The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-09-28
DEWEY SPEECH
in OKLAHOMA
HIGHLY FAVORED
Answers Presidents Speech,
Charging Fraud" and False
hood" In Monday Night
Address

posing this question to a frantically
cheering crowd of Oklahomans and
Texans:
Shall we continue an administra-
ton which invokes the language of
our enemies and recklessly hurls
charges of falschood concerning
things it knows to be the truth ?"
Aroused to fighting pitch by Mr..
Roosevelt's Saturday night speech ac-
cusing Republican orators of falsi-
flying campaign issues, the former
New York district attorney told an
overflow crowd of close to 10000 the
rest of the nation that
"Thc time has come to put stop to
everything that is summed up in that
phrase, the indispensable man"
Receives Great Ovation
When the Republican nominee him
self appeared the audience jumped to
its feet. waving flags and cheering
for full two minutes.
Dewey drew cheer after cheer as
he assailed his opponents record in
office as desperately bad" and de-
clared
"Hc Jokes about Impressions about
the seven straight years of uncmploy-
mcnt of his administration. But he
cannot laugh away the record"
Dewey quoted from Senate records
in an attempt to show the White
House was responsible for the "shock
ing state of our defense program "
four months before Pearl Harbor.
Amid shouts from the gallery to
pour it on, Dewey said:
Il shall not join my opponent in his
descent to mud-slinging. !
shall never make speech to one
group of American people melting
them to hatred and dlStrust Of any
other group
Shouting che had asked for it
here 1T u.s. Dewey then re-quoted
SeiectlVo Service Director Lewis b.
Hershey as saying eve can keep pco-
pie IN the army about as chcaply as
we could create an agency for them
when they are out.
statement OF Priority"
But, says Mr.. Roosevelt, the war
department thereafter issued plan
for speedy discharges. Dewey said
"lou can read that plan from now
until doomsday and YOU cannot find
one word about speedy discharges,
ut is IN fact statement OF the
priority IN which mon will be dis
charged after the war. II does not say
whether they are to be retained in
service month or years after vic
tory. That will be up to the next adj
ministration.
Declaring Mr.. Roosevelt tried to
laugh off the problem of jobs after
the war; Dewey said;
Lets get this straight. The man
who wants to be president for sin
teen years is indeed Indispensable. He
is Indispensable to Harry Hopkins, to
Madame Perkins, to Harold lckes, to
a host of other political job holders,
"He is indispensable to Americas
leading enemy to civil libcrties-the
mayor Of Jersey City. He is indispen-
sable to those infamous machines in
Chlcago-in the BronX-and all the
others
He is Indispensable to Sidney Hill
man and the Political Action COM
mlttee, to Earl Browdor, the eX-con-
Wet and pardoned Communist leader"
Refers to Truman
This was in reply TO Mr.. RooScvclt's
statement, in his opening campaign
speech for a fourth term Saturday
night, that it was "malicious false
hood, to say he ever had represented
himself to he indispensable to the
nation"
Dewey then declared;
LET US look at the closely super
vlsed words Of the hand-picked candi-