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should like to reply to that reply.
Lack Defense Equipment
And Cannot Manufacture it.
I should like to know Why.
since 1896. we have not been at
least getting ready to build ar
maments. I should like to know
why we suddenly became aware,
in this year of 1910, when it is
so terribly late, that we lack de-
tense equipment and cannot even
manufacture it.
This is the record. We have
stopped growing. Our national
income is smaller. Our workers
get less. Our farmers get less.
More than 100000 of our cit!-
zens are without jobs. We have
little equipment for our Army.
and we have only a few hundred
modern military planes.
Yet in these seven and a half
years We have spent more than
$50 900 100000. We have doubled
the national debt. And the
enormous defense program lies
ahead of us.
That is the record. I challenge
the third term candidate to
prove it false.
Now, when a baseball team re-
mains for years in last place or
close to it, it does not take the
customers long to figure out
what is wrong. They know that
something is the matter with
the management of that term.
and they are likely to want the
manager changed.
What would you think of the
manager of baseball team who
had his team in the cellar or next
to 1t for eight years In a league
Of 18 teams, and who then
claimed that he was the only
indispensable man to manage
that team?
But that is what happened
last July right here in this hall.
1t was In this very auditorium
that the third-term political
machine staged some OF its most
brilliant effects.
1t was here on this very plat
form, that Senator Lister Hill
of Alabama placed the name of
the third-term candidate in
nomination.
1t was here that the voice of the
commissioner of sewers doomed
out its cry for a third term.
Voices Long Honored in
Party Drowned Out.
1t was here that the name of
Thomas Jefferson was booed, and
the protesting voices of men
who had long been honored in
the democratic party were
drowned out by the organized
henchmen of the Kelly Nash
machine.
Nearby, in the 9th ward head
quarters, those self-styled lib
erals, Harry Hopkins and Harold
1ckes. conferred with Bosses
Kelly. Hague and Flynn-be-
hind bullet-proof windows.
That is the way the third term
candidate was chosen. That is
the way the people of America
were asked to give their conf
dence to the New Deal party.
In the history of American
politics there is no record like
this. No men purporting to rep
resent the American people have
ever been so cynical, so callous,
so brazen In their disregard for
democratic ideals as these men
have been.
And I cannot believe. I simply
cannot believe, that the Ameri-
can people will employ these men
again as guardians Of their de-
mocracy in the critical hour that
we face.
AS we look out upon the world
today there is one blessing that
we all profoundly desire. We de-
sire to remain at peace.
The New Deal promises to keep
us out of war. The third term
candidate says that he hates war.
He said on September II: Il have
one supreme determination-to
do all I can to keep war away
from these shores for all time
That is the promise.
My Fellow Citizens: In the
light of the record, I challenge
it. The third-term candidate has
not kept faith with the Ameri-
can people How are we to know
that he will begin to keep it
now?
Men and women of America. 1t
is my ambition to re-establish
good faith between the American
people and those in high Office.
In this crusade that am lead
ing. I have been out among the
people. I have seen them by the
millions. have seen their faces.
The Incident of the Little
Girl and the American Flag.
want to tell you about an
incident that happened to me.
1t is the kind of incident we
are not supposed to talk about
in these cynical days. Neverthe-
less, I will talk about it.
1t happened while I was being
driven in a parade through a city.
In one of those parades I saw
a little girl in the crowd. She was
being pushed around by the
crowd. And she was holding an
American flag.
1t was very difficult for her to
stand up-the crowd was pushing
her so much. But she kept hold