Sounding Off

Republican Roosevelt. Unimportant file-closer in G. O. P. ranks, but still stumping loyally along for the party that offers him never even a dogcatcher's nomination, Colonel Teddy Jr. pounded podiums, roared that a Third Term for his distant relation would "destroy our national unity. . . . [The New Deal has] coddled Communists [and is] shot through with Communists or fellow travelers. . . . Mr. Roosevelt has fostered this cancerous growth. . . . He will never remove it. We must remove him."

Republican Dewey. "We have practically no tanks. . . . Billions for boondoggling but not for national defense. . . ." (On the President's inspection trips) "he was busy looking for plants which have survived these last seven years. . . . The country has been led down the dark and slippery road to totalitarianism ... a road that is being steadily greased with Government money. ... To the New Dealers the things you and I learned at our mother's knee are mere 'mythology' and our traditions are 'folkways.' "

Republican Taft. The plump, crisply bobbed, forthright wife of Ohio's also-ran, Robert A. Taft: "We in America are fortunate to be able to change horses, to change from one that is floundering . . . to one that will carry us safely. . . . We must choose between a centralized government in Washington or a government by the people; between debts and deficits or a future for our children; between evasion of the Constitution or loyal observance to it; between staying out of war or being pushed into it."

Democrat Byrnes. Senator Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina, New Deal trouble shooter, was sent north this week to push over teetering New York State, coordinate ineffectual Boss Ed Flynn, amateur Tommy Corcoran. Charged Byrnes, speaking of a Willkie blast at insufficient conscription housing: "Result of Mr. Willkie's misleading statement . . . was to strike fear into the hearts of American mothers. . . ." (On tanks) "Mr. Willkie was unfair to the President, to the Army and to the Chrysler Corporation"

Democrat LaGuardia. Able, belligerent little "Butch" LaGuardia, who hooked a fast right to a Detroit heckler's nose this week, stumped mightily for the President: "If Wendell Willkie is a businessman, I am Mercury. . . . [Willkie is] a promoter par excellence, a ballyhoo artist . . . but unreliable and uninformed and with absolutely no business background. . . . While Wendell Willkie was plugging Commonwealth & Southern, President Roosevelt was building the soundest defense for this country. .

Democrat Ickes. "Honest Harold" let Midwest voters have it: "Does anybody . . . believe that Mr. [Ernest] Weir would be raising these millions of dollars to elect Mr. Willkie if he believed that Mr. Willkie was in fact a wholehearted supporter of collective bargaining? . . . (Recalling that on April 11, 1939 Willkie said: "If we are patient, we will see the time when men like Girdler are recognized as the true heroes of America.") "That is what Wendell Willkie thinks of Tom Girdler--a true American hero. . . ."

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