Landon charges New Deal tries to buy election (Washington Times, Oct. 10, 1936, p. 4)

4 GOV. LANDON CHARGES NEW DEAL TRIES TO BUY ELECTION PUBLIC MONEY BEING USED, REASSERTS DETROIT, Oct. 10 (1.N.5.). Gov. Alfred M. Landon, of Kan sas, G. O. P. presidential nomi nee, will visit Henry Ford when he comes here for a major cam paign address next week. The governor, arriving here about noon Tuesday will be driven to the estate of the automobile magnate shortly afterwards and spend an hour and a half in an informal talk with Ford. By WILLI AM K. HUTCHINSON CINCINNATI, Oct. 10 (1.N.5.). Carrying a fighting campaign against President Roosevelt through the pivotal States of the Midwest, Governor Alfred M. Lan don today boldly charged the Ad ministration with attempting to buy the election through the use of public funds. In a breakfast speech here to wildly cheering Republicans, the Republican nominee said: "We are opposed by the most powerful machine ever assembled on American soil. It is financed in a large part out of the public treasury. This means our money is paying for it. "It is allocating public funds up and down the country on the eve of the election for the obvi ous purpose of attempting to sway the electorate. It is en deavoring to coerce thousands of voters by threatening those on relief with destitution unless they vote right. It is trying to poison the mind of the public with a campaign of vicious mis representation.'* CAN BEAT NEW DEAL But undismayed by the pros pects, Landon in fighting tones declared: "Can this New Deal machine, which under the cloak of ideal ism has operated on the old spoils system, be beaten? I say it can.'' This militant speech came on the heels of a devastating attack on Roosevelt spending policies at Chicago. There, the Republican nominee told a wildly enthusiastic audience of 25,000 with 10,000 as sembled outside --that he would balance the Federal budget, if elected President, without curtail ing relief to the need or benefits to farmers, simply by slashing the waste and extravagance of the Roosevelt Administration. Three Big Reasons Amid tumultuous applause, Lan don took out of President Roose velt's own mouth three powerful reasons for balancing the budget. He quoted the President in his Pittsburgh speech of the 1932 cam paign as giving these reasons for a balanced budget: "1. Upon the financial sta bility of the Unitel States Gov ernment depends the stability of trade and employment, and of the entire banking, saving and insurance systems of the country. "2. If the nation, like a spend thrift throws discretion to the winds, it is on the road to bank ruptcy. "3. Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors, because they are a burden on production and if excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, tax-sold farms and in hordes of the hungry tramping the streets and seeking jobs in vain.'* The crowd wildly applauded Lan don as he enunciated the first of three Roosevelt reasons. Crowd Voices "Boos" It appeared shocked when the Republican nominee blandly an nounced he was repeating the words of "Candidate Roosevelt" in 1932. It caught on promptly, how ever, and "booed" heartily as Lan don repeated Roosevelt's two other reasons. In good sportsmanship, Landon raised his right hand and shook his head negatively in a vain effort to halt the booing. When he went on to "turn to the record" he charged Roosevelt with increasing expenditures, with increasing taxes and with increas ing deficits instead of meeting his pledges of the 1932 campaign. He pointed out the President had an nually promised a balanced bud get and "no new taxes" in each of the four years of his admin istration, only to let the budget go unbalanced while "jamming 14 new tax bills through Con gress." Cites Broken Pledges Time and again, Landon jibed the American people. Once to Roosevelt for breaking pledges to uproarious laughter, he shouted that not even Jesse Owens, the "world's fastest human," could "overtake the expenditures" of the Roosevelt administration. And, in conclusion, Landon para phrased Roosevelt's Pittsburgh speech of two weeks ago, in refer ence to a baseball game, saying: "The American people know that it is more than a game-- that our very existence depends upon keeping our financial house in order. But if the Administra tion wants a baseball analogy, if they want the score--it is easy to give. It is written clear across the country: "Twenty-five billion dollars spent. "Thirteen billion dollars added to the public debt. "Eleven million unemployed left on base." TsfspAono District 7000 K FATHER AND CHILDREN AT PLAY r fl* W h X V s&gk ly <c w iflMflF w -I u Vt- IW'l Kb-- HI Wte I fl ■pw 13 \JfIL J Mn/ npnH f ■m V utt fl i JrH'r I iw 11 UkWT V i I TWIT Bi fl ■i i IMI w Jr T m ti i l I k r 1 n f t B KSHuB I Lj.*; Jb I IS B r I 1 ttKSKI FMktl I Ik LkBKkH J n Ikttß rfiMT wOw v b ---I w t Ml S wJr J I 4 i fll I# GOV. ALFRED M. LANDON, despite the heavy cares of a presidential campaign, has time to play with Nancy Jo and John Cobb on the swing in the yard of their Topeka, Kans., home. This picture was taken shortly before he began his present Eastern campaign tour. International News Photo. Partial Text of Gov. Landon's Speech CHICAGO. Oct. 10 (U.S.).--A partial text of Governor Alfred M. Landon's speech here last night follows: Tonight I am going to talk about the Federal budget. And incidentally I. too, am going to talk about it in billions. First, let me make by position absolutely clear, if I am elected, the budget is going to be bal anced. It is going to be bal- anced. not by depriving our needy of relief, not by refusing necessary aid to our farmers, not by swamp ing the country with taxes. The budget is going to b? bal anced by cutting out waste and extravagance; by putting an end to the use of public funds for political purposes; by restoring hard-worknig painstaking com mon-sense administration. This question of balancing the budget is of vital importance to every man, woman and child in this country. Three Reasons Let me give you three reasons why this is true. It is true because "upon the financial stability of the United States Government depends the stability of trade and employment, and of the entire banking, saving and insurance system of the coun try." Those words are not mine. They were spoken by Candidate Roose velt at Pittsburgh, four years ago. It is true because "if the Nation, like a spendthrift, throws discre tion to the winds, is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spend ing, extends its taxing to the limit of the people's power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, it is on the road to bankruptcy." Those words are not mine. They were also spoken by Candidate Roosevelt at Pittsburgh, four years ago. Prophetic Words It is true because "taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors, because they are a burden on production., .if exces sive, they are reflected in idle fac tories, tax-sold farms and in hordes of the hungry tramping the streets and seeking jobs in vain." And those prophetic words are not mine. They were spoken by Candidate Roosevelt at Pitts burgh, four years ago. Those are three reasons why "I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most im- portant issues of this campaign." Even those words are not mine. They were spoken by Candidate Roosevelt at Pittsburgh, four years ago. Debt is 34 Billion Now let us turn to the record. Let us see if Federal spending was reduced; if taxes were lowered; if deficits were stopped. Every one knows the answer, but it cannot be emphasized too much. Four years ago the Federal Gov ernment spent just over five bil lion dollars. Last year it spent just under nine billion dollars. Four years ago the gross Federal debt was 21 billion dollars. Today it is 34 billion dollars. Those are the facts. Instead of a decrease, we have had an enor mous increase all along the line-- an increase in spending, an in crease in taxes, an increase in debt--all of which, as every house wife knows only too well, have in creased the cost of living. That is only a summary of what has happened to the financial pledges of Candidate Roosevelt. Now consider what has happened to the financial pledges of Presi dent Roosevelt. Cites No-Tax Pledge Time after time we have been assured by the President and his spokesmen that no more taxes would be imposed. But under this Administration, 14 bills increasing the tax burden have been jammed through Congress. And for his assurances that the budget would be balanced--well, these political hush-darlings have become annual fixtures. The first one was shortly after he took office in 1933. The next was in January, 1934. The next in Janu ary, 1935. The next in January, 1936. And the last, as usual, was accompanied by the promise that no more taxes would be necessary. In other words, as usual, the President expressed the hope that some time, somehow, revenues will overtake expenditures. The way expenditures are running today, Jesse Owens himself couldn't over take them. 'That's the Record' That is the record. Instead of a balanced budget, we have a con fession of incompetence--a con fession by those in charge of our Government that they have set loose a flood of spending that they are unable to stop. Let us examine this policy of THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1930 spending. Let us look at the theory used to justify it, the amounts in volved, and the threat to the coun try if it is continued. The simple and amazing theory was sold to the Administration by a British economist. He said that if only the United States Govern ment would spend $400,000,000 a month it would prime the pump and all would be well. So we started spending, not for the multitude of things we really needed, but for every conceivable thing. The lid was off. It is still off. We have been spending at the rate of 600 million a month and more ever since. President's Excuse And what excuse does the Presi dent give for spending more than all the Presidents from Washing ton to Wilson--for ignoring his promises made at Pittsburgh four years ago--or perhaps we should say 25 billion dollars ago! Speak ing last week at Pittsburgh, he said; "We had to balance the budget of the American people before we could balance the budget of the National Government." And then he added: "That makes common sense, doesn't it?" This is a mighty melodious phrase, but with 11 million unem ployed, with almost 2 million peo ple on the relief rolls, with the banks stuffed with Government bonds, with the Government spending double its Income--this does not make common sense. In his last speech, the Presi dent overlooked this record. That is not surprising. At least it is no more surprising than the method of bookkeeping adopted by this Administration. "Deceiving Public" For the first time in history-- in war or in peace--in prosperity or in depression--the Treasury of the United States is keeping two sets of books. This is the kind of bookkeep ing we find when countries are faced with inflation or bank ruptcy--when governments can stay in power only by deceiving the public. It is the kind of bookkeeping, for instance, from which the French people suf fered during the serious infla tion 10 years ago. But in spite of this system of bookkeeping, in spite of all this juggling of figures, there are cer- IOWA THRONGS ROAR GREETING TO PRESIDENT By GEORGE R. HOLMES EN ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, Oct. 10 (I.NJS.). A series of enthusiastic receptions were given President Roosevelt in Central lowa today as he travelled through the heart of the com belt to Omaha for his major speech on agricultural policy to night. The lowans started turning out early in the morning, a cheering crowd of more than 1,000 appear ing at Osceola at 8 o'clock. There was another large crowd with a band at Afton, and at Creston still another of many thousands. Governor Clyde L. Herring and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, a native lowan, appeared on the platform of the Roosevelt special with the President at most of the stops. Heart la Right As Osceola, Wallace recalled to the crowd that his father also had been a Secretary of Agriculture in the Harding administration. He observed, however, that the agri cultural members of the Cabinet was helpless unless "the heart of the President is right." He as sured them that Mr. Roosevelt's heart was right, so far as agri culture was concerned. In Minnesota where last night St. Paul and Minneapolis gave him a tremendous reception the President found the Demo crats split into two savagely war ring camps over the surrender of Democratic candidates to the dominant Fanner-Labor party. Soothes Factions For the first time in modem history the Democrats have no candidates for governor and Sen ator in Minnesota this year, hav ing withdrawn their own candi dates to support the Farmer- Laborites in a frank trade for Farmer-Labor support for the na tional Democratic ticket. Mr. Roosevelt delayed his de parture from St. Paul far beyond the schedule last night while he employed persuasive tactics to bring the recalcitrants into line, and convince them that the self abnegation of the Democratic candidates this year was for the general good of the party. How successful he was in his peace efforts remains to be seen, but to all outward appearances the hostile factions were somewhat reconciled. --VOTE AMERICAS-- Hurt in Plunge JERSEY CITY, N. J., Oct. 10 (I.N.S.).--Joseph Law, 26, of Phila delphia. was in a serious condi tion today at a hospital here after jumping from the second story window of a police station. Law told police that he deserted his wife and children in Philadelphia 10 days ago, and while they were trying to confirm his story. Law suddenly plunged through a window. His skull was fractured. tain facts that it has been im possible for this Administration to hide. One of these facts is the vast increase in the ordinary routine cost of our Government. In 1934, the first full year of the present Administration, the ordinary activities of the Federal Government, exclusive of debt re tirement, cost $2,505,000,000. For the present year the estimated cost is $3,407.000,000 --an increase of nine hundred and two million dollars. This 902 million-dollar increase was purely and simply an increase in the ordinary routine expenses of the Federal Government --an increase of 36 per cent in the ex penses which the Democratic plat form, and the Democratic candi date of 1932, pledged to cut not less than 25 per cent. An Admin istration that boasts of that record does not deserve another chance --VOTE AMERICAN-- Editor Backs Thomas NEW YORK. Oct. 10 (1.N.5.). Oswald Garrison Villard, associ ate editor of "The Nation," an nounced today that he would not support President Roosevelt for reelection, but would vote for the Socialist candidate, Norman Thomas. Landon to Watch Panthers Play Ohio State ABOARD LANDON SUN FLOWER SPECIAL, Oct. 10 (1.N.5.). --Governor Alfred M. Landon headed early today to ward Columbus and the Ohio Stat e-University of Pittsburgh football game. After attending a morning breakfast in Cincinnati, the Re publican nominee was scheduled for "rear porch" talks in Hamil ton, West Middletown, Dayton, Springfield and London before reaching Columbus at 1:40 p. m. There he will attend the foot ball game, one of the most im portant contests of the year so far as the national champion ship is concerned. Landon will spend the week end in Columbus. He will attend church, and rest, sticking to his personal rule of "playing no poli tics'* on a Sunday, Roosevelt Text ST. PAUL, Oct. 10.--President Roosevelt's address, delivered at the State Capitol Building here, follows in part: Much water has run over the dam since Floyd Olson presided at the great gathering to which I spoke in the spring of 1032. During these more than four years one of our most impor tant national achievements has been the strides we have made everywhere in thinking in na tional terms. Never before has America been so united. We have come to understand ing that the agricultural pros perity of the Northwest is di rectly affected by the agricul tural prosperity of the rest of the country. People in the manufacturing cities will find more employment at better wages if the farm fam ilies of the nation have the wherewithal to purchase manu factured goods and the farmers of the nation will sell larger crops at better prices if the in dustrial workers in the cities have more money to buy dairy products, vegetables, fruit, pork and beef. When In 1933 this Administra tion undertook to meet the des perate and long neglected needs of agriculture we turned to the cooperative idea and called to Washington representatives of the great cooperatives and other farm organizations to work out a program with us. The Triple A itself had as its foundation and its essence the cooperative idea. Administered locally by community commit tees selected by the farmers themselves, it was a picture of economic democracy in action. "Support to Continue" This Administration from the very start came to the support of the cooperative ideal and by vigorous action that support has continued. The support will continue. It established a con trol bank for cooperatives with 12 regional banks to aid in mar keting and purchasing. It held out the helping hand on credit to production credit associations to enable farmers to finance production through their own banks. The triple A has worked di rectly with the cooperatives in their marketing agreement pro gram. By loans to cooperatives we have helped to bring the comforts of electricity to many farmers of the nation. We did not stop at merely lending money. When farm prices were threatened, the Ad ministration held them up by purchasing surplus products through farm cooperatives for distribution to hundreds of thousands of families faced with hunger in our great cities. Government a "Referee" Nevertheless, while the Gov ernment can help through its resources, we in Washington have recognized that coopera tion and cooperatives must come from the people themselves. Government can see to it that the rules of the game are fair as between cooperative enter prise and other enterprise. But the initiative, the management itself, must spring from and carry on from the bottom up rather than from the top down. This Administration is deter mined to continue in active sur port of the evergrowing farm cooperative movement. I am happy in the strengthen ing of this movement at home. But let us remember that the same spirit of cooperation is an essential part of our relations with the other nations of the world. It is this realistic appre ciation of the benefits of coop eration that lies behind our ef forts to reestablish foreign mar kets for our farm products. In the spring of 1933 our for eign trade had fallen off to about one-third of its former value. That was what I in herited. "Trade" Defined The very word "trade" means articles of commerce flowing in two directions. It is not a one way street. At least we under stand this in our domestic trade. No single State can produce either crops or merchandise and continue indefinitely to sell them to other States for money alone. Eventually they have to be paid for in other products. Foreign trade is just like that. There cannot be a revival of foreign exports without a re vival of foreign Imports unless, of course, we do as we did be tween 1920 and 1930, and lend our money to foreign nations to enable them to buy our own farm and industrial products. "Mutual Advantages" It was not a question of win ning or losing any treaty. Mu tual advantage has been the suc cessful objective and our exports during the first half of this year as compared with last year have increased by $132,000,000. To Canada, our neighbor on the north, the $24,000,000 of our increase exports during the first six months have included not only exports of manufactured articles but also agricultural ex ports. American industry and American agriculture are both benefiting by increased general trade. The figures prove it and our growing consumption and better farm prices prove it. Recalls 30 Cent Wheat Today, under the leadership of the United States, other na tions of the world are coming to recognize that home truth. Back in 1932. although there T«f«pA®n< District TOM was a tariff on wheat of 42 cents a bushel, you all know that the wheat which you pro duced up here in the Northwest was selling as low as 30 cents per bushel. There were no farm imports then to worry about, but low prices were plenty to worry about. Within the past two weeks splendid progress has been made on giving a greater stability to foreign exchange. Within that same time there have been lifted many quotas and embargoes Including those on important American agricul tural export products. "The Good Neighbor" Peace cannot be attained mere ly by getting sentimental about it. Peace depends upon the ac ceptance of the principle and practice of the good neighbor. That practice is founded on the Golden Rule, and must be forti fied by cooperation of every kind between nations. Peace makes money; peace saves money for everybody. A pros perous world has no permanent room in it for dictatorship or for war. In striving for peace, I am confident that the Ameri can people seek it with their hearts and with their heads as well. Enlightened self-interest is justification for what we do. Confident in the practical wisdom of the ends we seek, with full faith that it will serve in a practical way for peace on earth and good will between men and nations, we shall con tinue on our way. --VOTE AMERICAN-- ELY EULOGIZES GOV. LANDON PITTSBURGH, Oct. 10 (1.N.5.). A declaration that changes pro posed by the Roosevelt Adminis tration make for "a complete revo lution of the American Govern ment," and that under the cir cumstances "no true Jeffersonian Democrat could be expected to ap prove," was left here today by Joseph B. Ely, former Democratic governor of Massachusetts. Ely charged the Administration deserted the Democratic party, and not "true Democrats" who remain true to party principles. He said: "I have never said that the President of the United States is a Communist, or a dictator, and I do not say it now. My differences with him rest en tirely on principle. He has seen fit to adopt a course of govern ment in which I do not believe." Reviewing the "revolutionary process" by which he claimed the Roosevelt administration had alienated all Jeffersonian Demo crates, Ely declared: "Governor Landon has the ability that promises men real job»--not relief. Let us renew our faith in America and rally to the support of a constitu tional government." --VOTE AMERICAN-- Cox Delivers First Speech for President DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 10 (1.N.5.). A comrade of the 1920 political wars, former Governor James M. Cox reached out a helping hand today to his lieutenant in that campaign, President Roosevelt, and without reservation urged his reelection. In his first political address of the current campaign, Governor Cox declared the man who occu pied second place on the ticket the Dayton publisher headed 16 years ago, has served as President in a manner deserving wholehearted support. Mr, Double-Quick Says: Get a FREE Autographed Picture of MARY ASTOR in a Dodsworth ff n° w Wis/? 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In a rally in Brooklyn last night, Col. Frank M. Knox, Re publican candidate for vice-presi dent, attacked the New Deal in nation, State and counties. Knox said: "AU that I shall do here is to suggest that you keep in mind what it costs to have a big New Deal in Washington, a smaller New Deal in Albany and a quintuplet New Deal in the five boroughs of New York City." --VOTE AMERICAN-- -2 Washington Boys Honored at Manlius Two Washington boys attend ing Manlius School. Manlius, N. Y., b.Ave been promoted to the rank of cadet corporal in the school battalion, R. O. T. C„ Col. Guido F. Verbeck, headmaster, an nounced today. They are Harold C. Pierce, jr., son of Lieut. Col. M. C. Pierce, 5511 Thirty-ninth St. N. W., and John M. Brooks, son of Lieut. Col. and Mrs. John B. Brooks, Stoneleigh Court. THE NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY CLOSES OCTOBER 20 To order a telephone, extra listings, or ad vertising in the yellow pages just call MEtropolitan 9900