Evening star., 1932-11-06
President Hits
at ''Play on
Discomfort =
ST. PAUL THRONG
HEARS ADDRESS
Nominee Will Dash
to Palo Alto for
Vote Tuesday.

~ the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, November 5
Summing up the issues OF his
drive for reelection, President
Hoover tonight launched out
again at the Democratic party
as seeking to play upon discon-
tent" and resorting ito the oldest
trick of politics by stimulating a
protest vote" against him.
The Chief Executive asserted,
as he drew his campaign near to
its climax, that the election OF
Franklin D. Roosevelt next Tues
day would mean four whole
months in which there can be no
definition of national policy"
It would be a year, he declared,
before the Democrats could wall
date their promises and their ne"
deal"
The President departed from his text
at one point to denounce assertions he
sa,d were being made by Democrats
that he was not an American citizen.
A throng that overflowed into aSies
and lammed the doors OF TINS io'ooo-
CAPACITY auditorium gave Mr.. Hoovei =
thiInderous reception as he appeared.
Annlause echoed around him Tor Iour
n7TTIItes. Overflow crowds listened OUT
side. ,a,tor;,,n,
however. a chorus of ''boos" greeted the
presidential party as 1t passed a group
bearing banners marked Rank ana
File, Inc" and Heroes IN l9li-buiiiS
in 1882" .,aor
Another group nearby set up cnee.
in an effort to drown out TINS noiSe.
few other scattered DOCS were iieaie
along the route, mingled with applause
Will Dash to Coast.
Even as he spoke tonight the Presi-
dent looked to the West and the sWllt
dash that will carry him to California
to cast a Republican vote. HIS address
tonned a dozen he delivered during the
dav as he sped across Illinois and WIS
The Chief Executive asserted "our
opponents" have sought to build up
"a fantastic fiction" that the Repupn-
can party has been responsible 1or tne
depression. lr.
Democratic leaders, he said, have
demonstrated their total lack OF un-
derstanding of the real Sltuatlon Will
which the Government must deal II Me
are ever to find our way out OF tnls
depression .
,iefs" in the whole Democratic pro-
gram" he asserted that under sucn
measures the Nation would collapse.
On the Republican side of the Ledger
the Chief Executive enumerated q
measures adopted by the Repunncan
administration" in aid OF the Natlon
economic situation. and cited evidences
Of regeneration of the country unoeI
He said the demand for electrical
power had increased by per cent dur-
ing the four months since the ADJOURN
ment of the Democratic House, tnat
bank deposits had increased by Sl'ooo,-
600 900 in the same period, that a new
bioh for the wear was reached in boot
and shoe production in october, ana
that 100000 men had returned TO
work in four months. An estimate, ne
said, was placed by employers them-
selves at 100000.
Turning then directly to Roosevelt,
the President quoted him as saying in
New York last night he had been
"scrupulously careful to make no IDLE
promises, to raise no false hopes"
In ST. Louis last night" Mr.. Hoover
said, Il gave list OF more than a
dozen unclarified promises, some OF
which certainly raised high hopes.
"Our opponents have devoted them
selves in the last few days to the idea
that the Republican party is endeavor--
ing to scare the American people. I
have never found them easily scared"
Quoting the Democratic nominee as
saving at the same time that the Tariff
Commission had investigated duties on
only 73 commodities in two years, the
President asserted, Again he has been
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