The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-09-19
CONSTITUTION DAY DRAWS
ATTACKS ON NEW DEAL"
Tendencies of Present Admins
tratiOn Severely Criticized BY
Democrats and Republicans
BILL OF RIGHTS LAUDED

Demand for new reverence toward
the constitution were sounded by
political and public leaders Monday
night and Tuesday in speeches project
ing possibilities of bitter clash over
new deal laws at the 1886 polls.
The occasion was the 148th anniver-
sary of the documents submission to
the States for ratification.
Herbert Hoover, at San Diego,
Calf, lauded the American Bill of
rights in an attack on dictatorial gov
eminent with which he coupled criti-
cism of the Roosevelt administration.
The former president said that "men
are in despair surrendering their free
dom for false promises of security"
Liberty never dies from direct at
tack. Liberty dies from the encroach-
ment and disregard of its safeguards.
In our country, abdication of its res
possibilities and powers by Congress
to the executive and Reputation by
the government of its obligations, the
Capitalization of authority into the
federal government at the expense of
local government, the building up Of
huge bureaucracies, the coercion or
intimidation of citizens, are the same
sort of first sapping of safeguards of
human rights that have taken place in
other lands.
Our Constitution is not alone the
working plan of a great federation of
states under representative govern
ment. There is embedded in it also the
vital principles of the American sys-
tenn Of liberty.
In Boston the national administra-
ton was criticized both directly and
indirectly. Among the critics was
Albert c. Richie Although i'll in
Baltimore, his speech was read at the
Constitution Day exercises. He said
he did not advocate a third party but
"the return of my own party to what
I regard as its historic constitutional
faith and creed"
''To make government a partner in
American business is not only to
undermine the spirit of free effort and
enterprise which the American form
of government contemplates for the
American people, and which has
served us so well in every pursuit, but
is, 4 very much fear, to invite economic
disappointment and government disas-
ter. If the executive takes over the
functions of the legislature, the end
is dictatorship. We do not want die
tatorship in this country. We want
democracy"
In radio address Jouett Shouse,
president of the American Liberty
League of which Alfred E. Smith and
John J. Raskob are members, vehe-
mently assailed the New Deal pro-
gram. Shouse asserted that from the
beginning of his administration Mr..
Roosevelt started in to force through a
subservient congress one measure
after another that not only did not
help recovery but actually retarded it."
In a statement issued Tuesday Gov
ernor Kump of West Virginia charged
that the Federal Works Fund is being
used to build up political machine.
Speaking as member of President
Roosevelt's official family, Secretary
Roper in an address at Alexandria,
Va, projected for possible decision by
the nation the issue of a constitutional
amendment permitting "bold, direct
action" in times of "actual national
distress"
In an election in Pennsylvania Tues
day returns showed a majority OPP
posed to proposed changes in the
State constitution.