Evening star., 1940-09-08
Race Speeds Up This Week,
With Maine Voting Tomorrow
Roosevelt to Make Address Wednesday,;
WiIIkie to Leuve Thursday to Begin Tour

vania, Ohio and Indiana. He also
looks for victories all along the
Pacific Coast. including the States
of California, Oregon and Washing
ton. He feels sure of New England
The Republican National Commit
tee has been handicapped by the
limitation of SO ,000, 900 placed by the
new Hatch Act on contributions
and expenditures which may be
made by a political partys naa
tional organization In calendar
year. Mr.. Martin figures that the
committee has only about 81 $50 600
leeway for the campaign, because
during the early part of the year
large sums were expended to pay
of the deficit of the last campaign
and to keep the organization moving
up to the time of the national con-
vention. 1t has been impossible to
prepare, print and send out as much
literature, for example, as in the
past.
Speech Awaited With Interest.
President Roosevelts speech to
the teamsters' union Wednesday
night is awaited with interest. 1t
will be broadcast toe the Nation
over three networks If the speech
is non-political, the time may be
donated. II it is political, the time
would cost the Democrats $4,000.
Just who is to decide whether the
speech is political has not been dis
closed. Any address delivered by
the President at this time, however,
will have its political implications
and effect. Mr.. Roosevelt has made
in the past-and will make this
fall-a great play for the labor
vote. His address to the teamsters
presents to him an opportunity to
stress what the New Deal has done
for labor and what labor might
lose by changing administrations.
On the other hand, he might make
a patriotic address to the teamsters,
dealing principally with the steps
being taken for national defense
and urging the cooperation of
labor.
President Roosevelt goes into the
campaign with a setup and footing
different from those in 1882 and
1896. In the first place, he is seek
ing third term in the White House.
against which many Americans in
the past and now have declared
themselves. In the second place, he
is minus his former political gen.
Ii ciy,on Eorlou rrJI,1
managed both his earlier campaigns.
And while Mr.. Farley has said he
will not take a walk" everyone
knows he is against third term in
principle. Other Democrats who sup
ported Mr.. Roosevelt in 1886 have
stepped out against him on the third
term issue.
Cleveland's Letter Circulated.
The Republican National Com
mittee last night circulated a letter
written by Richard F. Cleveland,
son of President Cleveland, assert
ing that President Roosevelt and the
New Dealers are not Democrats aid
urging all Democrats" who sup
ported Mr.. Roosevelt in 1892 to vote
in November for Mr.. Willkie.
Mr.. Willkie, the letter said, is a
1882 Democrat" and therefore
worthy of the support of other Dem
ocrats. The duty of the Democrats.
Mr.. Cleveland said, is perfectly
clear"
There is for them" he continued.
"a combination of three compul-
sions: Cd New Deal Alice-in-Won-
derland economics and finance sub
stitutes for the honest liberalism of
their Democracy; 90 the real mem
ace OF third term, for a man who
loves power, in these days when
lurking dictatorship is all too plausi-
BILE, and 90 in Wendell Willkie a
remarkably vigorous, sound and sea-
soned fighter for economic liberal
ism and national productivity-who
is no stranger to their ranks since
ne, too, Is 1882 Democrat"