The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-14
0XIASSAILS
new DEALERS
Says Administration Most
Expensive "Amateur"
Hour in History .
By PAUL; T. SMITH
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S"eSS NSoS StoiA Correspondents
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, Aug.
ID. ''(UPJ.-The Roosevelt ad-
ministration has been the "most
prolonged and expensive amateur
hour in history and in November
the American people will give all
these performers the gong"
Frank Knox, Republican vice.
presidential nominee, said in an
address last night.
Knox spoke to the West Vir-
ginia state Republican convention
in the second of 70 prepared
speeches he will deliver in IS
states on his coast-to-coast cam
paign tour. Last night Knox turn
ed satirist.
CONTINUOUS ECONOMIC
VAUDEVILLE" HE SAYS
1.-THE American people got three
years of continuous economic
vaudeville" he said. at has been
a grand show. In the words of the
theatrical press agent, it has been
stupendous and colossal.
ON one ring we have had Mr..
Ickes with his famous illusions
act, giving the people illusions of
permanent public works and bet
ter housing. In another ring we
have had Mr.. Wallace in his fam
Gus disappearing act, in which he
makes food and clothes disappear
before the eyes of the people. In
another ring we have had Mr..
Morgenthau with his famous Jug
Cling and balancing act in which
he juggles the dollar while trying
to balance the budget.
"But the people have grown
tired of it. There are not enough
breathing spells between the acts.
1t costs too much"
Three times in his address he
extended hand to Democrats dis
satisfied with the administration.
First he asserted: GAS AL Smith
would say, let's look at the rec
ord" Second, he said: with the
Democratic party itself dis
tinguished leaders like Senator
Glass and Senator Gore and Gov
ernor Smith and your own West
Virginian, John w. Davis, realiz-
ed that this mad course would in
jure the nation"
Finally, Knox said, "this cam
paign is not against the Demo-
cratic party. That party does not
represent the strange and un-
American policies that have mis-
governed the nation for the past
three years. The great leaders of
that party have repudiated these
policies. Their party has been
seized by alien forces that have
no kinship with the Democratic
party which has additionally stood
for freedom of institutions and
moderation in government no less
than the Republican party"
Turning to governmental
squandering," Knox said:
"There has been much talk
about soaking the rich. To the
plain man, working hard for a
limited wage, soaking the rich
seems an easy arrangement for
meeting the cost of government.
In practice is does not work out
that way. There are laws of eco
Monies and mathematics working
here and these laws operate to
limit the soaking of the rich. Be-
yond these limits, taxing the rich
destroys wealthy an dcapital, re-
ducing investment, reducing pro-
duction and reducing wages.
"No administration before the
present administration has so pa
raded it's love for the plain peo-
pie, especially around election
time. But the figurehs on taxa
ton do not confirm this affection.
In 1880 under the Republican ad-
ministration, income taxes and
corporation taxes, which come
generally from the we'll to do, to-