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Gov. Clement Indicts Republicans in Fiery Democratic Keynote Speech
EVEK
Tuesday, August 14. 1938
Listeners React
49 Times With
Loud Applause
Chicago (U.R) Frank G.
Clement started shouting at 9:18
p.m. (CDT).
When he stopped at 10:30 p.m.
it was a good thing no Republi
cans were around. Those Demo
crats would have eaten 'em
alive.
One flush-faced delegate ven
tured the opion it was the great
est keynote address ever deliv
ered. Anyway, he said, "It was
terrific just terrific."
Tennessees 36-year-old gov
ernor brought to his keynoter
role evangelical zeal and the
fruits of a bible-reading Meth
odist upbringing plus training in
the law.
COP Indicted
He dedicated the Democratic
party to the "Greater Glory of
God," created a reasonable doubt
that the Republicans were on
the side of providence, indicted
the GOP on 10 felonious counts
and found it guilty as charged.
Judging by the way the Demo
crat reacted, it was one of the
most rousing speeches ever heard
at a political convention.
From Clement's viewpoint, it
may have been too rousing. He
had counted in advance on 41
interrupations for applause and
had timed himself accordingly.
There were 49, and he had to
cut a paragraph here and there.
Clement clearly is an addict of
alliteration. He said the Demo
crats would nominte "candidates
of competence and conscience"
who would drive out the "party
of privilege and pillage."
Dull 'FraU and Flits'
He said of Secretary of State
Dulles, a Republican, that John
Foster "fiddles, fritters, frets and
flits." He said Republicans "fol
low a fantastic, frantic and fatal
foreign policy."
He scored "the Republican
triple B Benson, below parity,
and bankruptcy."
No delegate who heard him
will ever deny Clement's ability
to sway an audience from time
to time. He even had the Demo
crat applauding President Eis
enhower. That happened when he said
that "no God-fearing Democrat"
wishes the Republican President
"anything less than the best of
health and the greatest of hap
piness." Clement touched off an ova
tion for Mr. Truman when he
said that "the greatest asset of
this convention" is that Mr. Tru
man is present to remind Demo
crats to "fight! fight! fight!" Mr.
Truman, attending the conven
tion for the first time, radiated
approval of Clement's speech,
which was reminiscent of his
own "Give 'em hell" style.
Mrs. Truman gently nudged
the former president to his feet
to acknowledge the ovation.
Excerpts From Address
Excerpts from Gov. Clement's
keynote address:
The Eisenhower administra
tion is "a Republican adminis
tration with a sordid record of
broken promises . a party
which degenerated while out of
power to the extent that it was
not qualified to govern upon its
return a party that four years
ago admitted to the world that
it did not have within its ranks
a single bona fide member whose
record and ability could com
mand the confidence of the peo
ple" and nominated "a genial,
glamorous and affable general
who had joined the Republican
party after retirement ..."
"The President's record and
his party's record are one and
the same. He cannot pry them
apart."
Farm Income Down
"... The farmer's income"
is "down 26 per cent under the
Eisenhower- Nixon- Benson ad
ministration." "... The vast gains of la
bor . . . are now gravely endang
ered, while the barons of big
business in the national admin
istration look upon the laboring
man as a sort of secondary citi
zen ..."
"... The present national ad
ministration has denied small
business a rightful share of the
expanding opportunities in Am
erica, in favor of monopolistic
mergers and big business dom
ination ..."
"... The Republican party
is guilty of corruption in high
places involving an unprecedent
ed spree of giveaways, grab and
greed."
"A veil of secrecy has been
thrown around activities ... in
Washington ..."
Power Delegated
"... The action of General
Eisenhower in announcing dele
gation of the powers of his of
fice into the hands of associates
is in violation of the spirit of
the constitution ..."
"... The natural resources
and public facilities of this
country have been made the
subject of bargain-counter give
aways ..."
"... Republican promises of
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MRS. ROOSEVELT
Use Husband's Own Words
Suspense Building Over What's Going On
In Smoke-Filled Convention Backrooms
By DOC QUIGG
United Press Correspondent
Convention Hall, Chicago
flJ.R) No matter what clinching
deals may be firming up in the
filter-smoked backrooms of the
Democratic National convention,
the mood of the individual dele
gate on the floor seems to be
one of vague urgency, of asking
"what's up?" There's a good deal
of shopping around among dele
gates in a "what's-going-to-hap-pen?"
attitude. Suspense is
building. The general consensus
appears to be that anything can
happen.
The delegates were glad to
have the definite, positive, spell
binding keynoter of Gov. Frank
G. Clement Monday night. They
listened to him, smiled at his
verbal nipups. roared at his
fighting phrases. Many of them
sat enthralled through parts of
his address, mouths open as if to
exclaim: "Gee whiz!"
A good part of his success lay
in the fact that he is a thunder
ing speaker. When he talks the
loudspeaker bellows. But when
he sat down and Mrs. Roosevelt
came on to speak, she didn't pro
ject loudly over the speaker sys
tem. Many of her words were so
soft-spoken that they were lost
on the audience.
One delegate, when Clement
finished speaking, opined happi
ly that "this is the Elvin Presley
of the Democratic party." An
other said simply: "Billy Gra
ham, move over."
Although Mr. JYuman and
Mrs. Roosevelt, sitting facing
each other in opposite mezza-
tax reduction were deliberately
altered to favor the corporate in
terests." "... The Republicans have
wilfully permitted our foreign
policy to be streaked with inde
cision and blurs ..."
"Civil rights, segregation, and
related issues will be to the fore
front in 1956 ... we must re
spectfully resolve our problems
within the framework of our
great party ..."
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Mrs. Roosevelt Asks Democrats
To Turn To
Chicago 'UPJ Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt told the Democratic
Party Monday night to put
Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New
Deal" into the past and find, a
young leader with a bold new
program of his own.
The 71-year-old former first
lady used her husband's own
words in a motherly lecture tell
ing her fellow Democrats that
Harry S. Truman's "Fair Deal"
also belonged to history.
"All you have to fear, the only
thing you have to fear is fear it
self," she quoted her late hus
band. Mrs. Roosevelt, introduced as
"The first lady of the world,"
calmly and precisely delivered
what almost amounted to a sec
ond convention keynote speech.
nines, were focal points of atten
tion during much of the eve
ning, the show was stolen at one
point by the former president's
wife, Bess. While the photogra
phers snapped the Trumans,
Judge Rosenman smilingly
thrust a "Truman for presi
dent" button between them.
Without cracking a smile, Mrs.
Truman silently but firmly
pushed the button down out of
sight.
Backstage, after appearing on
the platform with Clement, the
11-year-old stock market whiz
and television star, Leonard
Ross, gravely discussed the mar
ket with hangers-on. A page boy
asked Leonard what he thought
of Hiltorf hotel stock. Pretty
good, said Leonard, and listed
the pros and cons.
"Thanks," said the page, "I've
got 200 shares."
A comically inclined sergeant-at-arms
walked up and said:
"Say, kid. I've got 10 bucks.
How should I invest it?"
Without batting an eye, Leon
ard replied: "Slot machine."
Gloria Lockerman, 13, the
Elliott Roosevelt
Sums Up Family's Views
Chicago (U.R) Elliott Roose
velt summed up his family's po
litical views this way.
Elliott said he is behind his
mother, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt,
in her support of Adlai E. Ste
venson. His elder brother. Rep. James
Roosevelt (D-Calif.) also- is for
Stevenson.
John, the youngest Roosevelt
son, still is a Republican, as he
was in 1952. Elliott said.
As for his sister, Anna, he
said only, "she's a Democrat."
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years before a damage suit he
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Younger Leadership
It was in sharp contrast to the
fiery words of the official key
noter, 36-year-old Gov. Frank C.
Clement of Tennessee.
Pleads for New Youth
She emerged as a sort of elder
stateswoman of the party, with
her plea for new youtj) and
vigor, which came from her en
dorsement of 56-year-old Adlai
E. Stevenson for the presidential
nomination over Averell Harri
man, 64-year-old candidate of
Mr. Truman and former official
of both the "New Deal" and
"Fair Deal" administrations.
In a voice that wavered only
slightly despite her admitted fa
tigue from politicking, hand
shaking and autographing, Mrs.
Roosevelt said there had been a
lot of talk about living up to the
spelling demon who was intro
duced by Clement as a young
Democrat, was asked later how
she would vote for president two
elections from now, when she's
of voting age.
"I don't know," said Gloria.
"Well, how does your grand
mother vote?"
"Don't know," said Gloria.
"She never tells me."
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traditions of the Roosevelt and
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reason to be "proud" of those
traditions, she said, adding:
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oldest Democratic party, but our
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Must Have Courage
"They must take into account
the advice of their elders, but
have the courage to look ahead,
to face new problems with new
solutions."
Before she spoke, Mrs. Roose
velt sat in a box across the con
vention floor from Mr. Truman.
She received a standing ovation
from the delegates as she
mounted the speaker's platform
as the band played "The Side
walks of New York."
Sitting earlier with her son,
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film on the Democratic party
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husband's administration and the
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To Attack COP at
Demo Convention
Chicago (U.R) Democratic
women got their turn to attack
the Republican administration
today at a "ladies' day" session
of the Democratic National Con
vention. Mrs. Katie Louchheim, direct
or o f Democratic women's ac
tivities, opened the feminine at
tack with a charge that the Re
publicans have substituted "atti
tudes" for "action" and "plati
tudes" for "programs." She was
followed to the platform by
Democratic women members of
Congress.
Resource Down Drain
With a record high 650 wom
en delegates and alternates in
the audience, Mrs. Louchheim
compared past Democratic ad
ministrations with the "sorry
spectacle we are witnessing to
day." government by "stag din
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her turn, hit at the "orgy of oil
leasing" and GOP water, power
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Rep. Edith Green. Oregon,
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Salem (U.R) An interim
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Girl Scouts Join in
Demo Placard Parade
Chicago (U.R) Six girl scouts
today joined the parade of fem
ininity toting placards around
Democratic convention head
quarters.
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