The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-06-25
Barley Hits Record
Of Republican Party
in Keynote Speech
National Democratic Convention
Starts Week in Philadelphia
With Great Enthusiasm
RECALLS "12 LONG YEARS"

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ferences provided the only major
uncertainties, the Democratic ma
tional convention in Philadelphia,
Tuesday night, roared applause at a
heated keynote attack upon the Re-
publican nominees who will face the
Roosevelt Garner ticket next No.
vember.
Senator Alben w. Barley of Ken
lucky, shouting his denunciations in
resounding voice, conferred much of
his fire on Governor ALI M. Landon,
the opposing party standard bearer.
The Kansa11, he thunder, was a man
who had advocated imitation by
printing press money.
The tall Kentuckian, after praising
what he call an astonishing" recov-
cry by the nation under Roosevelt,
directly criticized some of the anti
New Deal opinions of the Supreme
Court as tortured" interpretations.
If a constitutional amendment is
necessary, 8 i'd, the people would
face the dut.F correcting 'some
archaic Interpretation" with "calm
intelligence
Plenty of Wells Left
The initial ovation for Barley,
however, failed to touch the height
of turnult reached Tuesday afternoon
when National Chairman James A..
Farley set off a bowling, Commute
parade with praise of the President
as .scalm, capable and courageous"
leader. MANY l4sved their loudest
cheers until Barley finished.
The keynoter also was delayed in
taking over the speakers stand for
more than Is minutes by bolster
Gus ovation and parade of State
standards set off by Governor
George H. Earle of Pennsylvania, the
first Democratic executive of the
State in several decades.
Barkley's castigation of the"twelve
long years of Harding Coolidge and
Hoover" however, set off such loud
and long ovations that it was appar-
ent the delegates had not yet shout
ed themselves out.
In complex modern life, he said,
all responsible governments must
enlarge their field of supervision to
protect the weak from the "rapaci-
ous."
eff in the future further (constitu-
tionaD amendments should become
necessary to enable the people, to
work out their destiny and project
their fundamental rights, or to over
come some archaic Interpretation
never intended by its trainers, J"
Barley shouted, II doubt not that
the people will face that duty with
the same calm intelligence which has
guided them in the past"
''What we need" he added, els a
new definition and new interpreted
ton of interstate commerce"
J Governor ALI M. Landon, the Re
publican presidential nominee, was
assailed as man who bad advocated
printing press money and fought the
insurance of bank deposits
HOOver's Cry
But Barley, who also was the
keynoter in 1882, reserved special
walls of wrath for the charge, as
voiced by Herbert Hoover at the Re-
publican convention, that the New
Deal menaces liberty
'Back of Hoover's cry for free
dom at Cleveland, he said, stood
the immemorial pawnbrokers of the
Republican party who shout with
glee that they experienced coun-
terfeit conversion
"Back of him stood the Republican
party's holding company, the Ameri-
can Liberty league, which, if it had
existed in 1776 as now differed and
manned, would have been against
the Declaration of independence, the
Revolutionary war and the Constitu-
ton of the United States.
"3 Long Years"
Three long years of normally,
and they had wiped out half the
values accumulated in this nation
since Christopher Columbus and half
the total income of all the people of
these United States" he added.
Then came Franklin Roosevelt