The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-20
BY Their Own Words
Shall You Know Them
The Vote Is Yours

doth candidates for the United States senate now have sounded
ID their keynotes for the fall campaign. Senator Arthur Robinson,
who seeks reelection, spoke Saturday night at the Lake Wawasee
convention Of Republican editors.
Sherman Minton, his Democratic opponent, addressed the Dem
ocratic Editorial Association on the previous Saturday at French
picked typical excerpts from both addresses and prints them today
side by side for the information of the voters:
MR.. RoBnsoN-Never before was the Constitution of the
United States in such grave danger. God help America if it should
MR.. MINTON-ApparenIy this is to be another campaign of
fear and fright.
MIR. RoBINsoN-The Constitution has by the party in
power, become a historical scrap of paper which acts as an obstacle
MR.. MNToN-This Constitution doesn't belong to the dis
recently demonstrated inability to govern under it The Constitution
belongs to all of the people and they are conscious of their respOn-
sibiity.
Mr.. ROBNSON-And let us not forget that when nations
abandon constitutional government it is the man farthest down
Mr.. MINToN-You sef-appOnted defenders of the COnstitu-
tcn. tell the people of Indiana where you we're when millions of
proud citizens in this land of plenty we're faced with hunger, want
and pnvation when receiverships and bankruptcies reached IN
heard of figures when the bulls and the bears and the wolves
of Wall Street feeced people out of their earnings and savings
Mr.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and dictatorship destroy free
dom and whenever you find RECOMMENDATION and so-called planned
economy in operation you will find a people servile and totally
MIR. MINTON-Human rights is the theme and their preserva-
ton the purpose of the Constitution. It hss been the boast of the
country almost exclusively for three quarters of a century.
until today We find 81 d per cent Of the prop TSt" owned n d by tSree pT
cent of the people. That is constitutional government a our
opponents gave 1T to us.
MR.. ROBINSON-Ihe New Deal has no economic philosophy
beyond a few vague notions of destructive economic paradoxes which
are carrying us farther to the left and will leave us finally in chaos
with no way out.
MR.. MINTON-. The national recovery act was passed.
What has been the result? Instead of 12OO0OOO men and women
trudging the streets in the army of the unemployed, 100000 have
returned to work. Business failures have dropped from better
than $1,000 per year in the last year of HOOvers administration to
an estimate in 1884 of not more than 10000. Trade volume has
increased by IL per cent. The right of labor to protect itself
by collective bargaining has been secured and child labor abolished.
Mr.. ROBINSON-You see every day evidences of how the
administration is tossing money literally to the four winds in the
most gigantic spending spree in history.
MR.. MINTON-.... Ninety per cent of the banks that closed
have been licensed TO reopen. If a bank fails the government
steps in and pays each depOsitOr in full up to $4,000. Between
thirty and forty million dollars have been loaned to saw HoOsier
homes. At the same time the farmers of Indiana were
receiving loans to relieve their mortgage burden in the sum of
SO.5OO 600. Today the farmers income is SO per cent greater
than under the last year of HOOvers administration.
threatening us like a horrible pestlence. Subversve forces within
our government are now taking Us Enthusiastically on a trek
TO Moscow. The changes we have seen in our form of government
are the handHork of an ever-growing group of radicals in key
positions.
MIR. MINTON-The government that leads labor back to work,
that makes the farmer more content to face the future on the farm.
that gives the business man more confidence and every citizen more
faith in himself, and his country, will live forever enshrined in the
hearts of the people.
(An analysis Of Senator RObinson}s speech will be found on
tOdays editorial psgeJ