The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-08-03
Franklin d. Roosevelt.

The question uppeImost in the minds of the Amer
lean people today is whether we can really have a free
election in the United States in November.
Millions of our citizens today are on the govern
ment payroll. We can expect them and their families
to help p%erpetuate the Roosevelt family in office. 1t is
anticipated that if the Republicans do go into office in
January that thousands Of bureaucrats will be out of jobs
because their offices will be abolished.
Politics is not supposed to enter into the war and
vice versa. Mr.. Roosevelt has said that because of the
war he would not make a real campaign in the usual sense
of the word. Yet he is using every device possible to pre-
sent himself to the American people as the "Commander-
in-Chief." Before the Democratic convention he came out
with the statement that he would continue like a good
soldier If the people, wanted him. In speaking to the con-
vention in Chicago he spoke from a naval base, thus pre-
senting the picture of himself as the commander-in-chief
of ALL the people on the home front as well as the
soldiers on the battle front.
There is a distinct difference between the two and
Just to keep the record straight we should remember that,
a nh. Roosevelt has forgotten. By virtue of his office
he is commander-in-chief of the armed forces. an honor
airy position held only because he is president. In the
event of his death or defeat the generals and admirals
would continue to run the war just as they are now do
ing. Theirs is the responsibility to see our fighting men
are trained and equipped. to decide the strategy and dis
position of our power, to fight the war, to win it. Regard.
less of who is president and thereby commander-in-chief
the war will continue to a victorious conclusion. We can
k-5 effort to make it appear we cannot win the war
without Mr.. Roosevelt is ridiculous. Would we lose the
war if Mr.. Roosevelt should die? Would we lose the peace
should he die?
After any administration has been in office twelve
years it has built up a terrific system of patronage;
rendered favors for which it expects continued support in
office. Most OF the people today, almost all OF them VINO
favor another term for Mr.. Roosevelt, do so because it
is to their personal advantage for him to stay in office
they are mostly officeholders or politicians or minority
groups expecting political patronage and favor.
By the time we add the millions of votes of the
service men and their families to the vote of the bureau
Gratis and politicians, we have a considerably large vote.
If Mr.. Roosevelt can sell the people of the L. S. on the
idea that it is unpatriotic to vote against the president
in war time then he is as good as elected the level of
of intelligence in this country, however, is a little high
for such to be the case.
Add the Clio, labor and Communist vote to the stock
pile and you will see that there are today so many groups,
minority groups for the most part, many of them ex-
tremely radical, who owe their existence to this admin
~istration, that you will realize the New Deal has in twelve
years built up such a machine that it is extremely doubt
full there can truly be a free election in November.
Even the Southern cotton farmer comes under the
group the New Deal has tried to purchase or keep paci-
fled by soil conservation payments, etc.
1t is seriously doubted there can be a free election this
fall. Too many persons are eating out of the public
trough and too many like political power; there's too
much money in the labor union treasures to be spent for
FDR and too much money otherwise.
Given four more years in office the New Deal will
not be blasted out of Washington until the revolution.