Evening star., 1934-09-07
ROOSEVELT PARTY
SCORED BY COLBY
Wilson's Secretary of State
Says Administration Winces
at Name Democrat.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Me, September T.
Declaring that the Roosevelt admins
tration winces at the party name o1
Democrat, Bainbridge Colby last night
asserted "the overturn of our instt-
tutions, including the Constitution, Is
the avowed goal of the Presidents
immediate advisers"
In a caustic criticism Of the ad-
ninistration, the former Democratic
Secretary Of State told a meeting
called by the American Coalition OF
Patriotic Societies that submission
not freedom, is to be the future badge
ofsthe United States"
Imposed RECOMMENDATION" he said,
els to take the place of American in
genuity and enterprise. Bureaucratic
control, even of our going out and
coming in, is to weigh down the land
once known as the land of the free.
collective farming, State operation
Of factories, and gradually the entire
Soviet concept of regimented life, are
to be set up on our soil.
Spells End of United States.
"Of course, such q program on the
part of the administration spells the
end of the United States Of America.
The name may survive, but it will no
longer describe the country OF WASH
ington and Jefferson and Madison
and Franklin; the country Of Lincoln
and Theodore Roosevelt; of Cleveland
and Woodrow Wilson"
To "save our beloved country from
the enemies which are within the
gates" Colby said the American people
must turn to the congressional elec-
tions, and declared:
Congress Is democracy's arena, un-
der the Constitution. The elected
representatives of the people are the
spokesmen of democracy in America.
"But when say Congress, I mean
true Congress, self-respecting Con-
gress, not a rubber-stamp Congress
such as Congress proved itself In the
! last session.
when say representatives Of the
Z people. do not mean the servile and
! herded majority, incapable of func-
, tioning as representatives, which in
the last Congress allowed the execu-
J tive to originate its measures and
then passed them without reading
or scrutiny"
Must Rout Foes Of Freedom.
Colby told the rally-called by the
patriotic societies coalition in the
interest Of congressional candidates.
that voters in the Fall elections must
rout the foes of freedom"
Colby said the Roosevelt admins
tration "manifests reluctance even
to call itself Democratic" and added:
I Indeed. the Democratic party Of
today is only q so-called Democratic
party. It bears but little resemblance,
If any, to the party which carried the
1882 election.
The President and his administra-
ton, Colby said, have repudiated the
platform on which he was elected.
'The promised saving of as per
cent In the cost Of the Federal Gov
ernment," Colby said, "has been sfui-
filled by so vast an enlargement Of
Government spending that the bank
ruptcy Of the Federal Government is
Just around the corner =.
''The pledge Of the removal Of the
Government from all fields of private
enterprise has been redeemed by its
intrusion into every field of private
enterprise. The Government has a
finger in every pie and q thumb In
every tart"
The former cabinet officer In the
Wilson administration said he had a
letter from an unnamed "high off,
cial" In the Democratic party saying
II realize our course is going to take
us to State socialism ="
Colby assailed Rexford Tugwell,
Undersecretary Of Agriculture, who,
he said, "out- -Russias Russia"
In discussing Upton Sinclair, Colby
said the Californian 'has thrown his
saddle-bags over new mount, more
to his liking, the violently trans
formed Democratic party, which he
counts upon to carry him more
swiftly and surely to the attainment
OF his lifelong Socialist dreams"