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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28

Roosevelt Is shown holding his lead of 8 to 9 over Hoover in the semifnal returns of The Literary Digest's nationwide presidential poll, according to tomorrow's issue of. the magazine, which gives tab- ulhtion of nearly 3.000,000 votes. This is larger return, it is nn- nounced. than the final returns of the 1928 Literary Digest poll. Of q total of 2.933.e00 votes tal- lied Roosevelt has b6.19 per cent. or 1.64s,237 votes, while Hoover has 37.33 per cent, or f.00b.274 bal- lots, and Thomas has 14l,002 votes. or ASA per cent of the total num- Der counted.
 Hoover shows n slight gain from 37.i0 per cent of the total vote which he had last week.
 Hoover continues to carry the seven stntes of Maine. Vermont. Now Hampshire. Mnssn chusetts. Rhode Island. Connecticut and New Jeraey with only anant changes shown in the weeks balloting in any of them.
 Roosevelt continues t0 carry ell Of the other forty-one states.
 With over 100000 additional bal- lots received and counted during the past week mailed from every section 0f tho country, neither cnns dldnts shows n gnin or loss in any ntnte Of moro than 1 per cent.
 in n division Of the vote for ap. porilOnment in tho electoral college inc ssmiiinni returns would Rlve Roosevelt l7t electoral votes Co liaoyera bT,
 Jhe vote in New Yorh continues
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28
A Role for Moses

Now we havo one more charac- ter to deal with. and we will do the best we can with him. He is the president pro tenn of the senate, the senator from New Hampshire. If was picking a part for him In this drama. my mind would go back to the. old-time play. The Take It or Leave Man, and I would give him the part of Hawkshaw. the detective.
 know that the younger folks fin the audience do not remember that oldtime play, but I can see some of the old gray hairs like my own that smile and must understand The Take It or Leave Man. Hawkshaw was always in disguise, and when he caught the villain the part of his play that took the boys in the gallery was when he rushed in and said, "Now that the papers are found, who will take them?" Tho old fellow avs, T will" "Who? Who ar. your" He pulls off the whiskers and he says, "Hawkshaw. the detective" (Laughter.)
 Now, you know I am not a sus- picious person by nature. I am not born that way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28
Suspicious of Moses

I have the kindliest feeling for every living being. But l am a little bit suspicious when Senator Moses gets so terribly excited and wrought up and speaks with sob In his voice because I was not nominated and what a terrible thing 1t was.
 : And when I see the senator in Southampton. L.. l., in the month of September. when there are no political meetings-and certainly 1t Is known as g. watering resort where a great majority of the peo- ple do not vote, but where have q great many friends. both demo- crats and republicans--and he gets upon Q platform to tell what a terrible thing was done to mo in Chicago, am a little bit sus- picious.
 said we were home tonight. and that compels some pretty frank speech from mo because we are around the table and I am talking to you.
 An this is what I want to em- phatically say to you: I was not satisfied with that Chicago con- vention, and l know that you were not satisfied with 1t. But listen,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28
Cities Great Deficit

There is no doubt that they should bo able to explain 1t, but the explanation was not in their favor and 1t was therefore withheld.
 Tn 1030 tho United States treas- ury was facing q deficit of $f,000.- 900, 900; one billion, and not sin gle word was said about 1t: not a single line was penned about 1t. Why? Because the administration was living in the hope that things would rectify themselves, and if you study that expression to its last and final analysis 1t is the whole story of the present repub- Iican administration, living con- stantly in the hope that things would take care of themselves, that Divine Providence would intervene and there would be no occasion for anything forthcoming from the government.
 Well, that was all right. They got away with 1t. Nobody knew anything about 1t until you came to tho following fall of 1881 when the 1892 budget was being prepared and there was an additional billion dollars of deficit.
 Then 1t was that the administra- ton suddenly woke up to the neces- sity for new and additional forms of taxation, and consequently fin the spring of this year at q time whom the people could least bear 1t, at Q time when taxation was a great hardship. at q time when taxation was bound to retard busi- ness and economic recovery, we have the great bureau in Washing ton when all of the new and addi- tionnl and burdensome so-called nuisance taxes were imposed upon the American people; gasoline, the additional penny when you mall a letter, the tax on amusement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28
Assails Hoover Economy,

All you got to do is to hear from the folks at home. . ..
 Now the President in the Detroit speech complained very bitterly about an item of $322.000.000 that he claims was forced upon him by the Democratic legislators at Washington.
 Well, what is the analysis of that? Two-thirds of that amount is subject to his direct control. and I challenge anybody to deny It. Two-thirds of 1t.
 The other third is for Federal highways, and incidentally. let me say this, that that ono-third is the only part of all of that money that gave employment to anybody or provided a job for Q single man. and I am forced to the conclusion tonight that the Democratic legis- tors in Washington did good job when they forced that on Hoover.
 Let us give 1t another look. He says, Tt can be demonstrated that tho tide has turned and that the gigantic forces of depression are In retreat.
 "Why, the real fact Is. if you take New York as q barometer. and 1t ought to be fair one, there are more people out of work to-day than there were this timo q year ago.
 The real truth is that for one year and half President Hoover refused to recognize this condition. He had statistics come from his State Department to deny 1t. and he lived in the eternal hope that 1t might cure itself and the favorite expression was Prosperity Is just around the corner"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28
Party Intelligence

We haven't got the background. We are mob. and they arc the intelligent ones. In the house. holds of the leading republicans are all the diplomas of tho Uni versailles. In the homes of the democrats, never take the horse- shoe from the door.
 And tho funny part of 1t is that all of the high administrative officers in Washington refer to the plight of our neighbors abroad, the plight of our neighbors abroad. And when they were sinking and called for a life preserver. the Ma tional Administration threw them an anchor.
 We have got another actor that plays an important part in this federal role. and that Is the sec- retary of the treasury. He went down to Maine here In the receat election to talk to the republican party of the state on and the same night Gene Tunney was there.
 The secretary of the treasury thought that he would indulge in what he calls pleasantly and he said--wait until I quote 1t exactly, he might be listening in--he said, II suppose that Tunney has been
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28
(By the United Prcss)

President Hoover moved into the middle-west to-day in his fourth campaign drive for the important electoral votes of that area while from coast to coast other poli- tical warriors sharpened their thrusts in the battle for the double states.
 The partisan atatcks, rapidly in- creasing in heat, included q charge by the republican national com mittee that James A. Farley. demo- cratic executive committee chair man had sought 0 campaign con- tributoin from a Canadian business man. Farleys reply was q acoun- ter charge that republican na- toinal headquarters has issued a forged letetr purporting to come from me-"
 Former Gov Alfred E. smith. charging republican delay In for mulating an economic program, opened the final democratic drive in the Now England sector. In his Boston speech last night he ap- pcaled for full and complete sup port for Frank Roosevelt and John Garner" Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt conferred at Albany, N. Y.. to-day with advisers, preparatory to his swing into New England. He also decided to conclude his campaign for the presidency with a whirl- wind finish on "he Sidewalks of New York"
 President Hoover faced his most intensive speechmnking trip of the rapidly closing campaign to-day. At every train stop he planned 60 make back platform addresses. He speaks in Indianapolis tonight. Gov Albert Ritchie of Maryland will mako q plea for democratic sup port in tho same city. at the same time.
 Three cabinet members spoke | last night. At Utica. N. Y,. Sec- retary of Treasury Mills acclaimed the republican prohibition plank as offering the quickest method for a change. Secretary of war Hurley at Philadelphia charged Governor Roosevelt with making campaign promises he would be unable ot carry out if elected. At Los Angeles, Secretary of Agricul- ture Hyde referred to President Hoover as "the greatest progress sive on earth" :.
 Former senator James A. Reed of Missouri. speaking in behalf of tho democratic national ticket at St Paul labelled tho republican prohibition program ono which would result in geographic nor nls' if carried out,
 Norman ThomnH, socialist chn- didnto for tho presidency was TO. fused a permit to make Q street spoooh In Philadelphia to-day on tho grounds disorders might result in an address thoro last niBht he warned of dangers of n lingo ainie" with a dictator.
 Al piinceion, N, J,, the Daily prlneoiOnlnn, unAvernliy nssHphpei made public results of rirnw yotos ln l7 colleges and unlsurHllleh PruHldoni liO0vor D0lied tp,yhu votes, Governor is0ossvef ts,tii
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28
No Leadership

What about your own governor? The constructive reforms inaugu- rated in this state for the benefit and in tho interest of the Common wealth of Massachusetts were en- acted upon his initiation with the force of public opinions behind them. in spite of g. republican legislature.
 What about Governor Cross of Connecticut? He had to battle with q republican legislature and a record, sufficient to insure his election, as evinced by the multi tudes that greeted him on the trip today. had to be brought about in spite of a hostile republican lesis- lature.
 The same can be said of Gov ernor Moore of New Jersey. twice governor, who never had tho leg islature in sympathy with him.
 What is tho real trouble? What is tho matter with the leading character of our drama tonight. the President of the United States? ? The trouble is that he lacks the power of leadership even over the members of his own party, and what is moro. he lacks the power of appeal to the people themselves that in, the last analysis can handle any legislature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28
FH Text Of Al Smiths Loyuy Speech" La Nghl

i He is . constant welI-spring of joy. He is a thing of beauty. He Is the United States more-than- generous contribution to the gayety of nations. He is a great writer.
 Tn 1928 he said that he saw a very bright future for the creative arts in the United States provided Hoover is elected president; then we shall have an executive who has cultural interests who would not be stumped even if some one asked him what he thought of an Ital- ian primitive. Of course he was digging at me.
 Hoover was the cultured man. I was the product of the sidewalk. That Is what William Allen White meant, but walt until I show you the double back tumble sault that he made.
 Along with everything else that introduced the man he is an acro- bat, and how he got away from Barnum is more than I can under stand.
 In 1892 he has an entirely differ- ent story to tell. In 1892 he says Frank Roosevelt is overcultured. He went to too many schools. He writes an article in which he said that he was at the exclusive boys school at Groton and returned to Hyde Park to take the place of his father as the country squire.
 Tn 1882 Frank has too much edu- cation. But what about Hoover? Oh, now for that pathetic passage, that sorrowful part of American life. where we were born fin 8 little two-room house in one-horse town in Iowa; where his father was the poor blacksmith and his relatives were all farmers.
 Let me analyze the whole thing. In 1928 Hoover was tho cultured man and I was the fish peddler. In 1892 Frank Roosevelt is the cul- tured man and poor Herbert is the little boy around his fathers black smith shop.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28
Campaign Climax
 Fast Approaching

and Norman Thomas 10.N0. Roosevelt only led in southern in- stitution.
 New York, Got 2S.-(UP)--One of the liveliest controversies of the presidential campaign appeared to have reached stalemate to-day with James A. Farley's denial of a republican national committees charge that he appealed to for eign interests for assistance in fi- nancing an American presidential campaign"
 The Indignation with which the democratic national chairman characterized the charge that her had written to Canadian shipping man. soliciting funds. as "a last minute libel" and his counter-ac- cusation that any such letetr was forgery" was met by announco- ment from former Senator Henry J. Allen, of Kansas as that "the matter was checked by my staff for it, i by the Montreal Star as . nsws release based on an autehntto let- ter to @ Montreal man."
 A second controversy. surround4 ing the report of 8 brokerage house that the Literary Digest had received 35.000 letetrs from per. sons asking that their votes Do changed from the Roosevelt col. umn to the Hoover clumn, 4ps peared to be ended by c positive denial by editors of the magazine that there was any truth in the statement.
 William seaver Wood. editov o& the Literary Digest. in 6 statement issued yesterday, denounced t4h story as "an old-fashioned pqlk ticai roorbacls". and upheld the accuracy of the poll.
 Albany, N. r., Act 2S.-(UP)-- Gov Franklin D. Roosevelt. demo- cratic presidential nominee planned to devote to-day to meeting with members of his advisory board. to map final details for the home stretch fight of his campaign.
 The governor was scheduled to confer with Prof Raymond Moley, Col Louis McHenry Howe and u. s. Senator Key Pittman of Neveda, to discuss his proposed Boston ad- dress Monday night.
 Later In tho day tho governor planned another conference with tho temporary emergency renex administration looking toward measures for tho aileviation Of suffering among tho stato's unsm. ployod.
 Roosevelt extended ionK.dis- tanca greetings late last night @ democratic friends who held q rai- ly in Now York city. and also to the Amerloan- -droel democratic association of Brooklyn.
 | TO tho latter group no recalled the fight for Greek independence and reminded his ilsienorH that q century ago when tho urnaks were battling for ihelr liberty hls sFRnd-
 father and sreat.unais "wafe in. nlrnmeninl in causing the biiiiainn 0f a frlHnie, presented 70 ufsses by iho frlendn of Greek inaspend. snee in America"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28
Tariff Measures

Let us see how far from wrong these economists were. They knew the result of that. They were able to study 1t. They saw a rapid de- cline in our exports working in- jury and detriment to American business.
 They saw a great tariff wall be. ing erected against 1t and they Kingdom of Great Britain, always tariff wall against the United the treatment that we gave to her for her imports into this country.
 The tariff is more far-reaching than the intelligent minds of Washington were able to discern. All of the large European countries owe us money. They haven't got 1t. They can't pay 1t.
 The only way they can pay us is in goods. and what do we say to them 2"
 We say "No. we won't take 1t that way"
 We build up this tariff wall to keep the goods out.
 You ain't got the money, we will give you a little bit longer time to pay it," and that is the product--that understanding of our foreign affairs is the product--of these wonderful minds that feel they arc the only people fit to rule this country and tho Democrats are lacking in the understanding of these great problems.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28
Government Costs

Every form of taxation calculat- cd to annoy and distress the people was placed upon them at n time when they were least able to bear 1t.
 In tho meantime, with every op- portunity at hand. absolutely noth- ing was done by tho republican administration to curtail the cost of government. although 1t was pledged from the platform of 1920 right up to the platform of '2s, the promise of reorganization and reconsideration of the federal gov ernment in order to cut out over tapping and waste and duplication of effort. looking not only to effi- ciency but to . greater economy in the conduct of the nations business.
 Worse than that was the incom- potent handling of the proposed sources of taxation and the rev. enues that may flow from them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28
New Tax Deficits

And all this, mihd you, all this in tho hands of. tho party that de- iiboratoly and distinctly tells tho American people that they have all tho brains; that they are tho peo- pie that know how to run tho gov ernment; that we arc Just q mob and that we have not intelligent leadership. we have not construc- tivo suggestIons wo are not able to do it; they are the oneh that iiave ail the brains and all tho nbil- fly. and they get that over with tho American people, unfortunate. Iy, because they have controlled this country for sOf many years since the Civil War and have rep. raEentod it abroad during An equal period, the proud boast Of the only party nt te govern.
 1 picked up-ths paper the other day and my eye accidentally feii up0n m article that shows thnt tlle forecast fer this flnoai year be. ginning on the ist Of July IA n half h million deficit in the revenues proposed under ihn neH fofnr Of iaAaiiol. WLst did [ nay, half a milliOnf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28

Boston, Oct 2s.--FoIiowing 1s the text of Alfred D. Smiths talk here last night:
 Mir Chairman, and my very be- loved friends of Massachusetts. I am not out of place; I am not even the great greeting disconcerted in the slightest degree, because I am home. am home in every sense that that means.
 | left New York at 10 o'clock to- day. have shaken hands in the rain from the back of . railroad train; I nearly fell off 1t at New Haven. signed my name 5000 or 5000 times to autograph albums. I finally arrived in Providence to get q great greeting and be ushered before a great audience. And finally there comes the climax of 1t all; Boston.
 invaded New York for a purpose and I propose before this audience tonight fin the time al- lowed to me to show that the pur- pose Ia weIi-founded, and that pur- posc was to come into, New Eng land and ask for the. unqualified. full and complete support of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John N. Garner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28
People Betrayed
Secs People Left i'm Dark

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 f can see a radio audience, after listening to the Detroit speech of President Hoover, can imagine their frame of mind; l can Imag- inc even their physical condition, after they listened in, and 1t re- minds me of story that happened way down on the lower East Side of New York q good many years ago when 6 doctor went to visit a patient that was suffering from an attack of pneumonia, and the doc tor on his way stopped with few friends for a little stimulant, and at that early hour of the morning, being 9 o'clock. the stimulant was too much for him and he laid his head upon the breast of the patient and he said: Count" and the doc- tor accidentally fell asleep and at half past Ave in the morning tile patient was saying. "96,265."
 That was the impression that the Detroit speech made upon me and tho audiences generally that were llstenlng in around the country.
 If I was to be asked tonight what in my opinion was the greatest failure of the existing administra- ton l would be compelled to say that they left the people of this country entirely In the dark with regard to the all-important func- ton of government--the proper adjustment of our financial condi- ffon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28
Governorship Stepping Stone

And let us remember that the sovernorship is the primary school for the production of our presi- dents. Every successful and pro- gressive president of the United States during my time has been q former governor of a state. Cleve- land, Theodore Roosevelt, Wood row Wilson and Calvin Coolidge am talking about successful presidents.
 I'd love to have some comparison made with their records and the records of some of our republican governors. We had a couple from Indiana that you know where to go to look for them. They are in a place where they can't get out.
 Let us take little look at that Detroit speech. The president in that speech, speaking about the finances of the country, said in answer to the democratic candi- date, Frank Roosevelt, that even If he stopped all public works, stopped everything. he would have to finally take $500, 100000 from the veterans, and he said that would be a grave injustice.
 A great injustice to whom? To the taxpayers. That is tho gross injustice, because there are men receiving money from the federal government today that not only never left this country but never saw any kind of service, were never injured in the service or have no disability directly traceable to the service.
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 I don't know what you said, but I know what said. The injustice there is to the taxpayers.
 Now, I was amused at tho De- troit speech to sec the president blaming all the failures of his ad- mifiistration upon the democratic house of representatives. That's an easy way to get away from 1t. Blame 1t on somebody else. What about the republican members of that house? Was he able to hold them? He was not. Was he able to deliver them for his policies? He was not.
 While we are talking now on that subject, what about the gover- nors of our eastern states here? What about Governor Roosevelt of New York, who had a hostile re- publican legislature to deal with. but at the sametime made a record of achievement that made him prominent enough throughout the United States to be nominated for the presidency?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28

we have a man that rises early in the morning and at the time when he has to lay his head on the pillow at night he is worrying about this flve-cent piece that might be taken from the American public. and we are going to save lot of money by preventing them from printing the blue stripes on the mail bags, and the mail bag is all right and
 1t don't cost so much and we are going to hunt through the waste paper baskets every night and see that no clerk throws away q lead pencil until it has been used all the way down to the rubber, and on starry nights. when the moon IS bright, we will be able to turn off
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-28
Discusses Detroit Speech

Now thought probably tonight while we are all here in this little family gathering and we are sitting around the table you might say to me, "Father. what Is this all about?" and probably I could tell you. want to weave a kind of a little meIodrama with It's serious and It's comic side. and entitle 1t. "The Republican, Failure, or What Happened to the Republican Best Minds.
 We will take the first and lead ing character of the play, the president of the United States, and we will deal with his Detroit speech. Now, am satisfied of one thing, and that is that engineers and public accountants consume about GO per cent of all the white paper that is manufactured in this country in making reports.
 A VOICE-Come over to the microphone.
 MIR sMITH-Well, listen, there are enough of them here and 1t is hard thing for me to play fa- vorites. was trying to give q break to the little fellows.