Evening star., 1934-06-29
CANDIDATES SEEK
WHITE HOUSE VIEW
Congressional Aspirants
Anxious to Avoid Con.
fIict in Campaign.
RY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

President leaves washington OH MS
trip to Hawaii. Senator Lewis OF
Illinois. chairman of the Democratic
Senatorial Committee, is expected to
confer with the President either to-
day or tomorrow on this matter.
The Presidents address to the
American people, delivered last night
over the radio, is however, considered
an excellent pattern for the Demo-
cratic spellbinders. In it, the Presl-
dent minimized partisan Democratic
politics by merely failing to mention
them. He praised Congress because
of the non-partisan spirit which it
had manifested in dealing with the
administration legislative program.
declaring there had been less partisan
politics played in this Congress than
in any since the days OF George
Washington.
None the less, the Presidents speech
was a we'll calculated and effective
opening gun in the campaign winch
is to be waged this Summer and Fail
for the election of House and Sen
ate favorable to the Roosevelt new
deal. 1t is new-deal politics against
old-deal politics. The Presidents ap-
pealed to the voters to check up on
their individual experiences during
the last IS months and to say whether
the new deal had benefited them and
whether the price was too high.
Hints at Satisfaction.
He fatty declared his belief that
the great mass of people would flnd
off q
result of the new-deal program. That
being the case, the easy inference IS
that the people will vote for members
of Congress who will uphold the hand
of the President and carry on with
the new deal.
The Democratic political leaders,
however. would like to get down to
cases. In some of the States. par
ticularly in the Middle West and the
West, they must decide whether they
are to stick by Democratic candidates,
or whether they are to go along with
some of the Republicans and 1nde-
pendents who have supported the
Roosevelt policies during the last
Congress
The Democratic campaign commit
tees, House and Senate, do not want
to find later that their campaign
plans and those of the President are
running along different lines. And
undoubtedly the campaign committees
are anxious to follow the ideas OF the
President even though these ideas
may do some violence to the old ira
ditions of party politics.
Would Avoid Wilson Error.
Tie Democrats, even while they are
desirous of electing as many Senators
and Representatives who wear the
party label as possible, are anxious not
to fall into the error which the late
President WOODROW Wilson and his
aides made in 1918. When they called
for a Democratic Congress to uphold
the hands of the President and win
the war. The Republicans, who had
been taxing part in the war drive,
resented what they considered mere
partisan political demand. The ques-
ton now is whether a strictly partisan
Democratic campaign for the election
of the next Congress would not IN the
same way initiate against the chances
of the new deal and President Roose-
welt.
Roosevelt's Advice Sought.
The President in his address last
night classed the critics of the new
deal as self-seekerS. either for political
or financial privileges, as doubling
Thomases," as timid souls, who fear
that concealed in the new deal are
fascism or communism, regimenta-
Of
implied that these critics are vastly in
the minority. And following the same
plan of calling upon the individual
citizens to examine their pocket books
to ascertain whether they were better
off under the new deal, the President
asked them to read the bill of rights,
written into the Constitution in the
first 10 amendments which were sub
mitted to the States in 1889 and were
ratified finally in 179l. He said that
he was sure the citizens would find
that none Of these rights, guaranteed
in the Constitution, had been violated
in the new deal acts.
Bill of Rights.
The first amendment guarantees
press and of speech, the right of
peaceful assembly and of petition to
den to pass any law in violation of
these rights.
The second amendment guarantees
the right of the people to bear arms
The third amendment guarantees
that no soldier shall be quartered in
time of peace in house without the
consent of the owner.
The fourth amendment guarantees
to the people the right to be secure
in their homes and against unrea-
sonable search and seizure.
The fifth amendment guarantees
the citizen against being held to
answer for crime without first being
indicted by grand jury.
The sixth amendment guarantees
the right of trial by Jury of any per-
son charged with committing a crime.
The seventh amendment guarantees
the right of trial by jury in suits at
common law where the value in con-
troversy shall exceed 500.
The eighth amendment forbids ex-
else bail, excessive fines and cruel and
unusual punishments.
The ninth amendment says: "The
enumeration in the Constitution OF
certain rights shall not be construed tc
deny or disparage others retained by
the people"
The tenth amendment asserts thai
the powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor pro-
hibited by it to the States, are re.
served to the States respectively. or tc
the people.
Challenges Critics.
Critics of the new deal have charged
that the liberties of the people are
infringed upon. The President asked
the people to answer this criticism
themselves.
Undoubtedly the opponents of the
new deal will come forward in answer
to this challenge of the President with
snecific instances of the curt tailment