The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-11
OF PARTY
LONG SEEN BY
DEMOCRATS

OGII1OCTdGS are opposing 1SCASSGAOA
Of President Roosevelt.
Keefe, who is attached to thu
st. Louis headquarters of the ma
tion-wide organization, was cam
paign manager for former Cover
nor Ely of Massachusetts in hi
1880 and 1882 campaigns.
Cites Party Ideals
Addressing meeting of the in
dependent coalition Of American
women yesterday, Keefe said:
Eve are lifelong Democrats
and have never before failed
to support the nominee Of our
party for the presidency. We
are proud of our record Of con-
sistent militant support of the
principles and ideals of our
party.
"After consecutive crushing
defeats Of our party candidates
in 1924 and 1928 we continued
to carry on spreading the gospel
Of our political persuasion and
finally to rebuild our party to
. point in 1882 where the Ameri-
can people were once again
eager to subscribe to our leader
ship.
WARNED OF ROOSEVELT
1--WE warned our party against
this mans nomination at the
national convention at Chicago
in 1882, but the practical poll
ticians and patronage seekers
with the attendant array of
bandwagOn riders rejected our
warning and cried us down.
"At that time we said the
nomination and election Of
Franklin D. Roosevelt would re-
suit in the debauchery and
ruin of the Democratic party
together with the ultimate de-
StructiOn of American principles
and ideals.
"The leadership and advice of
such men as Governors Smith,
Richie and Ely, John w. Davis,
James M. Cox, Senators Walsh
Coolidge, Reed, Glass and Byrd,
Newton d. Baker, cambridge
Colby, Col. Henry Breckenridge,
was rejected and they were told
they had no place in this Ad-
ministratiOn-and in their stead
he surrounded himself with a
group of communiStically in
clined college professors and
whatnOts such as Tugwell, Ickes,
Wallace, Ezekiel, Berle, Nor
genthau and Frankfurter.
: CALLED "CRACK-POTS"
"These men were never heard
of in the Democratic party and
were just a group Of Crack-pOtS
who had always yearned for the
opportunity to remake America
over to the ideals of Karl Marx.
"FOr the first time in the en-
tire history of our country, we
find q President who has DELHI
erateIy and apparently with de-
sign, provoked class hatred.
"He and his spokesman have
pretended to an unthinking
American people that this ter
rible depression was deliberately
planned for the purpose of
grinding the working class into
helpless submission. He has re-
peatedly stated the remedy for
this alleged evil lies only in
punitive measures, directed
against business in the supposed
interest of labor.
CAMPAIGN OF HATE
"The inevitable result of this
campaign of hate has been ap-
parent for months. The Gov
eminent has encouraged vio-
lence in strikes. Wherever you
find strong support for the New
Deal you necessarily will find
class warfare flaming most
brightly.
settles Of the Northwest have
found themselves torn by one
strike after another, many Of
them with attendant bloOdshed.
Recall, if you will, the shame
full encouragement by the New
Dealers, of the disOrderly dock
strikes on the Pacific Coast.
wonder if you have noted the
tyranny of the New Deal labor
boss in Seattle who closed the
doors of an anti-New Deal
newspaper, where faithful en-
plOyes who wanted to continue
at their work and would not rec
Ognize this outlaw strike, were
fOrcibIy prevented from doing so
by picket lines made up mostly
of hired thugs.
HEADING TOWARD MOSCOW
"Witness, if you will, the pro-
gram calling for the ultimate
destruction of the American
Federation of Labor, with the
ultimate goal of uniting the
forces of labor under Lewis and
Tugwell and flying the red flag
of Moscow.
"ThiS entirely unprecedented
conduct of the Federal Govern
ment with its un-American pro-
gram encouraging violence and
destruction can only produce
those same results we have seen
in other parts of the world"
VOTE AMERICAN
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