Evening star., 1935-09-15
PRESIDENT IS HELD
D|SLOYA[ USURPER
Accusation Hurled by Col.
Theodore Roosevelt in
Pennsylvania.
av tha Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MCCLURE Pa, September l4.-In a
direct attack, Col. Theodore Roosevelt
today labeled President Roosevelt q
'faithless" public officer.
Addressing rally of Snyder County
Republicans, the New York party
leader declared, in speaking personally
Of the President:
You have been faithless. You have
usurped the function of Congress,
hampered the freedom of the press,
removed men from quasi judicial bod
les for political purposes and striven
to concentrate in your hands dicta-
torial powers.
Attitude on Measure Cited.
"You have urged Congress to pass
laws that you knew were unconSti-
tutional. You said in advocating one
of your measures. I hope your COM
mittee will not permit doubts as to
constitutionality, however reasonable,
to block the suggested legislation
You have broken your sacred oath
taken on the Bible.
We. the American people. believe
our Constitution is our bulwark
against dictatorship and mob rule. You
will hear from us in 1886"
The issues in the SO. campaign, Col.
Roosevelt said, ARE far too grave for
q division on mere party lines"
The American people, he added,
"Stand now as we stood at the birth
of the Nation. for liberty and inde-
oendence, as against autocracy and the
surrender of all power into the hands
Of the Executive"
The constitution can be changed,
Roosevelt continued, "and it has been
changed in one respect or another by
an orderly procedure provided therein.
All changes. however, - have been
along the general lines of providing
more liberty and more power for our
people as a whole, never circumscrib-
ing their liberties, and, above all. never
robbing them OF power to place 1t in
the hands of any individual"
Aim to Subvert Government.
The present administration, he said,
"When it came into power. decided 1t
would remodel the United States from
top to bottom. For the last two and
one-haf years a planned and suS-
tained effort has been made to subvert
entirely our theory of the Government
Of the United States. . - 3"
In "contravention of the principles
of the Constitution" the colonel con-
tinued. the N. r. A. and the A. A. A
were promulgated.
The American people through these
organizations, he added, would be
reduced to serfs.
Worse than this, in both organiza-
tions the Executive arrogated to him
self the power to legislate, robbing
Congress Of those functions that had
been lodged with it by the Constitu-
ton in order to prevent a tyranny.
Meanwhile, in countless other ways,
other organizations too numerous to
name we're infringing on the peo-
pies liberties. -
Hosts of hurrying spies. euphoni-
ously called inspectors. are peeping
and prying into our affairs Nothing
is safe from legislative enactment and
Executive interference.
Liberty Reasserted Self.
'The PSYCHOLOGY Of fear had spread
through the Nation"
Then. Col. Roosevelt said. came the
turning point. Then came the moment
when American liberty reasserted It
self through the N. R. A. decision Of
the Supreme Court. Never since the
Declaration of Independence has a
body of Americans taken a more mo-
mentous stand. 1" q"
1T was merciful Providence that
placed on the court men of sufficient
courage and integrity to stand to-
gether unanimously. Had the deci-
sion been In any fashion close, firmly
believe the Executive would have
packed the court by appointments and
had the case brought up again."