Evening star., 1936-10-26
By the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, OCTOBER 70. - Lit
text of Gov. All M. Landon's address
here today follows:
It is pleasure to be in the
Maryland Free State. I'm only
sorry I'm not reaching Baltimore
at meal time. I hear it's the best
place in America to eat. But there
is this consolation: After Janu-
ary l I'm going to be your neigh
Dor. You can expect me over now
and then to get some really high
toned rations.
Maryland has a great history OF
devotion to States rights under
the Constitution. This is a fitting
background for what ! have to say
to you today.
In essence, this campaign boils
down to one issue: Do you believe in
the fundamental New Deal policies?
Do you believe in program that Is
directed toward undermining con-
stitutional Government and the
American way of life?
As the campaign progresses the
administrations strategy has be-
come plain. You must have OBJ
served it. Mr.. Roosevelt and his
spokesmen are trying to confine at
tention to the first three or four
months of his administration, the
first three or four months before
the New Deal started on its un-
trodden paths. Beyond that they
speak only Of relief and recovery.
The rest of the major issues devel-
oped under the New Deal they de-
liberately evade. They do none OF
the usual pointing with pride.
They ask for another four years
of power because back in 1888 for
a few weeks they remembered their
platform pledges. They hope the
country will forget how those
pledges were then thrown out OF
the window. They ask for another
mandate because of their warm
hearts and humanitarian instincts.
As if they and they alone possess
humanitarian instincts and they
alone would keep our fellow Amer
leans from starving. They hope the
country will forget what every COM
munity knows-the waste and ex-
travagance and the humiliatlng
political coercion involved in the
handling of relief.
n, r. A. Held Instrument
to Foster Monopoly.
In their platform this year as IN
their platform four years ago, they
denounce monopoly and promise to
enforce the antitrust laws. They
hope the country will forget that in
their great recovery measure, the
N. r. A., they fostered monopoly
and suspended the antitrust laws
They talk of preserving American
business. They hope the country
will forget the promise OF BREATH
ing spell that was broken when
Congress met last January and
that was remembered again only
when the election loomed ahead.
They profess their concern in the
prosperity of the little fellow. They
hope the country will forget what
millstones they hung about the
little fellows neck in the N. r. A.,
the invisible taxes, and in the lat
est tax act which will hold back
the growth of small concerns by
penalizing the use of earnings for
expansion. They tell us balanced
budget Is on the way. They hope
the country will forget that SIX
times in the last four years the
President has promised to balance
the budget. and only last week he
promised the seventh time.
They tell us they have made
our savings safe. They hope the
country will forget that their con-
tinued squandering threatens to
destroy the value of all savings.
They dwell on social security legis-
lation. They hope the country Will
forget that this measure is a gross
betrayal of social security.
They give lip service to the
American form of Government.
They hope the country will forget
that nine out of II major statutes
enacted by their administration
have been held unconstitutional by
the Supreme Court.
They boast that business is bet
ter. They hope the country will
forget that it went into slump
after the New Deal measures be-
came operative and became really
better only when the Supreme
Court of the United States knocked
of some of its shackles by holding
the N. r. A. unconstitutional.
They talk of recovery and they
hope the country will forget that
in spite of improvement, 100000
persons are still unemployed and
100000 are still on the relief
rolls.
Present Campaign Packed
Full of Major Issues.
So I might go on enumerating
New Deal policies, every one OF
which would be major issue IN
any ordinary campaign.
Waste and extravaganza in Gov
ernment.
The debauching Of the Civil
Service.
The alliance with corrupt city
machines.
The extending Of Farley meth
ods throughout the States with the
w. P. A.
And, finally, the illegal use Of
your money, the taxpayers money.
the propaganda to build up class
hatred and entrench the New Deal
In power.
But for the moment we can put
all these issues aside and turn to
what said at the beginning is the
overwhelming issue in this cam
paign-the preservation Of consti-
tutional Government and the
American way of life.
On the one side, on the side Of
the New Deal, we find strange
new group. Its adherents believe
that the principles upon which
this Nation was founded and has
grown great no uonger can serve
us. They believe in an all-power-
full Chief Executive and subserv-
iency of CONGRESS and the courts