The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-01-09
DEMOCRATS SOUND
! MILITANT WAR CRY
AT JACKSON Dinner
Harmony Is Keynote as Jeffer-
sonians Hear Former
Leaders Of Party
cox, DAVIS, SMITH SPEAK
Prohibition Question Will Be
Submitted to National
Convention
cox, DAVIS, SMITH SPEAK

Washington, Jan. s.-(R,-Chi-
cago Saturday won the Democra.
tic national convention.
June n was selected - the date
for the convention TO meet. The
Republicans convene there June
IL.
Washington. Jan. s.-@-The
Democratic national committee Sat-
urday turned to the engrossing bust-
ness affairs Of the party, fresh from,
. deluge Of Jackson Day dinner ora
tory which sounded q militant wal
cry for the 1882 campaign,
Harmony was the keynote Of the
session, called primarily to select q
city for the 1882 convention. Kansas
City, San Francisco. Chicago. and
Atlantic City were bidding for The
privilege Of entertaining the party
delegates.
The troublesome question Of pro-
hibition, which nearly wrecked the
meeting Of the committee in March,
was headed for convention consider
alton without committee action.
The predominant political Develop
ment from the jackson Day dinner
Of Friday night was the definite
manner In which former Governor
James M. Cox, Of Ohio, and John W.
Davis took themselves out Of con-
sideration for the 1882 nomination
and the fact that former Governor
Alfred z. Smith Of New York did not.
These three former standard beat
.ers of the party were the speakers.
They combined to heap denuncia-
ton on the tariff, the farm beard
and the Hoover administration as a
whole. .ss
Advocates Unemployment Aid
Smith went further and laid out
q platform for the relief Of unem-
ployment after characterizing the adj
mtnistration policy in this regard as
"defenseless."
He advocated a great governmental
bond issue sold as were Liberty bonds
direct to the people and the use Of
the money for permanent public i'm
provements needed In the operation
Of the government.
Cox and Smith assaulted prohibi-
ton. Cox, his voice pitched high,
called on southern Democrats to
send back to their pulpits political
ecclesiastics so that the people may
know the truth about prohibition"
His plea was applauded.
Smith, with arms extended, asked
the question. what about prohibi-
tion?" Then he answered:
1.-THE country Is spending annually
500, 900 900 In ser1seless, useless,
and fruitless attempt to enforce pro-
hibition."
Applause, and the 1928 campaign
cry Of Come on. A." greeted his an
SWer.
The pleas Of the two. however, ap-
peared to have no effect on the ma
tional committee officials. John j.
Raskob, chairman, and former Gov
ernor Harry Flood Byrd, of Virginia.
vice chairman, agreed before Satur.
days meeting that prohibition refer
endum proposals Of the former. would
be sent to the convention without
committee cognizance except through
the resolution transmitting them.
Glass Warns Ohioan
Senator Glass Of Virginia was az
fected by the Cox appeal to the south
to recognize the problems Of the
north In dealing with prohibition.
After the dinner he personally told
the Ohioan he had appealed to Sec
tionalism In his speech and served
notice he would have more to say
Saturday.
Davis turned his fire on the smoot-
Hawley tariff bill. He said mot one
new dollar has this tariff dropped
Into the pocket Of q single American
citizen"
The former ambassador to Great
Britain, and 1924 candidate. describ-
ed the farm board Is . mad adven-
ture "and maintained it had taught
the farmer only one thing and that
was he had been hapded . gold brick
OF purest brass serene"
Claude q. Bowers, keynoter Of the
Houston convention In 1928, was the
POSTMASTER. In his opening address
he attacked the Hoover ADMINISTERS
ton for Its failure to fulfil CAM
paign promises" He said the blame
for the depression would have to b.
placed on the Republicans: "For
when . party claims credit for the
rain it must take credit for tie
drought"