The Lincoln Times

FDR Still Wants To Retire To His Home On Hudson

Washington, Sept. 8.—A smile was President Roosevelt's reply today to Governor Thomas E. Dewey's assertion that the administration is "afraid to let men out of the Army" at the war's end because it doubts its ability to provide them with jobs.

Mr. Roosevelt also took cognizance of the Republican presidential nominee's characterization of the New Deal as tired, quarrelsome, and defeatist by repeating that he would have preferred to retire to his Hyde Park home rather than to run for a fourth term, but not because he was tired or defeated.

The President utilized his news conference—a rare occasion under the circumstances—to make his first reply to Dewey's initial campaign speech last night in Philadelphia. He usually reserves his oral shots at the opposition for a formal address.

To a request for comment on Dewey's accusation that the Roosevelt administration is "afraid" to demobilize the Army, Mr. Roosevelt grinned and told the reporters they could say that the President smiled broadly and said nothing.

Asked about the New York Governor's description of the administration as tired, quarrelsome and defeatist, he said he would reply only in this way: that he had said before he would like to go back to Hyde Park, but not because he was tired or defeated.

Democrats In 1912

"We favor single Presidential term, and to that end urge the adoption of an amendment to the Constitution making the President of the United States ineligible for re-election, and we pledge the candidate of this convention to this principle."—Democratic National Platform, 1912.