The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-12
GARNER TARGET
OF REPUBLICAN
CAMP AIGN FIRE
6. 0. P. Trains Its Guns on
Speaker; RidicuIeS Acts ,
of Democrats.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent

'CoDYIlEnt 1881. DV Dnited Press
WASHINGTON, July 12-Re-
publicans are aiming their open
ing campaign shots at Speaker John
N. Garner instead of at the head
Of the Democratic ticket.
They have cut loose at the Demo-
cratic presidential candidate
three times within the last twenty
four hours.
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt
meanwhile, was allowed TO slip away
in comparative peace on a sailing
cruise with his sons.
This is unique strategy. It is an
omen of a surprise packed cam
paign in which one precedent after
another is due to be smashed
Republicans are seeking TO turn
loss into gain by trying to capitalize
upon the record of the Democratic
house now completing it's first
session.
Invited G. o. p. Attack
The nomination of Garner as
Democratic ce-presidential can
didate was an invitation to the Re-
publicans to try tan unwilling in
vitation, because Garner was &C
cepted by the Roosevelt forces in
order to get the Texas and Cali
fornia votes necessary to break the
deadlock which was holding up the
presidential nomination.
That is how the short, Jolly. scrap
ping Speaker happens to be singled
out by Treasury Secretary Ogden
Mills in the opening speech of the
administration political campaign
Monday night at Boston.
A few hours earlier President
Hoover dispatched an aggressive
veto message to the house which
pinned critical labels all over the
Garner relief bill.
Another administration spokes-
man, Undersecretary of Treasury
Ballantine, testifying before the
house rules committee against the
proposal for an investigation of the
treasury referred to the new role"
of Speaker Garner.
Garner Easiest Target
Before Roosevelt was nominated,
Alfred E. Smiths managers de-
clared he was the weakest of all
candidates before the convention,
Republicans, while pleased to enE-
courage that impression, regard
Garner as the easiest target.
Through him they have the whole
Democratic house to aim at. 1t
has a definite legislative record-a
bad one, the Republicans say. They
cite the very words of the Demo-
cratic house leader who said his
fellow Democrats were acting like
bunch of Bolsheviks."
They quote the lament of Repre-
sentative Crisp, Of Georgia, acting
chairman of the house ways and
means committee, who as his sales
tax bill was torn to shreds declared
on the house floor, he could not see
his party destroying" itself with
out protesting.
Garner is being built up by the
Republicans as part of a campaign
to scare the country away from
the Democrats.
Democratic house policies are be-
ing described as threatening ruin
and disaster.
Senate Democrats Alarmed
Mills at Boston described the
measures passed by the Dem ocratic
house in the following langud ge:
The printing and issuance Of
at currency; the immediate pay
ment Of the bonus an appropriation
of over a billion dollars for postof-
fees, rivers and harbors. roads, etc,
these two items alone aggregating
over three billion dollars. the guar
antee Of bank deposits; instructions
to the secretary of the treasury and
federal reserve board to manipulate
commodity prices; the unbalancing
of a budget balanced by great eff
fort; ana putting the government
into the general commercial bank
ing business on a huge scale"
This is a line of attack directed
at frightening the substantial bust
ness elements of every community,
especially in the east.
Sound money" as against fiat
money" is the way Republicans are
attempting to draw the issue.
ThNU l1aNN hpNr ptaCO1ira ~,
making Garner their target be-
cause some of the Democratic lead
ers in the senate, in alarm, begged
the Speaker to abandon his pro-
posal of Reconstruction Finance
Corporation relief for anybody.
These Democrats saw the political
dangers, but Garner isn't man to
be stopped.