The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
G. 0. P. Trying to SIAM
pede Electorate as Last
Resort, He Charges.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press STAFF CORRESPONDENT

OHAbco EIeSS stan correspondent
WHEELING, w. Va, Oct. 49,
Governor Franklin d. Roosevelt to-
day charged his Republican oppon-
ents with trying to instill panic into
the voters.
"You have been told that things
might have been worse, and will be
worse if I am elected to office,
Roosevelt said in his speech here.
ITO attempt to instill panic into
the electorate at a time when we
must all have courage and firm
belief that the American charac-
teristic of finding answers to
problems will bring us back on the
upward trail, is a method of cam
paigning which does little credit to
leaders still at this time entrusted
with the welfare of the United
States"
Answers G. o. p. Charges
He answered Republican charges
that his tariff position would en-
danger the well-being of American
labor.
II have not advocated, and I never
will advocate, a tariff policy which
will withdraw protection from
American workers against those
countries which employ cheap labor
or who operate under standard
of living which is lower than that
of our own great laboring groups y
Taking up the phrase things
might have been worse" which Pres
ident Hoover used in his Des Moines
and Cleveland speeches, Roosevelt
said things also might have been
better.
Roosevelt said conditions might
have been worse, but for the func-
tioning of two agencies, the federal
reserve system and the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation, both of
which he asserted were of Demo-
cratic inspiration.
The federal reserve system, the
Democratic candidate said, was
the product of a Democrat-Sena-
tor Carter Glass of Virginia, and
became a law only after the most
bitter Republican opposition"
Tells of r. F. C. Stand
The Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration, Roosevelt continued, lis
as much a Democratic measure as
Republican measure-for it was
passed in the spirit of bipartisan
cooperation in the congress-
Roosevelt also said he wanted it
understood he never had objected
to establishment of the r. F. c., but
only to the administrations opera
ton of it in way that failed to
spread its benefits to the men lower
in the economy scale.
Pennsylvania's thirty-six electoral
votes were the prize Roosevelt hopes
to win in his speech at Pittsburgh
tonight when 100000 are expected
to hear him.
The Roosevelt special reached
Pittsburgh at 9 a. m. after an over
night run from Buffalo.
Pausing long enough to change
from his private car into an auto
mobile, the Democratic presidential
candidate left there Immediately to
drive to Wheeling.
Attacks Colonel Donovan
On the way back to Pittsburgh,
his route was arranged to take him
into the eastern fringe OF Ohio
through Steubenville.
Roosevelt in two New York state
speeches Tuesday, at Rochester and
Buffalo, represented himself as
champion of the forgotten man"
He included my old friend, AL
Smith," as, one of the original COL
laborators in a program of state
welfare legislation intended to pro-
tect the forgotten man." and at
tackled Colonel William j. Donovan,
Republican nominee for Governor
of New York, who he said lad
asked what the Democrats had
done for the forgotten man"