The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-30

vas brief, designed to fit into a half hour punctuated by uncomfortable convention cheering, amounting to only 2,500 words.
 Those who cry communist at him ere dragging o red herring across the trail, are promoting a false issue, he said. He went immediately into historic precedent.
 Avoid the Facts
 This practice is as old as our democracy" he said. Avoiding the facts fearful of the truth - a malicious opposition charged that George Washington planned to make himself king under a British form of government; that Thomas Jeffer- son planned to set up guillotine under a French revolutionary form of government; that Andrew Jack son soaked the rich of the eastern seaborad and planned to surrender American democracy to the dicta- toship of a frontier mob. They called Abraham Lincoln g Roman emperor: Theodore Roosevelt 8 de- stroyer;g Woodrow Wilson 8 self constituted Messiah"
 Mr. Roosevelt did not complete this chain of thought; nor did ne name the individuals and groups" who desperate in mood, angry at failure, cunning at purpose, x X areiseeking to make communism an issue in an election where conn munism is not controversy be- tween the two major parties" A White House statement few weeks ago denounced Publisher William Randolph Hearst, without naming him, for accusing MT. Roosevelt or accepting communistic support. The issue also has been publicized ny John D. M. Hamilton, republican national chairman, and Frank Knox, republican vice. presidential candl- date.
 Destroy Fake Issues
 Here and now, once and Tor all, let us bury that red herring ana destroy that false issue" MT. Roose- welt said last night. You are ia miliar with my background. You know my heritage, and you are familiar, especially in the state o1 New York, with my public service extending back over a quarter or a century. For nearly four years l have been president of the Unlteo states. A long record has been written. In that record, both in this state and in the national capital, you will find simple, clear and consist ent adherence not only to the letter but to the spirit of the American form of government.
 "To that record, my future ana the future of my administration Wlil conform. I have not sought, I do not seek, I repudiate the support oi anv advocate of communism or ol ang other alien ism which would bv fair means or foul change our American democracy.
 .sThat is my position. It always has been my position. It always will be my position"
 No Communistic Differences
 rKr. Roosevelt said no difference existed between democrats and re- puhncans on communism; the dit- ference, he continued, was in how they dealt with communism. The democrats have been realistic enough to face it. We have been ralistic enough to face 1t. We have been intelligent enough to do some thing about it. And the world has seen the results of what we have done.
 ..fn the spring of 1883 Continued Mir. RoosevelD we faced 8 crisis which was the ugly fruit of 12 years of neglect of the causes of economic and social unrest. It was a crisis made to order for all those who would overthrow our form of gov- ernnent. Do heed to recall to you the fear of those days - the reports of those who piled supplies in thelr basements, who laid plans to get their fortunes across the border, who got themselves hideaways in the country against the impending up- heaval? Do I need to recall the iaw-abiding heads of peaceful faIni- liesewho began to wonder, as they saw their children starve, how they could get the bread they saw in the bakery window? x XIX D need to recall the powerful leaders or m- dnstry and banking who came to me in Washington in those early days of 1898 pleading to be saved?
 Most people in the United States remember today the fact that starva. fion was averted, that homes and farfns were saved that banks were rednened, that crop prices rose, that industry revived, and that the dangerous forces subversiye of our form of government were turned
 Forget the Past.
 A few people few only-un- willing to remember, seem to nave forkotten those days"
 Here MT. Roosevelt made use oi aIlekory. "A nice old gentleman felf off the end of pier in 1eSS. A friesad diyed in and pulled him out but his silk hat floated away. He vas resuscitated and was eftusive m his thanks.
 ..Today," said MT. Roosevelt, three vears later, the old gentleman IS berating his friend because the SIX hat was lost"
 He then contrasted republican ana democratic handling of the depres- sioY5. The democrats, he said, met the emergency with emergency action. But far more important fi1an that, we went to the roots of tie problem, and attacked the cause Of the crisis. We were against rev ol1ifions - against the inequalities $ ,1 ..,t.iot. h~aAd them