War
Cry of Fletcher and
vandenburg.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
JACKSON, Mich, July 7.-Sound-
ing the drums of the coming election
wars, two leaders of the Republican n
party-Henry P. Fletcher, chairman
of the National Committee, and Sena-
tor Arthur H. Vandenberg-today
charged the Democratic administra-
ton with taking steps toward "emas-
culation of the Constitution"
Similarly, Hanford MacNider, former
United States Minister to Canada, in
an address yesterday, charged the
Constitution was being undermined"
Other Republicans attending a cele-
bration here of the 80th anniversary
of the birth of their party, in remarks
today left no doubt that one of the
war cries Of the coming campaign will
be back to the Constitution"
Chairman Fletcher and Senator
Vandenberg assailed the Democratic
administration for the establishment
Of what they termed a bureaucracy"
and for q fiscal policy which they said
was setting up 4 huge debt that
ultimately must be paid by taxation
or reputation"
Printing Press" Threat.
"The final alternative unless we
retrench," said Vandenberg. "is the
printing press whether we like it or
not, this is one of the realities ahead"
Fletcher asserted Congress had given
President Roosevelt powers com
parable only to those possessed by
Mussolini and Hitler" and charged
the President has, lin turn, delegated
control of the livelihood, business and
property of the individual American
citizen to a vast maze of theorizing,
meddling, lending and borrowing
agencies"
The Democratic party, he said, has
gone completely new deal" and has
moved away from the faith and poll
cies of Jefferson and Jackson, Cleve-
land and Wilson"
The Republican party, he said, does
not believe that the national wealth
and we'll being of the whole people
can be increased by restricting pro-
duction and by causing an artificial
and unnatural scarcity"
Hit Monetary Policy.
Both Fletcher and Vandenbers
questioned the monetary policy of the
administration.
Il believe" said Fletcher, that the
Government by tampering with our
currency, by destroying confidence, by
stopping the flow of capital into in
dustry, by the hundred and one
measures of interference and control
of industry and agriculture, not only
has delayed the return to sound eco
nomic principles and conditions, but
has complicated and confused our en-
tire political and economic situation"
Vandenberg, discussing the same
phase of the administration program,
said: I'VE can neither tax nor bor-
row ourselves into prosperity. The
final alternative, except as we re-
trench, is the printing press; fiat
money projects to the extent of So
billions were proposed in the last
Congress. Fiat money ultimately
curses every man, woman and child
under its regime-except the rich and
shrewd spectators, who know pre-
cisely how to manipulate such lethal
lottery. Whether we like it or not,
this is one of the realities ahead"
Republicanism, he said, would de-
mobilize the needless bureaucrats; re-
store the Constitutions checks and
balances; re-establish the protective
tariff policy and revert to Govern
ment of laws rather than of men,"
CnmmeudS V.ahor laws
Vandenberg commended the admin
istration's ending of sweatshops and
child labor" and the establishment of
the minimum wage principle and the
shorter work week, but said:
"I speak against the fatal error OF
attempting permanent recovery on the
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