Imperial Valley press., 1928-06-13
MOSES
HURLS Def AT
BOURBON PARTY
challenges Democrats To
Bring Forth Its Strong
est Candidate
BY CARL D. GROAT
Omitted Press Staff Correspondentl J

CONVENTION HALL, Kansas
City, Mo-, June l3.-The Republican
party through Senator Moses, of
New Hampshire, permanent chair.
man Of the national convention,
Luricd at tho Democratic party and
Tammany Hall today challenge to
battle.
Declaring in his speech to the
thousands masscd in convention
hall that the Republicans would ad-
gust their own differences through
a wise spirit Of accommodation :
Moses dared the Democrats to
bring forth their strongest champ
ion, promising that eve are ready
FOR him and will bury him. -
PIcdging his own party not to
shirk its responsibility in deal
ing with the farm issue, Moses an
swcrcd a possible Democratic "anti-
corruption plank by saying:
In seeking a policy to assure
honest administration of the govern
mcnt of the United States we know
our people will not turn to the party
whose most recent and outstanding
achievement in this year is the
revealed grating of .$20,0o0,0oo
from Il single city,
He evidently WAS referring to
recent graft exposures in New York
city.
Will Settle Differences
" Inevitably, in a party thorough
~ national III its vision and contact,
as ours is, there will from time to
time, arise differences of opinion,
he said at the outset. Heretofore,
we have succeeded always in set
thing our differences within our own
ranks through that wise spirit of
accommodation which must charac
terize a great and far flung organ
i2ation like ours. SO it will De now
" Agriculture and industry and
the social order continue to be
prime objects of our solicitude, and
IN dealing with them, the Republi
can party will not shirk its res
possibility.
Upon the platform which we
shall thus here construct, we shall
place a candidate whose person
ality fits our principles and nation $
present necessities. We are not
barren of presidential timber. How
ever our choice may fall, we know
it will not rest in unworthy hands.
"Thcre is no occasion for the
people to distrust our party and
there is no occasion for our party to
distrust the people. Their sober
Judgment will rest with us because
In seeking II foreign policy for
the United States, we know our
people will not turn to the party
which conceived and nurtured the
League of Nations;
In seeking a fiscal policy for
the United States, we know our
people will not turn to the party
which advocated rag money and
free silver;
Ready To Fight
@ In seeking an economic policy
for the United States, we know our
people will not turn to the party
which clings to the fetish of free
trade;
In seeking policy to make the
tariff effective for every interest
in the United States, we know our
people will not turn to the party
whose strength and weakness alike
lie in its sectional character;
In seeking policy to assure
honest elections everywhere in the
United States, we know our people
will not turn to the party whose
sole title to success has rested upon
intimidation and tissue ballot and
which now rests upon the obliterat,
ed vote of four million American
free men.
owe enter this campaign in no
posture of defense. We intend to
carry this fight to the enemy And
we challenge them to bring forth
their strongest champion. Bring him
ON and we will bury him. We vel
come him with hospitable hands to
a bloody grave.
And we care not whether his
name be Brown, Jones, Robinson
or Smith.