Evening star., 1932-03-06
CONNALLY WARNS
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
Texan Urges Party Unity on
Issues and Choice of
Candidates.

The Democratic party must approach
the election with candidate and a
platform upon which all can rely.
Senator Tom ConnaIy Of Texas told
the Steering Committee of the Young
Democratic Clubs Of America at a din
ner last night at the Woman's Ma
tional Democratic Club.
The committee represented 27 States
and number Of colleges and uni
vtrSities Yesterday it perfected or
ganiZation of the Young Democrats
Clubs of the country and elected Tyre
Taylor of Raleigh, N. c., originator
Of the movement, president. Other
officers chosen we're Miss Elizabeth
Wheeler, daughter of Senator Wheeler
of Montana, vice president, and John
Boyden of Salt Lake City, Utah, sec
retary.
Although refusing to commit him.
self on a candidate for the Democratic
nomination. Senator Connelly said that
the issue of the campaign is an eco
nomic one.
Attacks Administration.
He attacked the administration as
having been responsible, "as far as gov
ernmental policies can affect economic
conditions" for the present depression.
Picturing the Republicans as drifting
"aimlessly and blindly," he said the
only progressive and constructive steps
to assist the country out of its eco
nomic slough have resulted from actlVl-
ties of Democrats, and especially OF the
Democratic House of Representatives.
He called on Democrats to present
united and militant front in the COM
ing campaign and predicted victory.
Characterizing the Smoot-HaWIey
tariff act as outrageous" he asserted
!. I,.ol frod Fad industry
so that exports dWindled more than
billion dollars during the first year it
was in effect.
He ridiculed claims Of Republicans
that the depression was unavoidable
and pointed to France, which, he SAID
still is enjoying prosperity.
While Republicans promised con-
tinuation of Coolidge economy, the
Government ran up deficit OF three
billion dollars, the greatest detlclt OF
any Nation at the present time, he de-
clared.
Mrs. Ross Also Speaks.
Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, former Gov
ernor of wyoming and vice chairman
of the Democratic National COMMITTEE,
said that present conditions constitute
a "scathing indictment OF the Repuo-
hcan party" 1900,
In choosing Mr. Hoover for the presl-
dency, she declared, the American peo-
pie "mistook a fair Tor organization
for craftsmanship.
tariff act.
YESTERDAY at a luncheon in the May
flower Hotel Jouett Shouse. chairman
of the Democratic National Executive
Committee, said that there has not
been a single idea since the Civil war
of progressive or desirable change tnat
has not had its root outside OF the Re-
publican party.
He said the principle Of the Glass
SteaEall bill was advocated IN congress
50 years ago by Senator James x Jones
Of Nevada, a Democrat.
Ee said the organizations frSt pur-
nose should be TO educate the youth Oh
the country in Democratic ideas, ana
the second 70 carry out certain party
functions which devolve on 1t, ne
stated.
Earlier IN the day the young Demo
Gratis held business sessions at Whlch
plan OF organization was devised ana
resolutions adopted 10 form a tempo
Tsgy constitution.
Supports All Nominees.
The resolutions set out that the or
canizatlon will indoTSe and actively
support all nominees and policies Of the
Democratic party. that it will be non
faceional and that at all times 1t will
maintain its separate identity and IN
tegrity.
It was decided to have a general
policy body called the Steering Com
nittee and an Executive Committee
composed Of the officers and the re-
gional chairmen. The delegates as
SAMPLED for the session were oeslg-
mated as composing the Steering Com
mittee.
Most Of the delegates we're either
chairmen or vice chairmen of State or
gsnizations of Young Democratic CLUBS
and were called to Washington by Mr..
Taylor, new president of the organl-
cation.
Arthur C. Terry, president OF the
local club, was toastmaster at the an
ner last night. He read the following
telegram from Gov. Franklin D. Roose-
welt of New York:
Please extend my greetings to the
members of the National Young Demo-
cratic Club Tell them they must be
Democrats by conviction as well as by
inheritance and that on them will rest
a large responsibility of maintaining in
our party belief in things as they ought
to be- We can lose victory only if we
far back to a conservative satisfaction
in things as they are. I wish I could
be with yOu"