Evening star., 1940-09-17
Wi||kie Urges
South 10 Drop
Vote Tradition
Roosevelt Is Ignoring
A Party Belief, He
Tells Texans
BY the Associated Press.

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AMARILLO. Tex, Sept. IL
Wendell L. Willkie urged Southern.
ers today to abandon their tradi-
tional Democratic affiliations be.
cause, he said, President Roosevelt
in seeking third term was breaking
a still older tradition.
Addressing an audience in Elwood
Park, the Republican presidential
nominee said "Southerners say to
me we believe in everything you
believe in.
But, they say, they have a great
tradition in the South. a tradition
30 years or more old, and that is the
tradition Of voting Democratic.
They say it's difficult for us to aban.
don that tradition.
Traditions Have a Way"
mo one in all this land could be
more sympathetic with that view
point than /. Traditions have a way
of being true.
Il would say that under normal
circumstances for the people of the
south to live up to that tradition
would be very proper and a very
wise thing to do
But the people of the South are
faced with a conflict of traditions.
In order to keep that 8O-year old
Democratic tradition they must
abandon another tradition. That
tradition is $50 years old
When the republic of Texas was
established Sam Houston saw that
there was written into the law a
provision for rotation in Office"
Saying that rotation of persons in
Office was necessary for the pres
ervation of democracy" Mr.. Willkie
continued:
The only difference between this
great democracy of ours and totali-
tarianism is the continuation in Of
flee Of one man"
AS the crowd applauded, the
nominee added:
Germany found the indispensable
man, Italy found the indispensable
man. and Russia found the indis-
pensable man."
Hits Indispensable" Theme.
THE people who have lost their
democracy and their liberty are the
people in countries where one man
said. I am Indispensable
Mr.. Willkie urged the crowd to
think of those men about Roose-
welt" and added. when you con-
tinue one man in Office you continue
group in Office"
He asked: Whom do you want
as your spokesman"
Many in the audience replied,
wendell Willkie." A few shouted,
Roosevelt"
Willkie continued:
Who speaks in answer to what
Wendell Willkie says? 1t is that
Silver-tongued orator, Boss Flynn Of
the Bronx"
who are his associates? Well,
there's Mayor Frank Hague of New
Jersey, and then there's that other
great statesman. Mayor Kelly of
Chicago. who speaks through the
sewer system there.
The President says he doesn't
have time to discuss the problems
of the day. He is too busy. And
you people of the South are asked
to follow an old tradition and the
political philosophy of Ed Flynn"
Recall Argentina Incident.
Mr.. Willkie declared a spokesman
for Argentina had announced the
administration would modify
sanitary regulation after election
in order to let Argentina cattle
come into the United States"
Then, the Republican nominee
said, the President declared that
he had been misunderstood in a
talk with the Argentine representa-
tive.
How can cattlemen or any one
else know how they stand In a
situation like that?" Willkie said.
Amarillos Police Chief w. r. Nc
Dowell, estimated that 10000 per-
sons heard the extemporaneous
speech at the park and that $4,000
persons lined the streets through
which Mr.. Willkie passed on his
way to the site of the speaking
Th:xd Terno Endoo1axe