The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-08-04
GOV. ROOSEVELT OPENS HIS
CAMPAIGN


Saturday evening, Gov. Roosevelt, of
New York, Democratic nominee for presi-
dent, made his first speech of the campaign,
following his desolutory address before the
Democratic convention at Chicago, accepting
the nomination.
Franklin Roosevelt is high type gen.
tleman. In his address Saturday evening he
wandered far afield.
One of the outstanding demands of his
address was for the immediate repeal of the
18th amendment, in accord with his party's
platform.
The Republican platform asked for the
resubmission of the prohibition plank.
Perhaps there are some of the avowed
vets hoped" up to the idea that the re-
peal of the 18th amendment can be accomp-
lished by the simple turn of the wrist.
The Herald editor may be dumb bell,
but he has always been of the opinion that
the 18th amendment can only be repealed by
travelling the route by which it was passed,
namely, the legislative endorsement by the
several sovereign states
To repeal this amendment it will require
Sc of the state legislatures voting in the af
firmative.
With the II southern states solidly dry,
with Maine, Kansas, Oklahoma and North
Dakota, in the background, the Herald editor
is of the opinion that the vets cannot muster
enough votes to repeal.
Don't overlook this very important fact,
the women of America, by and large, are
bone dry.
MIR. Roosevelt was nominated in June.
Some of the avowed vets were quite sur
prised that, following his nomination, he did
not demand of Democratic congress, reso-
luton demanding the repeal of the prohi-
bition amendment.
AS matter of fact the prohibition
plank, in both the Republican and Demo-
cratic platforms, is all hog wash, adopted to
satisfy demands which each party assumed
might be popular.
Prohibition is a controversial problem,
and should not have been recognized by eth
er party.
In his opening address Gov. Roosevelt
attempted to read into the Democratic plat
form the Endorsement of the Great Lakes-St.
Lawrence waterway plan, the hobby of
President Hoover for more than ten years.
A close perusal of the platform will not
find word or syllable for or against the wat
erway plan.
With the signing of the Great Lakes-St.
Lawrence treaty, the governor is endeavor-
ing to appeal to the citizenry of the great
Northwest with his Endorsement, keeping in
the background the fact that New York, by
and large, has been soidly against the St.
Lawrence waterway from the beginning.
In his mad quest for votes Gov. Roose-
welt is, this early in the campaign, develop
ing all the earmarks of demagogue
In his course as Governor of New York,
Mr.. Roosevelt has been compelled to send
several of the crooked judges of New York,
children of Tammany, to the penitentiary.
The Herald admits that, with the evil
dence adduced, he could not do less
Tammany always has punished those
who have frustrated their plans, or penalized
their members.
After the votes are counted in Novemb-
er, not withstanding the professed support
of Tammany's idol, AL Smith, watch how
Gov. Roosevelt will be slaughtered in his
home state.
He hasn't chance to carry the Empire
state, normally Republican, in November