The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-30
Full Text Of Opening Speech
 In President ROOSevelt'S Campaign

Would you c- any other Ameri- cans call thl.l radical and alieu today?
 Tn later years, first under Governor Smith, then during my governorsi1ip, this program of practical intelligence was carried forward over the typical and In- swerving opposition of republican leaders throughout the state.
 Garry Traditions
 Today the great tradition of a liberal, progressive democratic party has been carried still fur ther by your present governor, Hebert H. Lehman. He has begun a program of insurance to remove the spectre of unemployment from the working people of the state. He has broadened our la- Dor leglslation. He has extended the supervision of public utility companies. He has proved hirn- self an untiring seeker for the public good: a doer of social jus- tice; a wise, conscientious, clear headed and businesslike admins trator of the executive branch of our government. And be it noted that his opponents are led and backed by the same forces and the same individuals who, for 8 quarter of 8 century, have tried to hamstring progress within our state. The overwhelming major of our citizens, regardless of party, propose to return him and his administration to Albany for another two years.
 His task in Albany, like my task in Washington, has been to mai11- tain contact sbetween state-craft and reality. In New York and in Washington, government which has rendered more than lip ser- vice to our constitutional democ- racy has done 8 work for the pro. lection and preservation of our institutions that could not have been accomplished by repression and force.
 Let me warn you end let me warn the nation against the smooth evasion which says, "of course we believe all these things we believe in social security; we believe in work for the unem- ployed; we believe in savin: homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all these things; but we do not like the way the pres ent administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of theln-we will do more of them-we will do them better; and, most important of all, the do- ing of them will not cost anybody anything"
 Memory Not Short
 But, my friends, these evaders are banking too heavily on the shortness of our memories. No one will forget that they had their golden opportunity-twelve long years of it Remember thaS the first essential of doing a joD well is the want to see the job done. But make no mistake about this: The republican leadership today is not against the way we have done the job. The republican lead- ership is against the job being done.
 Look to the source of the prom lses of the past. Governor Lehman knows and I know how little legis- lation in the interests of the av- craze citizen would be on the statute books of the state of New York, and of the federal govern Inent, if we had waited for re. publican leaders to pass 1t.
 The, same lack of purpose of ful- filment lies behind the promises of today. You cannot be an old guard republican in the east, and a New Deal republican in the west. You cannot promise to repeal tax es before one audience and prom ise to spend more of the taxpayers money before another audience. You cannot promise tax relief for those who can afford to pay, and, at the same time, promise more of the taxpayers money for those who are in need. You simply can- not make good on both promises at the same time.
 Can't Run Risk
 Who is there in America who believes that we can run the risk of turning back our government to the old leadership which brought 1t to the brink of 1883? Out of the strains and stresses of these years we now come to see that the true conservative is the man who has 8 real concern for injustices and x xxx takes thought against the day of reckoning. The true conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injuSticeS, and inequalities as arise from it. The most serious threat to our institutions comes from those who refuse to face the need for change. Liberalism becomes the protection for the far-sighted conservative.
 Never has g nation made ereat- CT strides in the safeguarding of democracy than we have made during the past three years. Wise and prudent-intelligent conserve tives-have long known that in a changing world worthy institu- tions can be conserved only by ad- justing them to the changing time. In the words of the great essayist "the voice of great events is pro- claiming to us-reform if you would preserve"
 I am that kind of a conservative because I am that kind of 8 hb-