Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1936, Page 7

Landon Oklahoma Speech Citizens Reminded of Days When Presidential Candidate Worked With Pipe- line Gang. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, October 23.— The text of Gov. Alf M. Landon’s ad- dress at & Republican rally here today follows: Paying a visit to Oklahoma and to your city is always a genuine delight to me.- It is like visiting with a next door neighbor who has been an intimate friend for many years. Your .State and my State are neighbors. We understand each other. We know each other’s problems. More than that—I have many warm personal associations with your State. Today I count many of my closest friends among the people of Oklahoma. I first worked in Oklahoma as & very young man nearly 30 years ago. That was on a pipel?ne gang. We were putting in a line both north and south of McAlester. I remember my first travels through your State. I can remem- ber to this day what a treat it was to get into McAlester on a Sunday. I didn't even have a horse and buggy. I rode in an old-fashioned buck-board. It was pretty hard going in those days. We were doing well if we averaged six miles an hour. A little later we got the automobile. But it still took us four hours to drive through the Osage country from Bartlesville to Pawhuska. Now it has become a simple job to journey several hun- dred miles in a single day. So I have seen with my own eyes our communities and States drawn closer and closer together. I have been in almost every part of this State. Iam well acquaint- ed with it from the Western Pan- handle to the Kiamichi Mountains. More than that. I am one of you. I pay taxes in Oklahoma. And I frequently run down to look over my leases and properties in your State. So talking to Oklahomans is not # new experience for me. But it is a new, and a most gratifying, ex- perience to be introduced by your distinguished former ~Governor, William H. Murray. Record of Murray Praised by Landon. Gov. Murray has a record of gervice that goes far beyond his splendid record as Governor. He represented the people faithfully and well throughout his long and distinguished service in Congress. He was president of the convene tion that gave Oklahoma its pres- ent constitution. Gov. Murray has won national Tecognition as a liberal and a pro- gressive. But all his life he has been a straight party Democrat. His political friends and associates have always been in the Demo- cratic party. He has suffered many attacks at the hands of Re- publicans—and he has returned them blow for blow, as the Re- publicans well remember. There are many people in this country who are not closely affi- liated with ejther party. Some- times they vote Republican; soms= times they vote Democratic. But for a strict party man, there has been but one standard of political conduct—party regularity. You people of Oklahoma fully realize what loyalty to the Democratic party has meant in this State. You know, therefore, what it means when a former Democratic Governor with a lifelong record of party regularity introduces the Republican nominee for the presi- dency. It means severing political friendships of long standing. It means opening himself to political penalties in the years to come, It means endangering the whole po- litical future of many of his loyal supporters of the past. This is not an easy thing to do. Only one who has been in politics can appreciate fully how great the issue must be to cause a recognized leader to leave his party. Only a threat to our form of Government itself could cause a man like Gov. Mur- ray to take this step. Party Deserted For National Loyalty. If it were merely that I am his friend, that I am a neighbor from an adjoining State on the north, that I know your State and your problems almost as well as I know Kansas, Gov. Murray would not have done this. He would not now be a member of that distinguished group of Americans who are put- ting their country above their party name. I mean John W. Davis, the Democratic nominee for President in 1934; Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic nominee for President in 1928; Bainbridge Colby, Secre- tary of State in the Democratic administration of Woodrow Wilson; Joseph Ely, who recently finished his term as Democartic Governor of Massachusetts: James A. Reed, former Democratic Senator from Missouri; Lewis W. Douglas, former Representative at Large from your neighbor State of Arizona, and director of the budget in this ad- ministration until he no longer could go along with its financial policies. These are only a few. There are a host of others. As I say, these Democratic lead- ers have put loyalty to country above fealty to & party name, They have been moved not alone by principles, but by a desire to save the Democratic party itself. And they have not been alone in this. Countless other Democrats Zeel as strongly as they do. ‘They have made no open break, but they will state their position emphatically at the ballot boxes next month. Their feelings are strong enough to make them rise above the party name, even though it means breaking political habits | of 8 life-time. When they go to the polls they ‘will not alone be protesting the at- tempt made by this administra- tion to change the fundamental principles of our American govern- ment. They will be rejecting a man who has attempted this change without a mandate from either the citizens of this country or his own party convention. Democrats have joined Republi cans in resisting this attack on the very foundation of our political structure. It is not surprising that former political differences have been forgotten—that men and - women of all parties have -joined forces to turn out an administra- tion that violates its oath to sup- port and uphold the Constitution of the United States. Every citi~ zen has the right to ' criticize. Every citizen has the right to his “ ‘own opinion. But this is-far dif- ferent from the deliberate attempt of the Chief Executive to break r down the confidence of our peo- ple in the integrity and independ- ence of the Supreme Court. Natural Opposition Of Real Democrats. And it is only natural that real Democrats should join Repub- licans in the defense of State's rights —of home rule — against greater centralization of power in Washington. The party of Jeffer- son has always been the jealous guardian of State’s rights. One of the best defenses of State’s rights in recent years was made by the Democratic Governor of one of our great States. He pointed out that our country was too vast, its regional interests and conditions too diversified, to be fitted into a straitjacket tai- lored in Washington. This con- vincing statement was made by & Governor of the great State of New York. The name of this Governor was Franklin D. Roosevelt. But he made this statement when he was only a candidate for the presi- dency—when. he still talked the policies and beliefs of the Demo- cratic party. oOnce in office, these policies and these beliefs were forgotten. As candidate he looked in one diiec- tion; as President he Jooks in another. This has been true, not only of -his attempts to create a one-man government of sweeping and unlimited powers, bat of his financial, social and economic poli= cies as well. In the program of the present administration there are uone of the historic stands of the Demo- cratic party. To real Democrats respect for the Constitution, re- spect for the Supreme Court and respect for the rights of the States, have been more than mere theories. They have been cher- ished because of their practical application to our daily lives. They guarantee those personal liberties that American citizens nossess to a greater degree than the people of any other nation on earth. Here in Oklahoma you have been particularly interested in the plans of this administration for solving the growing farm tenancy prob- lem. This should have been one of the first problems attacked by this administration. But you know that so far it has been talk, not action. In fact, this administration has made the tenancy problem worse through its large payments to big landowners. The Republican program would limit such benefits to the family type of farm. It would not help corporation farmers concentrate land ownership still further. The farm-tenancy problem is one of the most serious long-time prob- lems confronting the Nation. It is more than just a farm problem. It touches every State, every sec- tion and every field of endeavor, and there is no problem that I am more eager to solve. Correction Demand of National Welfare, Our national welfare demands that this situation be corrected. If history teaches us anything, teaches that the stability of civili- zation depends upon ownership of the land by the man who works the land. The owner-operated farm is the foundation of a sound agriculture. 1t is our pledge to extend, within the limits of sound finance, ade- quate credit at reasonable rates, to capable tenants and experienced farmers, for the purchase or re- financing of farm homes. Protection of the family type of farm is the philosophy that runs like a thread through the Repube lican platform. It is in keeping with the American tradition, which is based upon preserving individual opportunity. And we must pree serve that opportunity if our farm boys and girls are to make the farm their homes and farming their life work. With the election less than two weeks away the present adminis- tration is desperately worried. It knows that it will not be re-elected if it depends upon voluntary sup- port. So it has turned to coercion. You in Oklahoma know how the W. P. A. was used ruthlessly in your primary campaign. It is the same “story in every State. The facts were given me in the Eastern and Central States. I heard the same report this week while going through New Mexico. I heard it in California. I heard it in Arizona. But I know that American voters cannot be buliled into voting for any party. The Democrats of Minnesota were sold down the river. At the last minute their major State candi- dates deserted the people who nom- inated them in an effort to swing votes to an extreme left-wing group. Nebraska Democrats In Like Condition. The Democrats in Nebraska have suffered a like® experience. One of the principal candidates—the nominee to the United States Sen- ate—has been deliberately spurned by the present administration. The present administration in ‘Washington is not a Democratic administration at all. It has for- feited all claims of allegiance from PREPARE your car for winter driving Come in Today and Get 1. 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Va., October 23 (#).—Marriage licenses were issued here yesterday to the following: War~ fleld Harrell of Stephens City, Va., and Miss Nannie Elizabeth Newcome of Winchester, Va.; William Page Bodmer and Miss Louise Clayton Orr, both of Leesburg, Va. and Wilbert Burch and Miss Grace Mae Jones, both of Washington. WAR ON ABSENTEE BALLOTS DROPPED West Virginia Circuit Court Throws Out Case Against Capital Residents. Special Dispateh to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va, October 23.—Action to strike from the ab- sentee voters' registration list names of more than 600 persons, residing mainly in Washington, on the ground that they were not bona fide Berkeley County residents, was dropped yester- day afternoon after several hours of argument before the Berkeley County Court. The matter was dismissed when Frank Parrick of Washington, counsel for the plaintiff, J. Willlam Kastle of Martinsburg, chairman of the County Republican Executive Commit- tee, concurred in the view of coun- sel for the defendants, headed by Clarence E. Martin of Martinsburg, that there was a question as to whether the defendants had been given sufficlent time to answer and also whether use of a registered letter to their last known address was suf- ficient. In the original argument, defend- ants counsel had contended the service upon his clients was irregu- lar because no bill of particulars had been served. During the early argu- ment it developed there tere a num- ber of cases in which the same name appeared in more than one precinct. Parrick, upon this revelation, asked for a correction of the lists as the first move, .but when he returned to the hearing after luncheon recess he said a study of the matter convinced him there was a question as to the sufficiency of the procedure. Letters to the affected non-residents were sent out last week. 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Indians, wearing their hair in long braids and blankets draped about their shoulders, applauded the candidate at the station and at the hotel. Many wore Landon placards in their 10- gallon hats. Murray began his introduction of Landon with the statement that he spoke “in default of the chief executive | of the State.” Shortly before, Gov. E. W. Marland, Democrat, had said Murray’s introduc. tion of the Republican nominee would remove him “forever from Democratic party influence in Oklahoma.” CHARGES MISUSE OF FUNDS. Policies Pauperizing Government, Says Landon. ABOARD LANDON SPECIAL EN ROUTE TO OKLAHOMA CITY, October 23 (#).—Gov. Alf M. Landon, driving his campaign tor Democratic support eastward into Oklahoma to- day, contended President Roosevelt's | policies have “pauperized the Federal Government” and his administration “is using the people's money directly and indirectly to secure his re- election.” The Republican nominee’s bid for Oklahoma’s 11 electoral votes was centered upon addresses at Oklahoma City and Tulsa and conferences with Willam H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray, former Democratic Governor; other anti-New Deal leaders of the State, and Republican party chieftains. In a formal statement Landon FHR A—-7 said the President “would conceal the facts in order to effect his pro- gram of making over our American form of government.” His seven-page discussion of Roose- velt’s Worcester, Mass, speech con- tended the Democratic nominee “again evaded the question” of whether he intends “‘o revive the policies of regimentation” and “de- stroy our system of free enlerprise and constitutional government.” “Once more I challenge him to be candid with the American people.” Landon said. “Let them know juss what he intends to do. It is the only honest procedure for a candidate for the presidency of the United States.” The Kansas Governor said that “in- stead of answering,” his Democratic rival “harks back to our retarded and artificial recovery—a recovery which, at the cost of $25,000,000,000 and a debt almost doubled—has left 11,000,- 000 unemployed and 20,000,000 on relief without hopes for the future. 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