The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-28
HOOVER SEXES
ON SLIP MADE
BY ROOSEVELT
Hint That Supreme Court Is
Republican, Ruled May
Be Answered Here.
BY WALKER STONE
Time- stan Writer

Iime~ stan Writer
ABOARD HOOVER'S SPECIAL
TRAIN y oct. 2S-President Hoo
ver's Republican advisers who have
helped him prepare the speech he
will deliver in indianapolis tonight
we're predicting freely that the
speech easily would eclipse the ad-
dress which Governor Albert c.
Richie is to deliver before rival
audience.
The Presidents associates are
counting heavily on the belief that
Richie will concentrate on prohi-
bition, for many years the favorite
subject of the free state Governor.
Hoover, it is said, will deliver an
omnibus address, touching on as
many issues as possible, with par
ticular emphasis on the tariff and
the farm problem.
May Spring Sensation
One unconfrmed rumor-and 1t
will be the sensation Of the speech
if the rumor proves true-is that
the President will take. the oppor-
tunity in the indianapolis address
to denounce Governor Roosevelt
for the passing reference made by
the Democratic candidate in Balti-
more Tuesday night to the United
States supreme court.
Republican .spokesmen through
out the country are Selling upon
this obvious slip Of the tongue as
the big Democratic campaign
blunder' which for months they
predicted.
1t is the old mountain Of mole
hill strategy. No one who was in
the Armory at Baltimore Tuesday
night thought there was any sim
lister motive in Roosevelt's mention
of the supreme court.
Ridiculing the Republican argu-
ment that the failure of the adj
ministration to defeat the depres-
sion was due to the Democratic
house Of representatives in the last
session, Roosevelt pointed out that
for many years previous the Repub-
licans had control of the executive
branch of the federal government,
of both houses of congress, land, I
might add, of the supreme court
as we'll"
Just an Afterthought
The reference to the supreme
court was not in his prepared man.
uscript and he uttered it as though
rounding out a sentence when he
looked up from his manuscript and
smiled out over his audience.
Persons close to the President say
that he intends to make the most
Of his rivals slip of the tongue,
and attack him bitterly, charging
that he slandered the supreme
tribunal by insinuating that politics
plays a part in its decisions.
If the President does not men
ton this at Indianapolis, it is said
he will do so in his New York speech
next Monday.
The Hoover strategy does not call
for discussion of prohibition in the
indianapolis speech. His advisers
believe that prohibition, as an is
sue of the campaign is fading
rapidly into the background and
that economic issues are moving to
the front.
Indiana having large agricultural
and industrial interests, it would be
logical for Hoover to stress the al
legged benefits of the Republican
protective tariff and outline, as he
did at Des Moines, his proposals for
farm relief.
Reports from indianapolis that
Hoosier Democrats are trying to or
ganize a demonstration for Ritchie
that will outshine the Hoover demon
stration are not taken seriously by
the presidential party. They say it is
ludicrous to believe that any speaker
can draw in a midweStern city a
larger crowd than the President of
the United States.
They argue that the people of the
midwest do not often have oppor-
tunity to see and hear a President
and that the magic of his high
office will draw thousands of the
opposing political faith.
Senator James f. Watson and a
large crowd of Hoosiers are ex-
pected to board the special when it
crosses the Indiana line about noon.
Ample accommodations have been
provided.
Nine Cars on Train
The Hoover special is a nine-car
train-the Presidents private car, a
lounge car, a club car, four sleepers
a diner, and a car for the crew.
In the Presidents immediate
party are Mrs. Hoover; two of the
Presidents secretaries, Lawrence
Richey and Walter Fl. Newton; the
Presidents administrative assistant
French Strother, the man who helps
write the Presidents speeches; for,
mer Senator Henry j. Allen OF
Kansas, publicity director of the Re-
publican national committee; DR..
Joel T. Boone, the Presidents ply
Nsician; Miss Mildred Hall, Mrs.
Hoover's secretary; three other
White House stenographic sec
retaries, Myra McGrath, Ann
Shankey and Dorothy Eastman
and a half dozen secret service men
The party also includes twenty
eight newspaper men and photo
graphers and seven attaches of the
Republican national committee.