Evening star., 1940-09-21
Byrnes Says Wi||kie
Is Disrespectfu|
0fPresident
Senator Charges Nominee
With Using Profanity
In Campaign Speech
Sy the Associated Press.


ey the Associated Press.
Senator Byrnes. Democrat, Of
South Carolina. last night accused
Wendell L. Willkie, the Republican
presidential nominee, Of speaking
"contemptuously" of the President,
of using profanity in a campaign
speech, of making irresponsible
statements" and asserted his defeat
was evident.
In radio speech. Senator Byrnes
referred to Mr.. Wilkes statements
that a dictatorship would result If
Mr. Roosevelt were reelected, and
then said:
MFR. Willkie himself provides
positive proof that this is land
of free speech. 1t is this right to
exercise free speech that is proving
his undoing.
Had the Republican National
Committee, upon the adjournment
of the Philadelphia Convention. sent
Mr.. Willkie abroad. there might
have been a possibility of his elec-
ton. His speeches have removed
that possibility.
Clings to Respect.
Neither the delegates nor the
people knew Mr.. Willkie. Through
his speeches they have come to
know him. They have heard him
question the veracity of Mr.. Roose-
velt and refer to the President as
this fellow Perhaps I am old
fashioned. Perhaps I cling senti-
mentally to things I learned-in the
long ago--to respect.
Il have respect for the President.
whether he is a Republican or
Democrat. And if I know the heart
OF the American people, they do not
approve of any man speaking con-
temptuously of the President of the
United States
The profanity" Senator Byrnes
said. was used by Mr.. Willkie In
speech to industrial workers and
In consigning Chicago ito the lower
regions as he left that city. He
used it. Senator Byrnes said. in no
other addresses.
Lack OF Control.
IF he did this deliberately he
said, speaking of the first instance.
believing it would enhance his
popularity among those workers. it
was an insult to every wage Garner
IN this democracy. If, as I prefer
to believe, he did not do it de-
liberately, 1t evidences a lack OF
control deplorable in one seeking
the presidency Of the United States"
Senator Byrnes denied a distator-
ship would follow the Presidents
reelection or that the Chicago
convention was stacked for the
President.
On the last point, he said, the
power of patronage had been re-
duced by the Hatch Act, signed by
the President. that the delegates at
Chicago included only two presi-
Dental appointees-cabinet MEM
bers-and that the party machi-
merry was in the absolute control
of James A. Farley, then national
chairman. Mr.. Farley, Senator
Byrnes recalled, was a presidential
candidate himself.
Cites Party Polls.
Moreover, he added, polls of the
party membership had shown 80
per cent favored Mr.. Roosevelt's
denomination and 80 per cent OF the
delegates were instructed for him
by primary elections or State con-
ventions.
The people he added. left no
opportunity. as at Philadelphia, for
any group by a blitzkrieg of pub
hcity and deluge of kilograms to
nominate a man who had never
been voted for by the people of any
community for any Office
AS for the third-term issue. he
said the trainers of the Constitu-
ton wisely refused to limit the num-
Der of terms a President might
serve" Washington, he continued,
had said he saw no propriety in
precluding ourselves from the sefv-
ices of any man, who in some great
emergency shall be deemed uni
versally most capable of serving the
public"
Critics Answered.
Meanwhile, the Senate Democratic
leadership quoted from more than a
score of speeches and statements by
President Roosevelt as a reply to
critics who have charged the Presi-
dent with acts leading to war.
Senate Majority Leader Barkley
placed the material in the Congress
sional Record late yesterday and
told the Senate:
The attempt of certain persons
In this political hour to charge the
President with showing a tendency
toward, or performing acts, leading
America into war is a deliberate
disregard of a consistent record
made by him in his public utter
ances on peace covering a period of
many years"
The Roosevelt quotations placed
In the Record went back as far as
August IA, 1886, when the President
made his Il hate war" speech at
Chatauqua, N. Y. and included his
II hate war now more than ever"
speech 10 days ago before the In