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speech was a warning against a
tendency among the youth to form
Communist groups, coupled with a
charge that they have received en-
couragement from high places" He
did not clarity his reference to high
places.
The theme of his talk to the
women, broadcast nationally, was
that democracy rests on peoples
faith in each other, more than on
the mere forms of Government
machinery, such as a Congress, an
executive and a system of courts.
But that machinery is not really
democracy" Mr.. Willkie said. You
can understand that when you
think about the German Reichstag.
The Reichstag is the congress of
Germany, and it used to perform
essentially the same function as
our Congress. Hitler still convenes
1t once in a while. But when 1t
comes together it does not vote the
way the people want, but the way
Hitler wants. It's life Is just Sc
ries of must votes, it has no will
Of its own"
While Mr.. Willkie was speaking
to a street crowd that filled Cadll-
lac Square in downtown Detroit
late yesterday a cantaloupe came
looming down from some nearby
window. 1t hit the pavement sew
eral feet from the Willkie car, not
far from Detective Buckley, one OF
the plainclothes men accompanying
the candidate. Later in the eve
ming, while he was speaking in the
auditorium, a tomato was thrown
from the gallery, but it did not
even come close to Mr.. Willkie. II
splashed near the apparatus of radio
engineers in the orchestra pit.
Party Leaders Optimistic.
Republican leaders who rode on
the Willkie special across the State
are highly optimistic over their
chances of giving the Willkle-Mc-
Nary ticket Michigan's 10 electoral
votes, but some of them conflded
that they expect 1t to be struggle.
The State has a number of large
industrial areas, where the Repub-
licans must combat the Roosevelt
appeal growing out of social secur-
tty and labor legislation.
Downtown Detroit turned out
strong yesterday evening to see Mr..
Willkie arrive, standing up and
waving from the back seat of an
omen automobile Local observers
said it was a larger crowd than
greeted ALT M. Landon, the Repub-
liean nominee four years ago.
Yesterday crowds ranging from
5000 to 10000 welcomed him at half
q dozen stops between South Bend,
Ind, and Detroit.
Asks Vandenberg Election.
Throughout the day he appealed
IN MICHIGAN to re-elect Senator
Vandenberg, who was one OF the
contenders for the presidential
nomination at Philadelphia. He
also Endorsed other State candi-
dates.
AS his second campaign tour got
under way, Mr.. Willkie struck out
boldly to meet tne argument Ilidl
the country should not change
Presidents in time of crisis. He met
it by citing the action of the British
people in discarding the Chamber
lain regime and turning to Churchill
even in the midst of war.
At jackson, Mich, which lays
claim to being the birthplace of the
Republican party, Mr.. Willkie made
1t stronger, by declaring:
Lets elect a Winston Churchill
government in the United States
and away with the Chamberlain
government. Let's preserve Ameri-
can democracy"
Mr.. Willkie left his train late yes
terday at Wyandotte near one OF
the Ford plants. To a crowd OF
several thousand in the public
square of that town he repeated
his previous pledges to labor, with
the added comment that, Il think
the lob of Secretary Of Labor is dis
tinctly q mans job" In the Roose'