Evening star., 1936-10-10

handed citizen who boasts that he
takes no interest in politics
This remark was applauded loudly.
The New Deal 'is trying to poison
the mind of the public with a cam
paign of vicious representations Lam
don said.
The Republican candidate entered
Ohio for the second time since his
nomination after opening his Lake
States campaign in Chicago last
night with demand that voters must
put the spenders out" and a pledge
to balance the Federal budget within
four years, if elected. He proposed
10 do thist by eliminating wholesale
waste and extravaganza" and by "ef-
6cient administration"
2 Directly quoting Franklin D. Roose-
welt seven times. Landon cited the
words of Candidate Roosevelt" at
Pittsburgh four years ago as reasons
why balancing the budget Is of vital
Importance" and asserted the New
Deals fiscal policies will wreck the
Government"
: Landon told the party rally here
HE 1896 presidential contest was
"the battle of OUR century" and that
New Deal procedure has violated the
fundamental principles of the Demo-
cratic party.
: Cites Minnesota Case.
1.-The Democrats of Minnesota can
tell you what mean" he said. "The
ether day they were given New
Deal all right. They found overnight
that they had been sold down the
river. Their candidates deserted
them.
J "A last desperate effort had been
made to auction their votes to stave
off defeat for the national machine
There is New Deal for you. And
Minnesota is not the only State in
which this same sort of sordid bar
tering has taken place"
We ere opposed by the most
powerful propaganda machine ever
assembled on American SOIL" the
candidate continued. voluntary con-
tributions do not pay for its opera
tior. It is financed in a large part
out of the public Treasury That means
puI money Is paying IOr IL.
This machine is manned in large
bart by Federal Office holders. 1t is
allocating public funds up and down
fhe country on the eve of the elec-
t1on for the obvious purpose of at
tempting to sway the electorate. This
makes our job hard but by no means
In impossible one"
Landon said the American people
are aroused" because their instinc-
tive resentment against anybody who
attempts to corrupt. coerce, or con-
fuse them has reached the boiling
point"
There Is a field of literally mil
lions of voters who have it in their
power to determine the outcome Of
the coming election he told the
party workers in urging them to get
out the vote.
The Republican candidates stop
here was the first of a series taking
him through Hamilton, West Middle
town, Dayton. Springfield and London
In route to Columbus.
= Landon's Chicago speech was deliv-
pred to capacity crowd in the huge
Chicago Stadium. seating $4,000.
Made from the same platform on
which President Roosevelt accepted
tf1e Democratic nomination in 1882,
the address marked the opening Of
the candidates eight-day campaign
Through Illinois, Ohio. Michigan and
Indiana, whose combined SO electoral
yotes were regarded by his aides as
of key importance to his election.
q IF am elected" Landon said at
the outset of his Chicago speech, ''the
budget is going to be balanced" This,
be said, would be accomplished with
out "depriving our needy Of relief, not
by refusing necessary aid to our
farmers, not by swamping the country
with taxes"
+ THE budget is going to be bal
enced by cutting out waste and ex-
travagance: by putting an end to the
use of public funds for political pur-
poses; by restoring hard-working,
peinstakins common-sense admins
tration," he said.
Landon's opening remarks brought
forth an eisht-minute outburst Of
cheering and appliance.