Evening star., 1936-02-23
FARLEY CARRIES
WAR into KANSAS,
ASSA|L|NG HOOVER
Challenges "Any Party" to
"Meet Us on Our
Record"
Halls ROOSEVELT
AS NATIONS SAVIOR
States Democratic Committee In
dorses President, Boosting
Convention Strength.
Full tert OF Farley speech on
Page A-10.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kans., February o.
Postmaster General James A. Farley,
sounding the Democratic campaign
battle cry in the farm belt, hailed
President Roosevelt tonight as the
savior of America and challenged "any
political party to meet us on that
record"
Speaking over national radio net
work on the same platform from which
Gov. Alf NJ Landon. mentioned as a
possible Republican presidential nomi-
nee, criticized Roosevelt policies Janu-
ary 20, Farley made no specific men,
ton in his prepared address of the
Kansas executive.
Meanwhile, the Kansas Democrats,
through their State Committee, today
indorsed the administration of RooSe-
Welt and voted to hold their State con-
vention at Wichita April % to select
18 delegates to the Philadelphia ma
tional convention.
Strength Seen for Roosevelt.
The committees action was in
terpreted by party leaders to assure
instruction of the States IS votes in
the convention to Roosevelt.
Farley centered fire against New
Deal critics, particularly former Pres1-
dent Herbert Hoover and the American
Liberty League.
However, referring apparently to
Kansas Republican statements regard
ing State governmental economies-a
point emphasized by Landon boost
ers-Farley said:
IT was sorry to learn that it was
necessary here in Kansas to cut the
salaries of school teachers and of
professors in the colleges and universe
ties. Perhaps it was necessary, but
the policy of the Roosevelt administra-
ton has been to serve the schools of
the Nation wherever possible"
Reviews New Deal Record.
Reviewing three years of the New
Deal, Farley, chairman Of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, asserted at
the Washington day banquet Of the
Kansas Democratic Club:
Franklin D. Roosevelt did more
than save America. He vindicated
democracy at time when all over the
world its enemies were ready to de-
clare the death of the finest system OF
government ever devised"
Saying "the Hoover panic was de-
feated because courageous Congress
used the national credit to rescue the
American people from starvation and
want" Farley commented, kansas
got its fair share"
1T was depressing to read some
time back" he added, "of hungry men
creating disturbances at Fort Scott,
Kans, but incidents of that kind have
happened elsewhere. The comforting
thing was that you treated them in
humane American fashion, and that
the Federal Government was at hand
to help you give them food and work"
Opens Fire on Hoover.
The Democratic party chief assailed
Hoover as "the apostle of panic"
leading "a terrific economic fear cam
paign,' directed against the people of
the United States"
With Roosevelt, he said, the Nation
has advanced from economic confu-
sion and paralysis under Mr.. Hoover
to economic prosperity. . =
Prosperity is national thing, un-
like that of the Republican era. when
finance and industry doomed at the
very time agriculture was allowed to
wallow in the mire of depression"
Replying to Hoover's recent Port
land, Oreg., speech, in which he said
the state of the Union is state of
confusion" Farley said:
II passed through Topeka in 1881,
while Mr.. Hoover was in the White
House. Wheat was selling at less than
80 cents bushel and cotton was
around cents a pound. There was
confusion then and there was despair.
Today wheat is selling above 80 cents
and cotton at around IL. Let me re-
(See FARLEY, Page A-5.l