Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-24
ROBINSON SEEKS
PROGRESSIVE VOTE
On Way to South Dakota,
Confident of Support of
La Toilette Group.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
EN- ROUTE WITH SENATOR ROB-
INSON TO SIOUX FALLS, S. Oak,
october 24.-Two weeks from today
Senator Joe Robinson will know
whether his direct call to adferents of
the Progressive party to vote the Demo-
cratic national ticket this year has had
the effect he hoped when he made 1t.
Convinced that the Smith Robinson
ticket can carry most of the Middle
Western States If those who voted for
Senator La Toilette in 1924 will choose
Gov. Smith November 6. the nominee
prepared to push his bid for Progress
sive votes today in South Dakota, an
other State which gave La Toilette a
strong vote four years ago.
Assails Hoover and Curtis.
Although Senator Robinson has de-
clared upon several occasions that the
Democratic party now has become the
progressive party of the Nation" he
made his strongest appeal to the Pro-
gressive group at Sioux City last night
in speech IN which he assailed both
Herbert Hoover and Senator Curtis as
''reactlonarieS. He called Senator
Curtis "the king of standpatters,' and
declared that "Hoover's principal eff
forts have been obstructive of progress
sive legislation"
The nominee also took the occasion
to take fling at the New York speech
of Hoover, prefacing his attack with
the statement that Gov. Smith had
pledged himself to work out the farm
problem along the lines of the McNary-
Haugen bill Senator Robinson said !:
Mr.. Hoover declared that the Demo-
cratic plan for bringing relief to the
farmers Is form of State Socialism.
Well, there is no man who hears me
tonight who does not know that Ii
Herbert Hoover is elected President
there will be no farm relief.
Endorses McNary- Haugen Bill.
THE McNary- Haugen bill does not
encompass any socialistic principles. It
does encompass an attempt to place ag-
riculture on an equal footing with other
industries. If that Is Socialism, then we
need a new definition for the term.
Now, Mr.. Hoover has blown hot and
cold on every issue of the campaign and
has left them where he found them. He
took one month, so 1t would seem, from
the newspapers to prepare his New
York speech, and when he had finished
he had said nothing"
The crowd which packed the Sioux
City Auditorium rose and applauded
Senator Robinson for a full minute
when he pledged that the Democratic
party, If placed in power, would "solve
the farm problem in six months, as a
contrast to the eight years of broken
promises by the Republican party"
Yields Pennsylvania to G. O. p.
Quoting a political writer for a Chi
cago newspaper, Senator Robinson said
it was reported Pennsylvania, although
showing much sentiment for Gov
Smith, would go Republican, consider
ing how much money Mr.. Mellon has
not hesitated to blow on elections In
the past and added:
I'VE do not believe that the people
will support an endeavor to buy cleo
tons like common merchandise
Senator Robinson renewed his charge
that Hoover advocated depressing the
price of corn to make live stock raising
profitable.
The nominee was due at Sioux Falls
around noon today. After his speech
there tonight he will go to Fargo
N. OAK, making an afternoon address
at Wilmar, Mimi. en- route.