AMERICAN POLITICS

Evening Star, Issue 22366, 16 June 1936, Page 9

AMERICAN POLITICS

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DEMOCRATS’ SECOND NEW DEAL , - Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, Juno 14. Authoritative sources revealed to-day that the Democrats are drafting a second New Deal designed to go the Republicans platform one better. The Democrats will pledge a Federal plan of public works, whereas the Republicans favour executing such undertakings on their individual merits. The plan would permit the immediate beginning of large-scale construction in the event of another depression. The other emergency Democrat platform is to call for long range slum clearance and to endorse the Administration’s farm, social security, stock market regulation, and other operating programmes. Slum financing has not been discussed, but a new bond issue is being considered. THE PRESIDENT'S PLEA VINCENNES (Indiana), June 14. President Roosevelt made a plea for public support of the Administration’s economic and social programme at a gathering of 30,000 at the unveiling of a memorial to George Rogers Clark, the revolutionary, here to-day. The President’s speech was the third major one in a tour extending from Texas to Washington, ending to-morrow. It resembled more a sermon on morality than a political exposition. “ Our modern civilisation must constantly protect itself against moral defectives whoso objectives are the same bub whose methods are more subtle than those of their prototypes of 150 years ago,” the President said. “ We do not change from free government when we aim new weapons against the new devices of crime and cupidity.”