Attacks Bossism -- Frank Hague by name

""I could wish at this moment that I were not speaking to you as a candidate in this election year. If I were not a candidate I could describe without- self-intwerest in the tragedy that has befallen one of our great political parties.

"I ask this question: What deal,has the New_deal made with these men? What are they going to eal out to the'--voters, if elected?....

"But the New Deal party thinks that these men can deliver the votes of the great States of New York, Illinois and New Jersey. they are so cnfident of the power of these machines that they don't even make an argument. They don’t even discuss the issues in this campaign. Their candidate pretends not to know whether his speeches are political or not. I have no difficulty in determining whether his speeches are political or not.

"Is any one here so gullible as to think third third-term candidate is paying no no attention to politics?

.~~:'Inn;ri:'l+~-.jS-p;'¥;ng nnat~t"i-on. to politics? - - "Is anyone here so gullible so charitable to think, in the light of the record, that thoseinspection trips, those dramatic gestures, - those suddenly created emergencies are all non-political? I was just recently out in Pittsbugh and Youngstown, Ohio, and I never realized before that they were military centers until after I left and the third-term candidate announced he was going on a military in pectlon trip to those points...

"He tells us that he, and he alone, represents democracy in this world

"But I say – that he cannot represent the democracy that I stand for while he seeks to perpetuate his power through petty Hitler’s right here at home…