Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-08

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Following is the prepared text
OF Gov. Thomas e. Dewey's adj
dress here tonight:
Even as this terrible war
moves toward our inevitable VIC
Tory, we are preparing to decide
the whole future OF our country
at the polls. If every American
who believes in freedom for his
country will register and vote,
free America will win an over
whelming victory here at home
on November Z.
That victory at the polls will
mean an end to q very. very tired
administration in Washington.
1t will mean the beginning Of a
new, a competent and an honest
Government in Washington.
This victory at the polls will
also serve to speed the defeat of
Germany and Japan because it
will bring an. end to bungling,
fumbling and Incompetence in
Washington.
Hands on War Leadership.
! have already made it clear
that a change of administration
will mean no change in the mill
tary leadership of the war. It
should be equally clear that with
change in administration the
work of international organiza-
ton for peace will proceed with
only increased competence and
zeal,
have taken unprecedented
steps to put that work upon a
nonpartisan basis. I intend to
see that 1t remains a nonparti-
san effort with the help of the
ablest Americans of both parties
in command.
Beyond victory, what kind of
a country will our American men
and women come home to? This
election will decide that question.
We have a fateful decision to
make but that decision must be
made not on vague and irrespon-
sible political discussion, which
has to be retracted the day after
1t is made on the radio. On
Thursday night of this week my
opponent repeated his charge
that there are politicians and
others who quite openly worked
to restrict the use of the ballot
in this election"
Should name Names"
Now do not know who Mr..
Roosevelt means because he
seems to lack the courage to
name names and say what he
means. So let's look at the facts.
He sadly complained that not
enough people vote. But he
pointed with pride to the fact
that, in 1910, 62h per cent of the
eligible voters of this Nation went
to the polls. Well, in the State
of New York not 621a per cent,
but II per cent of the eligible
soldiers and sailors of our State
have had ballots mailed to them
already.
Despite my opponents attempt
to play politics with the soldier
vote, every evidence indicates
that as a Nation we will have an
even larger percentage of soldier
votes than we will Of civilians.
Let's have no more of this polit-
zeal pretence on matter of i'm
portance- to us all. Now we know
where the truth is.
Raps Browder Support.
And let me point out my OPP
ponent is relying for his main
support upon a solid block of
votes in States where millions of
American citizens are deprived
of their right to vote by the poll
tax and by intimidation. Not
once in IL years has my opponent
lifted a finger to correct this and
his platform is cynically silent
on the subject.
In his speech of Thursday
night my opponent softly denies
that he welcomes "the support of
any person or group committed to
communism or fascism. Now
that is news. But doesn't this
soft declaimer come a trif1e late?
Only last week in Madison
Square Garden Earl Browder,
the head of the Communist Party
in America, proclaimed to $4,000
cheering adherents that the cleo
ton of my opponent was essen
tial to his aims.
This is the same Earl Browder,
now such a patriot, who was con-
victed as a draft dodger in the
last war, convicted again as a
perjurer and pardoned by
Franklin Roosevelt in time to
organize the campaign for his
fourth term. The soft disclaimer
does come a little late.
Cites Berle Statement.
Now, why is my opponents
election so essential to the aims
of the Communists? The answer
is right in the record of this
administration. The aims of the
New Dealers were stated on May
%, 1889, by Adolph Berle in a
carefully written memorandum
submitted to the Temporary Ma
tional Economic Committee, an
official agency set up to decide
upon our future for us. There
he said: "Over a period of years
the Government will gradually
come to own most of the pro-
ductive plants in the United
States"
Now, who is this Adolph Berle?
He is one of the original brain
trusters and today he holds the
Office of Assistant Secretary of
State of the United States.
What does he mean by the
Government owning most Of the
productive plants in the United
States" That means, of course,
a system where Government
would tell each of us where we
could work, at what, and for how
much.
s Now, I do not know whether my
opponent calls that system Com
nunism or National Socialism or
Fascism. He can take it any
way he likes it. It's his program,
not mine. But do know 1t is not
an American system and it's not
a free system.
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