Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-04
Senator Guffey Calls
For Reelection
OF Roosevelt
Pennsylvania Gives
Third-Term Views
On Radio Forum
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term, and quote their own words
out of their own mouths, as
reason why the young man should
unhorse them.
No one who believed in third
term for Theodore Roosevelt, or
Coolidge-yes, even Coolidge and
the powerful Wall Street interests
behind him, who Unanswered him
for a third term-none of these,
nor any Senator who has served
two terms or more and wants to
run again, can safely oppose the
third term for the President. For
example, Senator Vandenberg, in
the hope of setting himself up in
the role of Harding-aS an imag-
mary point in the center OF the
Republican party-assures us that
if he is elected he will not cucumber
this country for more than one term.
What revelation in self ap-
praisal by candidate for the presi-
dency! The best argument that
he can give to our people to elect
him is his personal guarantee that
they will have him around their
neck for the shortest time possible.
But the desire of Senator Vanden-
berg to relinquish power is some
what clouded over by the announce
ment that he is hedging his candi-
dacy for a first and only term in
the White House by a simultaneous
candidacy for a third term in the
Senate.
Dangerous Times.
No. These are dangerous times.
We can afford nothing less than our
very best man in the White House.
What other man than Roosevelt
could match the dignity of King
and Queen, and handle them in a
way that made this whole country
proud of him, and at the same time
know and feel the problems of the
unemployed miners of Pennsylvania
and the struggling farmers of the
Middle West? In these times of real
danger to America-danger from
within and from WithOut-We need
real leader, some one who can
really represent our democratic will
to survive. And we know that we
have such a leader in the White
House now-Franklin Delano Roose-
welt.
Just suppose few fXers conSpire
to thwart our democratic will. Sup
pose they force upon this country
figure head, a stuffed shirt, an in
competent middle of the roader, or
iy,avrnriornn1
when every one knows that we need
a man with knowledge of the world,
knowledge of America, determine
ton and courage. Can these polit-
ical flxers seriously believe that they
will not be instantly branded
throughout this country as the pro-
fessional embezzlers of the rights
Of free democratic people?
Can they seriously believe that the
anger of the American people at
this betrayal in their hour of need
would stop at them?
I tell you that the disgust of the
American people would reach not
only to the dummy given the leader
ship of our country but to the whole
system of democratic institutions
which can be captured and misused
by selfish and scheming men. And
who could blame our people for such
q revolt in their hour of anger? Not
they, but the schemers, the flxers,
the old political hands, would be
resSshsible for the death of one of
the last, great free democracies in
the world.
Not Just Name.
We Americans know that to our
people Roosevelt is not just a name
In the papers, as are the other
candidates. Almost every American
old enough to walk has by this time
actually seen President Roosevelt.
He has seen and been seen by more
OF our people than has any other
man in the United States. They
don't want shadow candidates now.
They want Roosevelt, because they
trust him, as they trust nothing else
IN our political and economic life.
They know that for the last seven
years Roosevelt has been in there
fighting for them, as no other Presi-
dent has fought for them. In 1882
Roosevelt began his fight to trans
form this country from disorganized,
uncontrolled anarchy, to a Nation in
which, by Government cooperation,
our resources could be conserved, our
level OF production maintained, our
people made secure. In 1886 the
people of this country gave an over
Whelmlng mandate to see the fight
that Roosevelt had begun carried on.
In 1889 that fight is not yet over.
Our people demand that, under
Roosevelt's leadership, it shall be
carried through.
AS Jay Franklin said in a recent
broadcast discussion of the third
term issue, Roosevelt is more than q
man, more than politician-he is
the peoples President, their repre-
sentative. Mr. Franklin said. who.
then. is this Roosevelt that you are
considering for third term? YOU
millions upon millions of you-you
are that Roosevelt, and he is every
where throughout America"
What Nation Wants.
He Is the farmer whose land was
saved by the New Deal. He is the
factory worker who got decent hours
and working conditions and who won
the right to stand up like man and
bargain with the corporation. He is
the voiceless and voteless share
cropper of the South. He is the
homeless migratory worker in the
West He is the honest businessman
who has been saved from bank
ruptcy. He is the man out of job
who got work relief on self-re-
speeding terms, the youngster who
got chance to complete his edu-
cation. He is the old people who
got pensions, the sick who got medi-
cal care, the hungry who got food.
the men and women everywhere
who received justice and hope and
who gained fresh courage and new