Evening star., 1943-08-05
Elect Best Nominee
For Critical Years,
Hatch Urges Voters

senator Hatch, Democrat, of New
Mexico, last night declared that re
gardless Of his own choice for Pres
1dent, he wanted "the voters O
America to choose that person TO
President who can best serve tn,
people of America during the mo-
mentous and almost deadly signifi.
cant years which lie ahead"
Senator Hatch, speaking on the
National Radio Forum arranged by
The Star and broadcast over WMAI
and the Blue Network, reminded his
audience that lin selecting our sol
diers who are fighting so valiantly
We do not ask their politics AND
they do not fight as Republicans
and Democrats, but side by side
they fight to win and give their
lives in order that We may live and
preserve some measure OF freedom
in this world"
In the battle at the polls, may
we not follow their glorious pat
tern?" Senator Hatch asked.
Congress- Record Not Perfect"
only recently, and on this same
radio program, distinguished Sem
ator. member of the opposition
party but nevertheless a colleague
whom I esteem most highly, spokS
concerning the achievements of the
18th Congress. While praising the
Congress, rightfully, I think, and
giving it credit for worthwhile &C
complishmentS, many of which
voted for, the Senator, to my regret
apparently stressed these accom-
plishments in an effort to discredit
the Chief Executive -.
The record of the present Con-
eress has been good, but it is not
perfect. Certainly, it is no part OF
its rightful defense to charge the
Executive branch as being incom-
petent. almost traitorous. or to imply
that that branch of Government Is
wholly in the hands of those who
would destroy our system of demo-
cracy and substitute Communism
Socialism, or some other ism for
that system of free government
to which we all, Democrats and Re-
publicans alike, are so rightly
devoted
Hits Excessive PartisanShip.
IF I have correctly interpreted
the able Senator's address," Senator
Hatch said, "he strongly inferred
that only Congress stands between
our Nation. and design of the Execu-
tive branch, which design would set
up some form of Government
closely akin to the totalitarian state
That. of course, is nonsense. It is
an extreme manifestation of a
partisan political attitude which l
think we all must agree is out of
place at time when the country
is engaged in a desperate war in
volving not only our liberties, but
the fate of civilization itself"
Senator Hate, said. however.
that some things might have been
done better" and said that at times
the wrong man had been chosen
for job" but ne added:
Whether the total has been all
1t might have been or not, We must
realize that because of what we
have done we have attained the
aggressive in the South Pacific: we
have effected the conqest of Nazi-
controlled North Africa; we have,
in partnership with our Allies, con-
quered the Mediterranean. and all
but driven the enemies out of that
vital sea, and have, in consequence,
reduced Italy to the verge OF
surrender"
In short" Senator Hatch de-
clared. in reviewing the war effort,
''in the course of year we have
put that enemy on the defensive,
where he had been striding rough
shod over nation after nation. To
my mind this result is not merely
a victory for the Allied troops, but
equally a victory for the home
forces that forged the guns, built
the planes. fabricated the ships that
brought the war machines to where
they were needed and when they
are needed"
Defends Wallace.
Senator Hatch took exception to
charge that President Roosevelt does
not appoint men who seriously differ
with him. He pointed out that
Secretary Of War Stimson has never
been a New Dealer and that Secre-
tary of the Navy Knox actively
campaigned against the President
as a candidate for Vice President in
1886 on the Republican ticket.
In defending Vice President WAL
lace, Senator Hatch said that "it is
pretty well known that his phil
osophy of government, instead of
destroying the Bill of Rights, would
extend the principles of freedom and
liberty therein announced to all the
oppressed peoples of the world II
he could. And certainly nothing he
said can justify wholesale attack
on all the so-called New Deal as
being Fascist in tendency and
trend
Senator Hatch recalled that he
had recently said that if the war
continues or peace negotia tionS were
in progress at the time of the next
presidential election in 1914 he be-
lieved it inevitable" that the Demo-
cratic party would renominate Mr..
Roosevelt. Under those circum-
stances, Senator Hatch said he
would support the President.
Juckrubbit ADOPTED