Show GENERAL SI HUGH HUCH S S. S JOHNSON Jour A at Mater Washington D O. O C. C WILLKIE AND LA GUARDIA Mr Wilkie in the campaign now closed pointing to the mounting debts and deficits of the th federal government government gov and the trend toward price inflation If It It Isn't stopped said ald Its U like flke a person paying premium premiums into a life lUe insurance company that if is becoming bankrupt The premiums premium are paid but the principal Is I. never called back from the bankrupt Insurance Insurance In In- aurance company Whereupon Mayor LaGuardia jumped up and down squeaking reckless Irresponsible irresponsible Irre Irre- false fals The mayor said that If Mr Willkie Will Will- kle kie had made such auch a statement In New York about an Insurance company com corn pany he could have been arrested and sent to jail He called it 1 an Insult to congress and an attempt to frighten the aged women children chil dren and the blind and our government government government govern govern- ment has never repudiated a legal obligation Every Everyone one knows that I would like to have Mr LaGuardia LaGuar LaGuar- dla dia show me the law that would put puta a stockholder of an on Insurance company company com com- pany In New York in jail for protesting protesting protesting pro pro- testing a course of waste and extravagance extravagance Inevitably leading to bankruptcy bankruptcy bank bank- and the loss of policyholders policyholders' benefits It was ridiculous There Is no such law except as 88 to false state state- ments We are all stockholders Inthis Inthis in inthis this government Mr Willkie was completely correct and well within his rights CAMPAIGN HISTORY At the close of his 1932 campaign the Republicans fired a shot that threw a terrific scare Into Mr I Roosevelt's headquarters I was there and I know They said that in rank violation of the specific platform Mr Roosevelt planned to debase the gold content of the dollar dol dol- lar Public reaction adverse to Mr Roosevelt was so alarming that something had to be done about It it right now Mr Roosevelt's record record rec rec- ord for keeping promises as 81 governor governor governor gover gover- nor of New York was nothing to write home about There was however however how how- ever one man in our camp whose honor was so bright and his hi knowledge knowledge knowl know edge so profound that his word would be accepted at absolute par by aUthe all aU the people His Ills name was Carter Glass He lie was ill but our need was great enough to drag him from froma a sick bed After conference with the candidate candidate candi candi- date he went on the air and delivered delivered ered the most devastating blast of I the campaign repudiating the Republican Republican Re Re- publican charge as an assault on the credit of the United States Mr Roosevelt called it a magnificent magnificent mag and then proceeded proceed proceed- ed to register gravity earnestness and sincerity In indignant denial Words could not have been invented to make clearer or more emphatic that no such terrible thing world ever be done Six months after his election Mr Roosevelt violated the promise of his platform the promise of Senator Glass Ulass his own most solemn promise WILLKIE AND JOE PEW FEW During the campaign Mayor LaGuardia La La- Guardia said that Joe Pew dictated the nomination of Mr Willkie at Philadelphia What are the facts I know and like Joe Pew He is forthright but an Economic Royalist with the courage of his conviction He le pays the best wages in Indus Indus- try ry He lie takes care of his workers in sickness and in health His men will tell teU you that he be is la the best employer they know but h he is frankly frank frank- ly 11 a political reactionary At Philadelphia he was enthusiastic tic for Robert Taft All the politicos were against Wendell Willkie Mr Pew actually did control the Pennsylvania Penn Perm sylvania delegation When the critIcal crit crit- cal Ical ballot c came me he be missed the boat After sticking consistently with Taft Tafton Tafton on on that last ballot when Pennsylvania's Pennsyl vania's vanla's time to vote came the state tate passed palled If Joe Pews Pew's Intention was waso to o push Wilkie over and claim credIt cred credo It t he certainly missed the bus Before Before Be Be- fore ore Pennsylvania could vote the upsurge up up- surge of popular opinion for had tad been so great that he was nomInated nom nom- before Pennsylvania voted Every newspaper man knows the truth of what I say Joe Pew never came ame out for Willkie until others had bad nominated him One reason for the defeat of A At Al Smith In 1928 was that he went through the Middle West surrounded on n the back platform not by those prairie roughneck neighbors of mine nine but by long life-long friends New friends New Nework York ork and Tammany politicians They may b be all aU right but they can never click In the great grut open spaces At Ali Als answer to criticism was I Iam Im 1 am m not ashamed of my friends friend Take ake me as al I am or not at all all That is I. high principle but not good politics Wilkie hadn't been a particular friend or familiar of Joe Pew But Dut when he went through Pennsylvania during the campaign Joe hopped the train and stayed That wasn't Wendells Wendell's Wendells Wen Wen- dells dell's fault It was wn just his innate sense ense of hospitality lie He couldn't kick Ick an ardent supporter out on the way of MORE HISTORY When you stop to revl review w the year and nd cam campaign aign just passed you cant can't avoid void saying that the Willkie Wilkie upsurge up up- urge surge Is one of the most remarkable political phenomena in our history |