Evening star., 1932-10-15
PRESIDENT SPEAKS
FROM TRAIN ON HIS
WAY TO CLEVELAND
Chief Executive Greeted by
Crowds at Cumberland
and MartinSburg.
REED SAYS ADDRESS
WILL BE "HUMDINGER"
Hoover Had Not Completed Text of
Address When He Left Capt.
tai This Morning.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ON BOARD PRESIDENTIAL SPE-
CIAL. en- route to Cleveland, October
15.-President Hoover. speaking at
Cumberland, Md, from the rear plat
form of his train bearing him to Cleve-
land for a campaign address tonight,
told Maryland voters their first inter-
est lies in sustaining" Republican pro-
tective tariff rates and asserted the
Democratic party proposes to reduce"
them
Cumberland was the second of 10
scheduled stops in the Presidents swift
one-day dash through four States, be-
tween 10000 and 10000 people by police
estimate. were at the station to greet
him. The talk here was his first discus
sion Of election issues on this, his sec
ond campaign trip.
Use the Big Stick"
At the first stop in Msrtinsburg. w.
Va, the Chief Executive smillngly
agreed when one man in the crowd,
estimated by members of the Presl-
dents party at $500 people, shouted:
Use the big stick, Mr.. President"
All right" the President replied,
waving his bandaged hand which was
bruised and cut from shaking hands
with thousands at White House re-
ception Thursday night.
The President spoke at Cumberland,
the biggest city in Western Maryland,
from microphone placed on the rear
platform of the train. He told the
crowd that not only the industries OF
Maryland, but "a large part of her
agriculture as we'll" were dependent
on protective tariff
He asserted that without it, "pfac-
tically every farm article produced IN
the State of Maryland could be i'm
ported for less than the present price,
depressed as those prices may be-
Leaders Join Party.
Three Maryland Republican leaders
accompanied the President to Cumber-
land aboard his special train. Galen
TAFT. State chairman; wallace Williams,
senatorial candidate, and John Philip
Hill. former Repl esentative and chair
man Of the State Campaign Committee.
TAFT and Hill told newspaper men
aboard the train tt at all factional diff
ferenceS among Maryland Republicans
had been ironed cut. and they said the
party would work together for the
ticket"
Mayor George Henderson and Nelson
Russler. chairman of the Allegheny
County Republican Committee. led the
reception for President and Mrs. Hoo
Yer ct Cumberland. A band was play
Ing as the tian. drew in. EuSSiar M
trcdLccd Mr.. Hoover as the mex Presl-
d,:t of the United States" ne crI"d,
which extended into nearby park,
Cneered.
The text of the Presidents speech at
Cumberland follows:
Even if no other reminder were need
Cd, the mills OF Cumberland would re-
call the import .rce OF the protective
tariff. If it were :.oU for that Repdbh-
can policy these 'alaIcae mill: would oe
closed down this minute.
The people of Maryland are vastly
interested in maiHti.3 ng the protective
tariff. You have tairen an active in
terest in it ever since the founding Of
this republic.
First Petition to Congress.
"The people of Maryland had large
part in the passage Of the first protec-
tive tariff in our country. On April IL,
1889, group of manufacturing works
and others of Baltimore joined in a
petition to President Washington and
the first session of the First Congress.
1t was indeed the first petition filed
with the Congress.
They prayed that the new govern
Continued on Page 2, Column l)