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Mack’ erms F.D.R. Foe ol Privilege

By United Press

PHILADELPHIA, June 26.—The | text of the speech of Judge John E. |

| Mack of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. nominating President Roosevelt for re- |

election follows:

“Mr. Chairman and Delegates to | National Conven- |

the Democratic tion:

our country as a whole.

an earnest, effort, man

under the

whose courage ‘was

and instability.

“We now meet after three vears We' meet to account for our stewardship, and to give to the people the man best calculat- | ed to: succeed in carrying out and | SO | quickly begun and so successfully

of such effort.

continuing the rehabilitation

carried out since 933-~

“I'am here to Aominate such a | €Very important Probably because 1 have such | Mitted by him was ultimately ap- | an intimate knowledge of this man Proved and put into legislative form.

man.

home at Hyde Park: he managed | the farm. happy with his trees and his fields. Years .age he started | sot conservation on the rough por- { tions of his own farm by the plant- | ing of evergreens. It was one of | the earliest examples of the proper use of land. He rhaintained the { same friendly contact with his neighbors and with the people of his own home county, alive to their ‘personal problems and to general { local business affairs, content in the

friends. “Happy in the knowledge that he |

| was pulling his own weight in the | boat, in 1928 he came back to public

{life in New York state, not because | [th

{of any political ambition of his |

| friendship of his Dutchess County |

workable suggestions for relief. It is true that some aid was extended to certain favorite banks and institutions, but the chief wail we heard wes ‘that prosperity was just arounid the corner.’ The people had lost confidence. Six thousand banks had failed, bankruptcy was rampant throughout the land. | “The country, led by the Democratic Party, turned to this young Galahad for relief, for aid and for help.

RECOVERY REVIEWED

“As a result, on March 4, 1933, ere came to the city of Washington, as the chief executive of the

| own, but solely in answer to the call | ynited States, a man with this

i of friendship.

RECORD AS GOVERNOR

| “He came to 1932 with a background of four successful years as |!

Governor of the Empire state. De- |

| Spite an opposition majority in the | "legislative body, his every nomination had been confirmed, and nearly proposition sub-

| and his early history, I have been | In his own state, as Governor, he

selected for the honor of present- | Came to be known as.the cham-

inz him to vou.

. BOYHOOD RECALLED

“We were raised as boys in adbut with different My horizon was the HudI was As a Demo- © cratic office holder, I presented his our candidate for state I believe I knew

Joining towns, © horizons. son Valley—his the universe. : his ‘senior in years.

< name as . Senator in 1910. . him better than most of his con2 stituents. I told “ young man was ready to carry out

=. the heritage of his birth, to give his

time and his life for the benefit

of his state and his country. His

district was almost ‘hopelessly Re- * publican. ‘With his usual perserverance and courage he stumped it in company with Dick Connell, a much , older man, the Democratic candi- ‘ date for Congress. Dick had been + the perennial Democratic candidate , in &his wholly Republican district. : Whenever he came to a little old © red country schoolhouse, he went, in +, and made a speech on patriotism to the pupils and teacher. The con-

' gressmen and Senator were both

swept into office.

“From the beginning our rominee, although coming from a distin- | guished family, fought the fight of | the common people, and against the |

’ domination of the railroads. + at their height of their power. opposed the efforts through a.pericd ‘of depression and farm foreclosures. He opposed the efforts of the Chambers of Commerce in his dis-

then

trict to freeze out industries which paid their employes a living wage. |

He .opposed the blacklist, secretly

managed by manufacturers’ associa-

tions.

THE ALBANY DAYS

“When this young man arrived in |

+ Albany, he found that a leader cf his own party was’'about to send to Washington as United States Senator a man definitely tied up with powerful and selfish traction in- " terests. He immediately took up the ' fight against this betrayal of the " peeple’s trust. He continued it with such determination and unflinch- * ing courage that the nomination “ was blocked and there was selected as United States Senator a lawyer + and judge of unquestioned probity

them that this

| pion of the liberties of the plain | people. : | “In 1932, not only the Demécratic | Party, but the entire country were on the lookout for a man of broad vision, one conscious that the prosperity of the United States depended

people, and not of any special class. It had at last become apparent that the great banking and financial and | business interests had through mismanagement, lack of foresight and lack of prudence brought their temple down upon their own heads. “When the crash came, neither the bankers, nor big business, nor the Administration which had given

| splendid background and thorough | training, filled with relentless de- | termination to rejuvenate is na- | tion, to break down special priv..ege and to place this country on a per- { manently sound and stable footing. | He surrounded himself in his Cabinet with the most able and prog-

| ressive representatives in the Union. | He did not wait for prosperity to

upon -the well-being of the entire |

them aid and comfort had any

come around the corner. He knew

that the best defense to depression’

was an attack. “He saw that unless something was done at, once starvation would soon face the United States. With the aid of his splendid Cabinet, with the aid of a Democratic Congress and with the aid of the forwardlooking, country-loving and farseeing Progressives and Republicans, he proceeded to place this country on its feet. “We have blazed a path to prosperity and security. Our faces are toward progress. We shall not turn back in.this conflict between greed and humanity. be “Our friendly enemies—friendly until the - approaching election— cheerful until the approaching election, suddenly discover that the nation is going to the dogs. “Whence come these cries? Not from the farm owner and home

‘duced foreign countries unneces-

| Jer whose Properties have been saved from foreclosure.

CLAIMS MILLIONS AIDED

“Not from the million and a half boys who have obtained employment in the CCC camps.

“Not from the millions who have received employment through the instrumentality of the relief and public works agencies.

“Not from the suffering, farmers whose purchasing power is being restored. “Not from the citizens of that vast section of the country where lives and property are being preserved by flood control.

“Not from the millions now receiving electrical energy at a fair

TVA, the Federal Power Authority

government. “Not from the millions whose future is assured by the Social Security Act. “Not from the millions of depositors whose savings in banks are .guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. “Not from the small merchants and storekeepers. “Not from those having investments providing moderate living incomes. “Not from the millions of workers for whose benefit we have en- | deavored to insure a living wage. “From where then arise the cries | of anger and the vicious attacks?" |

| i

RAPS FINANCIAL INTERESTS

“From those who tremsetees brought about the great depression. From the great financial interests! whose high-powered salesmen in- |

sarily to plunge themselves into debt and unload their bonds on trusting

rate because of the efforts of the;

and other instrumentalities of the |

| depression ever known.

American investors—bonds many of which are now in default and practically worthless.

“From the same great financial interests that pyramided company upon company for the purpose of rocking ‘the investing public by watered stock and cheating the consuming public by inflated rates. “All of these great financial and business interests at the outset led in the acclaim for the courage of our leader and his splendid attempts to afford relief. Why this ungratefulness now? Why these Lothplaints? 4

SWer. have seen the handwriting on the !wall. They know that under this Administration the power and influence over government which their

They know, from the new. laws supervising. holding companies, regulating of the sale of securities, from the Social Security Act, and from the new tax laws, along with a score of other measures, that the control of legislation has passed from their hands to the people themselves. “The issue is now whether the people are going to retain that control of t rocesses of government or whether they are going to turn them back to this same small group ‘whose. destructive abuse of their former power was responsible for all our troubles.

Pr]

READY FOR ISSUE

“We are ready for the issue. We have ended starvation, bread lines,

“Every American knows the an-| These classes of privilege |

wealth had given them is now gone. |S

take responsibility. He fears , those who are dissatisfied, nor a criticism. Sue as of the people of States are well aware By sy res! 1 dition in 1933, and of our condition in ‘1936. “With our decks cleared for bat-

inspired leadership of that great American whose name I give you as your candidate for President. no longer a citizen merely of one state. but a son of all the 48 states, Frahikiin D. Roosevelt.

Mexican Deputy Is Slain By United Press

BROWN COUNTY DISCREPANCIES ARE REPORTED

Treasurer, Former Auditor,

MEXICO CITY, June 26.—Manlio | Fabio Altamirano, radical deputy,

sailant as he sat dining in a cafe early today. The assassin escaped

ing his gun. -

soup kitchens, and have brought this country through the greatest

“With increasing national income and increasing national prosperity, | we are moving forward! The credit for all this improvement is due to

our leader, his splendid cabinet and |

the splendid Congress which - ‘backed him to the last ditch. He is willing

. and integrity. - “The triumphant re-election of “ our nominee in ‘1912 was proof of “the confidence the people of his district had in him, and a recogni- : tion of his leadership in the state | » Senate. It was also a demonstra- | - tion of the fact that he represented not any particular interest, but the entire people. “His service in the New York Legislature directed the attention of the nation to this young man. He was invited to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy by Presi- . dent Woodrow Wilson, a Dost formerly filled by his illustrious . cousin. Here again «were shown his “determination and ability to get at the bottom of things. He familiarized himself with every, detail of Navy. He covered and becaine familiar with the needs of every part of the country, and took an active part in the World War both -here and in Europe. “At San Francisco in 1920 his! party recognized his fighting ability by nominating this young manfor the office of Vice President.

~His brave fight and Ius noteworthy

‘loyalty to his chief are history now. ‘Outstanding above all in that campaign was his sportsmanship in defeat. ‘He could take it.’

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