Evening star., 1944-02-13
Dewey Warns
'0f Chaos Threat
In Fourth Term
Severely Criticizes
New Deal in Talk
At Lincoln Dinner
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BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey declared to-
night that there were "few
thinking Americans who wish to
risk the peacetime chaos of con-
tinued New Deal government"
Gov. Dewey, who has said he will
not be candidate for the Republi-
can presidential nomination but
who has never closed the door to
possible draft from the conven-
ton, addressed the 58th annual
Lincoln Day dinner of the National
Republican Club.
In his first appearance before a
strictly political organization since
the last November State election
campaign, Gov. Dewey delivered one
OF his severest criticisms of the ma
tional administration since he be-
came Governor in l943.
Martin Speaks in Wheeling.
1n Wheeling, w. Va, House
Minority Leader Martin told a
Lincoln Day dinner that Presi-
dent Roosevelt had possessed
absolute domination" of the Ma
ton for II years and showed no
signs of relinquishing it. The
Presidents three terms, Mr.. Mar
tin said, has created "a ruthless,
arrogant, poWer-lustful bureau
cracy" which is fastening its
clutches upon the people"
(1n one of the few speeches by
Democrats. Vice President Wal
lace said in Lincoln day ad-
dress at Springfield, H., that
America must never return to
the dark cellars of unemploy-
ment and doles.')
Other addresses at the New York
dinner, including that of Gov. WAL
ter E. Edge of New Jersey, were
broadcast over local station WQXR,
but Gov. Dewey's was not at his re-
quest, the club said. Associates Of
the Governor said the request was
without political significance.
Says People Turn to COP.
Gov. Dewey declared that on
March 4, 1888, "the first attempt to
establish an American autocracy
took place as the result of the cleo
ton of what used to be known as
the Democratic party" but he said
the people were finding now that
the Republican party alone could
preserve their constitutional system
of freedom"
Within the next year or two We
snail braVely win the greatest of all
wars for individual freedom or we
shall tragically lose it." he said.
There is no American who has
the slightest doubt that we shall
win 1t and that we should win
before too long. BY the same token
there are few thinking Americans
who wish to risk the peacetime
chaos of continued New Deal gov
ernment. And there are few Amer
leans who do not fear what that
government might fail to do in the
building of just and lasting
peace
At the outset of his address, Gov.
Dewey spoke of Lincoln as a man
who would have been the last to
call himself indispensable and said
that "he saw one thing as funda-
mental-the preservation of our
constitutional system
Constitutional System "Menaced."
In the past decade. We have
fallen upon times which carried a
menace to our constitutional system
as grave as that of Lincoln's day."
Gov. Dewey said. The menace
Lincoln faced was violent: ours
was subtle. But one, as much as
the other, carried a mortal threat.
He faced secession by the States.
In our time, we have seen abdica-
ton by the States
Gov. Dewey said that when the
national administration came into
Office it asked and was given al
most absolute powers" and that the
ma jority of the 40 democratic gov
ernors were willing to become pro-
vincial satraps under the rule Of
Washington
The amazing thing about the
American people is that even be-
fore the war they, themselves.
sensed that the abandonment of
local government was surrender to
autocracy," he said, even before
(See DEWEY, Page A-4)
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