Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-17
SMITH R|D|CULES
G. 0. P. ECONOMY
IN SEDAL|A SPEECH
Charges Republicans With
Misrepresentation in Fig
ures for Last 7 Years.
GOES INTO ILLINOIS
FOR THREE-DAY VISIT
Will Speak in Chicago Friday.
Plans Stops in Three or More
Towns En- Route.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEDALIA, Mo, october 17.-Leaving
Missouri to ponder over his triple as
sault on Coolidge economy, Gov. Smith
carries his party's standard in Illinois
today, to await the signal for the
seventh and last speech of his second
campaign tour.
Chicago was the destination OF the
Democratic presidential nominee, who
planned to board his special train here
in the forenoon. The schedule calls
for his arrival at GAS o'clock tonight
in the Lake Michigan metropolis and
for stops en- route, for rear platform
appearances, at Springfield, Blooming
ton, Joliet, and possibly other Illinois
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 audi
ence that packed the huge livestock
pavilion at the State Fair Grounds
and cheered him on, painted what ne
called three pictures" with economy
claims as his model.
Charges Misrepresentation.
After charging his opposition with
predicating his campaign upon mis-
representation, the nominee took up
his first picture and asserted that
claims that Federal expenses have been
reduced through prudent spending,
economy and good business metnods,
formed zone of the grossest fallacles
offered by the Republican party"
Picture No. g." as he called 1t, led
the governor through a maze Of figures
on what moneys he said were actually
spent during the last two Republican
administrations. and he was loudly ap-
plauded when he said that "all of the
departmentS of the Government to-
gether in 1927 cost $200,000,000 more
than they did in 1924" He challenged
Herbert Hoover and President Coolidge,
whom he described as "the chief apostle
of economy" to disprove the statistics
he read.
For the third picture, the nominee
chose as his subject the neglect or
the postponement or the failure to ap-
propriate for certain well known wants
of the Government, and in this conneee
ton he charged the Washington ad-
ministration with new kind OF trick
bookkeeping" which he said could not
operate in the State of New York.
Cites Works Report.
Near the end of his address, Gov.
Smith seized upon a report made by
- Dny1y1hliooy o.
tional committee, while he was Sec
retarv of the Interior, in which he was
quoted as having said the Government
was trying to feed Indian children at
the rate of 9 cents day per child.
and a statement once made by Secre-
tary Of War Davis calling attention
that housing facilities for the American
soldier amounted to almost national
disgrace"
This, he said, was fair example
of what the Republican party had done
in the way of reducing the cost OF
Government. He then directed ques-
tion to Mr.. Hoover.
Does he approve of national econ
omy that Starves out the Indian chill
dren and neglects to provide proper
housing, sleeping and eating facilities
for the country's very first line OF
defense?"
Does he see these pictures in their
true light?
IF he does not" he declared. "then
I am prepared to say he does not un-
derstand the operation of Government y
Gov. Smith charged Mr.. Hoover with
making a misleading statement when
he said in his acceptance speech that
"by rigorous economy Federal expenses
have been reduced by $2,000,00o,000 pei
annum."
YeIIs Punctuate Speech.
"He knows just as we'll as do anc
just. as we'll as you do" the Democratic
nominee asserted, "that the difference
between the 1921 expenditures and the
1927 expenditures of Government, il
the difference between the cost o.
operating Government in time of wal
and, in time of peace"
Real and substantial economy, thu
governor declared in concluding hi
address, which was punctuated by yell
of ."Fight 'en, Al" "Pour it on em, AL!
could be brought by a reorganization
of the old broken-down structure o
the Federal Government, by the aboli
ton of useless boards and. commission
that overlap and duplicate efforts.
Ills, lie SdAOy w do EAOAiAAoNN AAA
under Harding, in 1924 under Coolidge
and again in 1928 and reiterated il
Mr.. Hoover's speech of acceptance, bu
so far as any living person is concerned
there is no sign of his getting any par
of it."
Real economy cannot only b
brought about reorganization OF tn
Government" he declared, but b.
careful planning, not for today, bu
for the years to come.
while I agree that not single dol
lar of public money should be wasted
! still make the cold, raw statement
that there is no economy in keeping
back necessary funds for the proper
needs of the Government. 1t simply
gets you over today. 1t is a kind o1
process of trying TO live through these
four years with the hope that yol
may get some place in the next foul
years"
Holds Economy Myth.
Gov. Smith said "the myth of Re.
publican economy" had its birth in tk'
Republican campaign book of 1924
when it proclaimed in glowing terms
savings which were technically, al
though not actually, true" In 1872
when the Republicans came into power
he said, the Nation was still payinl
very dearly" for the war costs ant
naturally there was a drop in expense
in the succeeding years.
AS part of the false picture" o
economy the governor quoted Under
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