Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-05
SMITH TALKS
IN BEHALF Of
PARTY TICKET
Appears With Roosevelt At
Brooklyn Rally And Urges
Support OF All Democrats.
REPUBLICANS DENOUNCED
Democratic Leaders Charge
Campaign OF Fear Waged By
G. O. P. Speakers.
By FREDERICK A. STORM
United Press Staff Correspondent

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United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Nov. s. = Frank
lin D. Roosevelt prepared today
for the supreme effort of his ma
tional campaign for the presidency
and his final appeal to the Amer
lean electorate, at mass meeting
in Madison Square Garden tonight.
The Democratic nominee went
into the home stretch of the race
with the apparently complete sup
port of the man who was his chief
rival for the nomination-Alfred
E. Smith-who last night, arm in
arm with him on a Brooklyn plat
form, re-emphasized party har-
mony and gave his principles full
support.
In his speech, Governor Roose-
welt attacked President Hoover for
what he termed misrepresentation
tons on the abolition of poverty.
The former candidate told his
audience Mr.. Hoover should have
gone to the people at the begin
ming of his term, instead of NOW
making IA speeches a day." to tell
them the state of national affairs.
Instead of that" he said, cit
is fact that the only news we
had out of the White House for
one solid year was a discussion as
to where Dolly Gam was to sit
when she entered a dining ROOM"
Condemns Fear Talks
Governor Roosevelt, opening his
of the President to spread the Cos
pei of fear" was the most repre-
hensible act of a campaign that
has yielded many examples of un-
ScrupulouS appeals for votes"
The governor declared his OPP
ponent's assertion at Des MoineS
that the nation narrowly avoided
going off the gold standard was
"a libel on the credit of the Unit
ed States, and said no adequate
answer had yet been made to the
recent speech of Senator Carter
Glass who, he asserted, had shown
the unSoundneSS of the Presidents
declaration.
IOCDly lilB W IbCpdOlltdii Sle'Aiiio
that the Democratic party favored
initiation, Roosevelt said the party's
platform specifically declared for
a sound currency at all hazards,
and that in previous addresses he
had himself declared sound money
was IAN international necessity
and not a domestic consideration
for one nation alone"
Regarding the tariff, Governor
Roosevelt discussed the operation
of the tariff commission in these
words.
During two years, President
Hoover's tariff commission has in
vestigated the duties upon only 70
commodities-73 out of many
thousands. AS a result, IL Sched-
ules were reduced and Is were in
creased and it is worth noting
that among the articles investigat-
ed the commission has busted it
self with complete investigation in
to pipe organs, peppers, egg plants
and bicycle bells. 1t is worth not
ing. too, that a careful estimate
shows that at the present magnif1-
cent rate of progress President
Hoover's tariff commission Will
complete its examination of sched-
ules and report on them by the
year 2OO5."
AL Orders Green
Former Governor Smith also at
tackled the problem of waste in
government" and scored the "eX-
travagance and waste and duplica-
ton" in government affairs. But,
he said, Hoover himself, with the
aid of Republican congress, fur
ther bedeviled the situation by
creating in four years, 35 new de-
partments and boards
cat Madison Square Garden"
Smith continued, 'the President
made the extraordinary statement
that if we did anything to the
tariff, the churches, the schools
and the hospitals would decay and
grass would grow on the principal
Streets of our great city. So what
do you think I did about it? 1
Immediately made arrangements
for a putting green"
Smith attacked the Presidents
statement on his prohibition stand
in subsequent parts of his speech.