Evening star., 1935-11-10
FARLEY SEES PLOT.
TOCOERCE VOTERS
Charges Some Employers
Seeking to Influence
Their Workers.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, November g.
A charge by Postmaster General Far
lev that IAN organized attempt" was
under way Ito coerce the working
people" was coupled tonight with
defense of the administration, put
before Connecticut Democrats by him.
self and Attorney General Cummings.
Both of the cabinet officers praised
the work of President Roosevelt and
hit at critics of heavy adminiStra-
ton spending. The Postmaster Gen.
erals charges, however, attracted more
than a little attention.
Yours Is a great industrial State"
Farley said. 1T also happens to be
a State in which reside q large num-
ber of people of great wealth who
either dominate or are associated with
important financial establishments
which for one reason or another have
declared their hostility to President
Roosevelt and their opposition to his
policies.
Sees Vote Coercion"
"There has come to my attention q
number of letters addressed to their
employees by the heads Of certain
enterprises that are obviously intended
to influence the votes of these en-
ployes. To put it bluntly, there is an
organized attempt to coerce the work.
ing people"
Farley said the President had put
business back on its feet and brought
an approach to normal He reviewed
the results Of Tuesdays election and
said Mr.. Roosevelt would have car
ried New York, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey had he been running.
He compared present conditions
with those in 1882 and said that none
of the later steps of the recovery
program we're any more valid than
the steps taken by the President In
the banking crisis.
N. r. A. was found unconstitutional
he said, but added there was no time
during those early months of 1888
to assay every fine legal point"
Says Money Was Invested.
Farley said the greater portion o1
money spent by the administration
was mot expenditure, but an invest
ment."
He said there was "an operating
Profit up to date Of $4,000 900" fol
I've Reconstruction Finance Corp. anc
90 er cent Of "all due installments'
of the Farm Credit Administration
had been paid.
Such are the cold facts and fig.
ures," he said.
Il hope you will keep them in mine
when those who thunder for the re.
turn of methods and processes which
yotf that the Roosevelt administration
is leading the country straight to tht
devil
Does not the restoration of busi
ness represent an adequate dividend
on the money the Government ha!
spent and is spending?
Says Foes without Platform, -.-
lone reason for the persistent at
tack upon the President is that oul
political foes have neither a candi
date nor program of their own. Jus
now they are flying a series of tria
balloons, leading out their aspirant
for the presidency one by one. in tn,
J :. e of finding some individual with
o popular appeal"
Attorney General Cummings called
President Roosevelt's critics ultra.
partisans," and said:
"Of course recovery has cost a great
deal money, but it has not cost a.
much as unfriendly critics assume.
What would they have us do:
Would they have us reverse the recorc
of the last two years and erase from
the statute books all of this construc-
tive legislation?
Would they have us recall the boys
from the conservation camps and turr
them loose in the streets again?
America would never consent tt
such program"