Evening star., 1932-07-03
ROOSEVELT CALLS
PARTY TO PREPARE
Nominee Declares Economic
Condition Is Inevitable
as Main Issue.
By the Associated Press.

day to accept formally the presidential
nomination bestowed upon him last
night by an Overwhelming vote.
AS he stood smiling and waving his
hand from the speakers platform. at
the end of an airplane rush across
country from Albany, the delegates and
many thousands of spectators in the
galleries united in long and uproar-
louS tribute.
The convention had Just completed
its national ticket by nominating unan-
inously for the vice presidency John
N. Garner of Texas, Speaker of the
National House Of Representatives. Its
work done, the party conclave aban--
doned itself to one final big parade OF
fighting enthusiasm.
Crowd Sings to Pipe Organ.
It shouted and paraded, waved its
flags and standards and sang to the
laundering accompaniment Of the great
pipe organ. It cheered ftfully through
out the whole final season OF speech
making and party exhortation.
Huge crowds greeted Roosevelt on his
arrival, after a long trip bucking head
winds. sally at the airport Of Don't
forget to make up with Al Smith
brought the laughing reply III DO
that" :.
But some friends of Smith remained
skeptical Some expect him to leave
the country for the duration OF the
campaign, possibly for European trip
Gov. Roosevelt was smiling broadly
as he walked into the seething stadium,
where thousands filled the police-pa-
trolled galleries. Leaning on his cane
and on the arm Of his towering son
James, he was escorted by committee
which formed two lines for him to pass
through to the speakers stand.
Among the escort were Harry F.
Byrd of Virginia, John F. Curry. the
Tammany leader; Senator Connally of
Texas, Mayor Anton Cermak of Chi
cago and James A. Farley, the Roose-
welt manager through the turmoil OF
the convention.
Responds to Thousands.
For minutes the nominee stood be-
tween his son and Mrs. Roosevelt. now
and again waving a happy response to
the applauding thousands. A red car
nation shone in the lapel of his blue
suit. a pencil peeked forth from his
coat pocket, the one used for last-min-
ute alterations in his speech as the air
plane whirred across the country.
Soon he stepped forward with the
manuscript, and quiet fell. He read it
clearly and slowly, bringing laugh at
the start when he referred to the
had" the six arduous days past.
Referring to the tradition that he
broke in coming to the convention at
once to accept the nomination, he asked
that it be considered symbolic of his
intention ito be honest and to avoid
all hypocrisy and sham"
The way he firmly gripped the table
in front of him, and that his powerful
chest heaved as he emphasized points
here and there reminded one of four
years ago at Houston-but how differ
ent was the occasion. There he was
nominating Al Smith.
Decrying radicalism, the Governor
called the Democratic party by tradi-
tion "the bearer of liberalism and of
progress and at the same time of safety
to our institutions"
At the same time that he invited
Republicans to break away, he warned
those nominal Democrats who SQuint
at the future with their faces toward
the past, and who feel no responsibility
to the demands of the new time, that
they are out of step with their party"
Party Must Be Liberal"
ours must be a party of liberal
thought" he said, "of planned action,
of enlightened international outlook,
and of the greatest good to the greatest
number of our citizens.
Now it Is ineVitable-and the choice
Is that of the tines-it is inevitable
that the main issue of this campaign
should revolve about the clear facts
of our economic condition, depression
so deep that it is without precedent in
modern history. 1t will not do merely
to state, as do Republican leaders eX-
planning broken promises and continued
inaction, that the depression is world
wide. That was not their explanation
of the apparent prosperity of 1928. The
people will not forget the claim made
by them then that prosperity was only
a domestic product manufactured by a
Republican President and Republican
Congress. If they claim paternity for
the one, they cannot deny paternity
for the other"
He assailed the imitation" Of the
decade prior to 1929, declaring 1t was
proven that during that time there
was little or no drop in the prices that
the consumer had to pay, although
those same figures proved that the cost
of production fell very greatly; cor
porate profit resulting from this period
was enormous, at the same time little
of that profit was devoted to the re-
duction Of prices.
Consumer Forgotten"
THE consumer was forgotten, very
the worker was forgotten, and by no
means an adequate proportion was even
paid out in dividends, the stockholder
was forgotten"
Interrupted once in while by ap-
plause, enabling him to drink from the
water glass by his side, Roosevelt dealt
in some detail with unemployment and
agriculture He favored a public works
program, saying it should be OF self
fV,{1
that to make the most Of it definite
steps should be taken to shorten the
working day and the working week.
He advocated an immense reforesta-
ton program, saying employment
could be given a million men" that way.
Repeal was demanded of laws that
compel the Federal Government to
go into the market to purchase, to sell,
to speculate. in farm products, in
futile attempt TO reduce farm sur
pluses."
THE practical way to help the farm
err he said, lis by an arrangement that
will, In addition to Tightening some OF
the impoverishing burdens from his
back, do something toward the reduc-
ton of the surpluses Of staple com
moditieS, that hang on the market. 1t
should be our aim to add to the world
prices Of staple products the amount
Of a reasonable tariff protection, give
agriculture the same protection that in
dustry has today.
Would Reduce Surpluses."
And in exchange for this immedi-
ately increased return 1 am sure the
farmers of this Nation would agree ulti-
mately to such planning Of their pro-
duction as would reduce the surpluses
and make it unnecessary in later years
to depend on dumping those surpluses
abroad in order to support domestic
prices.
II believe that the Democratic party
stands ready to be guided by whatever