Evening star., 1938-08-28

G,UUU RALLY III
REPUBLICAN DRIVE
G. 0. P. Leaders Attend
CornfieId Conference.
Attack Roosevelt.
BACKGROUND
Republican chiettains to the
number OF $4,000 formally opened
the partys driUe to gain congress
sional strength and reinforce its
lines for the 1910 presidential CAM
paign ,Uith giant rally on the
tarm OF Homer C. Capehart, But
talo, N. Y, manufacturer, near
Washington, Ind, today. Mr.. Cape
hart arranged the spectacular euent
in hopes OF inspiring millions of
others to join in program to de-
feat the NeW Deal.
Ey the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. Ind, Aug 81
Embattled Republicans. tenting in a
colorful "cornfield conference" on the
| farm grounds of an Indiana born
manufacturer. rallied today to what
John Hamilton, the partys national
chairman, called the beginning of a
mighty fight to save the United
| States"
1t was the formal opening of the
party's drive to gain congressional
strength in the November elections
and reinforce its lines for the 1910
presidential campaign. Republicans
came from many States for the event
and party officials estimated the at
tendance would exceed $4,000
Copious quantities of Hoosier fried
chicken, baked clans. roast n ears,
and the music of IS bands. combined
with an afternoon of oratory, made
titC oSSo~oAOhA a 1SoClfC ollC. llC oCI.
ting-in blue -and-white striped tent
city covering 120 acres-resembled an
enormous county fair more than q
political meeting.
Tired of Standing Idle.
The man on whose farm the big
rally was held and who paid the bill,
Homer E. Capehart. Buffalo IN. "
manufacturer. told the gathering he
did it because L am sick and tired
! of hearing businessmen condemn the
New Deal and then do absolutely
nothing about it Friends estimated
the affair cost Mr. Capehart s25. 1000
Maybe what we are doing here
| today" Mr.. Capehart added, will
be an inspiration to millions of others
to take an active part in a program
to defeat that which would destroy
them"
Representative James w. Wadsworth
of New York, himself a farmer, as
serted in the keynote speech that
the Roosevelt administration lis
gambling" and the fate of the Nation
is the stake"
The gambler lost on his first throw
of the dice" Wadsworth said. "ane
the Nation will lose on the secone
throw-if we do not return to sanity
and that mighty soon''
Mr.. Wadsworth blamed President
Roosevelt more than any other per.
son or group of persons for what ht
called the second or Roosevelt de.
preston, asserting the shock" upor
the country of the Roosevelt cour
reorganization proposal stopped re.
covery.
From that very moment" he said
prices began to fall
Adopts Russian Technique.
Mr. Hamilton. in his speech. charged
President Roosevelt with adopting
the Russian technique of the purge
to- divert our attention from the fail.
ures of the New Deal"
This country said the dynamic
red-haired national chairman. want.
and needs a return to sanity ane
craftsmanship.
Mr.. Hamilton said the huge at.
tendance at the rally "is evidence thai
the people of the Middle Western
States realize that the Republican
campaign this year is the beginning
of a mighty fight to save the United
States as we have known it for Isl
years"
From Miss Marion E. Martin, as.
sistant chairman of the national com.
mittee in charge of women's activities
came the appeal:
ITO save the American system thu
Republican party must become the
majority party in 1940 Not in 1914
not in 194S-but in 1940 The starting
point is 1888"
Fate of Generations at Stake.
Representative Joseph W. Martin
jr., Of sachusetts, chairman Of the
Republican Congressional Campaign
Committee, told the rally:
What we do this year will in a
great measure determine what is to be
our fate-and the fate of the gener.
ations to come after us"
Arch N. Bobbitt, the party's Indiana
chairman, said in introducing Mr.
Capehart:
This encampment here today was
erected for an Army created for the
defense Of the republic Tonight, when
Homer Capehart strikes his tents, the
caravan of the Republican party will
be on the march,
| $500 Fried Chickens.
Eight thousand, five hundred fried
chickens, 10000 baked clans, three
truckloads of green corn, 5000 loaves
of bread and several hundred bushels