| Show WILLKIE RAPS FORCED VOTES I OF oc Trading of Br Bread Brea ad adFor For Ballots Hit in Missouri ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN IN MISSOURI Oct 18 AP AP- AP Wendell L. L Willkie Wilkie standing before a a worn weather statue of Thomas J Jefferson efferson Friday called himself a political amateur amateur amateur ama ama- ama ama- at taking relief mon money y and forcing men to vote vote vot because the government fulfills a social obligation tio dr in ke keeping ping them from starving Wendell Willkie will never trade trad bread r for fox votes votes from those who afford ast afford 4 J demand den inde le fc the the Republican c pres presidential l ri nominee minee told a crowd in front of the Missouri capitol at Jefferson City I eI do not know how to sit down downin in dark rooms with Frank Hague and the Nashes Kelly ol ot Chicago he said I do not know anything about the stealing of votes about ma malting making lofty speeches over the radio Willkie said he could never en Continued on Page Pace Three Column Three Willkie Wilkie Assails Coercion of Ballots Calls Self Amateur at Trading Bread for Vote Continued From Page PaX One gage in duplicity In poses In the creation of imaginary Cation cI cies es I 1 know nothing know nothing about how to seek to control mens men's votes as representatives representatives rep- rep or senators in congress congress con con- gress he said by throwing the full lull force lorce of the thc patronage and power of the presidency against them in iri order to defeat them Jf If they do not become mice instead of men The Republican nominee made madeno no reference to a previously prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared text I Saying he was a believer belie In the c constitutional system the candidate candidate candidate candi candi- date added that he would never by stealth by indirection seek to destroy the power of the legislative legislative legislative legis legis- and judicial branches of government gov gov- I know nothing about drafting pamphlets that seek to smear h he continued I 1 know nothing about making up pictures that seek to divide us into classes and racial groups Wont you all like all like me or dislike dislike dislike dis dis- dis- dis like me proclaim me-proclaim proclaim to everybody you see Here is a political ama ama- Jefferson Gets Tribute Willkie paid tribute to Jefferson Jeffer Jeffer- son saying the country now should follow two of his eternal principles prin a a limitation on the power pow pow- er and continuation in office of the chief executive He had another belief Willkie Willkie Will Will- kie Ide said that every man In AmerIca America Amer Amer- ica no matter from where his ancestors ancestors ancestors an an- came perhaps ev even n if they were among those sturdy Germans who came fleeing from oppression to Missouri they MIssouri they still were entitled entitled entitled en en- titled to the right of citizenry Jefferson believed too Willkie declared that there should be no racial or religious prejudice Your ancestors who had the courage to stand up against tyranny tyranny tyranny ty ty- ty- ty ranny in the old world and find finda a haven of liberty here he said believed that here you and your children could aspire to freedom untouched by anybody except the smear group of the Democratic na u lIonal committee Willkie's stop at the state capital was scheduled before a quick campaIgn campaign campaign cam cam- tour through the suburbs of St. St Louis In the latter city itself he received a noisy welcome Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day afternoon by crowds which thronged the business district and threw confetti until the pavement was white Huge Crowd Addressed At night he spoke to an audience which filled the seats of the St St. Louis arena adding to his prepa prepared pre pre- pa pared d address to say that if President President dent Roosevelt is reelected he believed believed believed be be- American boys would be besent besent besent sent to Europe Europ In event of his own election Willkie declared no military force would be sent to the theold theold theold old world Willkie called for more and more and more production to aid Great Britain which he termed the th rim of freedom Willkie stood at one end of theoval theoval the theoval oval shaped arena arena facing a group of women In white dresses seated so that they spelled the candidates candidate's name The candidate told the crowd at atthe atthe atthe the outset he had ended two of the most ridiculous poses ever er assumed as assumed assumed as- as on or or off or-off off the American stage the stage the third term draft and the make believe ve military inspection inspection inspection tion trip He said he wanted to ask uk Mr Roosevelt three questions First if he wont won't discuss a third term what does he think about a fourth term No uNo 2 is he negotiating any secret secret secret se se- cret pacts with foreign countries about which the people do not know And third I w would uld like to see seethe seethe seethe the third term candidate justify for himself the support of three of the most corrupt political machines machines machines ma ma- chines in the world namely world namely ChIcago Chicago Chicago Chi ChI- cago Jersey City and the Bronx I |
