Evening star., 1934-02-18
Vandenberg Praises Roose'
welt as Great Leader in
Lincoln Address.
GAGGED DEMOCRATS
SEEN UNABLE TO HELP
G. 0. P. Liberals Must Keep "0xy-
gen Tent Government From
Dictatorship, He Says.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.


Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Re-
publican. of Michigan, speaking last
night in Grand Rapids, called for
Lincoln liberals" to meet the needs
of the country today.
The Republican party. the party
of Abraham Lincoln, the Michigan
Senator declared, has two funda-
mental jobs on its hands:
To aid constructively in the de-
velopment of the recovery program
President Roosevelt's program though
it be.
To see that the Government of the
United States does not become a
permanent dictatorship, with a huge
bureaucracy as its handmaiden.
In some respects Senator Vanden-
berg'S address, delivered at a Lincoln
anniversary banquet, differs radically
from the Republican addresses, for
example, OF former Secretary of the
Treasury Ogden L. Mills, Everett
Sanders, chairman of the Republican
National Committee, and others. Mr.
Vandenberg appeared almost in the
role of a Republican Mark Antony,
with a reverse English. He came, ap-
parently, to praise Roosevelt, not to
bury him. He referred several times
to President Roosevelt as a great
leader said that he had voted with
the President more often than he had
voted against him. dubbed him a
brave adventurer" extolled some OF
the Roosevelt measures.
Waste Is Feared.
But, and there necessarily must be
a but" under all the circumstances,
Mr.. Vandenberg asserted the Presi-
dent must be saved from error and
wastefulness of public funds. from a
disruption of the fundamental prin-
cipleS of the American Government
The Democrats. subservient to the
nth degree, he said. could not aid the
President as he should be aided. 1t
remained, therefore, for a militant.
nut constructive Republican minority
to take on the job.
party is gagged and bound"
While Senator Vandenberg was
spreading this Republican doctrine in
Grand Rapids, Chairman Sanders
was delivering more hammer-and-
tongs attack upon the Roosevelt ad-
ministration before the Missouri Re
publican Editorial Association at St.
Louis last night. Mr.. Sanders could
discover nothing good in the new
deal" He charged that the admin
istration had failed utterly in putting
the unemployed back to work in pri-
vate industry: that such new employ
ment as had been obtained in the
last year had been almost entirely
due to the Government t-created Jobs.
He painted terrible picture of the
outpouring OF billions of dollars which
will have to be repaid by the Ameri-
can people eventually. Next to this
huge spending, Mr. Sanders found
the greatest fault with the President.
because he had abandoned 1.-The safe
course of constitutional government
and in its place has substituted a
personally conducted government.
We must either have a government
by law, anchored to the fundamental
principles as set forth in the char
ter of our Government. or we must
have a government subject to the
whims and ambitions of a few in
dividuals. said the Republican chair
man. I'VE cannot have a mixture.
We cannot have it half one way and
half the other. Today, as in Lin
coins day. a house divided against
itself cannot stand"
Announces for Reelection.
Senator Vandenberg took occasion
to announce his candidacy for re-
election to the Senate Grand Rapids
is his home. 1t has been known for
some time that Mr.. Vandenberg was
to make this address, and the appeal
he planned to make to the Repub-
Hcans was awaited with interest. for
it was understood to constitute an
appeal not only to Michigan Repub-
hcans. but to the G. o. P. through
out the Nation. Mr.. Vandenberg
halls from the Middle West, that
section of the country to which Re-
publicans are looking for candidate
for 1886 when President is to be
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