Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26

Democratic tariff policy, with other sig
natures to come when others have re-
turned home from their duties in the
campaign:
We, the undersigned Democratic can
didates for the House and Senate, re-
affirm the allegiance of our party to
non partisan tariff commission as enun-
ciated in the Democratic platform
adopted at Houston and declare our
ton placed on the tariff plank by
our standard bearer. Gov. Smith, in his
Louisville speech, when he said:
II definitely pledge that the only
change / will consider in the tariff
will be specific revisions in specific
schedules, each considered on its own
merita on the basis of investigation by
an impartial tariff commission and a
careful hearing before Congress of all
concerned. That no revision Of any
specific schedule will have approval of
the Democratic party which in any way
interferes with American standards OF
living and level of wages. In other
words. I say to the American working
man that the Democratic party will not
do a single thing that will take from
his weekly pay envelope scent piece.
To the American farmer say that the
Democratic party will do everything In
its power to put back into his pocket
all that belongs there. And we further
say that nothing will be done that will
en1barrass or interfere in any way with
the legitimate progress of business, big
or small. With this prescription hon.
estly put forth with a clear-cut and
definite promise to make 1t effective,
assert with confidence that neither Ia
Dor nor industry nor agriculture nor
business has anything to fear from
Democratic success at the polls In No
vember." And we hereby pledge our
cooperation in carrying out the princi-
pies and policies therein set forth.
G. O. P. prohibition Party"
"This leaves the question of immi-
grafton and tariff as campaign issues
as dead as Damon and leaves the Re
publican party the Prohibition party OF
the United States, as they have no other
issues"
Mr.. Raskob went on to say that Her
bert Hoover, the Republican nominee
for President, had repudiated the Smith
proposal to take the tariff out of poll
tics through the creation Of the tariff
commission and come out in favor of
retention of the political advantage OF
the old log-rolling method" The Re-
publicans also, he said, proposed to
leave the farmer outside of the tariff
wall. mo power on earth, under the
protective system as the Republicans
propose to apply 1t, can keep out the
effect Of world depression to batter
down the domestic prices OF our great
export crops" Mr.. RaSkob said.
n prefacing what he had to say on
prohibition, Mr.. Raskob quoted state
ment made by william Howard Taft.
Chief Justice Of the United States Su-
preme Court, made In 1918, in which
he predicted that prohibition would
usher in the present era of bootlegging.
He also quoted at length from the pub
lie utterances of Gov. Smith on this
topic. He cited statistics to show that
drunkenness was on the increase.
1T have aligned myself with Gov.
Smith," he said. "He never broke a
promise, evaded responsibility or lodged
an issue in his life. Sharp practice Is
an abomination to him. He is master
of the art Of political government under
the forms prescribed in our Constitu-
ton. He would not advance an nlusory
platform. He is constructive thinker
and a man of action. He gets results, ;"
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