Evening star., 1940-10-24
COP. Women S Rally
Is Told Party Must
Win New York
Speaker Sounds Warning;
Mrs. Gam Gives Theme
AS No Third Term

The District League of Republican
Women today set forth to contrib
ute their share Of final punch in
Presidential Candidate Wendell
Wilkes election campaign
Last night they held rally at
Pierce Hall, Sixteenth and Harvard
streets NV, at which speakers pre-
sented the major reasons of the
Republican Party for defeating
President Roosevelt's third term
effort. In addition they saw mov-
ing pictures released for campaign
purposes by Republican headquar-
ters and stayed late enough to lis
ten to the Republican candidates
speech at 1890 pm.
Mrs Edward Everett Gam pre-
sided and sounded the keynote of
the rally when she addressed her.
self to all those who have come
here to oppose third term for any
President of any party
After brief remarks by James c.
Wilkes, honorary president of the
Willkie-McNary Campaign Club
speeches were made by Mrs. Eliza
beth Butler Howry, former CORE
spending secretary of the Women's S
National Democratic Club, and Will
liam j. McCracken, jr.. former as
sistant attorney general of Illinois.
Warned to Win New York
Mrs. Howry told the more than
$50 league members present that
the New Deal is pointed toward
dictatorship and that the Republi-
can party must win New York S
electoral votes in order to win the
election.
Make these last few weeks
count she said
She told the Republican women
that this election should be turned
into such Boston tea party that
the rubber stamps will 60 back in
the pigeon holes where they belong
Mr.. McCracken said that the COM
Ing election is to be the most i'm
portant ever held in the United
States.
"Mankind's greatest problem in
recorded history has been in finding
successful form of government
for itself and mankind's greatest
struggle ever has been to prevent
government from getting too much
power he said.
Quotes Foes of Third Term.
There have been many Presidents
who could have had a third term,
he added, but all chose to forfeit
the opportunity of having it. He
quoted from the sayings of num-
ber of prominent Presidents and
prominent figures in early United
States history who spoke out against
third term and read from the rec
ord statements by recent statesmen
opposing the same thing. Many
Senators who voted for the La Fol-
lette resolution against a third term
when Calvin Coolidge was in office
have now reversed themselves and
favor a third term for President
Roosevelt on the theory he is in
dispensable. Mr.. McCracken said
The New Deal, he said, seeks to
dismiss the no-third-term precedent
by saying the opposition is merely
trying to make political capital of
1t or that it is a "horse- e-and- buggy"
ideal which can be easily waved
aside.
President Roosevelt has grabbed
more and more power, Mr.. Nc
CraCken said, until the very thing
which the subscribers to the La
Toilette resolution sought to guard
against will surely come to pass if
President Roosevelt is reelected.
Sees Threat to Democracy.
"Thev were scared of the third
term when Coolidge was President
Coolidge wouldn't even recognize
the office if he saw it now, so much
more powerful and threatening to
democracy has it become he said.
There is no justification for a
third term on any ground, Mr.. Nc
Cracken said adding that the same
danger to democracy lies in the
prolongation in office of a good
head of Government as in the pro-
longation in Office of poor head
of Government.
MIR. McCracken asked the Repub-