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Show Jackson Speakers Demand Roosevelt Seek Third Term . t - - .... 4' " " : , y V ') i President Bars Hint on Issue In Talk By LYLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON, Jan. S (UP) The cabinet' third term boom reverberated today in the aftermath af-termath of Jackson day addresses ad-dresses which sought to draft President Roosevelt while he spoke philosophically here of the responsibilities of high office. of-fice. He had promised a nonpartisan speech and made good with little or no partisanship in his remarks before a glittering $100 a plate audience which Included tome big social and money names as well a those of politics. Mr. Roosevelt defended the achievements of his administration and told his listeners her and, by radio, at other Jackson day dinners that the Democratic party had created cre-ated "out of the funk the pure unadulterated funk of the early '30s ... a new spirit with which we can now face the '40s." I HERE'S HARMONY AT JACKSON DAY DINNER President Franklin D. Roosevelt whispers to Vice President John N. Garner Views Future "The people of this country of ours." he said, "recognize two facts today: "The first is that the world outside out-side our hemisphere is in really bad shape ... It is a fact so big in its effect on the future of the world that all our little partisan squabbles squab-bles are a bit drab in the light of It. "The second Is that we have made great gains at home in our own economic prosperity and In the security of our Individual citizens. These gains must not be chipped away; they must be only a foundation founda-tion on which to build greater gains." But last night's political talking was being done elsewhere, in Cleveland Cleve-land and Denver and Des Moines and in Raleigh, N. C, and in others of the 45 communities which honored hon-ored the memory of Old Hickory at from $10 a plate up. Third Term Appeal "He Is our Lincoln," said Attorney Attor-ney General-designate Robert H. Jackson of Mr. Roosevelt In the most forceful third term appeal of them all before Cleveland, Ohio, diners at $25 a plate. The phrase will become a catchword of the third term drive. And Jackson compared the president presi-dent to Old Hickory, too, and found him to be "another such leader of the people." With election statistics statis-tics and a liberal use of the president's presi-dent's own effective phraseology from past performances, Jackson put it to the Democrats shall they continue to seek party support among all the people? If they do not, he said, they are lost. Republicans, he warned, had an all weather, dependable vote of around 17,000,000 for any election day. But the Democrats vary 9,150.000 in 1920, fewer than that In 1924 and then the Roosevelt sweeps, first 22.800,000 and last time 27,400,000 votes a smashing record. Bars Conservative He said there no longer was danger dan-ger that Democrats would nominate nomi-nate a conservative and he waved "take a walkers" on their way, as IContlnutd on Past Two) (Column On I i JACKSON DAY SPEAKERS URGE : ROOSEVELT THIRD TERM DRAFT most of my predecessors In the presidency" and a confession that: "I like to think that most America Ameri-ca 1 governors or presidents have seen the , . . opportunity In their office and that their motives have been primarily of service rather than of party or personal aggrandizement.' aggran-dizement.' He jibed just a little at the enemy, asserting that the Americans Ameri-cans who swallowed canned optimism opti-mism in 1929 will not awallow canned pessimism today "particularly "partic-ularly out of the same can." And he called trie role of new deal social, economic agricultural and other achievements with a word of assurance that the people "are glad the government of the United States is daily becoming more useful, use-ful, more honest and more decent." There was the merest hint perhaps per-haps in his laughing assurance that "there is really a lot of fun in this Job." Pleaa for Ubemlbm But what linked the Jackson addresses together was the plea for liberalism and the thought expressed ex-pressed by Mr. Roosevelt and others oth-ers that It was the independent, the stay-at-home and the progressive progres-sive Vote which made possible the triumphs of 1933-36 and which must be held to the party If there la to be success In 1940. That was the burden of Jackson's Jack-son's earnest third-term plea In Cleveland and of Secretary of Agriculture Ag-riculture Henry A. Wallace, at J10 a plate in Des Moines. "I hope the nominee In 1940 will be President Roosevelt," said Wallace Wal-lace to the home folk audience, which knows he, too, Is a potential presidential candidate If Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt steos aside. OoatssaoS from Pas Om) did Mr. Roosevelt In his address . kere. So, Jackson said. It was Inevitable Inevita-ble that the party now would first turn again to Mr. Roosevelt "I do not know what his answer will be," he said. "But I do know what the rank and file of Demo-. Demo-. crats and of citizens generally hope - It will be. I am one who earnestly hopes that he will not announce to I the public or even make within kimselt any decision at this time. "Why should President Roose-; Roose-; ; velt become the one man In all - public life now committed to ac-Leept ac-Leept or not to accept a nomlna-f nomlna-f tlon." 1 1 Jackson miscounted there, be- - eauee seated next to Mr. ftooae-I ftooae-I tCoaUaaeS Horn Fsso Om ' veK at the Washington dinner was Vice President John N. Garner, ; whe has announced his candidacy . regardless of Mr. Roosevelt's Intentions Inten-tions on a win, lose or draw basis. The two men met affably, notably so, last Bight, the vice president . patting the president's head as usual and the president patting the Texan's back. To shouts of . "speech" when he was Introduced, 1 Garner smiled and said nothing." There were more shouts of 'Speech" whan someone said Republicans Re-publicans might have wished to attend the dinner to hear Mr. ' Roosevelt's decision on a third 'term. On that occasion, it was the president who smiled and remained re-mained silent Mr. Roosevelt chided Republican leaders Senators Charles L Mc-Nary, Mc-Nary, Oregon, and Warren R. Austin, Aus-tin, Vermont and Representative Joseph W. Martin Jr., Massachusettsfor Massachu-settsfor rejecting the Invitation he dictated for them to attend . last night's Washington dinner as honored guests. Republican Chided Chairman Homer S. Cummlnga former attorney general of the Washington banquet directly re- ; buked the trio: . "I think," he said, "they missed . their cue when they turned aside .from gesture of goodwill and failed to do their part, In a trou-', trou-', bled time, to demonstrate the Inward In-ward unity of purpose of the . world's greatest democracy." ' Mr. Roosevelt's address was . pitched In a key of Democracy's purposeful unity, but spiced with good humor and without hint of his own political Intentions In 1940. , Because of Its philosophical char- acter, the address aroused somewhat some-what leas enthusiasm than have the president's hard-hitting politl-.cal politl-.cal or campaign utterances as when a year ago at the Jackson .' day gathering he brusquely Invited v conservatives to desert the party ; and summoned liberals and pro--greaslvea to rally around the new ; deal-Democratic atandard. lesser Party Ties Last night It was different a defense of the fact that "I hold party lines less tenaciously than Wallace and Jackson were spokesmen of the new deal group which la out In the open now to persuade the president to undertake under-take another four years In the White House. From those significant signifi-cant third-term persuasions, the Jackson day draft-Roosevelt movement move-ment slowed considerably as other speakers had their say. Speaker William B. Bankhead and former Attorney General Homer S. Cummlnga. at the Washington Wash-ington dinner, highly praised the president Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D., Mont), who hopes to head the 1940 ticket spoke In Denver. He, paid tribute to the president |