Evening star., 1940-11-02
ooseve|t Fighting for New York. Charges Unhoy Alliance
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BROOKLYN, Mop. 2.-FOllol1-
ing is the prepared tert OF Prest-
dent Roosepelt's pNitical address
last night at the Brooklyn Acad-
en1y of Music:
Sentiment is a very wonderful
and continuing thing in the hu-
man race. 1t has brought me
back again to this old Brooklyn
Academy of Music on the Friday
night before election.
This is a strange campaign.
Here it is almost the day of
election, and it is still impossible
to determine what are the prin-
ciples of the opposition party.
What is it that the Republican
leaders would do during the next
four years if given a chance?
On a Monday, we hear that
this administration has done a
good job with it's foreign policy;
on Tuesday we hear the foreign
policies of the United States
condemned.
On Wednesday we understand
that our policy toward agricul-
ture should not be changed: and
on Thursday We learn to our
amazement that the farmers
have been the victims of the New
Deal and are forced to exist on a
dole.
Strange Political Bedfellows
An Explanation of Contradictions.
On Friday, we are treated to
the encouraging thought that
the social gains of labor during
the past seven years should be
continued; and on Saturday, we
are told to weep because labor
has been the principal sufferer
under the New Deal.
To one group, further and
bigger relief is held out; and to
the big taxpayers cuts in ex-
penditures are promised.
One day they say they would
continue our good neighbor
policy: the next day they hurl
insults at certain of our good
neighbors to the South.
That is the way they seek to
catch a vote here and a vote
there and pick one out of the
air.
There is, however, one ex-
PLANTATION for these contradic-
tions, rather a sad explanation.
That explanation is found in
the strange, the very strange,
assortment of political bedfel-
lows who have been brought to-
gether in the Republican politi-
cal dormitory.
Many conflicting interests,
many irreconcilable social out
looks, many fundamentally op-
posite economic attitudes have
been thrown together under one
political roof.
The only common philosophy
and the only common purpose
they have is to get wholly rid of
all the New Deadlock, stock
and barrel-and to get control
of Government in their own
hands for their own purposes.
Just as they have not been able
to foist their falsiflcations on the
American people, they will never
be able to foist this only COM
mon purpose of theirs upon the
American people.
We will all see to that next
Tuesday.
We all know the story of the
unfortunate chameleon who turn
ed brown when placed on a
brown rug, and red when placed
on a red rug, and who died a
tragic death when they put him
on a Scotch plaid. We all know
what would happen to govern
ment if it tried to fulfill all the
secret understandings and prom
ises made between the conflicting
groups which are now backing
the Republican part.
There is something very
omlnous in this combination
which has been forming within
the Republican party between
the extreme reactionary and the
extreme radical elements of this
country.
There is no common ground
upon which they can unite, un-
less it be their common will to
power, and their impatience with
the normal democratic processes
to produce overnight the incon-
sistent dictatorial ends they
each seek.