Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-11-04
Landslide
Predicted
orDem
Courthouse Filled Long BeforE
Addresses Begin; Many Listen
In Via Loud Speaker
Republican Administration Blamed
For The Conditions Prevailing
Throughout Country At The
Present Time

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two big guns here last night.
Congressman ]. ]. McSwain,
Grenville, S. C., introduced by
Lee Overman Gregory, local at
torney, was the first big gun.
The second was R. R. Reynolds,
Democratic nominee for the Unit
ed States senate. He was intro
duced by C. P. Barringer, local
attorney.
The meeting was presided over
by Ross M. Sigmon, chairman of
the Rowan County Democratic
Executive committee.
Hundreds unable to obtain en-
rance in the courtroom on &C
count of the large crowd, heard
the addresses through the loud
speaker set up on the courthouse
porch.
Speaking in the courthouse be-
fore a capacity crowd, these two
orators predicted an overwhelm-
ing victory on November 9Th for
the Democratic ticket. Both plac-
ed the blame for the depression at
the door of the republican admin
istration. Both declared a Demo-
cratic victory was the first big
step towards the return of prosper
ity to this country.
Congressman McSwain decried
the statement hat the depression
or "panic' originated abroad. He
declared it was the result of re-
publican policies which brought
about the stagnation of interna-
tional trade under the republican
tariff. American industry, he
said, as a result of republican pol
icies, had been paralyzed.
Mr.. McSwain dealt in detail
with the foreign policy of Ameri-
ca and traced the beginning of
the depression to the tariff law en-
acted~by a republican congress. He
dealt mainly with national pro-
blems. He predicted a Democra-
tic landslide November 9Th.
Mr.. Reynolds started off by ex-
pressing his appreciation for the
hospitality and for the unusually
large crowd Of folks that had
gathered to greet him. He said
that he had come to this part of
the State for the purpose of talk
ing to the rank and file of the
folks. Not alone to the rank and
file Of the Democratic party, but
to the republicans as we'll. He
said that the republicans were not
responsible for the sins committed
by their leaders and hat thousands
of them were deserving their par
ty and were going % vote the de-
mocratic ticket this year.
"And l." he said, "am going to
be one who will extend them a
most cordial welcome, l don't be-
lieve in cussing them, for I num-
Der among then in western North
Carolina some of my warrl1est per-
sonal friends"
MI. Reynolds spoke of the birth
of the democratic party, tJling
how Thomo~ Jefferson realized that
prosperity must first start with
the %tillers of the soil and then
work upward. Alexander Hamil-
ton on the other hand, he said,
believed that prosperity must start
with those in the upper strata of
life. He explained why Hamil-
tons idea could never work out
successfully, although the repub-
licans had tried it ever since the
party was organized.
In discussing present-day cond1-
lions, the speaker said that the
most nauseating thing in the
country today was the republican
party bowling to the wishes Of
Wall Street.
He said that prosperity-a last
ing prosperity-could re-
turn to the nation until a definite
change of policy went into effect.
He spoke on the tariff, he men
toned the farm loan board and he
paid his respect to various other
republican policies and doctrines.
The audience applauded frequent
ly and enthusiastically.
1.-The people want a change and
they are going to have one," he
said, adding president Hoover got
into the White House in 1928
because he promised us everything
from a chicken in the pot, to the
abolition of poverty. The people
for some reason believed him.
They thought he held the formcla
for prosperity. However, they
have found out that all of his 20
misses were pipe-dreams Of a MAJ
who had nothing but a longing to