Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1928-10-12
MR.. HOOVER INVADES THE
NEW SOUTH

N publican candidate for President IN
= vaded that traditional Democrat
N citadel, the Solid South, asking TO
n its support. He has met the thrus
of Governor Smith into the old Re
n publican States of the West am
s Northwest by a counterthrust tina
struck deep into the ancient strong
: holds of Democracy.
While much of the Old Soutl
: lives, it was to a New South tina
5 Mr.. Hoover made his appeal. The
9 interests of the Southern States
= have changed. They are no Longer
land given over entirely to cot
ton, corn and cane. Industrialism
has marched down both tanks OF
the Alleghenies. The furnaces OF
steel light the night skies of Bir-
mingham. The spindles hum a
mighty song in the Carolinas.
Production has increased. Ship
ments have grown. Electric-power
lines have spun vast network
over the Southeast. Crop values are
rising. Employment has increased.
AS Mr.. Hoover described it:
In every phase of life the South
is moving forward. New vistas of
betterment are opening. The abil-
ity and energy of the people are
constantly growing and are of
more dynamic scope. They have
engaged in every form of useful
community effort to improve both
the material and the spiritual side
of life. 4 1 know that the peo-
pie of the South will agree with
me that these results could never
have been attained but for the
helpful cooperation and sound
policies in the national Govern
ment and that a change in these
policies can bring only distress
and disaster.
It was to this New South that has
profted so greatly during the last
seven and one-half years of Repub-
lican administration that Mr.. Hoo
yer addressed himself. He remind
ed the Southerners that their inter-
est is no longer sectional or region
al; that what may injure the East
or the North or the West may injure
them also. The interests of their
mills, plants and railways are
bound up in the national interest.
Their planters are hurt by whatever
may hurt the farmers of Ohio or
Iowa or North Dakota.
The tariff that safeguards Penn
sylvania safeguards the Carolinas.
The duties protecting the steel mills
of Gary protect the furnaces of Bir-
The imposts that help
the beet-sugar fields of Michigan or
Utah help the cane plantations of
Louisiana. The tariff defending
from Canadian wheat de-
tends the fields of Arkansas from
he rice of Japan. The South needs /
protection no less than the North I
md the East, and Mr.. Hoover advo- +
,ates-
Strengthening of the protec- l.
tive tariff as Henry Clay, of Ken
lucky, advocated it; not as an alb I
stract economic theory but as a
practical and definite policy of l
protecting the standards of living
of the American family.
With the increasing pressures d
from countries of lower standards d
of living, it has become the fun u
damental safeguard of the Amer Il
lean workman and the American "
farmer. I wish to see complete a
protection for the farmer of our
home market. 1t is vital to the
South as well as to other parts of .
the country. u
In Elizabethton, one of the new -
Id cities of the New South, Mr.. /,
DOVER reminded the growing indus 80
ialism of the Southern Alleghenies M
the vital need for protection. ~
X 4 the great manufacturing in M
dustries of the South are depen- ~
dent upon it. Your vast spinning 49,
industry your iron and steel in 10
dustries, are the product of it. A.
The Republican candidate appeal 10
to the South for a campaign free in,
ON abuse, Misrepresentation and mr.
rom words and acts that carry re- Pr
Ell" He spoke of prohibition en- mi
rcement as a solemn obligation" Pa
: described the Republican farm or
lief plans as the most "far-reach-
3 and specific proposal ever made or;
a political party on behalf of any hill
iustry in our history" &c
It was, however, upon the ques- pei
ms of national well-being and is
for the worker and the the
'mer that he put the greatest eva
light. He struck at Elizabethton Oh;
heavy blow and one that will tar
satly damage the Smith forces in VIII
, Southeast In a wavering North De-
rolina it may be enough to swing cor