Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1940 — Page 11
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TUESDAY, OCT. 15,
6.0. PTO HOLD 51 MEETINGS IN 3 WARDS TODAY
‘New Deal Extravagance’ Is Rapped in Address at Headquarters.
By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM New Deal experiments, crime and rackets in the county and handling of the poor relief fraud cases were
.among the subjects of Republican
campaigners at local meetings last night. The county campaign will reach a new peak this afternoon and tonight with 51 meetings scheduled in the 13th, 16th and 17th Wards. The “wasteful extravagance of the New Deal” was rapped by Henry B. Krug, attorney, at a meeting of three 11th Ward precincts last night at county headquarters. He said 46 per cent of all wage earners in this country have an income of less than $1000 a year, “yet these are the people who must dig down into their pockets now and in the future to pay for New Deal experiments that have failed to solve our economic problems.” : James A. Collins, 12th District at another meeting predicted that under Wendell Willkie, the American people would “overwhelm the plans and schemes of the New Deal and save for generations to come the greatest and best form of government in -all the world—the Constitution of the United States.”
Petit Talks of Crime
Otto W. Petit, nominee for Sheriff, promised that if elected he would bring “crime and rackets which frequently thrive in the county outside the city limits” under rigid control of the Sheriff's office. Paul Tegarden, nominee for County Treasurer, pledged a “fair deal” for all taxpayers, regardless of pofitical affiliation. : The handling of the Center Township poor relief fraud cases again was criticized by Sherwood Blue, G. ©. P. nominee for Prosecutor, at two meetings last night. Mr. Blue said the apparent attitude of the Prosecutor’'s office “has been to go through the motions of doing its duty, while at the same time it has endeavored to minimize the offenses or avoid the indictments.”
Meetings Tonight
Meetings scheduled for tonight in-
elude: - _ Thirteenth Ward—1033 Chadwick St. ;1118
8. Capitol Ave.; 1017 Charles * St.; 338 Sanders St.; 1124 Wright St. 1418” Barth Ave.; 1468 S. Meridian St.: 1448 Charles 8t.: 1542 S. New Jersey St. 1424 Leonard gt.: 1730 Union St.; 255 E. Iéwa St.: 715 Cottage Ave.. 45 Schiller St.; 2254 Union St.; 2546 S. Pennsylvania St. Sixteenth Ward—224 S. Oriental St.; 217 8. McKim St.; 56 .S. Tuxedo Ave.; 2359 351 S. Gray St.; 1135 Fletcher Ave. 1639 Fletcher Ave.: 829 villa Ave.: 336 S. Randolph St.; 1448 Pleasant St.; 1138 Linden Ave.; 1611 Prospect St.: 1205 S. Peter St. Seventeeth Ward—1608 S. State Ave.; 8501 Prospect St.: 938 Pleasant Run Blvd.; 1823 Shelby St.; 1751 Dawson st.; 2131 Barth Ave.; 1604 E. LeGrande Ave.; 953 Hervey St.; 1317 Kelly St.: 1155 McDougal St.: 1601 Wade St.: 1322 Southern Ave.;
2740 Barth Ave. aie Caleae e scheduled are a 0 Ave gain N. Senate Ave. and at Holloway St. and Roosevelt Ave.
Assistants Named Saul I. Raab, attorney, and Mrs. Fern E. Norris, East Side Republican worker, have been named to head the automobile transportation bureau election day for the Republican County Committee. Mrs. Willard G. Gray, 302 N. State Ave., has been named to direct activities of the Committee's railroad women’s division.
Dances Arranged Two dances have been arranged py Marion County Young Republicans for Monday night on the occasion of National Young Republican Day. On that day, Wendell L. Willkie will address a special message to Young Republican groups throughout the nation; The dances will be held in the Indiana Ball Room and at Sunset Terrace.
Addresses Butler G. O. P.
_ “We cannot support a man who is dragging us closer and closer to war,” John W. Atherton, Butler University secretary-treasurer, told members of the Butler Young Re-
‘publicans last ‘night.
Mr. Atherton, a Republican nom{nee for State Senator from Marion County, declared that President Roosevelt's statements ordinarily would get the nation into war if the Axis powers weren't already involved so deeply. He said only a “desperate party stoops to such tactics” as a whispering and mudslinging campaign. Mr. Willkie, a businessman, better can prepare the nation for defense than President Roosevelt, he asserted. Mr. Atherton said that if Glen R. Hillis is elected Governor, “we will have a clean, economical state government without any Two Per Cent Club and with the school book and liquor rackets cleaned up.”
Fair Management Rapped
Management of the Indiana State Fair in recent years was criticized
by Glen R. Hillis, Republican nom-
inee for Governor, in a talk last night at Connersville. He said. we “have the best facilities and the best buildings in the Midwest, but we have the least hospitality for our own Indiana farmers.” The fair, he said, is becoming more and more a professional and
"less a farmers’ show each year.
He particularly criticized the system of awarding concessions for. the
sale of groceries for refreshment
stands and feed for livestock at the fair, charging political friends are ‘given a monopoly on these sales. .
Willis at Frankfort
Raymond E. Willis, senatorial nominee, charged in a talk last night at Frankfort that the New Deal is spending millions of dollars for propaganda in an effort to perpetuate itself. “The political press agent and his products,” Mr. Willis said, “were paid for by the party he served until the New Deal took, over the Federal Government. Not so now. You are paying your share to be told what a fine job the New Deal is doing.” He also charged that his Democratic opponent, Senator Sherman Minton, was sending out campaign material in Government franked en-
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Text of Willkie’s Syracuse Talk Challenging t
SYRACUSE, N. Y,, Oct. 15 (U. P.).—The prepared text of Wendell L. Willkie’s speech
‘here last night follows:
It is a fundamental concept of democratic government that there shall always be available men who are fit to be intrusted with the responsibilities of government. That concept is today being challenged. We are being told that in all this land, among all those 131 million people, there is only one man qualified to be our cer executive. There is only one indispensable man. If that were true, America would
tion. Let me read you.the words of a great Democrat, a man who never reached the Presidency, but who was often intrusted with fhe leadership of his party—William Jennings Bryan. This is what he said: - : “Whenever this nation can find within its borders but one man qualified for the Presidency, it will have reached a condition when its preservation will be a matter of little concern.” Have we reached that condition today? In effect, the New Deal, by its doctrine of the indispensable man, tells us that is so. I say that the preservation of this country and of its defhocratic system is today the deepest concern of every one of us. If we in this country fail to preserve our traditional system, then the last hope of democracy will have been lost. We cannot and we must not fail. Perhaps it may seem to some that in the troubled. world we face the preservation of the third term tradition is a small thing. We see a world aflame. We see abroad ruthless military aggression trampling upon the rights of free peoples. At home we have seen for too many years low employment and economic distress. The problems of our day are heavy. Oppressed by the difficulties of these problems, it is understandable that some of our people should feel that the preservation of a mere tradition is relatively unimportant.
TRADITION NO MERE ACCIDENT
If it were merely a tradition that was being challenged, I would agree. Traditions as such are not sacred; principles are. The tradition against a third term is no mere accident. The fact that it has never been violated in 150 years, is no mere tradition. Perhaps the best way to understand the importance of the principle underlying our rule against a third term is to go back and examine the conditions under which this principle developed into a -tradition. Why did Washington feel so strongly upon this principle? The answer is that these men lived their lives in a world where tyranny had been the rule and freedom the exception. They knew that freedom is not something that can be taken for granted. They knew that freedom must be earned and they knew that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. The men who established the third term tradition knew that power long continued in the hands of one man will inevitably and insensibly corrupt him. They knew that no man is to be trusted with prolonged and increasing power. When Washington. came to: the end of his second term a war was raging in Europe. He, above all men of his age, was qualified by experience and character to lead our country in these troubled times. His popularity was such that he could have been unanimously reelected. Yet. Washington deliberately chose to set the example of no third term. Jefferson felt so strongly about the principle of rotation in office that he ‘would have liked to have seen it written into the Constitution. He determined to establish as a tradition the example that had been set by Washington. The principle of rotation in office, he declared, should never be dispensed with because there will never be a time when real difficulties will not exist and furnish © plausible pretext for dispensing with that principle. And in his autobiography he expressed the solemn hope: “That should a President consent to be a candidate for a third election, I trust he would be rejected on this demonstration of ambitious views.”
OTHER ARGUMENTS CITED
The tradition that Jefferson established was reinforced by Madison and Monroe. Jackson could have been President for life. But he, too, chose not to destroy the unwritten law against a third term. He chose deliberately to strengthen if. “I cannot but nelieve,” he said, “that more is lost by the long continuance of men »n office than is generally to be gained by their experience.” . And since those days, the principle against a third term has been upheld by every thoughtful leader in American public life. Twice before in our history the attempt has been made to violate it. But never in our history until this year, has a major political party sanctioned the attempt. Republican conventions have turned back “the only two serious third term bids in our history. But justice compels us to say that it is the Democratic Party that has been pre-eminent in upholding this unwritten law. It was the founder of that party who established the tra-
have ceased to be a democratic na- |
Wendell Willkie, citing the loss of freedom in European countries.
eos “We must not let that happen
dition. It was the great popular hero of that party, Jackson, who reinforced it. And more than once it has been Democrats who have offered in .Congress resolutions and amendments to limit the Presidential term. It was the Democratic Party who on two occasions adopted planks against the third term. It was that party which in 1896 made this solemn declaration:
EXONERATES REAL PARTY
“We declare it to be the unwritten law of this republic, established by custorn and usage of one hundred years and sanctioned by the greatest and wisest of those who founded and have maintained our government, that no man should be eligible for a third term of the Presidential office.” . This is among the deepest traditions of the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party today would not be seeking to violate that principle had not the Democratic Party been kidnaped by the New Deal. The truth is that it is not the real Democratic Party today which seeks to break the unwritten law against a third term. We know that many read Jeaders of that party are not behind this movement. We saw the real nature of the third-term movement revealed in the convention in Chicago. We saw there how Carter Glass and other statesmen of that party were howled down by the voice from the sewers. ® We saw a man who had given long years of faithful and devoted service cast aside. When James A, Farley was dropped, the New Deal dropped one of the most trustworthy pilots that had ever guided the Democratic Party ship. And since then we have seen day after
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been an unparalleled increase in the number of government bureaus and bureaucrats under the third-term candidate. . Is that what makes him indispensable? . While the New Deal has added hundreds of thousands of employees to the Government payroll the proportion of Government employees under civil service has declined. It has declined from 80 per cent in the last Republican year to 68 per cent in the last New Deal year. Under the third-term candidate, political preference has displaced civil service as the test of eligibility for government service. Is that what makes him indispensable? Under the third-term candidate, men on WPA have been forced to contribute to New Deal campaign funds. They have been iorced to sign pledges to vote for the New Deal candidates. In some sections of the country allegiance to the party in power has been made the test of eligibility to a WPA job.
FEARS FOR FREE BALLOT
In 1938 a Senate committee, a majority of whose members were Democrats, reported on that situation. The committee said that “organized efforts have been made and are being ‘made to control the vote of those on relief work and that contributions have been sought and obtained from Government employees on behalf of one of the Senatorial candidates,” and then the committee, the majority of whose members were Democrats, went on to say, and I am quoting: “These facts should arouse the conscience of the country. They | imperil the right of the people to a free and unpolluted ballot.” Yet the third-term candidate in a
day how real Democrats have been | speech in Kentucky in that same
compelled by conscience and a loyalty to the principles of their party to reject the leadership which has captured it. It is not the party of Jefferson and Jackson and Woodrow Wilson that has abandoned - its . principles. It is the New Deal of Hopkins, Ickes, Corcoran and Wallace, which has captured the Democratic Party. They seek to substitute for democratic doctrine, the doctrine of the indispensable man.
POINTS TO ECONOMY PLEDGE
And what makes the third-term candidate an indispensable man? More than nine million men are unemployed in this country today. Unemployment is as great as it was four years ago when the third-term candidate was running for his second term. And today the New Deal tells us that no man living or whoever lived can get jobs for all those
men. The candidate who now asks|
for a third term has proved that he does not know how to get our people jobs. Is that what makes him indispensable? : The New Deal has spent more than 60 billion dollars. It has dou-| bled our national debt. The New Deal candidate excels all others in the art of spending money. Is that what makes him: indispensable? : : We have figures showing the degree of recovery that had been made by 18 leading nations of the world up: to the outbreak of the war. These show that in industrial recovery the United States stood next to the bottom of that list. In re-employment, the United States stood 16 in that list of 18. The third term candidate has succeeded in putting the United States at the bottom of the list in economic recovery. Is that what makes him indispensable? The Democratic platform of 1932 promised “an immediate and drastic reduction of governmental expenditures by abolisning useless commissions and offices, consolidating departments and bureaus and eliminating extravagance.” The New Deal candidate repeated that pledge and here is the result: We now have more than a million employees on the Government payroll in the executive department. That is the highest in our history: It is an increase of 73 per cent over
‘the number of Federal employzes in
1933 just after the third-term candidate took office for the first time. It is more Federal employees than Woodrow Wilson needed in 1918 to fight the World War. There has
this country fail to preserve our s z o insensibly corrupt him.” ” o 8 doubled our national debt.
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Highlights of Address
I say that the preservation of this country and its democratic system is today the deepest concern of every one of us.
hope of democracy will have been lost.”
“The men who established the third term tradition knew- that power long continued in the hands of one man will inevitably and
- “The New Deal has spent more than $60,000,000,000. The New Deal candidate excels all others in the art of spending money.” :
“The longer a President remains in office the stronger are his powers to keep himself in office.” °
“These are the last steps on the road to absolute power. These are the steps which we are now asked to approve. steps whereby the people of other countries lost their freedom. This is the way democracy has been destroyed. We must not let that
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| vear referred to charges of political | pressure on workers on relief and | said: | “Personally, I am not greatly disturbed by these stories.” The third-term candidate is not disturbed that the right of the people to a free and unpolluted ballot has been ‘imperiled. Is that what makes him indispensabie? These are precisely the things that make the third-term candidate indispensable. These are the things | that make him indispensable to the (little clique of power-hungry men who hide behind his smiling mask. A: third term will give them the opportunity they seek to fasten their Erasp irrevocably upon this counTy.” : The powers of the Presidency are great. The advantages of a President. who wants to perpetuate himself in office are enormous. They were described by Grover Cleveland in these words: “The patronage of this great office, the allurement of power, the temptations to retain public place once gained, and, more than all, the availability a party finds in an incumbent when a horde of officeholders, with a zeal born of benefits received: and fostered by the hope of favors yet to come, stand ready to aid with trained political assistance.”
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VAST POWER CITED
And the longer a President remains in office the stronger are his powers to keep himself in office. Franklin Roosevelt has taken into his own hands in eight brief years more power than any President of this nation ever had. He has declared the existence of more than 67 emergencies as the basis for the exercise of extraordinary powers. He has obtained from the Congress blank check appropriations of 16 billion dollars. He has multiplied the administrative agencies which regulate our enterprises and has secured for these agencies the power of economic life or death. He has established a vast organization of propaganda. Congress rebuked his bold attempt to pack the Supreme Court. But time and human mortality have given him his way. He has appointed to the highest bench in the land five of his closest followers. Given another four years and he will fill with his own men not only the Supreme Court, but the entire Federal judiciary. . This is the pattern of dictatorship —the usurpation of power by manufactured emergencies; the circumvention of the legislature; the capture of the courts. The pattern
calls for the creation of one domi-
nant party in which all power is vested. It calls for the indefinite rule of one indispensable man. These are the last steps on the road to absolute power. These are the steps which we are now asked to approve. These are the steps whereby the people of other coumtries have lost their freedom. This is the way democracy has been destroyed. We must not let that happen here. 2
RATS GET A BREAK
MONTGOMERY, Ala, U. P.).— The European war is giving Alabama’s rats a break. The state health department is looking about for a substitute for red quill, deadly rat poison which has been in use in rat extermination campaigns, because the British continental blockade has cut off the supply, which came from Algiers and Spain, any
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
GIGANTIC RALLY ARRANGED HERE BY DEMOCRATS
Schricker, Minton, Ransom On Program Thursday in Tomlinson Hall.
Marion County Democrats today|
marshaled their forces for the biggest demonstration of the present campaign in Indianapolis. Between 5000 and 7000 persons are expected to jam Tomlinson Hall Thursday night for the first major Democratic mass meeting sponsored by the county organization. Principal speakers will be Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker, candidate for Governor; U. S. Senator Sherman Minton and F. B. Ransom, City Councilman. Candidates for the vapions county offices will make brief alks. ;
Minton Raps Willkie Senator Minton, speaking at Boonville last night, assailed G. O. P. Presidential nominee Wendell Willkie for what he termed “unpatriotic” attacks on the national defense program. “Mr. Willkie is doing everything he can to throw a wrench into our program of national defense,” he said.
The Senator declared that the nation was in the most advanced |
state of preparedness in its history. “President Roosevelt has his finger on every phase of our foreign policy. He has the co-operation and understanding of diplomatic officials and he will keep us out of war,” he declared.
State Advances Outlined
Lieut. Gov. Schricker, speaking at La Porte last night, outlined the progress made in improvement of State institutions during the last two Democratic administrations. “The rehabilitation of our institutions at a cost of about 10 million dollars but without the addition of a single penny in taxes,” he said. “This is an example of what may be done with careful and efficient management of the people’s money.” ; The candidate for Governor reiterated his stand for old-age pensions, declaring that he would urge the entire pension system be fed-
eralized, thus taking the load off the state and county.
WICKARD CHARGES G. 0. P. INSINCERE
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 15 (U. P.).—Republican leaders have consistently fought the farm program and their campaign promises to support it now are ‘insincere and made in bad faith,” Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard charged last night in a nationally broadcast radio address. “They fought them (farm programs) in Congress and out of Congress,” he said. “Why do they promise to continue the programs now? Could farmers’ votes have something to do with it? “Farm programs are in existence in spite of, and not because of, Republican Party leaders.”
from California in a seed packet.
You South Siders who have often walked by 1838 Olive St., hesi- | tated, and then stopped and admired those deep purple blossoms, can now be told-—they’re Chinese Asters. hedges and flower beds are the pride fo the neighborhood, Chinese Asters, rare in this part of the country, came to Indianapolis The flowers bloom all summer and the plants are 15 and 20 inches high.
Mrs. Rosa Presti’s grape arbor,
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TELLS OF TRICKS OF VOTE THIEVES
'Hlinois Candidate Warns of Many Methods for Ballot Fraud.
Tricks to guard against in protecting the ballot boxes from vote frauds were outlined by George F. Barrett, chairman of the Illinois Volunteer Committee to Stop Vote Frauds, at a meeting of Republican officials here yesterday. Mr. Barrett, who is Republican candidate for Attorney General in ® Illinois, told G. O. P. workers 0 advise all poll workers about all the tricks of the professional “vote thieves.”
fessional criminal who is paid by corrupt politicians to pack the puiiing lists or manipulate the vote count,” Mr. Barrett said. Hidden Pencil Used Among the devices useg by vote thieves is a short pencil that can be hidden between the fingers or meve= ly a piece of lead stuck under a fingernail, “If a voter marks nothing but a {cross in” one of the party circics at |the top of the ballot. his vote may . be stolen,” he said. “The manipulator simply runs his {hand down the side of the ballot {with a concealed pencil, marking Xs | wherever he chooses.” He listed five instructions for poll | workers: “1. Demand that every voter iden= tify himself beyond a doubt.
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light in Indianapolis today when|
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Lieut. Gov. Schricker and Mrs. Inez Scholl, candidate for Supreme] Court reporter, were the principal] speakers on a three-hour program. | Mrs. Charles Lahrman was general chairman, assisted by Mrs.| Walter Truman and Mrs. E. Curtis White. .
Ketchum Backs 3d Term
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for Lieutenant Governor, critics of a third term. “The people of America steadfastly and consistently refused]
assailed |
may serve,” he said. The candidate cited several at-|
| they were defeated each time. | “When the Constitution was in|
Democrat Women's Division
Takes Limelight With Tea
The women’s division of the the making, George Washington {axe your place before you leave. Marion County Democratic Com-|said: ‘I can see no propriety in pre- | 2 > mittee took over the campaign spot- cluding ourselves from the SeIVICeS | {jqts no signals are passed between
“2. Watch every person who has anything to do with counting the votes. Pay particular attention to their hands.
Keep Post Covered “3, Do not leave your post unless there. is another honest watcher to
“4, During the day make sure
of any man who, on some great persons inside and outside the poll-
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they staged an afternoon tea and | emergency, shall be deemed uni- ing place. speaking program at the Claypool) versally most capable of serving the | people’,” Mr. Ketchum said.
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“5. If you are outside the voting place ‘watch for any evidence of ‘chain voting,’ the handling . of marked ballots outside the booths.”
NATION UNSAFE WITH
~ SANITY DUE FRIDAY €. b. r., TAFT cLAIMS
Special Judge Omar O'Harrow
FAIRFIELD, Conn. Oct. 15 (U.
will decide Friday in Criminal Court|p , _ gengtor Robert A. Taft (R. 0.)
Butsch.
Jan. 17, 1939.
He was adjudged insane and sent | tempts during the last 100 years toto Michigan City before he was) {limit Presidential terms and said scheduled to be tried for
of criminally |
Speaking at a Democratic meet-| Whether he will give a hearing 0. 1oved at a Republican rally last
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last; William Ray Butsch, who has asked | night that “if ever there was a Govnight, Anderson Ketchurn, candidate that he be declared legally sane. | who petitioned have hearing two weeks ago, is an in-| {mate of the division to permit passage of a Constitu-| insane of the Indiana State Prison. | tional amendment or a law to limit He is charged with the hammer | the number of terms a President slaying of Mrs. Carrie Lelah Romig. |
| ernment incompetent to be trusted a| with American defense, the Roose- | velt Administration is that govern-
for
rment.” Mr. Taft asserted “our future welfare, happiness, prosperity and cecurity require the election of Wen- | dell Willkie.” He charged the President “failed | to-propose or even to plan a defense the murder, | program in spite of his protestation
If adjudged sane, he must stand that he. knew what was going to
trial for the slaying.
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