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present is "underprivileged" in the
matter Of membership on the Ex-
ecutive Committee and that he
hoped that would be remedied some
day.
Other Vacancies Filled.
Mr.. Reece was elected a member
OF the National Committee on rec
ommendation of the State Commit
tee to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of the late Representative
Taylor. Other new members of the
committee elected to fill vacancies
were B. L. Noojin of Alabama, j. L.
Replogle Of Florida, Hill Blackett of
Illinois, Daniel Milestone of Mon
tana, Lyle jackson of Nebraska and
Mrs. Lindsay Patterson of North
Carolina.
Reports Victory Signs.
Mr.. Hamilton declared that "all
signs point to Republican victory
this year." as he told the committee
members they had assembled to
select the time and place for the
Republican National Convention. He
ridiculed the Democrats for failure
to pick convention date (they
left that duty to National Chairman
James A. Farley-and Mr.. Farley
has said he will fix the date as
soon as the Republicans shall have
fixed theirs.
Our political foes appear to have
lost the power to make decisions
without our help" he said, 80 for
the first time in history, it falls to
the lot of this committee not only
to proclaim the date for the COM
mencement of the Republican Ma
tional Convention, but also to per-
init the chairman of the party op-
posing us to fix the date for its
convention"
Mr.. Hamilton said in his address
that undoubtedly the Democrats will
select a date later than that OF
the Republican convention. "Un-
ashamedly," he said, "they admit
there is SO little leadership left in
their ranks that they must wait to
see what we do. How are the mighty
fallen!
If our political foes, even before
the battle begins in earnest, wish to
abdicate their place as the party in
power, surely we cannot complain" -"
He added that the Republican party
was ready to select its leaders to
pilot this country out of the sitting
air OF depression and radicalism" in
which it stands today.
Never, before 1888 has there been
a party in power that has given
such ardent sympathy and encour-
agement to subversive elements
seeking the downfall of our Amer
ican SYSTEM" continued Mr.. Ham,
ilton. And now, he said, the New
Dealers plan to torpedo" the Amer
lcan tradition that no man should
serve more than two terms as Pres
ident.
Ouly One Qu2une0.
Their own words confess their
lack of candidates as the New
Dealers undertake to promulgate
the doctrine of the one indis-
pensable mana doctrine which
they would transplant here from
the relationships abroad. In all the
Democratic party, assert the New
Dealers, there is only one man
only one, mind you-qualif1ed to be
President of the United States"
Mr.. Hamilton said the Democrats
must wage a defensive and re-
treating fight" He insisted they
had no other recourse, since after
eight years OF broken promises and
failure to bring recovery they can
not 60 to the country with q
straight face" and promise to do
in the next four years what they
have failed to do in the previous
eight.
Who this year is so gullible as
to place any faith in any promise
CT the New Deal or it's discredited
leadership" he asked. He said that
President Roosevelt in 1882 prom
ised to cut Federal spending Is
per cent and to maintain q sound
currency and to keep private in
dustry from Government competi-
ton when he accepted the Demo-
cratic national platform 100 per
cent"
Now the Democrats, Mr.. Hamil-
ton continued, forget the prom
ises-look at our record-see how
we have restored prosperity" They
attempt, he said, to prove by LEG
erdemain" that the national debt
has not been increased and that
this country has reached a new
peak Of prosperity. Yet Mr.. Ham
ilton pointed out there are still
100000 unemployed and some
10,000.0 900 employed on Government
work OF one kind or another. In
their desperation the New, Dealers
seek to compare conditions today
with those which existed in 1882
"at the bottom of a worldwide
depression"
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