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Show Snd Persons in the Current f i 5 J - 1 ""-,1 I; I V. , 7 7V7j J r : W , ; is -77f l74j . ft 1 Tobless cripples marching to the New, York city hall to demand employment , tb lJobless cnpiJit; in h e the ..gras3 roots" Republican conference of n ',. JbJtP'' Washington, the new imperial potentate of tie ShrlnSw Midwest Opens 1936 Campaign First shots In the 1033 campaign were fired by 5,000 Mid-West Republicans Re-publicans gathered at Springfield, 111., In a "grass roots" conference, which they think sounded the keynote key-note of the G. O. P. 1333 fight for the Presidency. "Save the Constitution and democratic dem-ocratic government In America," was the pervading theme from the opening keynote of Frank O. Lowden, Low-den, former governor of Illinois. With this as a basis, the delegates declared they have formulated an expression of Midwest thought. At Excelsior Springs, Mo., James Roosevelt, son of the President, departed from a prepared address to charge that the Republican party Is dead and that the Springfield convention con-vention "Is looking for the body." The Republicans are seeking to raise a false Issue In the Constitution, Constitu-tion, Roosevelt said. Republican leaders, however, assert as-sert that the Constitution will be the leading Issue of the Presidential campaign, and that New Deal principles prin-ciples will be repudiated by the voters. Only time can tell which Is right |
