The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-13
COLUMBIA CLUB
HEARS FISH RAP
NEW DEAL RULE
Roosevelt Regime Worst
Failure in History, Is
His Verdict.

4 indict the New Deal Admin
iStratlon on its record of the last
year as the greatest failure in
American history
With this statement. Rep Ham
iltOn Fish Jr., New York Republic
an. addressed the Columbia Clubs
fOrty-SiXth annual beefsteak dinner
last night
Raising his voice in intense EEL
ing. the towering Harvard foot
ball star claimed that the recently
passed relief bill was a rare Of the
powers of Congress by a cowardly
Democratic legislature left
Congress with less legislative cloth
ing than Gandhi and put an
autOcrat in the White House"
Il charge President Roosevelt
with having DESTROYED business con-
fidence. Squandered American re-
sources and impairing the national
credit Mr.. Fish told the 700 club
members.
Among other things for which
Mr.. Fish condemned" President
Roosevelt were turning the Con-
stitutiOn into a scrap of paper. and
changing our representative form
of government without the consent
OF the governed. into a dicta-
torlal form of government
Flags Pink" IntcllectuaIs
The speaker aSSailed the Presi-
dent for appointing pink intellec-
tuals' to high posts where they have
caused more labor unrest
strikes q. and class hatred in two
years than all other administrations
since the birth of the republic"
As the 47-year-Old congressional
veteran pounded the air to empha-
size his points. the large stag audi
ence clad in their traditional caps
and aprons listened with interest
and looked like a butchers conven-
ton ready to rend the vitalS of JET
ferSonian Democracy.
The AAA suffered beneath Mr..
FiSh'S vitriolic vocal blows along
with the NRA, and Of the former he
said:
This is the scheme by which
President Roosevelt was to restore
the abundant life in America by the
destruction Of crops and the
birth control of pigs which has
Kept the farmers up on moonlight
nights chaperOning the sows."
Would Salvage NRA
1t would be Mr. Fishs plan not to
scrap the whole NRA." but to save
the best parts and put them into
use. He remarked that approx
mately TAO of the $50 codes could be
done away with, however.
There isn't a man in this ROOM"
challenged Mr.. Fish. who wouldn't
like to get back to the prosperity
of the Calvin Coolidge Administra-
ton in 1926" Here the speaker
paused to tell an ardent heckler
that if he wanted to make his
speech he could
Mr.. Fish depressed long enough
from his TRADE on Rooseveltian ty-
ranny to say that if they want to
have a war in Europe it's their
war and not ours. We should mind
our own business because we have
certainly got plenty TO mind"
Outlines Platform
eve must stop pulling other ma
tiOnS' chestnutS out of the fire"
he continued, and if we have an
| other war it must be in defense of
Amefica and not in defense of the
munitions makers"
Declaring that until there is a
Republican President in the White
House there will be no prosperity"
the Congressman proceeded to out
line a skeletal Republican platform
for the 1886 campaign.
A reduction of Is per cent in gov
eminent operating costs; sound
money at any cost; an end to red"
commissions and extravagant Dor
rowing, and a balanced budget
were the essentials which Mr. Fish
proposed as the new battle-ground
for the Grand Old Party which he
said should be "liberalized" without
sacrificing any Of the old principles.
G. o. p. Not Dead, He Says
THE Republican Party is not
dead the speaker concluded, 1T is
| the old Jefferson.an Democracy
that is dead. 1t is our duty after
the last two years, to show the peo-
pie that the New Deal has been a
failure"
The New York Representative was
introduced by Albert Beveridge Jr.
Curtis H. Rottger, club vice presi-
dent, presided over the meeting
which was held in honor Of the club
members who had been on the
roster 25 years.