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and that States former Governor,
Myers Y. Cooper.
At the outset Senator Steiwer
read q telegram from Gov. Landon
expressing the conviction that "the
Republican party will gain much
strength in this campaign from the
experience, the vigor and the out
standing ability of Col. Knox.
John Hamilton, Republican cam
paign manager, spoke briefly before
Col. Knox was presented to the crowd,
which roared its tumultuous approval
as he approached the microphone.
Introducing Col. Knox, Senator
Steiwer demanded the defeat Of
''would-be political royalists." He de-
clared the Supreme Court was the
one agency that had thwarted New
Deal attacks on enterprises and O
constitutional form of Government.
The Knox acceptance speech blazed
the way for the opening Of the
national drive by the G. o. P. in
quest Of victory at the polls in
November. Col. Knox is soon to en-
bark on a stumping tour Of the
country and Hamilton will leave Mon
day for the West, where he will make
series Of speeches urging election Of
the Republican candidates.
Demanding a return to the Amer
lean way of life, Col Knox hammered
home his conviction that the real
issue of the coming campaign is the
preservation Of free enterprise in this
country.
Declaring the Republican party Is
pledged to sane and constitutional
government. he appealed to Republ-
cans as well as millions Of sincere
Democrats" to repudiate the New
Deal in November because it has "be-
trayed its high trust and undermined
the most sacred American institu-
tions."
The Republican party's program.
Col. Knox said, would lead the coun-
try to recovery along "the rugged
heights Of self-support, self-govern-
ment and self-respect."
Declaring the New Deal came into
power with the grandest opportunity
to lend aid to a distressed people
since Lincoln's time, the vice presi-
Dental nominee asserted the present
administration ignored itss response
bility, failed In its Job, defaulted in
its obligation"
From the day that it took Office"
he continued, sit embarked on a
series Of hysterical experiments on
the economic life of a burdened peo-
pie. At time when universal CO.
operation was necessity 1t initiated
a campaign Of abuse and villification
Of business men. At time when the
credit of the country should have
been strengthened it inaugurated a
policy Of credit adulteration and cur
rency experiment that demoralized
foreign trade and frightened domes-
tic finance. It set up a system Of
regimentation of industry that re-
duced production and prevented re-
employment. BY coercion Of Con-
gress it forced the passage Of reform
measures so recklessly drawn that
they hamstrung the revival Of enter
prise and paralyzed the renewal of
investment. 1t installed a regimen
tation of agriculture that destroyed
food and reduced foreign markets and
increased the cost of living and null
tiplied the expense Of relief.
Established SpoiIs System"
"At time when confidence in the
character Of government was vital,
1t established spoils system. It
adopted an economic philosophy of
scarcity and forced it on o hungry
and distressed people"
But despite this default" on the
part Of the administration, he con-
tinued, "the inevitable recovery could
not be permanently blocked by gov
ernmental error. It is still on its
way. But 1t was retarded and dis
couraged. And we slowly emerge
from its thralls with the menaces of
governmental insolvency and monde
script currency and business distur-
bance shadowing its future"
Summing up the results Of these
policies, he said: II charge the pres
ent administration with delaying re-
covery, in the United States and in
the world. I charge the present ad-
ministration with responsibility for
the 10 millions still unemployed. In
the major measures of recovery and
In the task Of administration 1t has
failed completely. It has not kept
faith with the Nation"
The Republican party, he said, al
ways has and still stands for vigorous
Federal authority. He pledged his
party, however, to exercise that au-
thority by legislation constitutionally
passed and constitutionally executed.
"The Republican party" Col. Knox
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