The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-21
F. R. CALLS FOR
LIBERAL NOMINEE
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cure order, of world peace when the
time comes
OF the campaign itself, the Prest,
dent said he was sorry, speaking as
an American, that a campaign which
should be pitched on "a level of in
telligent argument" had fallen in,
to such low estate as early as this.
And, speaking as a partisan, Mr..
Roosevelt voiced confidence that
the average voter was somewhat
tired of what he called the view
Withdrawn" outcries of republican
candidates.
Sitting before a battery of micro
phones in Georgia hall at the Geor'
gia Warm Springs Infantile Paraly'
sis Foundation, the President analy.
zed the pre-convention campaign
and said it had fallen into three
parts, none Of which appealed
greatly to his intelligence.
First" he declared, our oppo-
nents are seeking to frighten h
country-by telling people that the
present administration is deliberate
ly 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
sever years are good but that they
would carry them out with greater
efficiency if they were in power.
Can't Swallow 1t
'I do not think that we can swal.
low that assertion because practl'
cally every serious government
scandal since the Civil war has &C.
Cured under a republican admin
~istration, and the underlying re-
publican leadership the groups
and cliques which have always own
ed the republican party are still
lust as much in the saddle OF own
ership as they were in the OLD
days.
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 I'M
employed-that they will meet the
need of the national d~efense-that
thew will reduce your taXes-and
that with all, the total of the , ex-
peuditures of the federal govern
ment will &c down so much that
they will have a surplus IN the
treasury.
And you and I know, from long
experience, when we ask them now
are you going to do it, that their
onlv answer is the vague assertion
that they will repeal all of the nor
rid and nerve-racking RESTRICTIONS
on private business and let private
business do the rest
In other words, the chief exc
o,7tive went On, all that is being pro-
missed the nation is a return to the
davs of 1929, when, he said, "Ame'
rica went speculation mad, when
half the families of the lane were
sucked in to an orgy of over-produc-
tion. of stock gambling" at a time
when unemployment was expand
ing, farm prices dropping and W
were riding for the worst soclal
and economic fall the country a
ever known"
Vet. Mr.. Roosevelt asserted,
democratic campaign should not pe
restricted to "just pointing with
PRIDE
While voicing a belief that much
had been achieved in the last seven
wears. additional accomplishments
remained to be realized. The next
administration, he said, Will nave
Ito devise way and means, in a
e1iheral and progressive spirit to
meet difficulties only now being
subjected to appreciation and analy-
sis.
Then, in a frank bid for another
four wears of the New Deal, the
President contended that Americas
Young people had another oppor-
tunity this year to support a gov
eminent of what he described as
nroven liberal action instead of
taking a "long chance with a
Marty Historically founded on con
servatism.'
After referring to what he term
ed studi generalities" put forth
bv the republican party, Mr.. Roose-
Welt said that younG people-and
all others-knew what sticky fly
paper looked like.
1--WE will be most careful to keep
o,,r foot and our heads away from
the fly paper, all this coming sum-
mer and fall" he concluded. "be-
cause we are possessed of good, old