Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27
Public Discusses Position
Of Curtis on Chief Issues

| Outstanding points commented upon
IN the speech of Senator Charles Curtis
accepting the nomination for Vice
| President on the Republican ticket, are
| his treatment of the farm problem and
| his stand on prohibition Representa-
tlves of various political groups assume
| that he is more inclined to the dry
cause than his running mate. His rec
ord on farm relief is subject OF dis
| cuSSion
In declaring that measures for the
| Improvement of the agricultural situa-
ton should net be made a matter of
partisan politics he was entirely right. "
thinks the Columbus Evening Dispatch
independently. while the Charleston
Daily Mail independent Republican,
holds that when he expressed the
opinion that the problem. rs it espe-
cially affects the Western States. should
be solved by II non-partisan body. he
talked sound sense" The Olean Herald
independently believes that he has
opened the way for a leading issue to
be senSibly worked out"
Comment Oh this subject from the
New York Sun independently likenS the
Curtis plan to the move by which THE
gold standard act of 1900 came from
the lahorS of the Reed committee, 4" but
the Sun warns that curing the farmers
real woes may be far more complex a
task than balancing the values OF pre-
ciouS metals" The Rochester Democrat
and Chronicle tRepuhlican) feels that
The holds the confidence and respect
OF the people of the West TO an unusual
degree; that he has served them
faithfully during all the years he has
been in Congress. and IN that fact there
Is assurance that he will serve the
country Well II elected Vice President"
The Curtis speech contributes TO the
paramountcy of prohibition as a cam
paign issue" says the St Joseph News
Press independently. I'm the light of
his declaration, the Republican party
is seen more distinctly as the dry
party" The Providence Journal Gin
DEPENDENT states that he took strong
Republican ground in his speech, the
Reno Evening Gazette (Republicanl
that 1t is quite brief as such addresses
so. but II Is directly To the point" and
the Minneapolis Tribune Republican,
that 1t lis n simple, modest. undra~
matte document ON Republican party
achievement and Republican party pro-
gram for future stewardship If Ii Is
continued IN national power"
WI 1V NtNAHt ElltA HIS tflN CINCINNATI
TlmeS-Star tRepuhliean). "the matters
which Senator Curtis discusses have
been the subject of his continuous la
Dor The country will remember his
conspicuous part III writing them into
It's history" The uniontown Herald
tRepuhllcanl points out that In his talk
there was unequlvocal Endorsement Of
party and Of program outlined by his
presidential running mate" And the
Wheeling Iutellsgeneer tRepuhlicanl di~
reefs attention to the thought that the
Senator stressed leading principles of
political doctrine which have guided the
Coolidge administration and which MIR.
Hoover has pledged himself to continue
and enlarge"
His address was digniiled easily UNI
defstandahle, and showed no sign what
ever OF any effort at oratory There
WAS contained III IL no hint whatever
of criticism Of the opposition, but ii was
rather an assured statement of conf
dence In success for the party he repre-
sents," In the Judgment of the Nash
vile Banner independently, which adds
that ~ could aSaly give ofrense, and