Evening star., 1932-10-28
ELECT ROOSEVELT,
URGES Al SMITH
Again AssaiIs G. O. P. Ad-
ministration in Boston
Address.
~ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, October 28-Following is
the text of Alfred E. Smiths speech at
the Boston Arena last night:
Mr.. Chairman, and my very be-
loved friends Of Massachusetts,, am
by the great greeting disconnected
in the slightest degree because
am home. I am home in every sense
that that means. left New York at
10 o'clock. have shaken hands in the
rain from the back of rainroad train.
I nearly fell of it at New Haven. I
have signed my name five or six thou
sand times to autograph albums. I
finally arrived in Providence to get a
great greeting and be ushered before q
great audience. And finally there comes
the climax Of it all. Boston.
invaded New England for a purpose
and I propose refore this audience to-
night in the time allowed me to show
that the purpose was well founded. And
that purpose was to come into New
England and ask for the unqualified.
full and complete support of Franklin
D. Roosevelt and John Garner.
~ Little Me Drama.1
Now I thought probably tonight while
We are all here in this little family
dlIlcIUIS, Slttllle dlOuiiQ tilC ldplC you
would frankly say to me, Father. what
Is this all about?" l shall probably tell
you I am going to weave kind of
little me drama with its serious and
its comic side entitled The Republican
Failure. or What Happens to the Re-
publican Best Minds" With the first
leading character of the play a man of
state and we will deal with his Detroit
speech. Now 1 am satisfied of one thing
and that is that the engineers and pub
lie accountants consume about 60 per
cent of all the white paper manufac-
tured In this country in making reports.
Well, listen. There are enough Of
them here. 1t is hard thing for me
to play favorites I was trying to give
q break to the little fellow.
can see a radio audience after lis
tening to the Detroit speech Of Presi-
dent Hoover We can imagine their
frame of mind. We can imagine even
their physical condition after they lis
tened in 1t reminds me of a story
that happened way down on the lower
East Side of New York a good many
years ago, when a doctor went to visit
a patient suffering from an attack of
pneumonia. and the doctor on his way
to the patients house stopped with a
few friends for little stimulant At
the early hours of the morning, 2
o'clock. the stimulant was too much
for him. and he laid his head upon the
breast of the patient and said, Count" !"
The doctor after that fell asleep and
al half past in the morning the pa
tient was saying, go. 265." That was
the impression the Detroit speech made
upon the audience generally listening
in around the country.
Declares People Left in Dark.
If I were to be asked tonight what
IN my opinion was the greatest failure
OF the existing administration, would
be compelled to say that they left the
people of this country entirely in the
dark with regard to the all-important
function Of the Government-the final
adjustment of our financial condition.
There is no doubt that they will be
able to explain 1t. but the explanation
vas not in their favor and it was there
fore withheld.
In 1880 the United States Treasury
vas facing . deficit Of 81 900 900 900
one billion! Not a single word was