Evening star., 1940-04-21
BY JOHN c. HENRY,
Star Stan Correspondent.

Dy JOnN u. uENnx,
Star Stan CORRESPONDENT.
WARM SPRINGS. Ga, April
20.-Giving the Republican party
bitter tongue lashing both for
it's campaign tactics to date and
it's record of service to the coun-
try throughout the years, Presi-
dent Roosevelt tonight called on
the Democratic party to nomi-
nate "a liberal pair of candidates,
running on a liberal and for
ward-looking platform"
Speaking on a Nationwide radio
hookup directed specifically to a
series of Jefferson Day dinners by
the Young Democratic Clubs of
America, Mr.. Roosevelt mentioned
no individual presidential candi-
dates. In what may or may not have
been merely casual use of words,
however. he referred at one point
to the problems which will face the
next administration" Whether this
was intended as hint Of his own
intentions is purely speculative.
Mr.. Roosevelt did take occasion to
throw haunting remark at "a Re-
publican aspirant," presumably
Thomas E. Dewey, for the latter's
do-nothing" preachments in the
face OF Europe's war.
Criticizes Campaign Tactics
And worded much more sharply
than his recommendations to the
Democratic party to stay liberal, and
to the Nation to stay Democratic,
were his slashing criticisms of the
pre-convention campaign up to date
from "the other side"
Blocking these "other side" tactics
into three parts and adding tartly
none OF which appeals greatly to
my intelligence" Mr.. Roosevelt said:
First. our opponents are seeking
to frighten the country-by telling
people that the present admins
tration is deliberately trying to put
this Nation into war or that it is
inevitably drifting into war. You
know better than that.
Second, they are telling you that
many of the measures of the past
seven years are good, but that they
would carry them out with greater
efficiency if they were in power.
Il do not think that we can swal-
low that assertion. We and they
must acknowledge that practically
every serious Government scandal
since the Civil War has occurred un-
der Republican administration,
and that the underlying Republi-
can leadership-the groups and
cliques which have always owned
the Republican party are still just
as much In the saddle of ownership
as they were in the old days.
Cites Vague Assertions.
Finally. they tell you that they
will perform an amazing miracle
that they will give everybody jobs
that they will maintain relief-that
they will give work to the unem-
ployed-that they will meet the
needs of the national defense-that
they will reduce your taxes-and
that with all, the total of the ex-
penditures of the Federal Govern
ment will go down so much that
they will have surplus in the Trea-
sury. And you and I know, from
long experience, when we ask them
how are you going to do it, that
their only answer is the vague as
sertion that they will repeal all of
the horrid and nerye-racking re-
strictions on private business and
let private business do the rest.
I'm other words. all that the coun-
try is being promised to date is a
return Of the old days of 20 when
America went speculation mad,
when half the families of the land
were sucked into an orev of over
production, of stock gambling, while
at the very moment of it unemploy-
ment was increasing. farm prices
were decreasing and we were riding
for the worst social and economic
fall the country had ever known
Il am sorry that a campaign
which should be pitched on level
of intelligent argument has fallen
into such low estate as early as
this"
Twice during his address, Mr..
Roosevelt conceded that his own ad-
ministration has not yet devised
perfect formulas or perfect machin-
cry for meeting the Nations prob
lens. But that he considers its
progress in this direction superior to
what might have been made or
might yet be made by Republican
administration was made thoroughly
clear.
During the next four years." he
cautioned his listeners, there will
be new problems to face. We need
National Government with enough
imagination and enough courage to
meet those new problems with con-
crete, specific remedies-just as we
have met many problems that were
new during the past seven years
with imagination and courage and
practical idealism. l do not say
that the machinery that we have
used or are using is perfect or that
it cannot be improved-but YOU
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