Evening star., 1932-07-01
GARNER OFFERED
AS GREAT LEADER
Texan Nominated by Senator
ConnaIIy-MCAdOO Adds
Praise of Character.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. July John N. Garner
of Uvalde, Tex, was nominated for
the presidency with the assertion
that he would take courageous. expert
enced and capable leadership 10 the
White House.
There was prolonged shout from
the Texas and California delegations
and applause elsewhere over the wide
| floor as Senator Tom Connally, from
Gamers home State, presented the
name of the Speaker of the House TO
| the Democratic convention.
This supreme hour calls for a man, v
Senator Connally told the delegates.
Weak and wavering vacillation must
give way 10 a leader with a sense OF
direction and determination to reach
his destination" Connally said. I'VE
want neither a superman nor miracle
man. Charms and incantations have
lost their force.
Man of the People"
"In answer to that call, Texas pre-
ssnts to this convention a superb
| Democrat, a militant leader, man of
| the people
| Connally blamed the present admin
! istration for "the wreckage of business
/ and industry and agriculture wrought
/ by blundering policies and cropping and
/ befuddled Republican leadership"
/ In such a desperate hour, America
! turns to Democracy he said, attributing
/ to Speaker Garner monumental grasp
| Of national affairs and necessities
/ evolved from his 80 years in the House
1 He did not acquire his mastery OF
! American traditions and government
| from a blue print" said Connally. For
] almost generation they have bsen his
| ife-he knows every stone in the
| foundation, every beam and girder and
the vast complex and intricate struc-
1 ture of American government"
! Garner stood as the most aggressive
| opponent Of the policies of Andrew
Mellon In three administrations, the
| Texan said.
when Mr.. Mellon, with the whole
| power of the administration behind
him. sought to exempt rich and power
| ful groups from their just share of
/ taxatien and thereby to increase unduly
| the burdens of small and average in
/ come; when he sought TO shift from
| the Stalwart shoulders Of the strong
| that which they easily bore and TO
saddle it upon the bowed backs of the
| weak and staggering he met an an
tagonist who stood like granite for the
| peoples cause" Connally said.
He set an example of leadership for
which the American people have been
pleading and looking in vain towards
| the White House"
Tribute by McAdoO.
Joining in the nomination Of John N.
Garner, William Gibbs McAdoO told the
! Democratic convention it had TO nomi-
nate one whose life was guarantee
that as President ne would bring
courage, honesty and high ability TO
bear upon the pressing problems OF an
unhappy day.
/ And, he added, the nomination must
be made in true Democratic fashion.
Garner. ne said, lacked no single ele-
ment of appeal either to the intellect or
to the imagination. McAdoo recalled
| his candidates frontier forbears and 80
years of public service. He maintained
I the fact that Garner has not been an
outstanding figure in the business world
should be hailed, not as a weakness but
as one Of his chief recommendations.
A myth, ne said. has been developed
that mere ability to make money carries
with it every capacity and every virtue.
"Of the many crashes that have
Jared the country, not the least is the
collapse Of this amazing superstition.
Wherever you go today you tread land
Uttered with the clay feet of blasted
idols. In the face of a disaster largely
produced by their own selfishness and
incapacity, not one of these acclaimed
leaders has shown a trace Of the power
to lead the Nation out Of the wilderness.
1T is 'despised politicians that they
turn to for eXtrication from the pit"
Miracle Man in Ruins"
''The miracle man Of 1928, that great
| executive genius who, with one tap of
a Moses wand. was to lift the country
/ to new and undreamed heights of pros
/ perity, now sits among the ruins of his
and the party's proud but shattered
pretensions like Lazarus in his ashes.
/ The mightiest financial mind of Repub-
lican SAVIOR since Alexander Hamilton.
hastily exiled from the scene of his
blunders. now licks his wounds in the
quiet Of the Court Of st. James.
Not only inefficiency, but downright
derelction has been disclosed. The
various Senate investigations have made
a nudist colony out OF Wall Street. They
have stripped the mask from great
financial houses and have exposed in
ternational banking practices shocking
in their bold disregard Of the law and
common honesty. Greedy peddlers, for
profit, Of billions of dollars of tinsel
securities. have brought want and woe
to millions of American homes.
And the New York Stock Exchange,
the Wall street beacon-lure for the
innocents who vainly try to buck the
speculative game-has been exposed as
the breeding place for gigantic stock
pools whose hard boiled manipulations
and organized publicity are as cruel and
rapacious as the cruder activities of the
underworld
Because of these, and a multitude Of
other abuses which cry aloud for COR
rection, thank God that John N. Gar
ner is not a captain of industry or q
giant OF finance, but a statesman with