The Pittsburgh Press (October 13, 1944)
Roosevelt a wolf, ex-governor says
Berwick, Pennsylvania (UP) –
President Roosevelt has dropped the role of shepherd of the people to become “a political wolf bent on raiding the rights of our citizens,” former Governor Arthur H. James told a Republican rally yesterday.
Judge James, GOP nominee for the Superior Court, said:
We have reached the point now where the government controls the people instead of the people controlling the government.
The President has issued some 78,000 directives and decrees until it has become increasingly evident that instead of being the shepherd of the American people, he has become a political wolf bent on raiding the rights of our citizens… and we now have a political dictatorship dominated by one man.
Another speaker, City Treasurer Edgar W. Baird Jr. of Philadelphia, Republican nominee for State Treasurer described the Roosevelt-Truman ticket as a “politician caravan flanked by the Hagues, Pendergasts, Hannegans, Hillmans and Browders.”