Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-04
Senator Guffey Calls
For Reelection
OF Roosevelt
PennsyIvonion Gives
Third-Term Views
On Radio Forum

Senator Joseph F. Guffey, Demo-
crat, of Pennsylvania, spoke on The
Third-Term Tradition" last night in
the National Radio Forum, arranged
by The Star and broadcast over a
Nation wide network of the National
Broadcasting Co. The text of his
address follows:
Fellow American:
My name is Joseph F. Guffey. I'm
lifelong Democrat and I come from
Pittsburgh I've been United States
Senator from Pennsylvania since
1934-the first Democratic Senator
to be elected from the Keystone
State in more than so years-and
next year I'm going to run for re-
election, on my record, as a 100 per
cent pro-Roosevelt New Deal Demo-
crat.
Tonight I'm speaking in answer to
Senator Burke of Nebraska, who was
also elected to the Senate as a New
Deal Democrat in 1884. He recently
attacked the rising popular demand
that Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Now I am for Roosevelt and I
want him to have a third term. AS
a matter of cold political fact, If
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected
to the presidency again it will be his
first real term of Office. When YOU
elected Roosevelt in 1882 his first
term was Cancelled, vetoed, by the
S1lnroND1n
elected Roosevelt in 1886, his second
term was stolen by tories and polit-
ical ingrateS
I'm for a third term for Roosevelt
for four reasons; because I am a
Democrat, because I am practical
politician, because I am a liberal and
because I am an American.
The Way to Win.
I'm for Roosevelt as Democrat
because it's the way to win the next
election. hands-down; no ifs"
lands or butts" no alibis and no
double-crossing. AS lifelong men,
Der of the Democratic party I want
my party to win.
I'm for Roosevelt as practical
politician because anti-third- term
talk is bad politics. A quarter of the
Senate has served more than two
terms, and another quarter of the
Senators are serving their second
Aterm and hoping for third. Three
fourths of the members of the House
of Representative are in the same
position. and, of course, We appoint
our judges to serve all their lives.
That's all right. I believe in eX-
perience. How stupid it is for men
to say that third term is wrong,
that there must be rotation in office
Who are the men who are talkil:g g
against a third term for Roosevelt?
Senator Burke says he's in favor Of
one term of six years. Then there
are other members of the Demo-
cratic party who say that they have
such high regard for President
Roosevelt that they just feel sure
he won't challenge the third-terIn
myth. Some of these men have had
such high regard for Mr. Roosevelt
that they have baked filibustered
or mutilated some of the Presidents
measures during the last two years
and have recently condemned a nil
lion American families on w. P. A.
to beg or starve. If I were Presi-
dent Roosevelt I'd rather not have
the high regard of men like these
We love him for the enemies he has
made.
Cheated of First Term.
I'm for a third term for Foose-
welt because am a liberal and
believe in democracy. The Judges
and the lawyers cheated the people
out of President Roosevelts first
term. The ingrates and the middle