The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-01-08
RIYCH|E, ROOSEVELT
STANDING FORWARD
IN PARTY PICTURE
New Workers. Friends Say Ma.
ton For Him; MaryIander
/ Offers Candidacy

washington, Jan. 8.-R Two
among Democratic aspirants to the
presidency stood commandingly for
ward in the party picture Friday as
time came for formally beginning the
years campaigns.
Friends Of Governor Franklin D.
Roosevelt of New York claimed q
preponderance of sentiment in the
Democratic national committee. The
candidacy of Albert c. Richie, COVER
nor Of Maryland, was formally an
nounced. His was the first hat of
any size actually thrown into the
Democratic ring. The declaration
came Thursday night in Baltimore at
a party banquet which conferred
around the vigorous chief executive
of the free state.
Tonight comes the big Jackson-day
banquet Of the party. Hundreds will
sit down at table to hear Alfred E.
Smith, John w. Davis and James M.
Cox, their presidential choices Of
other years. Is Smith seeking the
mantle again? The Democrats arc
asking themselves and one another,
but have received no hint of an an
swer.
Saturday the national committee Of
The party will meet and it is toward
that session all the supporters Of the
various candidates are bending their
attention. The Roosevelt forces felt
certain they would control the vote
on everything Of importance that will
come up.
To Block Raskob Plan
They expect to block any further
effort to bring to committee consider
alton the plan Of John j. Raskob for
state liquor control. The nationa!
chairman himself has promised he
will not attempt 1t. but committeeman
favorable to his view may make try.
The Rooseveltians also expressed
confidence they could take the con-
vention to Kansas City. preferring
that midwestern point to San Fran
cisco, Chicago, or Atlantic City.
The time Of meeting now Is tenta-
lively put at June "a, ten days after
the Republicans open their national
gathering in Chicago.
Speaking Thursday night at the
Jackson-day dinner Of the Concord
democratic club, at which national
and state leaders Of the party were
guests, Governor Richie declared he
would be proud to carry the demo-
cratic banner to victory in November.
He delivered scathing denuncia-
ton Of what he termed republican
inactio11, evasion and laundering in
Washington" and recounted the ills
into which he said it had placed the
nation.
THE war debt from foreign nations
cannot be cancelled" the executive
declared. They are part Of the ma
tional budget and unless the foreign
nations pay the money the American
people must.
Far From Moofings
New forces and strange tendencies
have steered US far from safe moor.
ings. The time has come for return
to fundamentals and first principles
Il believe the collective wisdom Of
the American people Is against gov
eminent ownership, whether 1t be
power, railroads or other public utili-
ties" Governor Richie said.
Il think that collective wisdom Is
against the appalling extension Of
government. but self-serving and
scandal-ridden republication have
been responsible for this.
1T Is enough to recognise the up
surging Of the people against republic
can evasion, inaction and laundering
In Warrington. The country Is tired
Of being fooled"