Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1936-06-12
STETWER ASKSFOR
HARMONY TO AID
new DEALDEFEAT.
[COnfisned from First Paeel

funds voted to feed hungry moutI
will be used for that purpose al
will not be employed for the el
richment of political straphangers
Charges Effort no Void Laws
Democrats he asserted, had a
tempted to bring about changes
the basic law, not by constitution;
amendment, but by devious proceed
ures that amounted notification.
Avoids Platform Issues
Lashing out at the very Outst
against the Roosevelt Administra
ton the heavy-set Oregon Senator
nevertheless, sought to steer clea
of nominee and platform controver
sy within the convention.
Whoever is chosen as the Repub
lican Presidential standard bearer
and whatever the platform, he de
clared, "a competent government
founded on conviction and consci
ence," could be restored.
But it will not be done" SteiWel
doomed, ''if we permit ourselves tC
be deceived by the defeatist talk oil
our enemies. The nation knows by
this time that the Administration is
equipped with a mOnstrOus, reckless
propaganda machine operated with
taxpayers money to advance its own
ends.
Says Nation Can't Be Bluffed
I'm the face of our advances in
the campaign, we will hear the
false cry that our efforts have fallen
fiat. These falsehOOds will be rec
ognized and rightly resented by the
people. The people will make the
world know that this Nation cannot
be bluffed and cannot be bought.
For more than three long years
we have had a government without
political morality. propose to show
you that government endowed with
conscience will bring us a prosper
ity not built on promise and pre-
tense, but built with the bricks and
mortar of fundamental principles.
This prosperity will not be measur-
ed with the crooked lines and crook
ed trick phrases of unconstitutional
legislation, but by lines that square
with the rules of honesty and NOR
atty"
Steiwer was not long in expand
ing a hard-spoken assault upon the
New Deal with direct criticism of
President Roosevelt, himself.
Says President Lacks Conscience
Turning back to the time when
former President Hoover left Office,
he declared that if Americans would
assert their heritage they would
never again need to fear "such a
debacle as we had in March, 1888"
At that time, he said. "a Presi-
dent-elect without a conscience re-
fused for four months to cooperate
with a President who had a con-
science, resulting in a bank crisis
and a panic of fear and fright"
few minutes later, Steiwer /
quoted Mr.. Roosevelt as saying that |
the issue in the oncOming Presiden-
tial campaign would be "the reten-
tiOn of popular government"
I'VE agree" the OregOnean con-
tinued. but we do not agree that
the peoples government is retained
under a system headed by a New
Deal Caesar. An administration in
which substantially all power is con-
centrated in one branch is not in
keeping with the principles of popu-
lar government"
Generalizing near the outset upon
the aims of Republicans, he said
I'VE propose to carry forward the !
lamp of American progress; the
lamp which has been dimmed by the
depression and which the New Deal
has tried to eXtinguish. We pro-
pose to show those who have waited {
Tor more than three long years for !
4 real job how that job is to be OBJ ]
aimed. We propose to show further
20 those who have jobs how those I
Jobs can be protected against the \
'aVages of the collapse which is in
evitable under the New Deal. I
Promises Aid To Idle \
The ten million unemployed shall 4
It last get the consideration which G
hey deserVe-and with it the priv v
lege of honest work. They must be Il
to work again as free p
men and not languish as vOte-slaves. n
Or as slaves of the dole.
I'VE propose to show the forty N
lillion now in gainful employment N
bat economic freedom depends up l.
n adherence to a system under
hich their pay envelopes will not ia
brink and under which their life oil
policies and savings bank di
aposits will be protected" NJ
Steiwer devoted the main body of NJ
Is speech to an attack upon the SO
ew Deal reciprocal trade program, to
S farm and money policies, and m
5 present and past tax bills. =
The Republican party, he said,
Ould not turn its back on those in an
stress but would make sure that of
Iblic funds would not go toward tai
e enrichment of political strap an
myers" ia
Making mention of the fact that fc,
himself had voted for some New
eal measures, Steiwer said that
e failure of the New Deal" could mr.
It be charged to Republican OBJ ad
ruction. He complained, however,
at measures started as temporary an
Fps were being made permanent. nj,
He followed this statement with no
ticism of the New Deal farm pol nm
: and it's administration, cOnclud-
ito