Evening star., 1938-10-30
ORATORS DEFEND
ANDRAP NEWDEAL
Cummings Lauds Roosevelt.
Vandenberg AssaiIs Idea
of Third Term.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Campaign orators for both major
parties told the Nation last night that
election Of their candidates to Con-
gress on November was the best way
to preserve democracy.
Attorney General Cummings de-
clared that mo more heartening mes
sage could 60 forth to the lovers OF
democracy, at home and abroad, than
verdict in November that the Ameri-
can people propose to uphold the
hands Of their great President"
But Republican Senator Vanden-
berg of Michigan took the view that
In the forthcoming elections "the peo-
pie must decide either We 60 on to
glory in the spiritual and material
freedoms Of representative republic
or we bog down in the morass of q
controlled and collective state"
New Deal Defended.
In an address prepared for delivery
at York, Pa, the Attorney General
defended the policies OF the Demo-
cratic administration with the conten-
tion that:
Dictatorship, revolution, bureau
cracy, these have been the cries. the
constant and invariable answers to
every effort to eliminate injustices and
restore some measure of equal op-
portunity to the people of this country u
Senator Vandenberg said that I'VE
are not automatically immune to all
the forces of destruction which are
reducing democracy to shambles
elsewhere in the world"
II third-term President ever is
elected, the Senator argued, you can
eventually bid good-by to democracy
IN America-precisely as 1t disappeared
almost everywhere else on earth when
attacked by concentrated central
power"
And that's the great. fundamental
thing that this election is first about :"
Senator Vandenberg spoke on a Ma
tional radio network from Columbus,
Ohio.
Farley Speaks in New York,
Chairman Farley of the Democratic
National Committee predicted in a
speech at New York that the people
would vote their confidence in the
Roosevelt administration and send to
Congress the men and women who are
prepared to carry on these policies"
In his address. which was broa adcast
he said also that his party was in
tensely satisfied" that Republicans had
chosen to make the popularity Of
the President of the United States"
the prime question in this congress
sional election.
The Republican National Committee
augmented the addresses of expert
enced political speakers with a ma
tionally broadcast program by persons
the committee described as various
citizens of the United States" In
that program, the committee said,
were these comments:
A New York man on relief tnot
identifled)- am going to vote
for q change in administration which
I believe will bring back the good old
days Of regular jobs with a pay en-
velope every week"
Thomas Twohig, San Francisco, COL
lege student-"I somehow feel that the
Government is telling too many people
what they can or can't do"
Favors Business Relief.
Marilyn Miller, Denver, college stu
dent-"It seems to me the only way
to reopen that door (of opportunity
is to take the heavy hand OF Federal
regulation and taxation off business"
Carl Nelson. Omaha, grocery clerk
My only hope is in the Republican
party"
Lloyd Van Patten, 1ndianola, Iowa,
farmer-"We want farm program
that will bring agriculture into a per-
manent prosperity"
Albert Claessens, Chicago. factory
worker-"I think it's time to change"
Harmon Mcbride, Cleveland small
business man-"While the big fellow
was supposed to be getting kicked we
little fellows have been seeing the doc
tor"
Return to Thrift Urged.
DR.. J. Elmer Magee. Pittsburgh, ply
sician---''I believe the solution is a
return to thrift and common sense
in management and steady jobs and
good pay in private industry"
Mrs Arnold Sayer Jackson Heights,
N. Y, housewife-"I think q Repub-
lican would run the Government the
way try to run my home-within our
means
The controversy between the Roose-
welt administration and its opponents
also continued off the speaking stand.