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WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (U.

Roosevelt's Jackson Day dinner message Saturday fol-

lows: ; Last night I was thinking about this gathering, about our Democratic party, and what we ought to do to help it. I decided to go right to headquarters. So I put in a radio call for Gen. Andrew Jack-

son. : “Young fellow,” he said to me, “I

“General,” said I, “you see it’s about the Democratic party. I'm very fond of it myself, but the Republicans are saying it’s rotting away like a pollywog’s tail, and some of our fellows are worried. Is there anything we ought to do?” “Son,” replied the General, “my eyes are getting old and I'm some distance away, but from what I can see from here the only trouble with your fellows is that they've been feeding too: well and they scare easily. ; “Young fellow, do you realize that if you live qui the term you now. have, you’ll be the only President of any party who’s had two full terms with a majority of his own party .in both the House and the Senate all the time, since—why, son, since James Monro nd he left the White House nearly 114 years ago! A “Woodrow Wilson didn’t have majorities as safe as you have now when he first came into office. “And, as for me, son, my Demo-

we didn’t have a majority in the Senate and had few votes to spare

day get scared and let the other fellows tell you you've lost an election just because you don’t have

to sleep without serniries.”

‘LET'S BE EFALISTIC’

I am passing on the advice of Old Hickory.

But despite the General’s optimism, I think this is a good time for the Democratic Party to “examine its conscience,” to think over most seriously what we have done that we should not have done, what we have left undone that we should

Let us start by being realistic.

From 1920 on, the Republican Party fed too well and got fat and lazy. It gave the American people “do-nothing” Government for which they suffered through the terrible days. That was one reason why in 1932 they turned to the Democratic Party. The other reason was that the Democratic Party, during that summer and autumn,

ed sincere. In the election of 1336 the Republican Party looked like a straddlebug. The Democratic Party, however, was carrying out its pledges of 1932 and was still fighting. Hence

RECALLS 1834 LETTER

“Millions who had never been Democrats gave s the power in 1932, and again in 1936, to get certain things done. And our party can continue in power only so long as it can, as a party, get done those things which non-Demoecrats, as well as Democrats, put it in power to do. In 1834, when Jackson was President, a shrewd observer wrote a letter which we ought to read and take to heart today.’ He said in it: “There are two parties here—one which would do anything to put down Jackson, and the other anything to sustain him. But there is a third party—and a very large one—which cares not a straw about who is President but who anxiously desire to see some meas re of relief for the country, let it operate

may.” : Today, as in Jackson’s day, a majority of the people want only a President who honestly cares for them and a party anxiously and unitedly seeking a way to serve them without regard to personal or political fortunes. Less than half of the voters of Less than half are Republicans. But more than half of the voters are for the Democratic, Party whenever the Democratic Party is for the majority of the people.

“ G. 0. P. GAINS GOOD ¢

I welcome the return of the Republican Party to a position where it can no longer excuse itself for not having a program on the ground that it has too few votes. During recent years Republican impotence has caused powerful interests, opposed to genuine democracy, to push their way into the Democratic party, hoping to paralyze it by dividing its councils. The first effect of the gains made by the Republican Party in the recent elections should be to restore to it the open allegiance of those who entered our primaries and party councils with deliberate intent to destroy our party’s unity and effectiveness. The second effect on these gains should be to bring us real Demo-

us those from other parties, those who belong to no party at all, who also preach the liberal gospel, so that, firmly allied, we may con-

ice to the people of the country. For if these independent voters

cratic party will remain a liberal party, they will be the first to perceive what I here and now prophesy: That the Republican leadership, conservative at heart, will still seek to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, talking for balanced budgets out of one side of its mouth and for opportunist raids on the Treasury out of the other,

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BRANDS ‘OPPORTUNISTS’

Opportunists they have been—opportunists they still are: See how they have tried to shuffle New Deal cards. : : The Republican first New Deal joyfully went along with our New Deal—while we were getting them off the spot and keeping them out of bankruptcy—er worse. The Republican second New Deal said, “Support New Deal objectives but oppose legislation to put them into effect.” The Republican third New Deal —1938 model—issued this order: “Get for the voters of your district all the New Deal benefits, promise them bigger and better benefits— any old kind that any old group asks for—but never mention how those benefits will be paid for.” Those tactics are wrong even for a party out of power, and if con-

can hardly give our voters any real confidence in the Republican Party. We Democrats, however, have to act as a party in power. And we cannot hold the confidence of the people if we cannot avoid wrangling except by agreeing to sit still and do nothing.

"RAPS CONSERVATIVES

If there are nominal Democrats who, as a matter of principle, are convinced that our party should be a conservative party—a Democratic tweedledum to a Republican tweedledee—it is, on the whole, better that the issue be drawn within the party, that the fight be fough out and that if the tweedledums are defeaed, they join the tweedledees. But the prospects of such a fight are far more remote than members of the opposition would have you believe. The people of the country are not deceived when honest debate and an honest effort to work things out for the good of the country are labeled dissension and bad blood by those outside of the party whose wish is father to the thought. They hate to admit it, but the fact remains that such debate over the last six years has borne six crops of good fruit.

If we deliver in full on our contract to the American people we need never fear the Republican Party so long as it commands the support of—in fact, is down underneath actually directed by—the same people who have owned it for several generations. For the Ameri= can Liberty League—unless I am incorrectly informed—still functions as a vehicle for political contributions and the spreading of shopworn propaganda. Jackson and the party as he led it, delivered on the barrel-head.. Up to the very last he. delivered for the common people he believed in, and for the national unity which he did so much to create. On his very last day in the White House he vetoed a bill supported by many of his own party—a bill which surrendered to the states and to 1000 warring, pefty local interests the Federal Government's responsibility for husbanding the surplus funds in the Federal Treasury for the benefit of the whole nation. : S Alongside this statement in ‘my manuscript I note the letters N, B. —which in dead Latin stand for “nota bene,” or in live English, “Take good notice.” . Jackson’s successor, reputedly a smart politician, could not keep the Democratic Party in power because he and they drifted from principles to politics. He and they were turned out at the next national election in 1840, because they failed to keep the pork barrel locked up in the cellar and because they failed to deliver what they had promised to anyone except themselves. : And again my manuscript bids me say “N. B.—Take good notice.”

‘LINCOLN DEMOCRAT’

Let this be another thought for 1940. In 1840 the new Whig President, William Henry Harrison, elected on a red-fire, hard-cider, sky-is-the-limit campaign, backed by the descendants of Hamiltonian aristocrats and by disgruntled Democrats, made his first tender of the secretaryship of the Treasury in his Cabinet—to whom do you suppose? To old Nicholas Biddle himself, the money changer whom Andrew Jackson had so soundly trounced and driven from the temple. From Andrew Jacksons to Nicholas Biddle—four short years. And

tice.” A full generation—20 years— passed by -before the principle of

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Andrew Jackson's ‘rue democracy came back to life with the next real Democrat, Abraham Lincoln. He, incidentally, was chosen President only by the founding of a new

party. id : Let me ask two obvious questions. Does anyone maintain that the Democrat Party from 1840 to 1876 was by any wild stretch’ of the imagination the party of Jefferson or Jackson? Tol claim that is absurd. : vii : Does anyone maintain that the Republican Party from 1868 to 1938 (with the possible exception of a few years under Theodore Roosevelt) was the party of Abraham Lincoln? To claim that is equally absurd.

‘ATTITUDE SHIFTS’

My casual acquair tance with: political life for 25 ye:rs, and a more serious reading of prior history, lead me to observe that the American people have gre:tly changed in their attitude toward government in this—our—genera ion. We take our politics less seriously. We take our government .more seriously. In the old days tae ideal candidate, whom smart managers al-

tinued for another two years, they ways looked for, wis, as someone

has described a former President, a man with “a prctective reputation, an obvious but unalert integrity . . . a complete absence of plan or even of thought.” It might be well for both parties in considering their candidates for President and Vice-President to apply that formula’ to the dozens who, like Barkis, seem, even at this moment, to be very, very willing. In the old days, for the bulk of the population, the elections were only a seasonal diversion—a circus with an oratorical sideshow—with the real job done by quiet economic and social—perhaps I should say back-room—pressures: behind the scenes.

‘OFFICIALS ANALYZED NOW”

Today there is ‘emerging a real

‘and forceful belief on the part of

the great mass of the people that honest, intelligent and courageous Government can sove many problems which the average individual cannot face alone ir a world where there are no longer 120 acres of good land free for everybody. Today the voting public watches and analyzes every move made by those who govern them—whether in the executive or the legislative or the judicial branches of the Government—with clesrer perception and greater insistence. on efficiency and honesty. Today in that an:lyzing they are less and less influercced by the red fire and the hard c:der ballyhoo of newspaper owners cr political orators who adhere to the practices of a century ago. Yes, we have learned to go behind the headlines and behind the leads and behind the glittering generalities in order to analyze and reanalyze, using our own thinking processes and not somebody else’s to make up our own niinds..

FOOLING CONDEMNED

You remember what Abraham Lincoln said about fooling the people. That was in the 1860's. I should say that no wise pclitical leader in 1939 will take it as a safe working rule that you can fool many of the people any of the time. This new generation, since the war believes more than did its fathers in the precept “I am my brother’s keeper.” It believes in realities, economic and spiritual realities, where its fathers did not bother much to go beneath catchwords.

Youth' today will not listen to a sectional conception of party poliics—to a combination of two or three parts of the country against .another part, or farmers against labor of business against the-state.

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: YOUTH VOTE LARGER

The younger generation of Americans, by a very large majority, intends to keep on “going places” with the New Deal. Do not overlook this rising generation. Its ‘vote rises proportionately every year. . On Jackson Day -every true follower of Jackson asks that the Democratic party continue to make democracy work. : In answer to the demands of the American people we have expanded the functions of the Government of the United States. We are handling complicated problems ‘of administration with which no other party has ever had to wrestle.. To do that, we are constantly recruiting lieutenants who will give intense and genuine devotion to the cause of liberal governing. We have brought to the Government men and women whose first thought is' to be of service to their country through their Government—men and women with fewer attributes of selfishness and more objectives of clean service than any group I have ever come in contact with in-a somewhat long career. : Almost without exception they are more intent on doing a good job than in keeping themselves on the payrolls. Almost without exception they possess that quality of co-operative effort which distinguishes them from the ‘old-time political officeholder.

WELCOMES CO-OPERATION

We seek and welcome co-operation, not only from those who are with us now, but from others who see the light. We are even willing to accept temporary help. i But we always bear in mind the story of the Orangemen’s parade in North Ireland on the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. The parade was set but the Orangemen had no bass drum. And what is a parade without a bass drum! ” But the. captain of the Orangemen had a good personal fypiend in the captain of the in the same town. So he explained his problem to his friend, the captain of the Fenians, and asked him to co-op-erate by lending the Fehian drum for the Orangemen’s parade. “Sure,” said the captain of the Fenians, “I'll give you my fullest co-operation. I will lend you the drum; you couldn’t have a decent parade without it.” 2

FIGHT TOGETHER

“But,” he added, with a twinkle in his eye, “since I'm personally re-

you’ll understand if I have to make one personal condition. Youll have to agree to take the drum out of Hie parade when you get to” Queen 8 red

Fenians are going to be laying for you.” If we Democrats lay for each other now, we can be sure that 1940 is .the corner where the American people will be laying for us. The way to avoid fighting among ourselves is to fight together against the enemies of the American people—inertia, greed, ignorance, shortsightedness, vanity, opportunism—all the evils that turn man against man. It is my belief, and the belief of the great majority of those who: hear me tonight, that not just for two years to come, but for a gen-

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Let us remember the example of Andrew Jackson, who fought to the last for a united democratic naIf we do that “by the eternal, We hall never have to rSernal, rs.” ; : : 5

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Alleged ‘Confidence Man’ Escapes Marshals.

Adrian Lawrence Dudley, 36, ‘who escaped from U. S. Marshals on a speeding train last summer, is being sought tn Indiana, the Federal Bureau of Investigation here announced today. : The fugitive was described by officials as a “notorious confidence man” and has been identified by them as one of three men who allegedly defrauded a wealthy Baltimore woman of $52,000 last April. Dudley was being* transported to

made his escape, G-men said.

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Of this number, 16 were in County jail ‘and and 37 were out on bond. Trials will be started at once, he said. | : The new grand jury will be empaneled Thursday and will remain in session until July 1, Judge Myers said.

JEWELRY AND CASH STOLEN FROM HOME

Money, jewelry and other articles valued at more than $90 were stolen from the home of Earl Grimsley, 6123 Primrose Ave., yesterday, police said today. A portable typewriter and an electric razor were among articles stolen from the home of Frank V. Osborn, 4131 Carrollton Ave.

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