Evening star., 1932-11-08
PRESIDENT MAKES
HIS FINAL APPEAL
Delivers Campaign Address
Aboard His Train at
EIko, New.

Dy the Associated Press.
ON BOARD PRESIDENTIAL SPE-
C1AL AT ELKO., New, November g.
Following Is the text of President
Hoover's election eve radio address from
the parlor car of his train here
I am speaking this last word of the
campaign from the train en- route to my
home to vote.
We have been through an arduous
campaign. 1t has been almost unique
as a campaign of education in great
domestic and international problems
which have arisen out Of events Of the
last IS years.
I have endeavored to place these
problems before the people as I see
them from the facts and experience
that have come to me in the past years.
I wished the people to realize more
intimately the difficulties with which
their Government has been confronted,
the disasters which have been averted
and the forces which have been mobil-
lied for their support and protection.
Sees Returning Prosperity.
hope from these discussions they
will realize the great crisis We have
successfully passed and the unprece-
dented measures taken which have been
designed solely that We might protect
and restore the system Of life and Gov
ernment endeared to us over $50 years,
that We would otherwise have wrecked
our homes and our flreSideS. But more
than that. l hope l have given an
understanding that these measures have
been designed for counter attack upon
this crisis These measures are now
demonstrating their strength and ef-
fectiveness not only at home but abroad.
MID y,orltinlvinu thrOilohO1It
the country in the return of more than
half million men to work monthly
that we have again resumed the road
toward prosperity.
I wish to emphasize the greatest
function Of the American citizen. the
one which each of us should perform
tomorrow The ballot is the most
sacred individual act which preserves
the great system of self government
whief1-wr have inherited, and should
carry forward at any cost. 1t is direct
opportunity for every citizen to speak in
terms of equality with every other citi-
zen as to the policies and kind OF gov
eminent they wish 10 carry out in the
next four years. And l have deep feel
ing that the choice you make now is
more than the choice for another four
years. There is great divergence in phi
losophy Of government between the
parties which may affect events over
a generation mistaken choice may
hazard the welfare of CUR children and
our children's children. I have been
fighting that the wrong course may not
be adopted not by appeal to destructive
emotion, but by truth and logic. I have
tried to dissolve the mirage Of prom
tses by the reality of facts.
Upholds Party Government.
I am believer in party Government.
u Is only through party organization
that our people can give coherent ex-
preston to their views upon great Is
sues. There is no other way except
by revolution and We in America have
ordained that the ballot shall be used
for peaceful determination, not violence
We are Nation of progressives. We
wish to see our Nation march forward.
We differ strongly as to the method to
progress. I differ with the principles
and views advocated by our opponents
but it is not my purpose to review them
at this moment. I feel deeply that
the Republican party. has been the
party of progress in our history from
the day of Abraham Lincoln. It has
built the progress of the Nation upon
the foundation of national principles
and national ideals.
We are a Nation of homes from which
the accomplishment of individuals is
nurtured by the maximum freedom In
an ordered liberty The ultimate goal
of our progress is to build for security
and happiness, In these homes where
the inspiration Of our religious faiths
will implant in our children those prin-
ciples of social order and idealism and
where our Government will contribute
in safeguarding their future opportunity
for them
The action Of our Nation has been
modified and benefited by the enfran-
chisement OF our women. They, equally
with the men. bear the shock from
economic disaster. With them lies
largely the guardianship of the funda-
mental ideals because, concentrated in
their lives and their responsibilities, Is
a solcitude for the preservation OF the
home and the inspiration for the future
of our children And in these labors
our Government can contribute to
strengthen their accomplishment and
their influence.
They give with lavish hands. not only
to childhood, but as well to the crea-
ton of those conserving customs upon
which are builded all the blessings OF
our ordered Government. Thus they
give to government large measure OF
the true strength of its foundations
1t is but Just that they receive back, IN
return, all that government can give