Evening star., 1944-11-05
President Likens
Campaign to '28
In Boston Speech
(Tert on Page A-17.)
By J. A. FOX,
Star Staff Correspondent.


Roosevelt charged tonight thai
the Republican party work.
both sides of the street." ano
declared that Gov. Thomas e
Dewey-whom he did not men,
ton by name-"reveals a shock
ing lack of trust in America"
Virtually winding up his cam
paign after days swing through
Connecticut and Massachusetts,, Mr.
Roosevelt delivered his seventh
major speech at rally at Fenway
Park. He went after his opposition
without gloves, but reserved his
sharpest barbs for the Dewey speech
here Wednesday night, when the
New York Governor asserted that
the New Deal had entered into a
cynical alliance" with the Com
munists.
Everybody knows that was re-
luctant to run for the presidency
again this year." MIR Roosevelt said.
But since this campaign has de-
veloped I tell you frankly that
have become most anxious to win
for the reason that never before in
my lifetime has a campaign been
filled with such Misrepresentation,
distortions and falsehood. Never
since 1928 have there been so many
attempts to stimulate in America
racial or religious intolerance"
Denies Communist Charge.
Reminding his audience that "a
Republican candidate" had said
'the Communists are seizing control
of the New Deal, through which
they aim to control the Govern
ment of the United States" the
President retorted:
When any political candidate
stands up and says solemnly that
there Is danger that the Govern
ment of the United States-your
Government--could be sold out to
the Communists, then I say that
candidate reveals a shocking lack
OF TRUST in America. He reveals a
shocking lack of faith in democracy
in the spiritual strength of our
people"
Mr.. Roosevelt also pointedly hit
back at the frequently reiterated
assertion that he had led this
country into war, after promising
in the 1910 campaign that Ameri-
can troops never Would be sent to
foreign soil.
1t was in Boston four years ago
that he made his again, and again
and again remark" and tonight he
defended his course in the war as he
had earlier in the afternoon in a
rear-platform talk at Springfield
Mass.
Attack Forced War.
1--WE got into this war because
we were attacked by the japanese
and because they and their Axis
partners, Hitler's Germany and
Mussolini's Italy declared war on
U.s." he asserted.
Il am sure that any real Amer
lean would have chosen, as this
Government did, to fight when our
own soil was made the object of a
sneak attack. AS for myself, under
the same circumstances, would
choose to do the same thing-again.
and again, and again."
His listeners got the full impli-
cation of the emphasis as the Presi-
dent put on this phase. which has
been tossed back at him by critics.
and broke into applause.
A roaring crowd of 45, 900 chanting
We Want Roosevelt" greeted the
President as his car rolled up on the
platform from which he spoke.
Mr.. Roosevelt was ACCOMPANIED
by Chairman Robert E. Hannegan of
the Democratic National Committee
and Representative Mccormack of
Massachusetts,, the House leader.
Walsh Not Present.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Mas
sachusetts, who was decidedly miffed
earlier in the week when he was
classed as an "isolationist" by Sena-
tor Truman of Missouri, the Demo-
cratic vice presidential candidate,
was not in evidence. He had boarded
the Presidents train at Worcester
this afternoon, and rode to Boston.
Applause punctuated the Presi-
dents remarks frequently, but the
biggest demonstration came when
he called for the biggest vote in
our American history Tuesday" and
set 50,00O,000 as the goal.
Another loud burst greeted his
assertion that I'VE want neither
communism nor monarchy in this