Speaks tonight –
Roosevelt to urge ‘get out the vote’
Democrats to hold 90,000 meetings
Washington (UP) –
President Roosevelt steps out of his Commander-in-Chief role tonight in his second campaign speech of the 1944 campaign to urge Democratic Party workers to “get out the vote” Nov. 7.
The President’s speech will occupy the top spot in a 30-minute program arranged by Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan.
WJAS and WCAE will broadcast the program at 10:00 p.m. ET.
After brief introductory speeches by Mr. Hannegan and Mrs. Charles W. Tillett, assistant party chairman, the President will speak for 20 minutes beginning at 10:05.
Mr. Hannegan said last night that more than 90,000 meetings of party workers had been arranged all over the country to hear the President speak.
There is no way of predicting in advance the nature of the President’s address. Judging, however, by his announcement in the acceptance speech that he would “answer misrepresentations” and by the tack he took in his first “political” address to the AFL Teamsters Union here, Mr. Roosevelt will respond to various attack by his opponents on the present administration and its record.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey will have a chance to respond to tonight’s speech when he delivers his next formal campaign address in Charleston, West Virginia, Saturday.