The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-26
COP NOMINEE
BLASTS AWAY
AT PRESIDENT
Quotes Senate In Effort
To Discredit Regime
On Prewar Defense

25-E-Assailing President
Roosevelt's record in office as
ID e spera tie | y bad," Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey tonight hit
back sharply at his oppon-
ent's opening campaign
speech with this statement:
He jokes ABOUT depressions-
about the seven straight years Of
unemployment of his administra-
ton. But he cannot laugh away the
record"
The Republican nominee, patent
ly aroused by Mr.. Roosevelt's Sat-
urday night assertion that the COP
campaign has been marked by
fraud and "falsehood," quoted
from Senate records in an attempt
to show the White House was res
ponsible for the shocking state OF
our defense program four months
before Pearl Harbor." But, he said:
I shall never make a speech to
one group OF American people in
citing them to hatred and distrust
of any other group"
Shouting che has asked for it
here it is" Dewey then re-qouted
Selective Service Director Lewis B.
Hershey as saying 1--WE can keep
people in the army about as cheap
ly as we could create an agency
for them when they are out"
"But, says Mr.. Roosevelt, the
War department thereafter issued
a plan for speedy discharges" 30
Dewey said. You can read that
plan from now until doomsday and
you cannot find one word about
speedy discharges
''It is, in fact statement Of the
priority in which men will be dis
charged after the war. 1t does not
say whether they are to be retain
ed in service month or years
after victory. That will be up to
the next administration"
Declaring Mr.. Roosevelt tried to
laugh off the problem of jobs after
the war, Dewey said:
Let's get this straight. The man
who wants to be president for 16
years is indeed indispensable. He
is indispensable to Harry Hopkins,
to Madame Perkins, to Harold
Ickes, to a host of other politica
job holders.
He is indispensable to Sidney
Hillman and the political action
committee, to Earl Browder, the
ex-convict and pardoned communist
leader"
cas- leading enemy of Civil Liber-
HE is indispensable to Ameri-
ties-the mayor of Jersey City. He
is indispensable to those infamous
machines in Chicago-in the Bronx
and all the others.
This was in reply to Mr.. Roose-
velt's statement, in his opening
campaign speech for fourth term
Saturday night, that it was ina
licious falsehood" to say he ever
had represented himself to be in
dispensable to the nation.
Dewey then declared:
"Let us look at the closely SUI
pervised words of the hand-picked
candidate for vice president. He
said of my opponent: The very
future of the peae> and prosperity
of the world depends upon his
reelection in November l hav
not heard Mr.. Truman repudiated
by Mr.. Roosevelt as yet"
He referred to Senator Harry S.
Truman of Missouri, Mr.. Roose-
velt's vice presidential running
mate.
Here are the words of Boss
Kelly of the Chicago machine" "
Dewey went on, the manager OF
that fake third term draft of 1910:
The salvation of this nation rests
in one man. v that statement
ever repudiated by Mr.. Roosevelt?
No. it was reward ID by increased
White House favors. -.
"And was it falsehood that one
of the first acts of Mr.. Roosevelt S
newly selected national chairman
was for a fourth term and-that he
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