The Washington times., 1936-09-05
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U.N.S.).-Bran0ing the Roosevelt
administration "unSound economic
ally, injurious industrially, hypo,
critical politically, deliriouS finan'
cially and haywire intellectually,
Col. Frank Knox, Republican vice
presidential nominee, today called
on Pennsylvania voters to clean
the decks in November and install
a government that knows what 1t
is doing and where it is going"
Addressing a Republican rally
here, Knox declared:
There are times when issues
are bigger than men and 1t is
such a time now"
The present Administration, he
asserted, has failed completely, IN
the face of the finest opportunity
in the nations history, to heal the
country's economic wounds, re
store weakened confidence, encour,
age industry and reduce social
burdens.
MisIed Three Years
For more than three years, he
ayerred, the Government n S
steadily misled the people" add
ing:
at is a question whether this
administration has done more
harm in the material matters
of recovery and employment or
in the equally important but
less tangible matters of social
philosophy and national char
acter."
Under President Roosevelt, he
charged, the Government has
piled I'D an enormous debt, has In.
terfered with normal operation OF
business and industry, jeopard1zed
the national currency, delayed re-
covery, weakened credit, destroyed
food and wasted the national re-
sources. He said:
"It would pay the American
people to install new admins
tration even if it did nothing.
Knox ridiculed various econo-
mic experiments undertaken by
the Administration.
Appeals to Farmers
He declared:
81 have the feeling that Penn
sylvania farmers can carry on
without an AAA. I imagine that
YOU would even prefer to farm
without having to sign two aft
davits, three questiOnnaireS and
an agreement to vote the Demo
cratic ticket.
even the State Of Pennsyl-
vania two years ago adopted the
uresent Administrators policy
Of try-anything once and elected
Democratic administration. L
have reason to believe that IN
this case you will also follow the
present Administrations policy
Of never repeating an exper-
iment after it has been FOUND
out how it works"
The Republican fight today, he
said, is not against "the Demo
cratic party as such," adding:
at is a question today whether
there is any Democratic party.
It has been seized by alien IN
vaders. Its present leadership
has no kinship with Jefferson
and Cleveland and Wilson. The
policies of the present leader
ship have been repudiated by the
greatest leaders of the old Demo
cratic party ;. with descriptive
terms so violent a Republican
would dare not use them lest
he be sued for libel" .,
For the past three and on-hali
wears, Knox declared, I'VE have
had the most planless, confused
added, incoherent and generally
bewildered government that was
ever inflicted on a great natlon'
Business Assaulted
The Roosevelt Administration
he claimed, once in power, began
an assault on business, a general
marrying of the banks, adopted a
popular anirnosity toward corpo
rate enterprise" He declared:
"By subtle propaganda it
undertook to arouse class
hatreds, array labor against
capital, agriculture against in
dustry and the business man
against his customers"
Knox then turned to the fu
ture:
"What kind Of Government
will we have for the next four
years? It depends on whether
Alfred M. Landon is the next
President"
If he is, Governor Landon'S
running mate declared:
"The first job of the new ad-
ministratiOn will be to clean
house.
eve shall de-alphabetize the
Government. We shall try to
bring order out of the financial
disorder now prevailing. We
shall set up a definite fiscal
program aimed at balancing
the budget as soon as possible.
We shall return the control of
relief to the States, where it
belongs. We shall try to sim
plify the tOp-heavy, uncOOrdi-
mated and clumsy system of
Federal taxation.
"The country is worn out
with experiments; with eco
nOmic tricks; with reckless ex-
periments, with bureaucracy,
with extravaganza, with need
less running around in circles
on the part Of the Government.
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