Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-10-31
ROOSEVELT REGIME
SCORED FOR USING
TAMMANY TACTICS

80 - 49, ~ ~
Col. Theodore Roosevelt:
All over the United States today
our people,-men and women,
young and old,-have one para
mount desire. They wish peace
and security. They wish to have
an opportunity to work and to
earn a livelihood for themselves
and their families. They wish to
be able to look to the future and
feel that this opportunity will
still be there next month or next
year. They wish to attain such a
condition without FORGETTING their
liberties and reducing themselves
to slaves of the state. They wish
a clean, honest, efficient govern
ment where all individuals are
treated with justice.
| charge that the policies of the
present national administration
will ruin all chance of the people
attaining their wishes. | charge
that the national government is.
as false to the people as it has
been false in its promises.
If it is permitted to run its
cours unchecked, savings banks
accounts and life insurance poll
cies will be wiped out; the savings
of the small people throughout the
country will be squandered on
foolish schemes, unnecessary waste
and the building of a political ma
chine.
The danger lies in the fact that
the people do not see this now be-
cause the savings of generations
are being literally confiscated by
the government and scattered
with a lavish hand. Naturally
this creates a fictitious wellbeing.
The people think they are getting
something for nothing. In the
long run, no one ever gets some
thing for nothing. Everything is
paid for by the people, by their
children and by their children's
children.
AS a nation we are like the man
who sells the farm which has been
his livelihood, takes the money,
and spends it on a spree. He lives
high while the money lasts, but
when the money is gone there is
nothing left but remorse.
| charge that the national gov
eminent is building up a colossal
political machine, modelled on
Tammany Hall, New York City.
The wheel-horse of this work is
Mr.. James Aloysius Farley, disci-
pie of Tammany Hall methods.
AS | have said, the federal gov
eminent has organized some forty
bureaus. These have been exemp-
ted from civil service. In all but
a very few, such as the T. V. A.,
there are no merit requirements.
The federal employees have been
increased by some $4,000. These
employees are being selected
through the spoils system of the
most pronounced and vicious type.
Mr.. Farley is directing this selec-
ton. He has his contact mar in
every bureau whose duty it is to
see that members of the Demo-
cratic machine receive appoint
ments.
This is the first time in the his
tory of the nation that a president
has ever revoked an order covering
employees into the civil service,
and is as open an assault on the
merit system as has ever been
known.
1t seems to me that | recall va
rious u~tterances by the President
and others about the passing of
the old order. There is no older
order than that of the boss-ridden
politics of Tammany and it is just
this that they would rivet on our
nation.
In sober truth there never has
has been an administration that
has attempted more deliberately
and brazenly to debauch the pub
lie service for partisan political
purposes. Unless we, the people,
check it and check it now, the en-
tire United States will be CON
verified into a gigantic model of
Tammany Hall, whose name stands
for corruption, exploitation and
cynical immortality not merely in
this country but throughout the
world.
l charge that the Democratic
party is using the colossal funds
turned over to it by a spineless,
traitorous congress to build it's
machine and for campaign pur-
poses.
The Home Owners Loan corpor-
alton has been run on a strictly
Tammany basis. It's personnel was
appointed from Democratic ward
heelers. The closing of titles has
been given to Democratic lawyers
as patronage. Millions of public
moneys have gone in this fashion.
The work could have been accom-
plished at one-tenth the cost.
Our public funds have been used
for propaganda purposes. The
national administration nuhlishas