Evening star., 1936-11-03
AL SMITH SUMS
WALK REASONS
Charges "Stirring Up Class
Hatred" and Attacks Roose-
veIt's Last Speech.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 3.-Alfred
e. Smith, the 1928 Democratic candi-
date for President, yesterday supple
mented his five speeches against the
New Deal with a final statement in
which he summed up his reasons for
taking walk"
He criticized the Roosevelt admin
istration on 10 major counts, charging
1t with Stirring up class hatred"
"repudiation Of the platform in spirit
and letter." "vicious attacks on the
Constitution" and inviting into its
inner council, radical advisers without
experience balance or responsibility"
These and the other charges in his
statement he said constitute the SOL
emn commandments to good Demo-
crat to change his allegiance" He
did not mention the name Of Gov.
ALI M. Landon whose election he urged
in all his speeches except one.
Counts Against Administration.
Other counts on which he aSSailed
the Roosevelt administration were:
For substituting in place of plat
form pledges a Government Of sheer
opportunism without purpose or prin-
ciple.
For lowering the prestige and use
fulness of Congress and for making
it a rubber stamp for the executive
branch Of Government.
For waste and extravaganza and
- Iak.t
the Nation which cannot be discharged
for generations.
For inventing the crack Drained
theory of producing wealth and pros
perity by scarcity.
For creating the greatest reservoir
of patronage known to history, for
ignoring Civil Service principle, for
building up great political machine
reaching into every nook and corner of
the country, overrunning the States
and municipalities, prying into every
ones personal affairs. and in every
essential respect like the British Army
which was quartered on the American
colonies.
For its fantastic claim that it has
brought back prosperity in the face
Of the number Of unemployed and of
the fact that substantially every ad-
vance and improvement in business
conditions has been due to the tre-
mendous vitality Of private initiative
operating in the face Of every obstacle
which could be put in its way by the
administration"
Speech Attacked.
In conclusion, he said that II any
further proof had been needed to show
the soundness of his charges against
the New Deal it was furnished by the
President in his speech at Madison
Square Garden Saturday night.
That was the most bitter, the most
intolerant, wild and fanatical oration
ever delivered by a high official in
this country" Smith said, land GER
| tainly nothing like it was ever heard
before from the occupant of the White
House.
Those OF us who disagree with the
President are invited to leave the
country, and it is hinted broadly that
If We do not leave voluntarily We will
be thrown out. The President
tells the country that he has been 6
match for those opposed to him in
the last four years, but that in the
next four he proposes to be theil
master.
upon a similar momentous occa.
sion Abraham Lincoln, rising to the
full dignity and tradition of the presi-
Dental Office, preached malice toward
none and charity for all. I ask the
citizens Of this country, before they
cast their vote, to compare these words
of Lincoln with the vindictive, bigoted,
egotistical and incendiary speech OF
Roosevelt last Saturday night at
Madison Square Garden"