Evening star., 1939-04-21

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The dinner, arranged by the Re-
publican organization of the House,
had as its principal guests and
speakers Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin
of Connecticut, Senator Robert A..
Taft of Ohio and Senator Clyde M.
Reed of Kansas. Nearly 600 Repub-
lican men and women, many of them
members of Congress and their wives,
gathered at the board.
Unity Picture Presented.
The picture drawn by the speakers
was one of party unity-in contrast
to the Democratic party, split into
New Deal and anti-New Deal fac
tions. Without minimizing the task
ahead Of them. they predicted VIC
tory for the G. o. P. in 1910.
Commenting further on President
Roosevelt's message to the Young
Democrats, Chairman Hamilton de-
clared that the President had "aptly
described the pitiful state into which
he has led his party. He put his
finger squarely on the cause when
he asserted that party can commit
suicide by abandonment of policies
that brought it into power.
If that be so-and I believe It
is-then Mr.. Roosevelt pulled the
trigger which made his party a sui
eide. 1t was he who forced the
Democratic party to abandon the
sound principles and promises set
forth in the Democratic platform of
1892"
: Mr.. Hamilton said the President
had broken the promises to reduce
Government expenditures by Is per
cent, instead almost trebling the
cost Of Federal Government. 1T
was he" Mr.. Hamilton continued,
who after denouncing the centrali-
zation of Government in Washing
ton. turned around and created here
the greatest bureaucracy the world
has ever known. 1t was he who
boasted that we planned it that
way as the house of cards which he
built fell apart"
March of "An Republicans"
Mr.. Hamilton gave expression to
the general opinion voiced by Re-
publicans that G. o. P. victory in
1910 will not be partisan victory.
The march we hail tonight" he
said, is not confined to Republicans.
It Is a march of all republicans,
wearied by six years of confusion
and fumbling experimentation. It is
a march to restore our United States
to economic recovery. sanity and
constitutional government"
Gov. Baldwin, elected last No.
vember in a wave of political reac.
ton which gave the G. o. P. new
life and hope after six years OF
continued and increasing Demo-
cratic victories, attributed to Prof.
William Graham Sumner of Yale,
an economist, the origination of
the term forgotten man." That
forgotten man." the Governor said.
was not the man marked by misfor-
tune in life, but the man of our
great middle class" including the
skilled laborer and the small busi-
nessman, the clerk, the professional
man. And that man, he added, Is
really the forgotten man in the New
Deal administration, the man upon
whom the huge taxes now fall.
Would Return Relief to States.
Gov. Baldwin strongly urged the
return Of relief administration to
the States, declaring that it has
been placed further and further
from the taxpayers.
Senator Taft, often mentioned
as a presidential possibility for
1910, appraised what has been
going on in Washington and the
country during the last six years in
six words: The New Deal is
failure" He charged that the Demo-
cratic administration is seeking
deliberately to divert the attention
Of the people from the domestic
mess" to the foreign situation.
mo denunciation of dictators or
praise of European democracies is
going to add one penny to Amer
ican pocketbooks." said the Ohio
Senator. He was loudly applauded
when he added, I'VE must keep out
of war" He drew a black picture
of the situation in this country, with
farm prices back to where they were
in October, 1888, despite all the
efforts to control production and
the expenditure of hundreds of mil
lions of dollars in farm subsidies.
He said that the average income of
Americans today is Is per cent be-
low what it was decade ago; that,
despite the fact that the country is
$50 600, 900 900 in debt, due to the
spending program of the admins
tration, the people are worse of
than they were before the New Deal
started.
Sees Business as Solution.
1.-THE only plan of the New Deal
ers," said Senator Taft, lis to borrow
and spend" Yet, he continued, the
only real solution of the troubles of
the American people is to stimulate
private business and permit it to in
crease employment.
THAT can be DONE" he said, "and
humanitarian objectives can still be
adhered to, If confidence is restored"
He pointed out that the banks are
today bulging with bigger deposits
than ever before. Under the leader.
ship Of the Republican party, he
said, the country has come out of
depressions before.
Senator Reed declared I'VE should
have no immediate concern in the
results of the game of power poll
tics as played in Europe"
LAS certainly as we are gathered
here tonight" he said, "the people
of America overwhelmingly demand
peace, not war. The courses that
we may choose to follow and MAIN
tain true neutrality 0n the event Of
European war; are these: