Evening star., 1944-09-26
Text Of Gov. Deweys Oklahoma City Speech
Coils RooseveIts Record Desperately Bod and B|omes
New Deal for Shocking Stote Of Defense Program
BY the Associated Press.

~ tAS AoSONleIGu EIGbS
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. rs.
--Follo1Ding is the tert OF Gou.
Thomas E. DeUey's speech de-.
huered in Municipal Auditorium
here last night:
For two and a half weeks I have
been laying before our people the
program I believe must be adopted
If we are to win at home the things
for which our American men are
fighting abroad. In six major
speeches I have set forth a part of
that program. There is much more
to come.
In doing this, have been deeply
conscious that this campaign is
being waged under the most diff
cult circumstances and at the most
trying time in our history as a
Nation. Our national unity for the
war and for the cause Of lasting
peace must be strengthened as
result of this campaign. I believe
the conduct of the campaign on
our side has greatly strengthened
that unity.
Claims Pledge Forgotten.
I had assumed that every Amer
ican joined me in hoping that
would be the spirit of this campaign.
Last July, Franklin Roosevelt, in
accepting his partye nomination
for a fourth term, said: Il shall not
campaign, in the usual sense =
In these days of tragic sorrow, I
do not consider it fitting ."
Last Saturday night, the man
who wants to be President for 16
years made his first speech OF this
campaign. Gone was his high
sounding pledge Forgotten were
these days of tragic sorrow. 1t was
speech of mud-slinging. ridicule
and wise cracks. 1t plumbed the
depths of demagogy by dragging
into this campaign the names of
Hitler and Goebbels; it descended
to quoting from "Mein Kampf" and
to reckless charges of fraud" and
"falsehood
Let me make one thing entirely
clear I shall not join my opponent
in his descent to mud-slinging
If he continues in his desire to do
so. he will be all alone.
viii Avoid Division.
| I shall not use the tactics of our
enemies by quoting from "Mein
Kampf" l will never divide Amer
ica. Those tactics l will also leave
to my opponent.
! I shall never make a speech to
one group of American people in
citing them to hatred and distrust
Of any other group. In other ma
tions the product Of such discord has
been communism or fascism. We
must never reap that harvest in
America.
The winning Of this war and the
achievement of a peoples peace are
too sacred to be cast of with friv-
olous language. I believe that
Americans whose loved ones are
dying on the battle fronts of the
world-men and women who are
praying daily for the return of their
boys-want the issues which vitality
affect our future discussed with the
utmost earnestness. This I shall
continue to do with full conscious
ness Of the solemn obligation placed
upon me by by nomination for
President Of the United States.
He Asked for It."
I NY opponent. however, has chosen
to wage his campaign on the record
of the past and has INDUCED in
charges Of fraud and falsehood. I
am compelled. therefore, to divert
this evening. long enough to keep
the record straight He has made
the charges. He has asked for it
Here it is
NV opponent describes as fan
tastic charge the statement that
his administration plans to keep
men in the Army when the war is
over because it fears there will be
no jobs for them in civil life. Well
who first brought that up?
Here is the statement by a high
official of the administration as re-
: poA tSN III liiC PuOAlSdOA Will VI tllc
United States Army, the Stars and
Stripes. He said:
I'VE can keep people in the Army
about as cheaply as We could create
an agency for them when they are
out"
No Plans for Speed.
| Now. who said that? 1t was the
national director of selective serv.
ice appointed by Mr.. Roosevelt and
still in office.
But. says Mr.. Roosevelt. the Wal
Department thereafter issued 6
plan for speedy discharges" You
can read that plan from now until
doomsday and you cannot find one
word about speedy discharges" 1t
is. in fact. statement of the prior
ity in which men will be discharged
after the war. 1t does not say
whether they are to be retained in
service a month or years after
victory. That will be up to the
next administration. The present
administration, with its record of
peacetime failure, is afraid to bring
quotations from the President him.
self, as follows:
From a message to Congress in
l935-"There Is no ground for ap-