Evening star., 1936-06-28
Garner Text
Pledges Loyalty to Roose.
welt and New
Deal.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, June 27-The
prepared text Of the speech by John
Nance Garner Of Texas accepting the
Democratic nomination for Vice Presi-
dent:
Mr.. Chairman. friends:
NY words shall be as few as they
shall be fervent and sincere. I am
soldier and my duty is to follow where
the commander leads. I accept the
rules of war as laid down in the plat
form.
I am not insensible OF the high
honor which has been conferred upon
me. This confidence which my fellow
countrymen have reposed in me I
accept as a solemn trust. And I am
not unmindful of the responsibility
which goes with that trust.
I gladly accept the nomination for
the vice presidency now rendered to
me for the second time. The sense
of personal satisfaction in this honor
is enhanced and heightened by the
thought that I am again to be on
the ticket with Franklin Delano
Roosevelt.
I shall stand with him in the
months ahead as l stood with him
before the voters of this country in
l932-as 1 have stood in sharing with
him since March 4, 1888. the obliga-
tions and duties and responsibilities
which the Constitution imposes.
Roosevelt Is Leader.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is my
leader, my commander in chief. In
this presence, before this multitude
and with the stars of heaven to bear
witness to my covenant. renew the
pledge of fealty I gave four years ago.
In Franklin Delano Roosevelt the
hopes of a Nation have been reborn.
Despair has given place to confidence.
Dependency and gloom have made
way for happiness. Laughter again is
heard in the land.
We are now, as it were, midway in
our course. Great as are the things
which have been accomplished to
bring order out of chaos in which We
found the country in March, 1888,
much remains to be done.
There must be no return to old con-
ceptions denominated as the Old
Deal. And what do we mean by the
Old Deal? We mean a political sys-
tenn which fosters an economic order
giving special privilege to few favor
ed ones through the sacrifices of the
many. BY the New Deal We mean SIM
ply and adaptation of the laws of
the country so that the greatest
good will come to the greatest num-
berthe protection of the rights of
the vast majority of our populace,
men, women, and children-to whom
the Old Deal meant want, hardship,
despair and degradation.
Loyal to New Deal.
Our people have not forgotten the
wretchedness to which these sins Of
omission and commission of IL years
of the Old Deal had plunged the
country when the New Deal was ush-
cred in on a March day in 1888. But
the dawn of a new day was at hand.
The time for a change had come
The country welcomed new leader.
And I cheerfully bear witness here and
now to the loyal support Of New
Deal measures and principles &C
corded in Congress by certain of our
friends of the opposition. With voice
and vote many brethren of the Repub-
lican persuasion have shown how they
could, in time Of national peril, rise
above partisanship and heed the call
for help of a stricken country.
We still ask for the support of all
those who believe as we do that the
function of Government is to protect
the many from the selfishness Of the
few, to guarantee to all the means
of livelihood and participation in the
things that make life good and noble
and worth the living.
That is our platform. Upon that
platform I stand and am proud to
stand with our leader-a leader who
has never faltered In his course and
never once lost faith that In the
sovereign will Of the American peo-
pie rests true wisdom in Government
and the way to security. peace and
happiness.
In that faith ] put my trust. In
that faith pledge anew my allegiance
to Franklin Deiano Roosevelt.