The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-10-25
ROOSEVELT THINKS
RECEPTIONS show
VICTORY in OFF|NC
Expresses Confidence That
Democrats Will Win After
Visit in Southland
is EN- ROUTE TO BALTIMORE
Open Boom For Cotton Ed
Smith For Secretary of
Agriculture Launched

Aboard Roosevelt Special En- Route
to Baltimore, Oct. 25.-(P)-Governo
Franklin D. Roosevelt, homeward-
bound on the final stages Of his last
big stumping tour. pushed rapidly
northward Tuesday across two south
ern states which cast their electoral
votes for Hoover in 1923.
Only brief stops were planned in
these two states-North Carolina and
Virginia-before pressing on toward
Baltimore. scene of the final speech OF
the trip Tuesday night. The special
arrives in New York Wednesday and
thereafter the governor will do his
battling in the populous states of the
North Atlantic seaboard.
With 15-minute stops at Raleigh,
NJ c.. and Richmond scheduled for
1890 a. m, and 2:30 p. m., (ESTD
respectively, the governor babe good
bye to the southland and entered the
border state of Maryland, which was
found in the Hoover column in 1928
After conferences with senators ana
governors who flocked around him in
Atlanta Governor Roosevelt said he
now believed it certain he would be
elected.
Pleased BY Receptions
He told a group of them Monday he
felt the reception he has received in
various parts OF the nation means
"the people of the country want to
have a progressive government in
Washington for the next four years
and as a result on next March 4, the
Democratic party will replace the
present Republican leadership
On this final swing, the governor III
less than a week has visited Pennsyl-
vania. West Virginia, Ohio. Indiana
Illinois. Missouri Kentucky, Tennes-
see, and Georgia, addressing big
crowds at every stop.
He left Atlanta Monday night after
a two-day visit eliminating in mass
meeting which packed the city's bis,
auditorium to the rafters while hun
dreds of others clamored in vain for
admittance.
In this first address delivered in the
heart of the South by a Democratic
presidential nominee in many years
Governor Roosevelt repeated his
pledges for aid for the farmer through
easing the farm mortage situation
and raising agricultural prices by a
tariff benefit.
Hyde Is Target, Also
Secretary Hyde. as we'll as President
Hoover served as the target of pointed
paragraphs. II believe that we owe it
to the farmers of America to have as
secretary of agriculture an agricul-
tural leader instead of a political
| leader" he said.
In this connection an open boon,
for Cotton Ed" Smith. veteran sem
ator from South Carolina. for the post
of secretary of agriculture in the
event of Democratic success was
launched by a delegation from his
state at the conferences Tuesday.
President Hoover was accused by
Roosevelt Of advocating a doctrine
of despair based on the theory that
there can be no help for the farmer
or the laboring man until prosperity
returns through some kind of SLOW
process of world reconstruction
And I am, moreover, enough OF an
American he said, Ito believe tina.
such a restoration of prosperity i'll
this country by revival Of mass pur-
chasing power will do more to effec-
tuate world recovery than all Of the
! promotional schemes of lending
money to backward and crippled
countries could do in generations In
this respect I am for America first.