Evening star., 1936-11-03
ROOSEVELT VOTES,
RETURNS TO HOME
President Will Get Election
Data Tonight at Hyde
Park.
By the Associated Press,

HYDE PARK. N. r., November B.
President Roosevelt and eight raem-
bers and friends Of his family cast
their votes shortly before noon today
in a little green-and-white town hall
in this villages first election district.
The President, wearing a gray suit
and blue tie covered with white donkey
designs, walked into the hall on the
arm Of his third son, Franklin, tr. He
also wore Andrew Jackson's heavy gold
watch chain, gift in the last few
days.
He was the 312th to vote in his dis.
trict, which has 1853 registrants.
Tonight. in first-floor dining room
OF his mothers stone and stucco
house, President Roosevelt will receive
the election returns over wires set UP
in an adjoining study. Half a dozen
White House aides will carry bulletins
to him as he sits at large oval table
ready to chart the trend and to com.
pare results with his own advance pre-.
dictionS.
Closing Address.
In closing his campaign last night
the Chief Executive told q Nation.
wide radio audience from his study
| that because the mind OF the Ameri.
can citizen had been "sharpened" by
the exercise of freedom, he had no
fear-either of the threats of dema.
gogues or the ambitions of dictators"
Neither can get far nor long
thrive among people who have
learned to think for themselves and
who have the courage to act as they
think" he asserted.
He added that I'VE are all equals"
at the polling booth, and continued:
mo one will fire you because you
vote contrary to his wishes or instruc-
tions. No one will know how you vote.
And don't let any one intimidate you
or coerce you by telling you otherwise.
Earlier, in an informal address to
several thousand Poughkeepsie neigh
bors massed in Market street below his
hotel balcony rostrum, the President
said that, because of the majority rule,
in contrast to the days when only
property owners and men were allowed
| to vote, the returns tonight would con-
stitute definitely, clearly and conclu-
sively the will of the majority"
Before entering the hotel for his
first speech of the evening. Mr.. RooseS
velt was represented by aides as feel
ing certain the American people would
give him vote Of confidence at the
ballot box.
Defines Objective.
Addressing the street audience as
my friends Of Poughkeepsie," after a
brief introduction by John e. Mack,
local attorney, who had placed him in
nomination twice for the presidency,
Mr.. Roosevelt said q millennium or
utopia could not be reached in four or
eight years, but at least the people in
responsible positions ought to start
the ball rolling in a perfectly
normal, sane, sensible way" to provide
security for the people.
THAT has been the objective of mine
for perhaps Is years." he said, "and I
believe that In these past few years we
have taken steps that are going to help
the American people toward q greater
security within the framework Of the
American Government"
This, he said. was perhaps simple
expression Of simple philosophy"
adding. y think most Of you agree
with the philosophy at least"
Senator Robert F. Wagner Of New
York. Edward A. Filene. Boston mer-
chant, and James A. Farley, chairman
Of the Democratic National Commit
tee, spoke on the same program.