Evening star., 1932-10-28
SMITH IS HAILED
BY BOSTON CROWDS
Thousands Hear Former Gov
ernor'S Attack on Hoover
Administration.
The tert of former GoU. Smiths
speech appears on Page 40.

! BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, October 28-Massachusetts
Democratic sons turned out in cheer
ing throng last night to hear Alfred E.
Smith urge upon them the unqualified,
full and complete support of Franklin
D. Roosevelt
He called for the election OF Gov
Roosevelt in the opening sentences of
his speech, and again, just before he
closed, he said: The salvation of the
country in this crisis lies in
the success of the Democratic ticket un-
der the leadership of Frank Roosevelt
and John Garner
, Crowd of $4,000.
The crowd of $4,000 in the Boston
! Arena vigorously applau led his criti-
! cismS of President Hoover and his at
tacks on administration policies. 1t
/ laughed as he greeted with suspicion"
thc "solicitude of Senator Moses after
his (Smiths) defeat at the Chicago con-
vention.
Smith said he felt he had come
| home; that his audience was sitting
around his table," and he said he was
going Ito be pretty frank"
Il was not satisfied with that Chicago
| convention" he said And know that
| YOU were not satisfied with it. But
! listen, we'll settle these troubles in our
party. We don't want any advice, and
above everything else, We want no SYM
pathy from Senator Moses or his Re-
publican cohorts"
| Says People Left in Dark.
Referring to what he termed admin
{ istration failures" Smith said:
If I was to be asked what in my
opinion was the greatest failure OF the
! existing administration, would be i'm
PEELED to say that they left the people
| of this country entirely in the dark with
regard to the all-important function OF
! povernment-that final adjustment OF
our financial condition. There Is no
doubt that they will be able to explain
it. but the explanation was not in their
favor, and it was therefore wlthheld.
The crowd roared its might.est as ne
said:
every successful and progressive
President of the United States during
INV time has been a former Governor
of a State-Cleveland, Theodore Roose.
welt. Woodrow Wilson, Calvin CooHoge.
And even as the roared few boos
were heard at the mention OF CooldgeS
name. Smith frowned and shouted:
Can that. Can that. I'm talking OF
successful Presidents"
OF President Hoover, Smith said:
Attacks Lack Of Leadership.
"The trouble is that he lacks the
power of leadership, even over the mem
bers of his own party. and what Is
more he lacks the power to appeal 10
the peOple themselves.
Smith spoke of the bonus army incl
cent in Washington and said the Pres
| ident should have explained the sltua-
ton of the finances of the country
with respect to the claims the bonus
army members were making.
Instead" he said. they the bonus
army members) were encouraged to re-
main in Washington until sanitary con-
ditions became so bad they had to be
driven away from Washington by armed
forces of the United States, and the
Secretary of War went out trying to ex-
| plain why it should have been done"
He blamed Senator Borah for Pres
ident Hoover's big miStake-an eXtraor-
binary session for farm relief"-and ne
attacked the foreign policy OF the ad-
ministration.
THE higher administrative officers
in Washington" he said, constantly
refer to the plight of our nelghbors
abroad-and when they were sinking
and calling for life preserver, the ma
tional administration threw them an
anchor"
Banner Expresses Greeting.
Hiisost over the platform hung a
banner Whish. read:
Friend 'Al'~Welcome as always to
the State you made Democratic for
ever"
This theme-the fact Smith carried
Massachusetts, in 1928-was stressed by
most of the long list Of preliminary
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