Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-16
The Republican Viewpoint
EDITED BY
The Republican County Central
Committee
BY JAMES w. MELLEN
General Chairman of the Jeffersonian
Democrats OF California

No previous administration has so complete
ly abandoned party principles as the Roosevelt
New Deal Never have So many prediction
promises been broken. Never have We seen such
shameful violations Of the public trust.
Never before has this nation witnessed the
spectacle of a Chief Executive evidencng such
an utter disregard for truth, giving gilded prom
ises and bartering his very soul to be returned
to office.
This people have never stood for such colos-
?Sal, shameless raids upon our national resources
and the public treasury before Never, until the
past four years, has America been SO laid waste
by its own hand.
Our country has never been placed SO COM
pletely at the mercy of European doctrines
which have caused one worlds war, developed
four dictators and caused the present civil war
We have had the strange phenomenon of
in Spain.
college professors who never turned a furrow,
shooting and ploughing under national food
supply, while they strove to raise the cost of
living in war of planned starvation" pre-
tending that they meant to make us prosperous
through system of scarcity and high prices.
Thi sand the magnificent gesture with it of po-
lite starvation on the dole.
The WPA-it should be WYPA-"Work your
self Poor Administration'-prete to give
you pitiable pittance of s5400 month, but
actually takes it out Of one OF your own pockets
and puts it in another, after deducting Brain
Trust salaries. administration costs hidden taxes
and bankers profits. Forty-nine cents of every
WA dollar is a mortgage on your childrens
future
Communist Party in America have deliberately
chosen Roosevelt as their standard-bearer for
1896, until they can place Rcd Dictator in
power in 1910?
How long can this go on? Not very long,
until America will be on its knees before the
Judgment Seat. begging mercy and taking
paupers oath. Remember this! Ii is not very
very far from the Pink Sofas of the White
House TO the blood-red streets of Spain.
Every Democrat should commit to memory
the following words of Thomas jefferson. These
were Incorporated by the Founder and Father
Of our party into letter that he wrote to ELL
bridge Gerry the eve of the national election
that made Inn President. Every New Deal
Democrat" should blush for shame on reading
them. Every JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRAT has
them craven his heart.
"' lido then with sincere zeal, wish in
violable preservation of our Federal Consti-
tuition, according to the true sense in which
it adopted by the states.
II am opposed to monarching its features.
- lam not for transferring all the powers Of
the state to the general government and
all those Of that government to the execu-
tive branch.
~ for a government vigorously frugal
and simple applying all the possible saw
iags of the public revenue TO the discharge
of the national debt, and not for a multi
piication of offices and salaries merely to
make parti5ans.
I not for increasing the public debt on
the principle that it is a public blessing.
I not for linking ourselves by new
treaties with the quarrels of Europe,
tering that field Of Slaughter TO preserve
their balance or joining in the confederacy
OF kings to war against the principles of
liberty.
81 am for freedom of religion-freedom of
the press-and against all violations of the
Constitution.
:" The first object of my heart is my coun-
try"