The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-13
Lincoln COP. Oratory Aimed At Third Term
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(Conttnued led the general attack on the Roose- welt administration. They charged that it would lead the United States into war, that it sought centralized totalitarian powers, that it has di- vided class against class, stripped the states of rightful powers. They asserted the country should regard renomination of MT. Roosevelt as a plan to overthrow the American system."
 Emphatic and repeated were the objections voiced at the administra- tion's relations with business, its bor- rowing and spending policies.
 Capper Fires Hot Shot
 Senator Arthur Capper, R., Kan, of the progressive wing of the party, fired an unexpectedly hot shot at MT. Roosevelt in Baltimore Lincoln day address. His renomination, Cap per said, would and should be re- garded by the nation as "a plan to overthrow the American system" He said he never had maintained that everything President Roosevelt has done is wrong"-but:
 "The most dangerous leader of any people is the leader who believes that he, and he alone, is qualified for leadership. And that is why Frank lin D. Roosevelt, with all his charm, with all his genuine desire to better the lot of the people of the United l States and of the world, is the most dangerous man to the welfare of the people of America today"
 Senator H. Styles Bridges, R., N. H., took his presidential campaign to Oklahoma City. He hit New Deal tax and debt policies and called ina tional disunity" the achievement of the New Deal.
 "The whole New Deal philosophy" !" he said, seems to be based on phil osophy of work less, manufacture less, plant and harvest less. Vast sums for relief and subsidies-be- gun as temporary emergency meas ures-threaten to become permanent policy"
 Dewey Has His Say
 District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, showing his presiden- tial wares in Portland, Ore, accused the administration of divide and rule" policies, asserting that "the New Deal has villif1ed businessmen, levied punitive taxes and in the name of legitimate reform has sought to rule or ruin the commercial life of the country"
 Former President Herbert c. Hoov- CT in what was described as 8 re- sumption of political activity after period spent on Polish and Finnish relief matters, warned in Omaha, Neb., against trend toward "stat- ism" The party problem, he said, was to shift the nations ideas and point of view. Statism, he defined as the theory that government officials can direct or operate a peoples eco- homie life. He warned that such trends led to overthrow of democracy in 8 dozen foreign countries. Gov. James of Penn. Gov. Arthur H. James of Penn sylvania who restored the state to the G. O. P. in 1888 bitterly assailed the Roosevelt administration in a Grand Rapids, Mich., speech which is likely to improve his chances among political groups which would give the New Deal no quarter. Ia .nk, 4A. said James, would find nation ruled by those who have so long cultivated poverty and misery and hate that they envision no other crop. Hhe would find the future of this nation lightly held in the hands of those who can rule only SO long as they can keep the hearts of Americas men and women heavy with the fear of starvation, with the fear of the present and future alike, with jealouSieS and rivalries that are suckled from the breast of untruth. Widespread need and distress have blinded the eyes of many Americans to a persistent attempt to strip power from the states and centralize it in Washington.
 Plan For Negroes
 Payne proposed this program for negroes who insist on supporting Democratic candidates:
 l. Demand that for every negro Democratic vote cast in the north that Democrats give negroes one vote in the south.
 2. Exchange the northern vote for the abolition of the Jim Crow system in the south.
 3. Demand everything for the negro in the south that is provided the negro in the north by Repub- icanS.
 i Mrs. Tafe told the same New York audience that women would take the lead in ending deficit spending.
 Taft, himself, speaking at rela- lively obscure meeting in Greens boro, N. O., said the country faced fundamental decision: Whether we shall remain the kind of country which our forefathers made and Lincoln preserved, a republic pro- tecting the inalienable rights, the freedom and liberty of its individual citizens, or 8 tolitarian executive with unlimited and undivided power over the lives and activities of in- dividuals and local governments alike"
 H0Over's 10 Commandments
 Omaha, Neb., Feb. 13-(UP)-Ten commandments of national philos- ophy in the cure of the country's ills, particularly the remployment of 5000. 900 jobless! were suggested last