Milford chronicle., 1936-10-16
U. S. DEMOCRACY IS
THREATEN BY NEW
DEAL, LANDON WARNS
[COntinned from First Psge1

ball park. Sombre, threatening
clouds overhung the cold, damp dia
mOnd. Police Commissioner Helm
rich Pickert estimated $4,000 peOpl,
were in the stands.
The wind blew the governors hail
across his forehead as, with raised
fOrefnger, he referred to Mr.. Roose
welt as the President seeking re-
election" and the crowd bOOed. The
nominee did not wear an OvercOat
but a constant draft of warm air
was forced up under the platform by
special heating apparatus.
When LandOn appeared and walk
ed across the field, the crowd cheer
ed until he halted the applause two
/ minutes later. Governor Frank d.
Fitzgerald's brief introduction was
lost in the noise.
81 condemn efforts to obtain pow
er by devious methods without the
peoples consent" LandOn said add
ing that if; as President, he should
find more federal powers needed, 81
shall favor Congress going to the
people openly and ask for such pow
ers through a constitutional amend
ment."
Says Government Threatened
In this his final major speech of
his campaign for the SO electoral
votes of Illinois, Michigan, Indiana,
and Ohio, Landon announced
abruptly at the outset that Il am
going to discuss the threat of the
present administration to our Amer
ican form of government"
Make no mistake about it," he
told his outdoor audience and the
nation over the radio, this threat
to our form of government is a
major issue of this campaign. 1t is
time to bring it out into the open"
Saying that human liberties"
" ere falling in the world and ideals
of democracy swept away" the gov
efnor said that in the process OF
executive power mounts
during an emergency, the legislature
becomes a mere instrument of the
executive" and finally the courts of
law are undermined"
"FirSt Steps" Taken Here
when this final stage is reached"
he continued, when the independ-
ence of the courts is destroyed. the
rights and liberties of the people are
gone. The people then are at the
mercy of the executive. The eXecu= |
tive is all powerful.
hn VsngtnIfC nf this I
p1 ocess abroad. The first steps have
already been taken here"
LandOn said the New Deal ZAP
parently believes that within the
of power in Washing
ton. came concentration of intel
lieence."
..But when look around and see ,
the automobiles on our roads, he
said, 81 sometimes, suspect that
right here in Detroit there are
few brains tucked away that some
how have escaped the notice OF
So far as | know,
he horse and buggy went out and
he horseless buggy came in with
out benefit of any planners in Wash
ngton."
Ford TO Make Statement
Governor Landon lunched with
Henry Ford and rode with the motor
nagnate past the cottage where
,rce lived the author of "Oh. Su-
,annah." which the Republican Pres
dental nominee adopted as his
song.
The little. white, green-shuttered
cottage of Stephen Foster is IN J
Greenfield Village, a group Of MS
.oric early American buildings
which Ford has transplanted and
After the luncheon with Landon'
FORD said he would have a state l
nent "all in due time" Ford and his
on. Edsel, were awaiting the nOmi- |
zee at his hotel when he arrived al
er a three-mile parade through De- .
roit streets from his special train
Speaks At Toledo
Enroute to Detroit, LandOn closed
is Ohio campaign with an address
n labor before an audience in a To-
do theatre. He said organized
orkers should beware of the temp
ltions and illusOry promises" offer
I bv any government because they
can ultimate dictatiOn by politics.
81 .abOr has its false friends who
other nations have already he
ayed the men and women VINO
ork," I.andOn said.
During the course OF his IoleuO
,eech he praised Samuel GOmpers'
ganizer of the American Fedora
IN of Labor, for keeping organ
ID labor from being destroyed by
sociaIistic enemies" The RepuD-
an presidential nominee said mis-
sdom kept organized labor from
e great temptation to participate
party politics"
Regrets LabOr's Split
'I am absolutely opposed to any
rringement on the rights of labor
organize and any curtailment OF
2 right of freedom of assembly
2 governor said as he addressed a
Dwd in a theatre.
1T is the governments duty TO
Dtect labor and the people in these
,hts.
Il, for one, am sorry to see the
cent split in the ranks of labor
d hope it will be speedily healed.
e great gains made by labor
rough its organizations are in
nger so long as this division ex-
rr- ~.-.s.. .,,sfrv 90 r.onufcita