Evening star., 1940-11-03
Executive Calls
World Storm
Reason He Runs
fTert of the Roosevelt speech
Page A-4J
By JOHN C. HENRY,
star Staff Correspondent.


CLEVELAND, Nov. Presi-
dent Roosevelt, asking the Amer
lean people tonight for a vote OF
confidence, declared "the great
storm" now raging over the
world was "the true reason" why
he is running for a third term,
and that when that term is
over there will be another Presi-
dent"
Speaking in Public Hall here to
q crowd that was estimated at 10000
persons counting the overflow out
side and in a nearby auditorium
Mr.. Roosevelt climaxed an aggres-
sive 36-hour drive for the 109 elec-
toral votes of New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio with an address
carefully drafted and delivered in
idealistic tempo. Police estimated
250000 persons jammed Public
Square, the Mall and nearby streets
to watch the President motor from
his train to the auditorium.
President Roosevelt said:
There Is q great storm raging
now; it makes things harder for the
world. And that storm, which did
not start in this land of ours, is
the true reason that I would like to
stick by these people of ours until
we reach the clear, sure footing
ahead.
Intends TO Make 1t.
I'VE will make it-make 1t before
the next term Is over.
I'VE will make it, and the world,
We hope, will make it, too.
"When that term is over there
viii be another President, and many
more Presidents in the years to
come, and 1 think that word 'presi-
dent will be a word to cheer the
hearts of common men and women
everywhere.
The basic theme of the address
was to the effect that preservation
Of democracy in America depends
upon public support of the New Deal
as opposed to "the forces of dicta-
torship in our own land-on one
hand the Communists, and on the
other the Girdlers."
No Other Names Mentioned.
Except for his stab at Tom Girdler
head of Republic Steel Corp. and q
bitter foe of the New Deal, Mr.
Roosevelt used no names tonight
nor even castigated the Republican
party by name.
At one point, however, there wa!
q veiled reference which might havl
been directed at John L. Lewis
c. I. o. chieftain, when the Presi.
dent spoke of workers who art
really free through their grea1
unions undominated by any outsid,
force, or by any dictator within.
One of the biggest turnouts of tht
brief Roosevelt campaign greeted the
President as he strode through foul
or five blocks from central termina
to the auditorium. Once in the hall
he waved repeatedly for silence anc
finally began his speech with the
crowds still roaring its applause
Time after time, it interrupted hin
to applaud the featured points of the
address-or to boo those directed al
the opposition.
What Mr.. Roosevelt called "the
forces of dictatorship in our own
land" the ones who he declared
last night in Brooklyn were Joined
in "unholy alliance" he charged to-
night as men who call themselves
American but who would destroy
America.
Proud Of Opposition.
ut Is their constant purpose ir
this as in other lands to weaker
democracy, to destroy the free man.
faith in his own cause" he asserted
"In this election all the represen-
tatives of these forces, without ex.
ception, are voting against the New
Deal.
II am proud of this opposition. II
Is proof positive that what we have
built and strengthened in the past
seven years is democracy"
Describing the speech as his "fina
(See ROOSEVELT. Page A-l5.)