The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-10-06
NOMINEE BIDS
FOR SOUTHERN
VOTE SUPPORT
Only Distress and Disaster
Can Follow Change in Ma
tional Policy
LAUDS FAIR PLAY SPIRIT

Will Make Farming More Prof.
liable by Applying Busi-
ness, Not Theory
Elizabethton, Tenn, Oct. 6.-(R
Herbert Hoover, the first Repub.
lican presidential candidate to make
. personal bid for the electoral vote
of the solid south, told an audience
gathered here today from North
Carolina and Virginia, a. well I.
Tennessee, that . change Of national
policies at this time could BRING
"only distress and disaster"
Coming from Washington to at.
tend = historical and industrial cele.
bration, the presidential candidate
discussed practically every issue Of
the campaign and declared to the
dry Democratic stronghold, the solid
south, that he wished the eighteenth
amendment to succeed because it
was designed Ito protect the Amer.
lean home."
Hoover declared It to be "the
sacred obligation" OF the president
to secure its honest enforcement ano
ito eliminate the abuses which have
grown up around it."
The nominee himself made no
reference to either the religious
questions which have stirred the
south or the Whispering campaign"
but former Governor ALI A. Tay.
lor, OF Tennessee, in presenting him
to the audience, referred to the lat.
ter and the crowd cheered him to
the echo. The S0-year-old veteran,
who read long prepared speech,
said it had been whispered" that
Herbert Hoover had applied for
British naturalization and quoted IN
official document to disprove that.
Il will have my head chopped off
and be cremated before l will give
up my American citizenship" Tay.
lor quoted Hoover Is having said
when he was offered British natu.
rAlizAtion during the war.
The Republican invader of Den1oc.
racy's ancient stronghold expanded
his views on farm relief, prohibition
and other platform declarations. He
made no reference to the religious
questions that are stirring southern
states, but he did appeal for fair
play and good craftsmanship in the
campaign.
1--WE prove ourselves worthy OF
self-government," he said, "and
worthy of confidence as officials, in
proportion as we keep these contests
free from abuse, free from misrep-
resentation, and free from words and
acts that carry regret.
I'm contest like this there is no
place for personal bitterness. A
great attribute Of our political life
has been the spirit Of fair play with
which our presidential contests have
been waged in former years and the
sportsmanlike spirit in which we
have accepted the result"
Hoover confined his prohibition
statement to = single paragraph in
which he said:
Amendment Purpose
"The purpose Of the eighteenth
amendment is to protect the Ameri-
can home. A sacred obligation il
imposed on the president to secure
its honest enforcement and to elm.
mate the abuses which have grown
up around it; wish it to succeed"
Adverting to his plan for farm re-
lief, the candidate declared that mo
such far-reaching and specific pro-
posal has ever been made by 4 po-
litical party on behalf Of any in
dustry in our history" He added
that lit marks our desire for estab-
lishment Of farmers stability and
at the same time maintains his in
dependence and individuality.
In this concise language Hoover
repeated the proposal for farm re-
lief:
1--WE stand specifically pledged to
create q federal farm board Sc men
sympathetic with the problem, to
be clothed with powers and resources
with which not only to further aid
farmers cooperatives and assist
generally in solving the multitude
OF different farm problems which
arise from all quarters Of our nation.
but in particular to build up, with
initial advances Of capital from
the government, farmer-owned and
farmed-controlled stabilization cor.
porations which will protect the
farmer from depreJsions and demor.
alizations Of summer and periodic
surpluses.
Business Not Theory
"Such an fundamentally should
be able to develop, as years 60 on,
the constructive measures necessary
to solve the new farmers probleu1t
that will inevitably arise. It is no
proposal Of subsidy, or fee or tax on
the farmer. It is . proposal to as
sist the farmer onto his own feet
into control Of his own destinies.
This u not Z theoretic formula. It
il : business proposition designed to
make farming more profitable. :
Declaring that he advocated the
"strsngthsning of the ppotectivo tAr-
IL, the Republican standnrd-beator
said - retreat % the Underwooa
tariff schedules on farm produeo
would ruin millions q our fax1AoFs
~Ihs purpose 81 the tariff = -
70 balance tho books of fbusjnoog 60.
poratiou1, but . safeSuArd ~ 1ail>
~ budeet, : - oa11. 81 wiah tn51oe
complete protection for III 1ax1Ioe
o& ouy home max1ok d = viii -
- eoutA. . wsll = = othsr poses
of the coentxy. 'ss
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