Evening star., 1934-04-18
DRIVE LAUNCHED
FORL|BERAL COP.
Col. Roosevelt Hits "NeW
Deal" in Address Before
New York Club.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April ia cam
paign to rebuild the Republican party
along liberal lines was launched to-
day after an attack on the policies
of President Roosevelt by his cousin,
Col. Theodore Roosevelt.
THE so-called new deal Is not lib
eral and Is rot new" said Col. Roose-
velt '.* 1t Is reactionary and
un American"
A leader OF the younger and po-
litically more active element OF Re-
publicanism, Col. Roosevelt issued his
denunciation last night at his install
lation as the new president OF the
National Republican Club.
With him were installed other
young Republican leaders-among
them F. Trubee Dawson, former As
sistant Secretary Of War, as second
vice president.
Backed by the other element OF
the club, the new leadership plotted
a course Of conferences and member
ship drives to make the club q center
of Republicanism and q major factor
in national politics.
Together" said Col. Roosevelt,
I'VE will strive to make the National
Republican Club an active factor in
these critical days. when the future
Of the Nation Is being determined"
Senators Send Greetings.
A1as.aoa. ~ ooporo ot,lo tinp. nr s,,p
port came from United States Sena-
tors Charles L. McNary of Oregon,
F. C.. Walcott of Connecticut and
David A. Reed Of Pennsylvania; Rep
resentative James w. wadsworth of
New York, Gov. James Rolph Of Cali
fornia, Frank Knox. publisher Of the
Chicago Daily News, and William
Allen White, editor. Of Emporia. Ksns.
The keynote Of the campaign was
sounded by Col. Roosevelt, who said:
If the so-called new deal prevails,
the hardbought gains for liberalism
and individual liberty are lost"
The new deal, he said. ''is not lib
eral because 1t is confessedly an at
tempt to reduce the American people
to 'regimented' group. submissive to
the dictates OF a small group or a
single individual at the head of a vast
bureaucracy"
He said it Is not American because
''it predicates for the future an auto
crat rather than a President"
Col. Roosevelt assailed the N r. A.
as having adopted an attitude OF
'militaristic Prussianism"
ia hrtil h,Il
Of mind that Is foreign to anything
our ancestors would have permitted, {"
he declared.
The new deal. he said, Is not new,
but Is "the old deal, older than time,
the deal from which we have been
rising through years of struggle 1t
predicates for the future an autocrat
rather than q President"
Col. Roosevelt aeodsed the Govern
ment OF violating the constitutional
provision that every man shall have
his day in court by canceling the
airmail contracts without hearing: he
declared an effort had been made to
Stifle free speech and to throttle the
press.
Lindbergh Defended.
As striking example" he said
that when Col. Charles A. indbergh
recently protested against cancella
tion of the airmail contracts "a de-
liberate and concerted attempt was
set on foot to discredit him in the
eyes of the public by trying to show
that he was a publicity seeker and by
endeavoring to prove that his motives
were base In that he had profited to
an undue extent by his connection
with the development of the Air
Service"
Equally important with free speech. -
he continued, is a free, uncensored
press. Any regulation which vests in
the Government the power either to
put a newspaper out of existence by
circumscribing its rights or by clamp
ing down on it regulations with which
1t cannot comply. potentially violates
the freedom OF the press.
The actions of the N R. A have
come perilously close to creating such
a condition. and would have done so
had it not been for the courageous at
titude of a large proportion of our
press in this country. Even now the
danger is not past"
Enactment of the proposed secret
document bill'' of last Spring, he said
would have given the Government, Ito
all intents and purposes, complete con-
troll of the news columns and made
possible a rigid censorship"
To Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
he attributed statement that IF the
present schemes in Washington are to
work there must be controlled pub
lie opinion"
Controlled public opinion is censor
ship, no more. no less Col. Roose-
welt said
OF N. R. A. Administrator johnson.
he said: Time and again he says he
will crack down on this man or that
concern. He sounds when he talks
like German drill-sergeant address
ing a group of recruits.
Fight to Be to Finish.
Asserting the National Republican
Club intends to fight to the utter
most" any movement toward auto
cracy. he said:
The great Federal organizations
JnaJ nave pecH SCI OH lOOt, SuCA us IAAe
N. r. A.. the A. A. A. etc. sweep
aside State lines and extend their
tentacles down into the community
prescribing the details Of existence in
city and in country.
Liberties and privileges that were
jealously guarded by our forefathers
are forfeit responsibilities are
being lifted from the shoulders OF the
people The doors Of opportunity are
being closed to initiative and self
reliance. With these will go the
manhood, independence and character
of the people"
Asserting the new deal" is Con
fessedly an attempt to reduce the
American people to 'regimented
group" he said:
1T spells autocracy and q sheep
like people dependent on the State
and subject to the will Of the auto
crat."
F. Trubee Dawson declared that
never in our history has such colos-
sal bureaucracy In the Nations Capt.