Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-10

gavel made from black walnut
taken from the Ninian Edwards
home, where Abraham Lincoln
courted Mary Todd. which welded
today in presiding over Republican
grass roots" convention at Spring.
field. III. A. P. Photo.
ness and industry have been hobbled
and obStructed. and the Government
has boycotted its own citizens
! The way is being paved for an
imitation, not only of credit. but of
currency, to a degree which Is un-
! practicable. If not in fact uncon-
trollabIe. Over the possible resump-
ton of industry and the quickening
Of human endeavor there hang the
clouds Of fear for undisclosed and
more radical schemes: the menace of
confiscation: the threat Of more Gov
eminent competition; the daily pos
sibility Of further debaSement of our
money.
The White House has become the
center of uncertainty and unsettle-
ment from which may be issued at
any hour of the day some statement
or edict that will throw whole indus
tries, the market for our goods or
the condition of living into further
confusion"
Flowing Under Opposed.
Spangler declared that the people
of the Midwest ask no special favors
from the Federal Government Their
greatest resources, he said, are their
fertile lands. And he added in crit
icism of the "plow-under" policy Of
the administration:
The Midwest will never achieve its
rightful place and its natural pros
perity under policies which subsid:ze
fields filled with noxious weeds in
stead of bountiful crops; policies
which turn our hogs and cotton into
rotten carrion instead of food for the
masses; policies which destroy free
markets at home and induce importa-
ton Of products from abroad.
ITO those WHO believe that two and
two make four. the agricultural pro-
| gram Of the administration does not
make sense"
Spangler pointed out that hundreds
Of millions of dollars are expended to
take fertile acres out of production
and at the same time other hun
dreds of millions are poured out to
bring other acres into production
through irrigation.
Their final plan" he said. seems
to be to take over the MANAGEMENT
Of every farm in the land under the
complete control of remote bureaus
in Washington"
Permanent Measures Opposed.
The determination OF the Presi-
dent, Spangler said, is Ito make per-
manent laws which were said to be
| temporary and needed to meet an
emergency, and at the same time he
Is reaching out for more power" He
warned that the IS 900 900 900 lump
sum as appropriated by Congress at
the request Of the President will be
expended at the direction of New
Deal politicians" He charged that
the administration banking bill would
vest control of credit and money in
"a politically-appointed and politi-
y-controlled board"
Instead of recovery promised by
the New Dealers" Spangler said,
more than 10 million workers are
unemployed and more than 20 mil
lion Americans are on relief rolls
The public debt has been raised to
more than % billion dollars. an in
crease of more than 10 billion dol
lars in two years These figures
measure results obtained by the
Roosevelt administration in two
years"
Discussing the condition of the
Republican party, Spangler said that
the complete answer to the charge
that it has been wrecked lies In the
fact that "13,500.000 loyal Americans
in 1894. leaderless. without funds.
without organization, without hope
of patronage or success, walked as
individuals to the polls to vote the
Republican ticket"
To Stick to Old Principles.
"They tell us that the Republican
party must be succeeded by a new
conservative party" he said. Such
a new party would be a disservice to
America: it would divide the electo-
rate. not along the vertical line of
political principle. but along the
horizontal line of class warfare. They
tell us also that we should set up the
vote-catching device of newer new
deal. To those who say we must out
deal the New Deal, let us answer that
we prefer the sane principles from
which recovery may come to the eco
nomic fallacies and the RECOMMENDATION
which can generate only paralysis
and despair. Let us raise to the
masthead no white flag of surrender
and no jolly roger of piratical class
hatred"
The delegates stood and cheered
when former Gov. Lowden was escorted
to the platform after Spangler con-
cluded his speech. After the band
had played the Star Spangled
Banner" Lowden launched Immediately
into his definition of the issue of the
coming campaign.
Lowden's speech. a carefully thought
out discussion of the Constitution and
all its implications, was not Of the
rabble rousing variety. The delegates
listened intently to the veteran Re-
publican.
Pat" Hurley, Secretary of War in
the Hoover administration, arrived late
at the conference. He looked in vain
for q seat in the space allotted to the
Oklahoma delegation. Finally he found
q place with the Sodth Dakota outfit.
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