Evening star., 1938-08-27
RECESSION LAID
TO ROOSEVELT At
BIG c. 0. P. RALLY
WadsWorth Declares Court
Reorganization Started
Recovery's End.
KEYN0TES LAUNCHING
OF NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
Administration Is Gambling and
Fate Of Nation Is at Stake,
He Tells Party Chiefs.
Ey the Associated Press.

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WASHINGTON, Ind, Aug. ~
Representative James w. Wadsworth,
Republican, of New York charged today
President Roosevelt's court reorganiza-
ton program turned the United States
from economic recovery to economic
recession.
The upstate New York Representa-
tive was keynote speaker at Repub-
lican rally on farm near here opening
the Midwestern general and national
congressional campaigns.
Representative Wadsworth called the
present slump the second or Roosevelt
depression" because, he said, II am
convinced that he more than any other
person or group Of persons is respon-
sible for it,
He said that in January, 1897, the
country was getting back on its feet"
because Of promises OF a breathing spell
for business and balanced budget.
In the month of February, 1887, the
President sent his message to the Con-
gress urging the passage Of legislation
which would enable him to pack the
supreme court, ne went on.
Whole Picture Changed.
Instantly the whole picture changed.
The shock was too great to be endured
by people just beginning to recover
their breath. From that very moment
prices began to fall again. Multitudes
OF people lost their nerve"
Mr.. Wadsworth charged that Presi.
dent Roosevelt and his advisors de
spise the Congress and the Supreme
Court and SO long as he sits In the
White House every conceivable effort
Will be made to bring the Congress
and the court to subjection."
"A small group OF men headed nv
the President believe that the Ameri-
can people would be happier and more
prosperous if they were marshalled
into column and marched along the
highway Of life, guided and controlled
by supposedly superior wisdom, Lodged
in Government" Mr.. Wadsworth said.
II we disobey ~ msast te .pnnished."
He charged the pftsident with try
ing to "subdue the Congress and the
courts to the Executive will" and told
Republicans their task was to resist
this drive in fight for the preserva-
ton OF free institutions"
The administration is gambling"
ne said, "the fate Of the Nation is the
stake. The gambler lost on his first
throw OF the dice and the Nation
will lose on the second throw-if We
DO not return to sanity and that
mighty soon"
The relief rolls, greatly increased
In recent months" he went on, ARE
not now decreasing. Taxes, greatly in
creased during the last three years,
are still woefully insufficient to cover
expenditures Of the Government. We
are still borrowing recklessly and 1t
Is now conceded that the national
debt will exceed $4,000, ,000, 900 by
the end Of the next fiscal year"
He charged the Government already
had spent more than $700, ,000, 900 Of
money taken in through a payroll tax
to finance old-age annuities for work.
ers and "is confronted already with
the obligation of making good some
day on that amount of I. o. us"
Either the working man must 90
without his annuity" he said, "or the
Government will have to tax the
people all over again"
Gather in Tent City.
Thousands of Republican partv
workers gathered in a 120-acre tent
city near this Southern Indiana town
OF 10000 persons for a rally doomed
as starting both the Midwestern cam
paign and the drive for Republican
National Legislature.
Party leaders of the Nation and
IL Midwestern States and workers tn
the ranks from throughout Indiana
were in the crowd.
Ofdcials urged their followers to put
their strength into electing new Re-
publican Congressman in November so
as to improve the party's chances Of
defeating the Democrats In the presi-
Dental election two years away.
Homer E. Capehart Of Buffalo, N. y,
Hoosier-born vice president Of the
Wurlitzer Co., was the host. The