The Washington times., 1935-10-19
LAID
TO PRESIDENT
BY HASTINGS
by EARL GOODWIN


Political circles are buzzing to-
day with the violent attacks on
the Roosevelt administration de-
livered In the past "a hours. Prin-
cipal topic is sensational per-
sonal att tack on President Roose-
velt by Senator Daniel o. Hast
ings RA, of Delaware, who
charges the Chief Executive with
deception }and plagiarism. The
Delaware Senator, who is chair
man of the Republican senatorial
committee, speaking at a lunch
con today in Chicago, made about
the toughest assault on the Presi'
dent yet heard in a campaign
which is already almost at white
heat-on the Republican side.
In effect, Senator Hastings
charged that President Roosevelt
has deliberately made statements
and promises which he knew were
untrue at the time they were
made.
AssaiIs Letters
Senator Hastings also violently
attacked the President on recent
presidential letters to clergymen.
He said:
90. Every minister was led
to believe he was getting a per-
sonaI letter from the President
but the whole business was
done by machinery. But that
was not all; the letter itself in
several paragraphs used e-actly
the same language used b. Gov
ernOr La Toilette. The idea
was not only taken from one
of his political supporters, but
the language Of the letter itself
was not original. 1t was
plagiarism; it was literary
theft"
Senator Hastings dubbed the
present "The era of deception"
and asserted that the President
started to deceive the country
from the moment he accepted
the Democratic platform. He
slammed the RooSeveltian bud
getary policies; declared the Pres
ident had deceived the people in
the economy act; that NRA had
promised to put 100000 men to
work and failed; and reiterated
the old complaint that NRA and
the Democratic Administration
had set aside antitrust laws in
the name of recovery. He also
charged that the legal lights of
the Government had deceived the
people in contending that NRA
was constitutional.
"Only One Excuse"
On this point Senator Hastings
said:
"The only possible excuse is
one they ought to be ashamed
to admit, and that is their
hope that the individual men,
berS of this great Independent
body, the members of the Su-
preme Court, would violate
their own OathS in order that
the baIIyhOO and the prOpa-
ganda Of the Administration
might succeed"
After listing numerous in
stances Of what he called ode
ception," Senator Hastings re.
ferred to the Presidents promise
Of no further increase in taxes,
and said:
I'm view Of the evidence ..
may respectfully ask whether
there be a single American
who can rely upon such a
prOmiSe?"
Despite the bitterness of this
attack, however, the Delaware
Senator also made a statement
that is construed here by OBJ
servers as being an admission
that the Republicans have no
assurance of defeating the Roose
welt administration. He also
pointed out that by no chance
can the Republicans elect ma
jority in the Senate in 1896. But,
he added:
"If the Republican party can
succeed in the next election in
securing a majority of the
House Of Representatives, the
wild career Of President RoOse-
welt can be stopped in its
tracks"
Gives BOrah Rebuff
Senator Hastings was also play.
ing inside Republican politics in