The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-29
HOOVER HITS HIS CAMPAIGN
HIGH IN ATTACK ON RIVAL.
THOUSANDS HEAR RICHIE
Maryland Governor Spurs
Hopes of His Party by
Vigorous Speech.
FLAYS FEAR CAMPAIGN
TorChIight Parade Is One of
Greatest SpeCtaCIeS
in Years.

Enthused by the greatest
torchlight parade in scores
of years, and aroused by the
slashing attack of Governor
Albert c. Richie at the Re-
publican Campaign of fear"
thousands of Indiana Demo-
Gratis today are confident of
victory Nov. 8.
The colorful review of 10000 Dem
ocrats provided fitting prelude for
the Ritchie speech, delivered in
Cadle tabernacle to $4,000, while
1900 thronged outside the building.
For four minutes the thousands
stood and cheered the Maryland
who was introduced by
Otto P. DeluSe, prominent Indian
apolis business man and former ma
tional president of the Eagles.
Turns Guns on Hoover
With hand uplifted to still the
tumult, Ritchie launched an attack
on President Hoover's vitriolic criti-
ciSm of Governor Franklin D.
Roosevelt made earlier Friday night.
The President had called his oppon-
ent "evasive, untruthful and de-
deceitful."
Il resent such statements about
my partyS candidate for President"
shouted Ritchie and the crowd again
rose and cheered after booing Hoo
ver's name.
The crowd also booed the mention
of Henry Ford, who. Ritchie
charged established plants, built
with American capital, ON foreign
soil to evade the tariff, throwing
thousands Of Americans out of work
IN this country. Ritchie declared
Ford then tells those American
workers whom he does employ that
they must vote for Herbert Hoover.
Called American
This plan of a repudiated cap
italist to intimidate the votes Of
his employees is un-American, and,
thank God, un-Democratic.
Hitting at the Republican cam
paign tactics of spreading fear and
alarm among the viters, Ritchie
said:
Il pronounce the effort an I'M
worthy one and I want to ask what
the American people have to be
afraid of in getting rid of a national
administration whose unsound po-
litical policies have steered the coun-
try into the valley of depression
and despair"
Reviewing the background of
Franklin D. Roosevelt and his train
ing for the Presidency, Richie then
launched into a discussion of the
Presidents Cleveland speech, in
which Hoover "endeavored to arouse
the fears of the voters by claiming
that the election of Democrat
would endanger the country.
Cites Gold Standard Claim
Perhaps the most fragrant in
stance of this campaign strategy
was when the President made his
now discredited statement that the
nation was within two weeks of be-
ing forced off the gold standard and
that he had fought the battle for
Suond money and had Won" Ritchie
said.
Nobody seemed to know any,
thing about this preil or the battle
whlc haverted it, and Senator Car
ter Glass Of Virginia and other
competent authorities quickly
showed that nothing of the kind
had occurred"
Declaring the American people
refuse to be Frightened, the MARYLAND
Governor said that such charges
come with particularly poor grarce
from President Hoover"
He became food dictator during
the war by appointment of a Demo-
cratic President, Woodrow Wilson.
He Joined President Wilson in ask
ing the country to elect a Demo-
cratic congress in 1918, and he al
lowed his name to be entered in a
Democratic presidential primary in
1920. He carried Michigan that
year as a Democrat-well, he's a
now.
President Hoover's devotion TO
the Republican party is thus little
more than ten years old and his
fear OF the Democratic party GER
tainly is no older" Richie said
as the crowd laughed and cheered
SCOTS at Farm Relief
Asserting that there are millions
OF Republicans who agreed that the
nope of America lies in putting a
Democratic administration which
can succeed in the place Of a Re-
publican administration which has
demonstrated that it can not,
Ritchie asked:
Since when has it been danger
Gus to change public officials who
do not fulfill their promises and
who avoid and then fail when new
promises arise? The danger lies in
continuing such officials, not chang
ing them"
Reviewing the Hoover 1928 prom
ises for farm and agricultural re-
lief, Ritchie said:
THE farmer is more in need of
relief today than he was when Hoo
yer started to relieve him.
The man who tramps the street
looking for work will not put up
with the Republican administration
any longer; the farmer who has no
market for his crops will not; the
who finds himself without
customers win not, and the factory
owner whose furnace fires are
banked, will not. -