Evening star., 1944-06-27
BY the Associated Press.

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CHICAGO, June 27.-The tert
OF the speech BY House Minority
Leader Martin. permanent chair
man OF the Republican National
Contention. tollo,Ds:.
deeply appreciate the great hon.
or you have bestowed on me by
making me the permanent chair
man of the 1914 National Conven-
ton of the Republican party.
This convention meets in a solemn
moment of our history. AS we gather
here our sons are locked in a dead
ly struggle not merely to crush a
cruel foe. but to determine whether
or not the ideals upon which our
free society is founded may have a
decent world in which to continue
its growth and progress.
Never for moment do we doubt
the issue OF this world battle Seek
ing no territory to exploit, with no
ambition to impose our will upon
other peoples, giving the strength
and the blood Of our brave men and
the heroic women who march beside
them, pouring out our treasure in
such a food as the world has never
known, we ask only that other men
may have the right to live in a
world where they may enjoy the
blessing of that independence which,
through the favor of Almighty God,
we have been permitted to have in
such abundance.
Can Be But One Issue.
To such struggle there can be
but one issue. And in a sense this
convention is not just a meeting of
the members of political party.
1t is a meeting of Americans who
have a job to do which is only a
part of that larger job for which
our boys are dying upon so many
remote battlefields and in so many
distant seas. Here, therefore, in all
humility, knowing our limitations,
let us offer up in our hearts a
prayer for our soldiers and for our
selves to that all-wise Providence,
who, as Lincoln said, can go with
them, yet remain with us and be
everywhere for good" Let us i'm
plore Him to speed the day of victory
so that they may come home to their
mothers and wives and sisters and
their young sweethearts and into
our hearts, where they will be en-
Shrined forever for the selfess sac
riflces they have made.
We will owe these men and women
duty far greater than merely car
ing for their individual wants when
they return. When they went out
from these shores they left behind
them a form of society dedicated to
certain great principles of human
freedom and conduct, a society in
which every man would have the
chance to make his way, to speak
his mind and make his own de-
cisionS.
Must Restore Constitution,
They left a Constitution-some-
what battered, perhaps-and those
traditions of freedom seriously i'm
paired. But we owe it to them that
when they return that Constitution
and the heritage of individual free
dom which it guarantees shall be
restored in all its vigor. I hear it
said frequently by our bureaucratic
mentors in Washington that we will
never 60 back to the old ways. What
old ways are they talking about?
We are here to tell them that we
shall, as we have always done, for
ever 60 forward on all those roads
which may lead to a better, safer
and happier life. But there are
certain roads we have travelled
which we have found to be good.
The way of the American Constitu-
tfon is one of them. And when.
the Republican party comes again
into control of the Government the
first thing 1t will do will be to 60
back to the Constitution.
We are in more than one war.
In one Of those wars our sons and
daughters fight against German
and Jap. But there Is another war
here at home. 1t is a war between
two eternally hostile ideologies. One
idea is that of the free society
the society Of free men creating
their wealth with the Instrumental
tiles of free enterprise under the
protection of representative re-
public. The other Is the concep-
ton of the regimented and planned
society, living upon vast streams of
Government debt and taking it's
shape and destiny from the direc-
tives Of bureaucratic elite under
the command of a self-inspired
leader
Europe Calls 1t Fascism.
You may call that anything you
wish. In Europe they call it
Fascism. Here we call it the New
Deal. And in this war here at
home let there be no question
where the Republican party stands.
We are for the American system
of Government. We are for our
way We stand for our ideal of
the free society-free enterprise and
free republic We are Tor Gov
ernment under the Constitution by
constitutional President and a
Congress acting in the open under
law and not by Government in
secret and without law by an army
OF irresponsible bureaucrats under
a permanent leader.
We will win this internal struggle
because the people of America will
not tolerate winning the military
conflict and then losing at home the
precious ideals for which we went to
war.
The gravity Of conditions both at
home and abroad places heavy re-
sponsibility upon the delegates to
this convention. We will nominate
a man who will lead us in CO.
operating with other nations to get
the world back to sound, pros
porous peacetime basis. We will
name a man who will restore to the
American people their Government
and to all the opportunities for i'm
provement in life which have all
but vanished in the last II years.
Platform Must Be Strong.
/ In addition to the selection of
capable men for President and Vice