Governor Bricker to ‘accept’ in speech tonight
New Deal abuses liberties, he says
Mitchell, Indiana (UP) –
Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, Republican vice-presidential nominee, today charged the Roosevelt administration with “threatening, abusing and trammeling” essential American liberties as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
Mr. Bricker, en route to French Lick, Indiana, where he will formally accept the GOP vice-presidential nomination in an address before the Indiana Republican Editorial Association tonight, told a group of Republicans here that the GOP was campaigning against an administration which was “conceived in defeatism.”
KDKA, WJAS and WCAE will broadcast Mr. Bricker’s speech at 10:30 p.m. ET.
Mr. Bricker said here:
The New Deal has always operated on the conviction that ours is a mature economy – that there are no more frontiers – that America is bankrupt and that we will have to liquidate our liberties and be regimented into a socialistic, totalitarian bureaucracy.
The Ohio Governor chose the Hoosier state, a critical political unit for the Republicans, as a step in the national party strategy to win Congressional seats in anticipation of victory for the Dewey-Bricker ticket.
The governor was accompanied from Columbus by a party of Ohio state and GOP officials and newspapermen. Mrs. Bricker came from Louisville, Kentucky, where she attended a National Federation of Women’s Republican Clubs convention.