Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-01
'WiIIkie Rebukes
'Heck|ers in
Pontiac Talk
Worms on Cot-CoIIs
Instead Of Thinking;
Egg SpIotters Wife
(Tert OF Wllkie Speech. Page B-sJ
BY J. A. OLEARY,
Star Staff Correspondent.

PONTIAC, Mich. Oct. Com
tinuing his fight for Michigan's 10
electoral votes, Wendell L. Willkie
warned hecklers in this industrial
community today that just before
Germany, Italy and other nations
lost their democracy. men. mis-
guided and misled, substituted cat
calling for thinking"
Local Republican party workers.
viewing the presidential contest as
close in this State. were counting on
the candidates personal appeal to
convince the large labor vote that
none of the social gains of recent
years would suffer by his election.
Since entering the State yester-
day, Mr.. Willkie has told every
group he has addressed that he not
only will defend the new labor laws,
but will make it possible for indus
try to employ the 100000 still idle.
AS the Willkie car was driving
away from a speakers platform in
the heart of Pontiac, to return to
the train. an egg, thrown from the
crowd. hit the back of the drivers
seat and spattered on Mrs. Wilkes
dress.
Interrupted by Boos.
Mr.. Willkie scowled, his car
stopped for a moment and one Of
his bodyguards pointed to the di-
rection from which the egg was
thrown. A minute later another
egg hit truck carrying photog-
raphers ahead of the Willkie Car.
Steve Buckley, one of the nomi-
nee's guards, said he saw third egg
splatter over a woman spectator on
the sidewalk.
State police detailed about Is off,
GERS to circulate through crowds at
later stops to guard against recur-
renee of such incidents. Heretofore
they had been concentrated about
the speakers platform, with crowd
patrol left to local officers.
Throughout his speech at Pontiac
Mr.. Willkie was interrupted by re-
marks and boos. There was large
group of young people in the crowd.
Some of the booing, however, came
from workers in a factory window
on the way to the platform.
Mr. Willkie charged the Roose-
welt adininistratioHtcday with try
ing to solve its problems by>uAe or
two ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS more
money or grabbing more power"
AS a result, he said. the admins
tration has more power than any of
its predecessors.
Charges Vote Buying.
Urging his hearers to think about
the election, Mr.. Wlllkie added:
Don't let them lead you like cattle
to the shameless he urged them
not to be "misled b. men like Ed
Flynn, who buys up votes" Edward
j. Flynn is chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee.
Last night at Detroit Mr. Willkie
called on the women of the Nation
to join him in crusade to preserve
the principles of democracy.
Again in his speech to the Gen.
eral Federation of Republican Wom-
ems Clubs, Mr.. Willkie struck hard
at the doctrine Of not changing
| horses in time of crisis.
This idea about not changing
| horses is just another of those catch
phrases by which the cynics in
Washington, who don't really believe
in you, think they can govern you"
Mr.. Willkie told the crowd of more
than $4,000 in Olympia Auditorium.
And if you are to do the job I have
given you here tonight, we must
drive the cynics out"
Warns Against Red Tendencies.
Earlier on the same subject, he
said: The closer Mr.. Roosevelt
gets us to war, the more people say
that We ought not to change horses
in the middle of the stream. Well,
for one thing. what are we doing in
the middle of the stream? How did
We get there? The man who got
us in is not the right one to get
us out"
One of the high lights of his
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