Evening star., 1934-06-26
V0LUNTEERSPLAN
OLD GUARD FIGHT
New Group to Seek Control
of Republican Or
ganization.
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Its newly selected chairman, Henry
P. Fletcher, as well as with the State
and local organizations. We desire no
split and no third party" they de-
clare.
Gibson Demands Reorganization.
United States Senator Ernest w.
Gibson of Vermont, active in the or
eanization of the National Voluntary
Committee, said in written state
ment for this article:
The Republican party must be re-
organized and returned to the prln-
cipies of Abraham Lincoln and Theo-
dore Roosevelt and made an organl-
zation that will serve the people.
I'VE not only must. but will get
away from treadmill standpatiSm so
that the people will have confidence
in the organization.
This is necessary, for one reason,
to enlist the young men and women
of the country. We are engaged in
a struggle to protect and perpetuate
democracy and all must unite to that
common end
"Many members of the old guard
do not seem to realize that they do
not have the confidence of the people,
but that is fact
Views of Representative TObey.
Representative Tobey of New
Hampshire and former Governor OF
that State, joined Senator Gibson IN
the following statement as expressing
the views of all the proponents OF the
National Voluntary Committee with
Headquarters in Washington:
I'VE believe that loyal Republicans
everywhere deplore condition Wltnn
the Republican party which. to many
Republicans, justified such sincere
nublic servants as United States Sena-
tor George W. Norris being noml-
mated and elected by large pluraEtleS
as a Republican and boldly campaign
ing for the national ticket of the oppo-
sition party. Practically the same
has been true in the cases OF both
United States Senators Hiram John-
son of California and Robert M La
Toilette of Wisconsin, as we'll as some
others. And in their stands the Re
nublican voters in their States stand
back of them four square.
1T is the aim of the National VOL
lntary Committee to bring about Sucn
condition within the Republican
party that will give the Republican
voters such confidence in their ma
tional party that the candidates ana
the Republican voters behind them
will not find it necessary to bolt the
national ticket
Declared Party Of Justice.
Organizers of the National Volun-
tary Committee furnished this cor
respondent a further statement, Of
which the following is part:
The Republican party, founded in
1854, principally upon the ruins OF
the Wing party, on the issues OF the
slavery question and opposed the gen.
eral policy of the Democrats. The
Republican party particularly stood
for Justice to the laboring classes and
private interests as against monop-
olies
The Republican party of Abraham
Lincoln was the party of the people
and was the inStrumentality which
suppressed secession and the rebellion,
consolidated the North and the South
into a Union which has become the
wealthiest and most powerful Nation
ever known in all history.
General Development.
I'm addition to our material prog
1ess under the guidance of the Re-
publican party of Abraham Lincoln,
the United States developed in edu-
cational, cultural, moral and spiritual
values as no other nation has ever
done IN the annals of all history. The
United States became a Nation of
happy homes and families. The home
and family of the rank and file OF
the people is the foundation of the
State and of the Nation. The great
American inventors and creative men
whose vision and industry have so
advanced civilization have come from
the modest homes of the common
people, under a free Government. 1t
may safely be said that American in
ventive genius and mechanical skill
have been nothing short of miracles
to all the world
.-Monopolies, with their insatiate
greed, in recent years have been eX-
plotting the people in every kind of
production, mechanical and agricul-
tural, as we'll as the very homes that
shelter their families which hundreds
of thousands have lost These monOp-