The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-10-06
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Campaign Warns Up

Campaign warns Up
President Hoover struck back mill
family at his critics in his Des Nome:
speech. There was nothing essen.
tally new in what he said, but the
manner of utterancc reflected can
didate thoroughly stirred to the po'
litical necessity of fighting back.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's attack:
were met in a spirited manner but
it is doubtful whether any of the
middle west farmers will return as
prodigals to the party of high tar
ifs and protected vested interests ir
times of acute depression.
MIR. Hoover gave an excellent Re-
publican speech. 1t had more of the
old flavor Of the harangue of the
hastings. Short pungent sentences
with some quiet humor revealed a
new style for Hoover, whose speeches
in the past have been labored, studi-
Gus and somewhat involved.
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Despite the fact that Roosevelt
and Garner have both definitely dis
posed of the sound money issue by
commitments to the gold standard
Mr.. Hoover sought to put the stigma
Of inflated currency and the unsound
dollar at the door of the Democratic
party. He indirectly referred to the
Democrats as sponsors for an in
flated currency and resorters tc
printing presses and greenbacks
Probably the most dramatic portion
of his speech and on which few will
disagree except the followers of Coin
Harvey, candidate Of the Liberty
party. was his defense of the geld
standard. Sound money is a very
definite pledge in both Republican
and Democratic platforms of 1882.
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On the tariff there is direct issue
which will set farmers to thinking
Mr.. Hoover very frankly stated that
the Hawley -Smoot tariff bill left
much to be desired, but he declared
its inadequacies could be adjusted by
the federal tariff commission. He
lodged completely the charge that
while agriculture receives a modicum
OF protection, industrialists got the
lions share and caused tariff re-
priSals from other countries. Mr.
Hoover did not explain either that
the Democrats voted for many OF
the schedules in the Hawley-Smoot
tariff act which protect the Ameri-
can farmer against foreign compe-
tition. It is we'll known to al
students of the tariff that the Dem.
<ocratic party has moved away from
ats traditional stand upon the tariff
insofar as agriculture is concerned
Their chief constituencies below the
Mason and Dixon line want tariff
protection now as much as the
north.
While probably many farmers viii
mot turn away from Republican
principles of protection, millions now
are not afraid of the Democrats or
the tariff issue. Generally speaking
Rhe Hawley -Smoot tariff is not popu.
lar with agriculture because it failec
sto give the farmers what Presiden
Hoover promised in his acceptanc,
speech Of 1928. which was parity with
other industry. MIR. Hoover's De-
Moines speech did not treat in
comparative way rates established b,
that iniquitous measure fathered b,
Senator Grundy and the high pro
stectionists Of the east.
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= Mr.. Hoover defended his farm
board on the broad premises that i
had aided cooperatives to function
during period OF financial strin
.gency. He admitted that the sta
ebilization operations of the farm
aboard had worked out disastrousl
and recommended that this featur
should be repealed. Putting the fed
eral government into the grain an,
1 other business, he said, was a mis-
Ftake.
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!, Loans of the Reconstruction Fl
nance corporation were vigorousl
defended as the only means to re
tain the great credit structure, tn
Fsine qua non of business operation
yUnder this bill Of particulars ther
will be no vigorous disagreement
!. The Democrats joined heartily i
/ support Of this emergency measur
|, and Mr. Hoover might have been
Z little more charitable in thankin
Democrats as q whole for their SUP