Evening star., 1934-07-04
BARKLEY SCORES
CLAIMS BY c. O.P.
Asks What New Deal Laws
Republicans Would
Strike Out.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
What new deal laws designed to aid
recovery would the Republicans re-
peal? was the question asked by
Senator Alben w. Barkley of Ken
tuckey. who went on the air last night
to answer the attack on the Roosevelt
administration and its policies made
by Henry P. Fletcher, new chairman
of the Republican National Commit
tee.
The Democratic Senator, keynoter
for the Democratic congressional CAM
paign, as he was for the Democratic
National Convention in 1882, took UP
in order the laws passed by the new
deal Congress, including the stock ex-
change and securities acts, the bank
ing act which gives guarantee of
deposits, the national housing act and
the national recovery act.
Are these among the innovations"
which Mr.. Fletcher and the Republi-
can organization would undo? Senator
Barkley demanded. In each instance
he extOlled the act about which he
asked the question.
Calls Claims Strange"
Taking up Mr.. Fletcher's character
1zatiOn of the new deal as govern
ment from above" Senator Barkley
said:
This sounds strange from the lips
of a practical and theoretical Hamil-
tonian. If there was ever an era of
government from above" in the re-
cent history of this Nation, it was
during the II years from 1920 to 1882
1t was during that era that special
privilege of all sorts sat at the head
of the table in the councils of the
Nation. 1t was during that era the
foundation was laid for the convulsive
nationalism which has destroyed the
markets of the world for the products
OF our labor"
Senator Barkley referred to the
critics of the New Deal, including Nir.
Fletcher and Senator Hastings of
Delaware, chairman of the RepubH-
can Senatorial Campaign Committee,
as these mice and cricket specialists"
who complain that we have lost our
liberties" These critics, he said, say
that the people no longer control their
activities, that the people are being
regimented and that the Constitution
Is being torn to threads and they in
woke the names of Thomas Jefferson
and Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln a New Dealer.
abraham Lincoln, whose memory
have always revered and whose
life I have always admired, was a
new dealer of the first magnitude"
Seantor Barkley said. HE was un-
willing to hitch himself to post and
curse the world as it marched by him
He was not afraid to plow in new
ground. He was not afraid to expert
ment. And the organization which
is now represented by Mr.. Fletcher
and Mr.. Hastings resembles Abraham
Lincoln no more than the Prince
Of Wales resembles Mahatma Gandhi.
Thomas jefferson believed in a
new deal for the American colonists,
and spent much of his life helping to
bring it about"
Referring again to Mr.. Fletcher'S
speech, Senator Barkley continued:
He admits that the new deal is
dramatic, but he does not tell you
that what went before it was tragic"
Mr.. Barkley'S was the first Of a
series of Democratic speeches by
members of the Senate who had
much to do with the handling of the
various acts of the neW-deal leglsla-
ton. The Democratic plan of cam
pagn is to have the new deal discussed
before the electorate by the men who
know most about its inception and
operation. Senators Byrnes of South
Carolina, Russell of Georgia and
Barkley will deal with the agricul-
tural legislation, for example. Sen
ators Wagner of New York and Cos
tigan of Colorado are expected to talk
about labor and relief legislation, and
Harrison of Mississippi about finances.
Says People Wished New Deal.
Senator Barkley said last night that
the American people in 1882 had de-
voutly wished for a new deal, as dis
tinguished from the "old deal" which
had brought them to the very brink
of national disaster. He continued:
That they wished for new type
of leadership, leadership possessing
the same courage to pillow new ground
as that possessed by those who found
ed the Nation in the beginning, is
abundantly demonstrated by the new
courage and the new spirit with Wnlch
they have risen to that leadership.
There are those among us who py
nature are prejudiced against prog
ress. That prejudice is multiplied in
finitely if it happens to be political or
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