Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1936 — Page 13
Text of Smith's Address at Coalition Meeting
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it is the New Deal, and that kind of |
an Administration can not be democratic. Well, let's go back a little bit. It is 33 years ago this month since J was first nominated for public office. Since that time I ran for public office 21 times and I was elected 19. My name was before the convention at San Francisco as far back as 1920 as a candidate for the nomination for the presidency. I was put in nomination by Congressman Cochran from New York, and in that convention J seconded the nomination of Franklin D, Roosevelt for Vice President. Down {in old Madison Square Garden for about two and a half . weeks, we battled over the nomination. In 1928, finally, in Houston in the state of Texas, I was nonrinated
and 1 traveled 38,000 miles through!
this country spreading the gospel of Democracy, and I can say without ego that I ‘planted the seed that brought the eventual victory of 1932.
It occurs to me—and I think it
would occur to you—that with all of i'w
that experience I should know who the Democratic leaders are. I should know who the men are that gave of . their time and their service to the party. But I am compelled to say, who is Ickes, who is Wallace, who is Hopkins, and in the name of all that is good and holy, who is Tugwell, and where did he blow from? I could mention dozens of others, but these are keymen. These are the men who sit around the table for the fixation of national policy, and I don’t think one of them ever read the Democratic platform. Why, I don’t have to tell it to you. You know it as well as I do. When this Administration came into power on
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the 4th of March, 1933, the whole country was with them. The President of the United States was the Count of Monte Cristo. He was sitting pretty on top of the earth and the world belonged to him. He could have commandeered the best brains in the country. No man put any more service under him than they could refuse to Wilson during the period of the war. No man was ever given greater power by Congress, and lock af what we got. Why, I think our friend ought fo get the good neighbor treatment, | We ought to say good night.
| NEW PARTY, CLAIM
Well now, I just happened to pick up the paper yeseterday and here is where I got that thought from. Here is what the president of Dartmouth College said about it: : “In place of leaders of balanced judgment and capacity for discriminating counsel, the New Deal has elevated to many of its foremost positions of authority and influence in this time of crisis men of no better than second rate qualification and with little experience in dealing with affairs of any magnitude.” Well what is the reason for that? re is a reason for everything. e come back to what I said a few
oo ago; that is not a Demo-
cratic Administration. It is never referred to as such by its own people. It is called a New Deal. You don’t hear of Demecratic policies, you hear of Roosevelt policies. Why I don’t have to remind the people that live in New York that in 1933 the: New. Deal’ Party put its own ticket. in the field in this city against the regular ticket of the Democratic organization.
And does the New Deal always support Democrats in primary and general elections? Not at all. What about Nebraska? What about Minnesota? And what about Wisconsin, where men of
the eppc:ite I slitical faith, because they call themselves Progressives Ina put the stamp of approval apon the New Deal, receive the stren: th and the power of the so-called Democratic Administration? Why, even a Communist with wire whiskers and a torch in lis hands is welcome, so long as he sijns on the dotted line, ‘ While we are :t that, what about the Mayor of New York? Good neighbor now. What about the i Ho is 5 New Dealer. He spends a large part of his time in + | Washington ang recently he went out West sorne place to meet up ‘with the Progressives that are going to stand behind the New Deal. ds La Guardia a Democrat? If he is, then I am a Chinaman with a hair cut. Ask yours¢if this question: Is the New Deal right and is everybody else in the United States wrong?
PAPERS’ POLICIES CITED
How about the Democratic newspapers? The Lord knows there are not many of them in the United States north of the Mason and Dixon line, but within the last two weeks four of thé most prominent Democratic newipapers that stood behind the Democratic Party in season and out of season, victory or defeat, have cdeciared in their columns that they have gone as far as it is possible for them to go with the New Deal Administration.
‘What about the Democratic Senators? ‘ There are “gbout seven or eight of them down in Washington that on the floor of the Senate saia more caustic and more bitter things about the New Deal than I have so far said tonight or that I even intend to say. Let's have just one of them, United Siates Senator Glass of Virginia. Here is what he says: “The New Deal taken all in all is not only a mistike, it is a disgrace
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to the nation and the time is not far distant when we shall be ashamed of having wandered so far from he dictates of SOmmMOL sense and common honesty. . If it weren't for so many people whe depend upon me, and by that I ‘do not mean my family, I would rather have died then lived fo see the disgrace of this era.” You can’t beat that. That was published as an interview in ‘the Washington Post and never denied by the Senator. I regard Senator Glass as one of the leading Democrats of this country.
‘LIKED PEEK ARTICLE
1 owe him a very personal debt of gratitude because he battled for me in 1928 in the state of Virginia against a hopeless proposition. Senator Bailey, Senator Ashurst and our own Senator, Senator Copeland of New York, have all, in their time said harsher and more cruel things about the New Deal Party than I did. What about all the men who started out with the New Deal and couldn’t last any longer? There is a long list of them that would take me a long while, beginning with Peek, and you read Peek’s story in the
Saturday Evening Post and you have |
something worth while spending an afternoon reading. Read what Jim Warburg said and he was a trusted financial adviser and was a delegate from this country to the monstary conference in London; and, above all things, be sure to read what Douglas said, who was the dirsctor of the budget. Well, we are coming near the end of the radio, time. Let me just say this: * If the Administration in Washington, no matter what it desires to call itself, had lived up to that Democratic platform that was adopted in Chicago in 1932, and if it had remained true to the principles of Jefferson that have kept the Democratic Party alive in this country
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“FAILURE, DREAR FAILURE"
Here we are up to our nécks in debt; 22,000,000 people getting government relief. Millions out of employment; the farm problem unsolved. After all the power and ail the money spent, we find ourselves where? On the dead-end street | called failure, dismal, dull, dark, drear failure. Newton Baker, the Secretary of War in the Cabinet of Wilson, recently delivered a speech before the American Legion and he said in his speech that the proudest boast of the ancient world was “I am a Roman citizen.”. Well, you remember the recitation, “Rome, thou hast been a tender friend to me. Rome that sat upon her seven- hills and
from off her throne of beauty, she
ruled the world. In my time to be 2 Roman was greater than to be a King.” In this troubled world today, let it be our proud boast, “I am an American citizen. America, you have been a tender friend to me, you have b ht gifts of opportunity to me, and to be an American is greater than to be a king.” And I am an American before I am a Democrat, before I am a Republican, or before I am anything.
I have never in my long public ||
career ducked, dodged, or pussyfooted. I have never found fault with anything unless I was prepared to suggest a remedy, and while I may differ on matters of traditional party policy, I regard these things in the crisis of today as merely my cwn. I am satisfied as to the basic and fundamental needs of this country, sound and trustworthy, and
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RILEY CELEBRATION
School children are to take an important part in the traditional observance of the birthday anniversary of James Whitcomb Riley
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in Lockerbie-st Wednesday morning, Hugh McK. Landon, Riley Memorial Association chairman, said today. ; Pupils are to march from Clem‘ens Vonnegut School to the Riley home and shrine and recite Riley poems and present sketches of his boyhood. Technical High School boys’. glee club will sing. A teachers’ committee arranging the pupil participation includes Miss - Lulu ‘Hoss, Miss Gretchen ‘Stark, Mrs. Ethel Pollard and Miss Edna Mahoney.
CHARGE | MAN TRIED TO SNATCH PURSE
Two bystanders, who said they saw him attempt to snatch a woman’s purse last night, pursued John Warfield, 23 of 430 N. West-st, and held him for police. Mrs, Agnes Welker, 2822 Adams-st, identified Warrield as the man who
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