Evening star., 1939-02-12
Republicans Hit
New Deal, See
Nation Adrift
Domestic, Foreign
Policies Hit at
Lincoln Dinners
Ey the Associated Press.

Republican speakers told the
country last night it was adrift with
a "broken-down New Deal party and
a beWildered President"
The proper course, they suggested
IN speeches delivered at a national
series of Lincoln birthday dinners,
was to return their party to power
in the 1910 election.
Because Lincoln's birthday en-
nlversary fell on Sunday this year,
the annual Republican observances
were divided. Dinners and party
rallies will be held in many other
cltleS tomorrow night, notably in
New York City where former Presi-
dent Hoover and John Hamilton.
Republican national chairman, are
to speak.
AT last nights dinners, the gen.
eral keynote was a contention that
the administrations policies had
tailed at home and a questioning of
Its course in foreign affairs.
For Adequate Defense.
Senator Bridges of New Hamp-
shire, speaking at an Akron (Ohio)
rally, said the best description of
the economics of the Roosevelt ad-
mlnlstration" was given years ago
by Abraham Lincoln:
You are united in your deter
mlnatlon to break with the past, but
you are utterly divided among your
selves as to where you are going"
Senator Bridges asserted that the
New Deal in its panic" has tried
every crackpot scheme, every will
of-the-Wlsp idea that its socialistic
experimenters could devise"
The New Hampshire Senator. like
other speakers, declared himself ior
adequate national defense, but said
appropriations for defense must be
expended only for that purpose.
1t must not be a donation to
broken-dow New Deal party and a
beWlldered President who are seek
ing to repair their political fences
by beating the drums of war and
sounding the cymbals of interna-
tionalism,' he said
Spending Raped.
Senator Taft of Ohio. in a Gin
cinnati speech, criticized the admin
lstratlon's spending policies.
The present condition o. the
country is eloquent testimony 20 the
complete fallacy of the theory that
people can spend itself into .'os-
perity," he said.
1T is beyond the power Of Con-
gress to change the attitude of the
executive departments, or the man
ner in which many laws whose pur-
pose is excellent are being aGrliris-
tered. -"
f"The only solution seems to lie in
a change of executive control in
1910"
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, speaking
in Detroit, called on the American
people to refuse to be stampeded
either in our foreign policy or IN its
blood brother, our military and naval
plans"
Col. Roosevelt said he did not be-
lieve in the United States joining
with other nations in any scheme for
collective security. If we do he
added, we will soon find that we
are furnishing the security and the
other nations are doing the COL
lecting"
"Meddling" Scored.
He scored benevolent meddling
of any sort" and warned that as one
step leads to another, 1T is impos-
sible to limit objectives."
Speaking in Louisville, Repre-
sentative Otter of Pennsylvania,
chairman Of the National Republic
can Congressional Committee, de-
scribed the New Deal as a strange
and sinister philosophy of govern
ment." He said the New Deal is "a
compelling challenge to the right Of
liberty calling for strong men, great
hearts, true faith and ready hands
a challenge, he added, that the Re-
publican party answers today.
Senator Lodge-grandson OF the
Massachusetts, Senator Of two dec
AIDES ago-said the names "conserva-
tive or liberal could not De tagged
to individual Republicans.
Addressing himself TO meeting
at Boston, Senator Lodge contended:
Lincoln wanted to keep all that
was old and good-Which made him
conservative; he wanted to adopt
everything that was new and good
which made him liberal"
Asks Plane Sale Publicity.
Mr.. Lodge used his record on legis-
lation in the Senate to show he had
taken a similar attitude.
The Massachusetts, Senator also
demanded that there be publicity
on the broad conduct of foreign
policy"
I'VE realize that first of all we do
not really know what is going on"
he said. American airplanes, We
are told, are being sold to foreign
governments. The United States
Army and Navy, under this arrange
ment, has first call on American
airplanes. If it is true that due to
pressure from some foreign source,
this rule has been set aside and
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