Willkie warns of federal rule
Every ill exploited, candidate declares
Ripon, Wisconsin (UP) –
Charging that the Democratic Party was “a vehicle for the maintenance of power,” Wendell L. Willkie last night accused the New Deal of aiming at “eventual adoption of a government-controlled society.”
The candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, speaking in the town where the GOP was organized 90 years ago, charged that the New Deal had exploited the theory that the only solution for “every ill” was complete government control.
The speech was Mr. Willkie’s second in his campaign to win the support of Wisconsin delegates to the Republican National Convention.
Mr. Willkie said:
The panic of 1929 and the devastating years that followed gave impetus and encouragement to the thesis that the solution lay solely in government control.
The total result, consistently fostered by the administration, has been the illusion that there is conflict between a society built upon economic incentive and a society of human welfare.
Mr. Willkie said that the modern Democratic Party:
…provides us with a clear example of… subversion, by which an inner group has carefully nurtured its power for 12 years.