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Instead, he paused at one point to
say to a heckler that he would ap-
preciate it if "the gentleman would
speak a little louder so can hear
him" He got no response.
He began his speech in a humor-
Gus vein that seemed to win over
most of those who had come out
to heckle.
Il listened to the radio just before
I came here" he began. 1T was
program sponsored by the Demo-
cratic National Committee, and
they accused me of vicious, ter
rible charge. They said I OCCASION
ally split my infnitives. Now, to
all of you. standing unashamed, l
admit it. In addition, they proved
that Katherine Hepburn is against
me. All say as to that is. Robert
Montgomery, Mary Pickford and
Walter OKeefe are for me. What
ever that proves as to the future
course of American history, hold 1t
against me.
You see, was educated in one
of these Western universities. My
language may occasionally be faulty,
but it's always direct"
Then. letting the smile pass from
his face, he plunged into his story
of how the present administration
has followed q trend which. "pur-
eued much further may lead to the
destruction of this form Of Govern
ment under which we live He told
them that if they would trace the
steps by which republics and de-
mocracies have fallen in the past,
they would find 1t always followed
a common pattern, in which leaders
have used the forms of democracy,
but made a mockery of it."
Taking first the Supreme Court
plan. Mr.. Willkie said there was a
constitutional method of changing
the court, but the president want
ed to follow the form of democracy
and not the substance" Within the
past six months, the nominee added,
the President appointed Secretary
of War Henry L. Stimson, who
is beyond the age Mr. Roosevelt set
as a qualification for the judiciary
When the President did not like
the way some men in Congress were
voting, Mr.. Willkie told the crowd,
"he put on the famous purge, going
through the mockery that the legis-
lative branch was independent, but
seeking to control it through the
power of the executive.
Il am not discussing the social
or economic views of the individuals
involved" he continued, "but the
principle that there must be three
branches of government. If the
purge had succeeded we would have
kept form but lost the substance Of
our system of government"
Next he tackled blank check"
appropriating of funds under the
New Deal, adding, land let me say
the administrations power to re-
elect itself in 1886 and the attempt
to re-elect itself in 1910 is basically
built upon those blank checks"
He charged also that to-day this
administration uses the very money
appropriated by Congress to put
pressure on Congress to appropriate
more money in the same manner"
Summing up his argument, Mr..
Willkie went on:
That is the identical road by
which every ancient and every mod
ern democracy has died. Without
raising the question of motives, which
for the sake of argument I shall
assume in every case to be up and
open, the course of action py which
the forms are preserved and the
substance destroyed, is exactly the
route by which Octavius-who no
doubt had the noblest of motives
ended the Roman Republic
After he had referred to Germany
and Italy still having the forms Of
elected Parliaments, Mr.. Willkie said
he realized some would say the trend
has gone further in those countries
than here. He said he would admit
that, but warned that experience
shows that trends in history 60 on
to the end unless the trend is
changed.
You cannot eat your cake and
have it," Mr.. Willkie asserted. You
must either take Democracy and the
American system of government and
make it work as it is, using the CO.
ordinate branches, or you must ad-
NIT the Democratic system is not
the effective system of government
or of life. And I repudiate the no
ton that this is not the most pleas
ant and effective system"
Both at Madison, and earlier in
the day at Dubuque, Iowa, Mr.. Will
kie said that President Roosevelt
endeavored at Philadelphia recently
to show that he is a follower of
Thomas Jefferson. while Mr.. Will
kie is an apostle of Alexander Ham,
ilton.
The record of the New Deal
shows that the President had the
parallel In reverse, the Republican
nominee said Hamilton. he said.
had the notion that government
would be more effective if centered
in the executive. Jefferson, on the
other hand, believed the liberties
of the Y,eop1e would hA hetter rre.