Evening star., 1936-09-21
HEARST REVIEWS
ROOSEVELT STAND
Cables Reply to Presidents
Charge on "Reds" CAM
paign Support.
BY the Associated Press.


liam Randolph Hearst, 73-year-old
operator of IS newspapers, published
today "a reply to the President" in
which he said he had shown Mr..
Roosevelt receives "the support Of
enemies of the American sys-
TEN Of government"
The thousand-word statement was
cabled by the vacationing Hearst from
Amsterdam a day after the White
House in a statement said "a certain
notorious newspaper publisher" was
attempting "to make it appear that
the President passively accepts the
support of alien organizations hostile
to the American form of government"
The memorandum said "such articles
are conceived in malice and born OF
political spite"
Hearst's reply" followed his news
papers publication Of an article as
serting Russia and the Communist
party of the United States were taking
part in the presidential campaign ION
the side of the New Deal
The White House made no comment
beyond its original statement. but Earl
Browder, Communist candidate for
President, said:
1.-THE Hearst-Landon campaign must
indeed be weakening If it needs such
desperate lies to bolster it up"
Not Committed to Roosevelt.
Browder recalled a May 20 speech
In which he said I'VE do not COM
NIT ourselves to Roosevelt" through
"a united front with workers who
support Roosevelt"
I'VE do not and will not take any
responsibility for" Roosevelt, Browder
said he asserted at that time.
A sidelight arose in Pittsburgh,
where Hearst-operated radio station
WCAE announced it would carry three
subsequent radio addresses by Browder
after cancelling network broadcast
by the Communist candidate August
IL. An official of the station said
counsel had daviSed acceptance of
the broadcasts in view of commune
cations act provisions requiring "equsl
opportunities" of the air for all can
didates for public Office.
The Hearst statement follows:
1.-THE President has issued a state
ment through a secretary. He has
not had the frankness to say to
whom he refers in the statement. nor
has he had the sincerity to state his
complaint accurately.
Nevertheless, since his conglomer-
ate party of Socialists, Communists
and renegade Democrats has con-
sstently, and rather ridiculously, tried
to make me an issue in their muddled
campaign, I think am justified in
assuming that I am the object of
the statement, and that I may cour-
teously endeavor to correct Mr.. Roose-
velt's misstatements and to set him
right.
Wherefore. let me say that I have
not stated at any time whether the
President willingly or unwillingly re-
ceived the support of the Karl Marx
Socialists, the frankfurter radicals,
Communists and anarchists, the Tug
well Bolsheviks and the Richberg rev.
olutionists, which constitute the bulk
OF his following.
Support of U. S. Enemies.
II have simply said and shown that
he does receive the support of these
enemies of the American system of
Government, and that he has done
his best to deserve the support of
all such disturbing and destructive
elements
'Mr. Roosevelt was elected on the
Democratic platform, and on the
pledges he made continually through
out his whole campaign to support
the Democratic platform in its en-
tirety and to carry out its provisions
scrupulously.
He was no sooner elected than he
repudiated the Democratic platform
and the established policies of the
Democratic party since its inception,
and odopted the platform of the Karl
Marx Socialists in almost every word
and letter.
He has since his election con-
tinually solicited the advice of Prof.
Franhurter and his fellow radicals,
and he has followed their guidance.
He has sent Secretary Tugwel to
preach Bolshevik doctrines through
out the country, to array class against
class, and to urge that the farmers
and the workers surge forward
as, by the way, they have been doing
so conspicuously in Spain-to estab-
lish a class government in complete
contrast and contravention to all
American ideals and principles.
He has made Mr.. Richberg the
special particular mouthpiece of the
administration, and it is Mr.. Rich
berg who has said exultingly that
revolution is not coming-it is here
Furthermore, Mr.. Roosevelt COM
PEELED the recognition of the bloody
dictatorship of Stain in Moscow
dictatorship born in riot and revolu-
ton, and sustained by murder and
plunder-a dictatorship which has
starved to death over 100000
wretched farmers in order to rob them
of their grain and sell it abroad to
get money to maintain the red army,