Evening star., 1940-10-08
records of the people in order to
hide crimes.
Bosses Sat in Conferences
On Third Term Nomination.

Bosses Sat in Conferences
On Third-Term Nomination.
BY what right can that party
that third-term party-any longer
call itself the party of reform?
Here you have as its vice chair
man man who has violated the
sacred right of the ballot-and
violated the American civil lber-
ties to boot What claim has the
candidate of that party to either
liberalism or reform?
Frank Hague isn't the only
leader of this new liberalism.
Across the river there is the boss
of the Bronx. And out in Chi
cago there is the commissioner of
sewers. These are the pillars of
the New Deal democracy.
We have eyewitness reports. We
have photographs of New Deal
ers, who have been governing us
for nearly eight years, seated in
conference with these bosses at
the Chicago convention to NOM
mate their third-term candi-
date.
I ask this question: What deal
has the New Deal made with
these men? What are they 60
ing to deal out to the voters, if
elected?
The voice of the sewers isn't in
it for love. Neither is the Mayor
of Jersey City. These are prac-
tical men. They are rich men.
Before they act they want to know
what they are going to get.
You and I know what kind of
deals are made between machine
politicians and officeholders. We
know that those deals will not
work out to the benefit of us, the
people.
But the New Deal party thinks
that these men can deliver the
votes of the great States of New
York, Illinois and New Jersey.
They are so confident of the power
of these machines that they don't
even make an argument. They
don't even discuss the issues in
this campaign. Their candidate
pretends not to know whether
his speeches are political or not.
Is any one here so guillible as
to think that the third-term
candidate is paying no attention
to politics?
Is anv one here so charitable
as to think. in the light of the
record, that those inspection
trips. those dramatic gestures,
those suddenly created emer-
gencies, are all non political?
Seeks to Drag Wars
Into American Politics.
Remember tonight, as we sit
here, the world is af1ame Democ-
racv has been crushed upon the
continent of Europe The men
and women and children of Brit
ain ere defending democracy
with their lives.
The head of the New Deal
party represents us among those
nations. The head of the New
Deal party has had some things
to say, recently, about the atti-
tUde of Hitler and Mussolini
toward our elections in America.
Not only has he pushed America
close TO the wars in Europe and
Asia. He now seeks to drag the
wars of Europe and Asia into
American politics.
He tells us that he, and he
alone. represents democracy.
But 1 say-that he cannot rep
resent the democracy that I
stand for while he seeks to per-
petuate his power through petty
Hitlers right here In our own
land!
That is not democracy as the
American people know it. That
is not the kind of democracy
which the Republican party is
fighting for.
That is democracy already on
the way to dictatorship.
This is the issue that We Re-
publicans have with the New
Deal. The New Deal relies on
political bosses. The Republican
party relies on the people.
We are ranged in battle against
threatening forces. We are fight
ing against the forces of Fed
eral spending. Federal patronage,
corrupt city machines and smear
propaganda.
But we are not afraid of these
things because we have faith in
the American people.
Here is New Jersey we have