Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume IX, Number 29, 27 October 1936 — New York World-Telegram Praises Roosevelt's Courage, Confidence [ARTICLE]

New York World-Telegram Praises Roosevelt's Courage, Confidence

(Editorial in The New York World Te!egram) You qould be proud, if you were listening, that you were an American, for over the āir eame the voice of Amierica Unafraid. The voice of the President of the United States saying, "These things we have don<?; these things we will continue to do; we are not quitting." ■ , ; That vras the essence of the Roosevelt speech, though not the That wās the message he gave to the million.s who tourned to him for leadership in 1932. the millions of the submerged whom he has rescued and who are grateful, and the message like-wise to a mueh smaller number whom he also rescued—and who are not grateful. It was the voice of courage and cohfidence, courage and eonfidenee of such degree that it sounded a new note in a campaign that had threatened tō establish a low mark in political mediocrity. Por, until now, his enemies have h'ad the air and the newspapers pretty mueh to themselves, and the air and the newspapers have been filled with whimperings and mean feārs. The President cleared the air, at least. He revealed anew that a man's sized man is istill at the controls in Washington, doing the man's sized job he was chosen to do ; wholly unbōthered by the yelping of the panicky minority. There is a political candidate in the field against the President. His eampaign to date has not been insplring. He has obviously sought to be two things—a man in whom the masses of the American people, the farmers and the laborers, could put their confidence, on the one hand, and a man to whom the privileged fēw of the past could look for reassurance t,hat their day would eome again. He has presented a blurred picture of himself a,nd his program. He has but a few short weeks in whieh to undue the damage he has done himself ānd his candidacy, in whie'h to present a negative tliat has not suffered from double exposure. The President has let a flood of light into the campaign, revealing that he knows where he is going and is moving resolutely on his way. In this light his opponent will have to reveal not only where he stands, but the direction in whieh he proposes to move —whether east or west or in a cxrcle.