The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-09-23
Republican Program '~af
Given In A Nutshell

eNA 'NSSohib w ost ASRt. 1900
Walter S. Hallanan, Republi-
can national committeeman, told
the state convention of the
Young Republican League here
that the New Deals billions
would be impotent against what
he described as rising tide of
public Indignation against the
Roosevelt administration.
Pointing to the Republican
sweep in Maine, where he said
the administration spent two
hundred million dollars of the
taxpayers money in a futile
effort to elect a Democratic tic
ct, Mr.. Hallanan declared: eff
Mr.. Roosevelt couldn't buy
Maine with two hundred million
dollars, he hasn't enough money
in h e United States treasury
to buy West Virginia"
The national committeeman
said that the denomination of
anti-New Deal senators in Mary
land, Georgia, South Carolina,
despite the lavish expenditure of
federal funds for the purpose of
defeating them, demonstrated
that President Roosevelt was no
longer able to use money effec-
lively even in fights within his
own party. ct is obvious" he
added, "that it will be even less
effective in the general cleo
ton"
The speaker asserted that AL
Smiths observation a few years
ago that mo one shoots Santa
Claus" had done more to under
mine the morale of New Deal
opposition and to contribute to
defeatst complex among Re
publicans than any other single
thing. "It was a catchy phrase"
he said, land there was meal
Gated in the public mind the be-
lief that the people were inn
potent against the billions at the
command of the New Deal. 1t
may have been, true that no one
shoots the genuine Santa Claus,
but when the old gentleman is
stripped of his whiskers and
make up and revealed as a fraud
there is going to be plenty of
shooting"
"This is no ordinary political
campaign" Mr.. Hallanan declar-
ed. 1T it not a contest between
the Republican and Democratic
parties as we have know them.
1t is, in fact, a battle between
those who would preserve h
system of government u n d e r
which America has become the
greatest nation on Gods foot
stool, and those who would
plunge the nation into the chaos
and ruin of financial and spiritu
al bankruptcy, regimented I'M
der a whimsical one-man dicta-
torship with all of it's citizens
particularly it's young people,
used as guinea pigs in the So
cialistic and communstic labora
ties of the Washington theorists,
and coerced and inundated by
the political racketeers.
"The Republican party is the
only instrumentality through
which West Virginians can ex-
press their resentment and OPP
position to the dangerous trends
in the national government" he
continued. "In this state, the
issue is clear. The Democratic
party has nominated for con
gress six presidential rubber
stamps, whose record through
out the Roosevelt administration
has been one of almost one hun
dred per cent subservence to
every passing whim and fancy
Of the president The Republic
ans have selected six upstand-
ing patriotic American citizens
who, when they 90 to Washing
ton, will take orders from no
one except their constituents.
We have the finest congressional
ticket has b en- offered to the
people Of the state by any poll
teal party within my memory
I am proud of that ticket, and ]
say to you that / would a thou
sand times rather go down to
defeat standing behind those
men on the sound principle OF
constitutional pnvernment thar