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onistic to democracy and said that
in defense of America and its lib
critics he would not hesitate to stand
for war. At the same time he
charged the President with dabbling
in 'inf1ammatory statements and
with counting "a war for which the
country is hopelessly unprepared."
In the domestic field, he said he
believed in collective bargaining by
labor, wage-hour standards, Federal
regulation of interstate utilities, con-
troll Of securities markets, regula-
ton Of banking and In social secur-
ity.
Critical of Spending.
But he attacked efforts to achieve
recovery by Government spending
and asserted the New Deals at
tacks on business have had the m
eyitable results Of making investors
afraid to invest, leaving billions OF
idle dollars in banks.
IT say" he continued, that we
must substitute for the philosophy
Of distributed scarcity the philos-
ophy of unlimited productivity. I
stand for the restoration of full
production and Unemployment by
private enterprise in America"
From these comparisons, he led
up gradually to the direct challenge
to the President to debate with
him, and he called for inclusion OF
the third-term issue in the scope Of
joint discussion by adding, 81 would
like to debate the assumption by
this President, in seeking third
term, OF greater public confidence
than was accorded to our presi-
Dental giants, Washington, Jefier-
son, Jackson. Lincoln, Cleveland,
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow
Wilson"
Although it was gruelling day,
Mr.. Willkie showed little strain or
fatigue as he chatted with reporters
on the way back to Rushville.
Greeted at Rail Stations.
On the way to Elwood in the
morning, crowds who did not 60 to
the ceremony waited at little coun-
try stations along the tracks to
wave him on.
At Gridley the train stopped for
a few minutes and a group of near
by residents ran to the other sta
ton platform, thinking Mr.. Willkie
would be there He happened to
be in a front coach at the time,
and, leaning out of doorway, he
called after them, Hey, come back,
and back they came.
From the moment he and Mrs.
Willkie alighted from the train at
Elwood they we're in the center of a
friendly, swarming throng. AL
though the heat was great, they
walked for blocks beside the SLOW
moving caravan of automobiles. At
times the crowd was so dense the
cars hardly moved.
The 102-degree temperature pros
trated nearly 400 persons. More
than $50 were treated at four first
aid stations in Galloway Park and
As others were taken to Elwood's
Mercy Hospital. Nearly 100 others
suffered minor injuries.
And all the while, Wendell Will
kie kept waving his straw hat to
one side and his other hand to the
opposite side of the street.
Davis Voices Welcome.
The first event on the program
was a brief greeting by Senator
Davis, Republican, of Pennsylvania,
another old Elwood boy, from the
steps Of the high school Mr.. Will
kie attended. In acknowledging
Senator Davis welcome, Mr.. Willkie
pointed up to the motto over the
high school entrance, THE Hope
of Our Country" and said the forces
he represents bespeak that motto.
While waiting for him to appear
on the high school steps, part OF
the crowd spied him at side win
dow and gathered beneath it. AS he
started to light a cigarette. a man
in the crowd asked for one and he
tossed it out to him.
As the caravan moved on to the
main event at the park on the edge
of town, the high school crowd fol-
lowed in its wake and the jam
around the nominee car continued.
From the platform the crowd
out like a massive fan in
a semi-circle that Allied the entire
green amphitheater. A border Of
trees furnished some protection from
the heat, but a large part of the
assemblage was exposed to the sun.
Out beyond the green foliage of