The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-04
Editorial Comment on Old Guard Campaign

welt administration are finding 1t increasingly difficult to make their editorial pages answer the argu- ments for Roosevelt that appear daily on their market pages. Every day these examples can be found in the Wall Street Journal, except that the pro-R Roosevelt unanswer- able argument in the case of that publication appears on the first page. Portland, Oregon, Journal. (Rep.)
 "It Is coming to a point where everybody who does not belong to the Liberty League is being called @ Communist by the conservatives. AS Q matter of fact, Roosevelt is try ing hard to reform capitalism, not to destroy it."-New York News (Ind)
 'Those who are endeavoring to array Thomas Jefferson against the New Deal and line him up with the Liberty league and the old guard of the republican party-God save the mark-have been answered most effectively by Herbert Agar, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning book Land of the Free He says the democrats, in strengthening the federal government, are fighting Jefferson's old war for justice for the plain man and they are fighting 1t with the only weapon that can still work'."-Winston- Salem Jour- nal. (Ind.)
 "The American Liberty league has forfeited completely it's prestige be- cause 1t has not been what 1t pre- tended 1t would be, because 1t sub- stituted bitted antagonism for im- partial judgment" Fr. Smith Times-R Record. (Dem.)
 "An anomaly of the vote in Illi- nois is that Mir. Roosevelt, though there was no opposition to him irl the democratic primary, boiled more votes than Knox and Borah com bined. The result is q more serious omen to the republican national organization than was MT. Borah's strong showing in that former re- actionary stronghold" - Newark News. Qnd)
 "President Roosevelt in the Wis. consin primaries got 100,000 more votes than Senator Borah, republi' can winner. It was Q cleancut is- sue of for and against Roosevelt The result is more convincing thar magazine and newspaper polls. Wis., consin's verdict foretells that of the nation. Tampa Tribune. Oem)
 "Since the New Deal began, scores of thousands of republican regis. trants in West Virginia have cross. ed over to the democratic party te put themselves in a more advan. tageous position to help perpetuatt leadership and policies that saved and made happy 8 nation passing through the darkest hours in his- tory. This increasing drift from republican to democratic ranks as. sires a repetition of the Roosevelt landslides of four and two yeari ago. It shows the determination oi the masses to take no chances. The leadership that has carried them this far is tried and dependable and they mean to continue It, Huntington Adcertlser. (Dem)
 
 "Warburg paints Roosevelt as be- ing Hell Bent for Election But Mir, Warburg himself, true to his train- ing and family traditions, is and always has been and probably al- ways will be hell bent for the inc ternational bankers.' lie is a de- finite part of the powerful clique that has been running the finances of the world since the Rothschild brothers perfected the international exchange racket" Sioux City Tri- bune. (Ind. RepJ
 "What the republicans need fl not a brain trust 60 much as q candidate who measures up to the job and . platform of something besides negation. = Salem, Oregon JonrnaI. 0nd.l
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