Evening star., 1943-03-05
GuffeyAdvance,
4th Term Thesis
Before Senate
Says is. Tradition
Doesn't Bur Service
Of Good President
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Guffey, Democrat, Of
Pennsylvania, a New Deal sup
porter, told the Senate today that
there is no American tradition
that a good President cannot
serve four terms in the White
House"
Reviewing President Roosevelt's
10 years as the Nations Chief Execu-
tive, Senator Guffey said the Repub-
lican opposition was desperate be-
cause 1t knew there was no tradition
which would bar the reelection of
Mr.. Roosevelt.
''We judge our Presidents by what
they do and what they are, keep
them and get rid of them to suit
ourselves, not to suit the conven-
fence Of party ambition or politics
as usual" Senator Guffey added.
Impatient With Tricks.
The Pennsylvania declared that
today 10 years after the Presidents
first Inauguration, there are count
less Americans, rich and poor. of
every race, creed and color, bankers
included, who say: Thank God for
Roosevelt"
Their impatience with the tricks
and trades, with the sneers and jibes
OF partisan opposition to the Presi-
dent is growing every day." Senator
Guftey continued. They respect the
Congress of the United States but
they do not love it, except as it
serves the public welfare and pro-
notes the common defense.
They neither respect nor love the
majority OF the newspapers which
lend themselves to the bought-and-
pald-for sniping of the ultra rich,
playing the same game of business
as usual, profits as usual, tax exemp-
| ton as usual down with labor and
let's get that man out of the White
House SO We can make some money"
Did Not Suggest Candidacy. .
| At no point in his speech did SEN
ator Guffey formally suggest that
Mr.. Roosevelt become a candidate
| Tor a fourth term.
Senator Guffey paid tribute to
what he termed ''Roosevelt's war
leadership" He reviewed the moves
he said the President had made to
prepare against the possibility that
the United States might become in
volved in war, saying:
Here and now, should like to
remind the opposition that Roose-
velt's wise diplomacy has assured
that the war we wage is being fought
far from our borders and at the side
of great and powerful allies.
Thanks to Roosevelt, we are allied
with the greatest nations of the
earth: The British Empire, the
Soviet Union and Free China.
Thanks to Roosevelt, we have not
had to fight bloody battle, house
by house. and street by street, in
Boston, Chicago or Los Angeles.
Good Neighbor Policy.
Thanks to Roosevelt, no hostile
bomb-after Is months of war-has
dropped on the soil of the United
States. Thanks to Roosevelt the
nations of the Western Hemisphere
with one exception, and the free
peoples OF Europe, are with us in
this war, because Roosevelt kicked
out dollar diplomacy and submitted
the good neighbor policy"
Senator Guffey said President
Roosevelt had been called a war;
monger for his efforts to get the
United States prepared and then
had been blamed after Pearl Har-
for 'for not having warned our
forces of the danger of attack
1--WE can remember how a large
and notorious newspaper sought to
spread the belief that Roosevelt
wanted Gen. Douglas Macarthur to
be smashed at Bataan for fear that
Macarthur might run for President
in 1914" he said.
L have just seen singularly
blasphemous column, written by the
pet columnist of the appeaser-press
attacking the President for his great
and humble Washington day speech
by accusing him of comparing him.
self to Our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ Somebody should tell Joe
Patterson to call off his dog before
he befouls the altar of our common
faith in God and our commn trust
in the decency of the average man.
"Yet in all this, President Roose-
velt has been uncomplaining and has
given the country which has three
times elected him to our highest
office the very best he has