The Redwood gazette., 1936-10-29
PRESS ATTACKED TUES
DAY IN ROOSEVELT
RALLY HERE

governor, H. Carl Anderson, con-
gressional candidate and Claude
E. Barnes, prominent national
speaker of Salt Lake City, Utah,
will speak at a rally of the C. o.
P. in the Redwood Falls armory
Saturday, beginning at 8 D. m.
Music will be furnished by the
Scenic City band.
Marian LeSueur fiery former
member of the state board of edu-
cation, will climax Farmer-Labor
campaign activities with speech
"Seventy-Five Years of Republic
can Mis-rule" at the armory at
2:30 p. m. and p. m. today. She
accompanies a Farmer-Labor wo-
mans cavalcade.
Democrats heard T. A. Walters.
first assistant secretary of the de-
partment Of the interior, at a rally
of about 400 Roosevelt supporters
in the armory Tuesday evening.
Generally termed one Of the best
political speakers heard here this
year, Walters blasted at major ar
guments against the continuance
of the New Deal for another four
years in urging Roosevelt's re-
election.
Hits at Press
Minnesota is no place for con-
servatism," he asserted, "It is a
progressive, forward looking
state"
Referring to reactionary news
papers in the commonwealth, he
recounted the Biblical story of the
man who was unable to approach
the Master because of the press Of
the crowd and added, ''The ma
jority of persons are unable to see
the present administration clearly
because of the press"
He referred to Colonel Knox as
"both the motor and the exhaust
of the opposition" and described
the vice-presidential candidates.
plea that the United States return
to "the American way" as "as
meaningless as the platform the
group adopted in Ohio"
There are two Colonels enlis-
ted in the reactionary cause in
Chicago" he asserted, Colonel
Knox and Colonel Mccormick Of
the Chicago Tribune" and be-
tween them they have not written
one kernel of editorial truth"
Quoting Knox's statement that
there was a small flame of recov-
cry burning when Roosevelt took
office, he averred, Gas a discoverer
Knox is only equaled by Colonel
Cook of North Pole fame. The
only evidence of recovery which
saw when I visited Chicago in
1882 was the throngs of scramb-
ling men who pushed and fought
their way to the bank windows to
recover their deposits.
Communist Soil
In commenting on the "Red
Scare" which he claimed Repub-
lican candidates are using in the
fight against Roosevelt, Walters
asked "What kind of soil produces
Communists, Facists and all the
other ists?" and answered, "The
kind that existed in 1892, with
workers producing for markets
that did not exist, sheriffs armed
with mortgage foreclosures and
farmers armed with pitchforks
and other instruments of hus-
bandry. 1t is not the broad mag
soil now found in
Washington D. c."
Z 81 -.
a revolution, Democratic revolu-
ton by ballots, not bullets and
that when Franklin Roosevelt
took the oath of office thousands
of men turned their faces to the
rising sun and hope was born
anew in their breasts.
To the charge of dictatorship he
flung the answer that Washing
ton, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt
and others would not be swayed
by the dictates of big business.
"As for regimentation, were you
regimented?" he asked his aud
fences, reminding them that "co-
with the NRA and AAA
was voluntary.
COP No Help"
There is, however, one COM
bination of the alphabet which
was not useful in the relief of dis
tress, and that was G. o. P.," he
stated.
He agreed that $4,000, ,OOO, 900
had been spent on relief but as
serted that that was only half of
the story.
More than one half will be
repaid IN actual dollars with in
terest and the remainder will be
repaid thousandfold in rejuven-
ated patriotic civilization and
America win be a better place in
which to live.
"In 1917 and 1918 we spent two
times that amount to furnish a
place for American men to die. I,
for one, feel it wise to furnish a
place for American people to
i've
John Zwach, representative-at-
large from Redwood and Brown
counties, introduced Walters with
q short talk In which he asserted
that the welfare Of agriculture is
at stake in the coming election.
For the first time" he said,
agriculture has a friend in the
White house."
when every other science is
moving forward why should the
science OF government remain
he inquired as he conn
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