In the District of Columbia, Democratic (socialist/fascist) former governor Alfred E. Smith, of new york, delivers his “The Facts in the Case” to the annual meeting of the Liberty League, criticizing the interventionist economic New Deal policies of Democratic de facto President Franklin Roosevelt, Esq.:

[G]et the platform of the Democratic Party, and get the platform of the Socialist Party, and lay them down on your dining room table, side by side, and get a heavy lead pencil and scratch out the word ‘Democrat’, and scratch out the word ‘Socialist,’ and let the two platforms lay there.

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… It is all right with me if they want to disguise themselves as Norman Thomas or Karl Marx, or Lenin, or any of the rest of that bunch, but what I won’t stand for is allowing them to march under the banner of Jefferson, Jackson or Cleveland.

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… I suggest to them that they dig up the 1932 platform from the grave that they buried it in, read it over, and study it, breathe life into it, and follow it in legislative and executive action, to the end that they make good their promises to the American people when they put forth that platform, and the candidate that stood upon it, one hundred per cent.  In short, make good.

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… I suggest that they read their oath of office to support the Constitution of the United States.  And I ask them to remember that they took the oath with their hands on the Holy Bible, thereby calling upon God Almighty Himself to witness their solemn promise.  It is bad enough to disappoint us.

       NOTE: As an attorney (Officer of the Court) Roosevelt was ineligible to serve in two branches of government at the same time, according to Article I, Section 6 [Clause 2].

       [restored 7/15/2022]