Evening star., 1932-10-26
ENDS
STUMP|NG TOUR
Governor Cancels Reception
Engagement to Take Up
JobIess Legislation.
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Regiment Armory, stood and cheered
for nearly a minute at the Governor S
mere mention of the word beer"
And now word as to beer" said
the Governor.
At the word pandemonium broke
loose. Men stood and waved their hats
and shouted Women waved their
handkerchiefs and screamed.
1t was so seconds before the bedlam
died down sufficiently to enable the
Governor to be heard.
You people are in a great hurry, "
he exclaimed, smiling. Now let me
finish my statement.
II favor modification of the Volstead
act just as soon as the law allows" he
asserted, departing from his prepared
, address.
This is the way to divert three hun
dred million dollars or more from the
pockets Of the racketeers to the Treas
| ury Of the United States"
Paraphrases -Four Horsemen."
Paraphrasing the biblical reference
to the -four horsemen," Of war. famine,
pestilence and death, Gov. Roosevelt
| declared he is waging "a frontal at
tack" in this campaign against the
four horsemen of the present Republic
an leadership-the horSemen OF de-
struction. delay, deceit, despair"
The horseman Of deceit was GER
| tainly riding high" he said. when the
Republican leaders were trying to make
up their minds about the eighteenth
amendment"
The Republican prohibition plank, he
said, was INTENDED to sound wet to the
| vets and dry to the drys," but ENDED
by deceiving no one"
And SO after a month and half Of
keeping his ear to the ground" he con-
, tinued, the presidential candidate at
| tempted to correct it. He added new
elements Of confusion. He promised to
work for the repeal Of the eighteenth
amendment with some very important
reservations.
Everything went we'll, but suddenly
the Vice President was heard from. He
attempted to make provision for a dry
Interpretation Of what the President
meant as an appeal to the vets. Thus
1t looked as II the ticket was facing
both ways.
mo honest wet and no honest dry
can approve of such political tactics.
It Is the most palpable attempt to de-
fraud the American people that We
have seen in our day and generation" ="
The Governor ended on a note OF
| confidence:
And so, my friends, I am going
! back, back to do little State work al
Albany after an inspiring trip through
| a dozen States, and from what I see
and from what know. know that We
Americans shall rise from destruction.
We Americans shall conquer despair
We are facing new things and with
| confidence We accept the promise of a
new deal
Will Greet Washington March 4.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he understood
that there was a large crowd waiting
for him in Washington at the Union
Station. but Il could not greet them
Ill have to defer that honor until after
the 4th Of March"
The Democratic presidential nominee
! again accused the administration of
failing to curb the 1929 boom. under
| mining prosperity through the Hawley-
Smoot tariff. waiting until two years too
late to call for a balanced budget, fall
ing to bring about governmental re-
organization in the interest Of econ omy
and withholding Federal aid from the
needy
At the start of his address the Gov
ernor's voice showed the effects Of a
sudden hoarseness which came on him
yesterday morning in North Carolina
when he greeted crowds around the OBJ
servation platform Of his train at va
rious points along the route 1t i'm
proved as the speech progressed. how
ever, and the Governor smilingly ex-
pressed his confidence that it would
last two weeks more.
Ahead OF him is a somewhat indefi-
mite schedule Of speeches in Boston.
New York and perhaps other cities of
that important area.
As he left the South the Governor
carried with him the assertions OF lead
ing members of his party in that sec
ton that Dixie would be solid for him,
the Southern States which went for
Hoover in 1928 returning to the Demo-
cratic fold.
Richie Gets Ovation.
Cheers went reaching up into the
high oval roof of the structure as
George L. Radcliffe, chairman Of the
Democratic State Committee, reminded
the crowd that Wilson had been nomi-
| mated in the Baltimore Auditorium and
that 1t soon would hear 1.-The next DEM
ocratic President" He presented
Ritchie amid a din that brought a
dandelion donkey through the crowd to
take place in front Of the speakers
platform.
Ritchie said the rugged individualism
OF Grover Cleveland and the idealism
| Of Woodrow Wilson were going to be
united in the person of Roosevelt.
A mention Of President Hoover was
booed.
Il say that on his record President
Hoover ought not to be reelected for
a second term" he said, and the crowd
Hoover as one who had failed to carry
out the promises he had made in 1928.
ut was q tragic mistake to put the
| eighteenth amendment into the Con-
stitution," he said. Lets take 1t out
Of the Constitution. The Democratic
platform, backed 100 per cent by
Franklin d. Roosevelt, takes prohibi-
ton out Of the Constitution.
Republican policies are more re-
sponsible than anything else for getting
us into the trouble we are in," he added
moment later.
Address by Bruce.
Ritchie presented Howard Bruce
| Marylands Democratic national COM
mitteeman, who said 1.-The issue Of fear
/ has been introduced in this campaign
through desperation"
Every means at their disposal is
being used to spread the idea that a
Democratic administration Is unsafe fol-
business" he said.
"Mr. Hoover's greatest claim to fame
is by spending other peoples money.
| II believe that our candidate will cut