The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-07
SALT LAKE CITY
SPEECH ENDS
HOOVER DRIVE
President Certain He Has
Won Second Term in
White House.
LOOKS TO VACATION
Return to Washington May
Be by Way of Panama
Canal.
BY HENRY F. MISSELWITZ
United Press STAFF Correspondent

ABOARD PRESIDENT HOO.
VER'S TRAIN. EN- ROUTE TO
PALO ALTO, Nov. president
Herbert Hoover neared the end of
his campaign for reelection today,
publicly confident that his personal
drive for votes had won for him a
second term in the White House.
Throughout day that was a
repetition of previous dayS-of ad-
dressing, hoarse and tired, the
groups that gathered at small sta
tions in the sparsely settled west,
on what he termed the "funda-
mentals of government"-the PreSi-
dent adhered to an exacting and ex-
hauSting schedule.
In the brief time before the voters
go to the polls, the President was
scheduled to speak at noon today
in the Mormon tabernacle, Salt
Lake City, at the last big rally of
his spectacular windup of an. I'M
usual presidential drive for ballots.
Urges All to Vote
Ending his campaign tonight, he
will urge in a message issued at
Elko, New, that all voters, regardless
of political views, exercise their
privilege and go to the polls.
The President will vote at STAN
ford university as soon as he gets
home early in the afternoon.
After that, he hopes to take a
week off. He hasn't mad vacation
in two years, and feels he has
earned a rest.
He hasn't made up his mind yet
whether he will return to Wash
ington by train or boat by the
Panama canal. The decision de-
ponds on whether a crisis arises de-
manding his early return.
The President feels that the
people are thinking for themselves
more in this campaign than at any
time in recent political history. He
believes, for that reason, he will
carry the country.
An Appeal to Reason"
He surprised his intimate sup
porters when he said at st. Paul
Saturday night, that he believed
the people would return him to
Office because they now were think
ing for themselves, and he said
when they did that there could be
no doubt about their conclusions.
The Presidents position is that
the American people are a more
highly educated people than almost
any other, and for this reason a
campaign baSed-as he feels his
has been-on an appeal to their in
telllgence has more chance to win
than the old-fashioned stemwind-
ing campaign of promises and
"rabble rousing."
Another thing that has given him
confidence in his conviction that
the voters are beginning to see the
benefits of the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation, and other relief
measures of his administration.
Cheered by Reports
He gives the Democrats who SUD-
ported these measures credit. bur
takes the credit for inaugurating
them, and feels the people, likewise
will accord him credit.
The President is cheered by re-
ports to him from local comrnuni-
ties that they can take care of
their own" this winter. He believes
the winter will be marked by less
suffering than last, and instead of
being blacker it will be ighter-if
he is elected.
The President also is cheered by
the attitude and size of the crowds
that have met him from one end
OF the country to the other.
Reports along the way have come
to him that the crowds have been
uniformly larger than they were for
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, his
Democratic opponent, on his swing
across the nation, and he regards
that as good sign of their polit-
ical intentionf.
President in Good Spirits
He rested most of Sunday, ana
made no political talks through
Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado.
At all stops he said few words
of cheerful greeting, but stressed
that it was the Sabbath and he was
avoiding the appearance of work
ing.
An aid at Omaha, Neb., hurried
out and got a Bible from a nearby
hotel early Sunday morning.