The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-10-17
AL SC0FFS AT
REPUBLICANS
HUGE SAVINGS
Brands as False Statements
That Prudent Spending Re-
duced Expenses
HOOVER is CHALLENGED
Charges Present Administra.
tion With New Kind Of
Trick Bookkeeping
HOOVER is CHALLENGED

Sedalia, Mo-, Oct. 17.-(R-Leav
ing Missouri to ponder over hi,
triple assault on Coolidge economy
Governor Smith carries his party's
standard into Illinois today to await
the signal for the seventh and last
speech Of his second campaign tour
Chicago was the destination Of the
Democratic nominee, who planned to
board his special train here in the
forenoon. The schedule calls for his
arrival at 9:45 o'clock tonight in the
Lake Michigan metropolis. and for
stops en- route, for rear platform ap-
pearances, at Springfield. Blooming
ton, Joliet, and possibly other IL
linois cities. The governor will spend
three nights in Chicago, his speech
being planned for Friday night.
Slashing into Republican claims Of
huge savings in the cost Of govern
ment in recent years. the nominee,
in his address last night before an
audience that packed the huge live
stock pavilion at the state fair
grounds and cheered him on, painted
what he called "three pictures. with
economy claims as his model.
Charges Expense Fallaey
After charging his opposition with
predicating its campaign upon "mis-
representation" the nominee took up
his first picture and asserted +hat
claims that federal expenses have
been reduced through '.pruucn,
spending" economy and good meth
DDS formed zone of the grossest fall
lacies offered by the Republican
party"
picture No. 81 as he called it,
led the governor through q maze Of
figures on what moneys he said were
actually spent during the last two
Republican administrations, and hi
was loudly applauded when he saiG
that "all Of the departments Of the
governments together in 1927 cos
$200. .000, 900 more than they did II
1924" He challenged Herbert Hoo
yer and President Coolidge, whom he
described as " the chief apostle o1
economy" to disprove the statistic.
he read.
For the third picture the nominee
chose as his subject the neglect ol
the postponement or the failure tc
appropriate for certain well-knowr
wants of the government" and in
this connection he charged the Wash
ington administration with a "new
kind Of trick bookkeeping" which, he
said, could not operate in the state
Of New York.
Attacks Work Statement
Near the end of his address Gov
ernor Smith seized upon a report
made by Chairman Work of the Re-
publican national committee while
he was secretary Of the interior, in
which he was quoted as having said
the government was trying to feed
Indian children at the rate Of 8 cents
. day per child, and statement once
made by Secretary Of War Davis
calling attention that housing facil-
tiles for the American soldier
amounted to almost a national dis
grace"
This, he said, was a fair example
Of what the Republican party had
done in the way Of reducing the cost
Of government. He then directed 4
question to Mr.. Hoover:
Does he approve Of . national
economy that starves out the Indian
children and neglects to provide
proper housing, sleeping and eating
facilities for the country's very first
line Of defense?