Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1936 — Page 20

Text of Al Smith’

Talk

(Continued from Page 18)

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You" have f{o ts eo You have fo be in error; you have to make mistakes, Now we go back to the platform and we will get away from the bil_Mon for a little while. In Philadelphia, about two weeks 8go, I exhausted the subject of the sgricultyral program. I showed that present New Deal Administration did the directly opposite thing to what was promised in the platform with respect to agriculture, And I read in the paper that the Senate leader from Arkansas was going to speak in Philadelphia and * I naturally thought that when Joe Robinson hit Philadelphia he would get up and say to the audience, #Well, Al is wrong. Here is what we did. Here is how we-carried out this platform plan. Here is how we redeemed this particular pledge. Al is mistaken.” I would have liked it it Joe could have shown me I was wrong, I am with Joe. No trouble for me. If I make a mistake, it is a very easy thing for res just to turn around and go the other way and say,- “All right, Joe, you win.” 1I have often said that and it never hurt me, But Joe didn’t say it. Joe didn’t say anything at all about it. But I will tell you what he did say. He said, “Al is walking in the dark.” There is an argument for you. And I replied to him: “No, Joe, no. 1 am not walking in the dark. I have in front of me the light of the 1932 platform, and I have streaming down upon me the floodlight of the Constitution ‘of the United States.”

“YOU'RE WRONG, JOE”

No, Joe, it is you and the New Deal Party that are walking in the dark. Not only are you wal in the dark but you are up an alleyway with a blind end. And for fear that ‘they don’t know what kind of & thing that is in Arkansas, let me Say that you never can get out of it unless you retrace your steps.

Now at Philadelphia I only had time to start that plank of the Democratic platform that promised the reorganization of the Federal governnient, the merging of bureaus, Ine aoay with dupiioation of Sof ing away d o That was an impertant plank in the Democratic platform and it was a plank that promised to reduce the cost of government by at least 25 per cent. And the candidate stand. ing in the city of Chicago said: accept that 100 per cent.” Well, what happened? At Pitts. burgh the President said during the campaign, “Taxes are paid in the sweat of the men that labor.” Right. But in 1936 he said, “The remedy was not to decrease taxes, but to rely upon the increased income.” Now in his acceptance speech before the convention here in Chicago, he laid particular stress upen this plank of the platform PTE for a reorganization of the Federal government. Congress started off pretty good. It gave to the President by the ‘Economy Act of 1933 the power to consolidate all of these departments to merge them, fo get rid of departments that we used to have. Using his own language, to economize by getting rid of luxuries. He referred to some of the departments of government as a juxury and that the government itself should follow the example of the citizen, and in times of stress, get rid of luxuries. Congress in the Economy. Act of 1933 eonferred that power upon the President, and the only limit

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