Evening star., 1940-11-03

you be people who work on the farm,
in the factory, in the oface or IN
business, or whatever occupation,
YOU are all American citizens to
me"
The high light of his garden ap-
pearance-the big moment IN every
candidates campaign-came, now
ever. when he began to answer
President Roosevelt's Friday night
Brooklyn speech.
THE third-term candidate" Mr..
Willkie said. found 1t ominous
that men of diverse backgrounds
races and creeds-men of different
interests and hopes-shoulo De
found supporting us.
"It did not occur to him. the
Republican nominee went on tnat
patriotic Americans could be drawn
into agreement upon principle ana
mite in their determination against
self-perpetuating power, against De-
ing imbroiled in a foreign war.
With his firm jaw set in the
fighting style that marked his cross
country drive, Mr.. Willkie inquired:
"Since when has it been a crime
IN America for labor and industry
TO ioin hands? Or labor and the
farmer? Or Jews and gentiles?
Believe me, people of America, II
YOU listen to that kind OF cam
paigning, you will be betrayed
Sees Opposition as Desperate.
"Only desperate men, Mr.. Will
kie said, would seek to persuade
YOU that our great cause Is the
result of sinister forces
Mr.. Willkie declared he welcomed
the support of any man who be-
lieves in the principles "of our
American freedom" but hastened
TO disavow the support of any who
advocate intolerance. He did SO IN
these words:
"Right at the beginning OF TINS
campaign l repudiated certain men
and groups who tried TO connect
themselves with us. I still repudlate
them. And I repudiate, now and
forever, any and all men and
women. individually or collectively
who practice or promote raclal or
religious intolerance or persecutlon'
"I want specifically to denounce
rs malicious. reckless and harmful
to all concerned, the whispering
campaign hat is being conducted oy
the opposition to connect me Win
that kind OF intolerance.
THAT kind of campaign is not
a smear on Wendell. Willkle. 1t is
a smear on our American prin-
ciples."
Calls Roosevelt Flippant.
Mr.. Willkie also seized upon the
Presidents remark in Brooklyn that
this has been funny" campaign.
"That was f1ippant remark" :" the
Republican nominee commented.
Then, recalling that he had recently
looked into the faces of the Amerl-
can people from coast to coast, Mr..
Willkie added:
IT know that you are in dead
earnest. 1t may have looked funny
to the cynics of the New Deal. But
TO any one who believes in the
America of the people this is
sacred cause"
Before Mr.. Willkie arrived the
crowd in the Garden gave Chair
man Joseph w. Martin, jr., of the
Republican National Committee, a
big hand when he declared:
"Wendell Willkie can be trusted to
keep this country out of war. This
is not a Republican crusade, it is
an American fight. His victory will
not be Republican but an Ameri-
can victory"
Opposes New Deal to Democracy.
MIR. Wilkes Garden speech was
woven around the central theme
that the methods of the New Deal
are not the methods of democracy.
Time after time he ended descrip-
tion of some Roosevelt policy with
the sentence, That is the belief of
the New Deal. But that is not the
belief of democracy"
The man who rose Unexpectedly
to the leadership of the Republican
party only four months ago, and
plunged into the task of opposing
the Presidents third term bid, re-
turned to New York yesterday after
noon, as fresh and vigorous as
though he had not travelled $1,000
miles to take his plea directly to
millions of the people.
For several hours before Mr.. Will
kie arrived the crowd was treated to
q galaxy of speakers from many
walks of life, but the one who stole
the show was Claire Booth Luce,
authoress and playwright, who dealt
in sharp satire with New Deal per-
sonages and arguments, to the de-
light of the Willkie supporters.
Philip Willkie, the candidates son,
.came to the Garden early and sat
down near the press box, unknown to