Evening star., 1936-08-14
ROOSEVELT HOUR
SCORED BY KNOX
West Virginia G. O. P. Con-
vention Gives Vice Presi.
dent ASpirant Ovation.
NJ the Associated Press.

t1S ~ AANNS 4~ANt We wa &AeS'
Calling the Roosevelt administration
"the most expensive amateur hour in
history" Col. Frank Knox, Repub-
lican vice presidential nominee, de-
clared last night that ''in November
the American people will give all
those performers the gong"
"It has been grand show but 1t
cost too much," the Chicagoan told
cheering West Virginia Republicans
packing the city auditorium for their
State convention to select two nomi-
nees to the State Supreme Court and
draft State party principles.
The crowd. estimated at 1880 by
Robert H. c. Kay, State vice chairman,
greeted Knox with shouting ova-
ton. County delegations, seizing their
standards. paraded the fiag-draped
hall cheering his arrival at $40 PM,
and stormed their approval when
National Committeeman Walter s.
Hallanan referred to the Landon Knox
ticket as the all-American team of
1885,
Accompanied By Wife.
Mrs. Knox accompanied him on his
trip from White Sulphur Springs.
where he has been working on speeches
for the rest Of his tour.
Hallanan introduced the candidate
and drew applause by declaring:
II have the faith to express the
sincere conviction that the reign of
the New Dealers is about to end. I
include that crowd which has mis-
ruled the State Of West Virginia.
America is going to America again
Instead of brain trusters, what we
need is brains We can trust"
Mrs. Worthington Scranton OF
Scranton. Pa, vice chairman of the
Republican National Committee, spoke
before Knox arrived. She said women
resent the tremendous political spend
ing of the Roosevelt administration
for the purposes of building up a
machine to re-elect the President In
November" and added:
| This resentment will take the form
Of an educational campaign to bring
home to those who are apathetic that
women own three-fourths of the
wealth of the Nation which is now
being frittered away"
Opening Gun for State.
| The vice presidential candidates
address was the opening gun of his
party's national campaign In West
Virginia. which went Democratic in
1882. Earlier. pausing in Charleston
Knox conferred with Hallanan on
West Virginia prospects and then pre-
dicted the State will 60 Republican
in the Fall election.
The candidate said the share the
wealth" program he hopes to see car.
ried out consists of greater ownership
Of corporation shares by workmen.
I'm our American society ther,
should be no antasonism between tn,
worker and the stockholder. Oul
capitalist system rests on the corpora.
ton, large and small This capitals
system has grave defects. There ART
inequalities in 1t. But 1t has bull,
the greatest productivity In the his.
tory Of all mankind. 1t has given tht
American worker the highest wage.
in an history. The man who woulc
tear down this marvellous system wher
there Is no equally productive system
to replace it is an enemy Of his
country. want to see our economic
system purged of its injustices. 1 want
to see it preserved for its benefits. - I
Il want to see an increasing share
in the profits of this system going tc
the workers. want to see this
come about, not by any suicidal scheme
of destruction, but by an extension
of the ownership of corporation shares
by the workers. Unseen and unnoticed
this process has been going on q long
time. There are 100000 owners OF
corporate shares in this country TO-
day. War and depression have tenn
porarily set back this great movement.
1t will begin again. In this movement
lies the prospect Of a genuine share
tne-weaIth program. In 1t there Is
the prospect Of industrial peace In
this country"
Recovery Seen Hampered.
Knox declared 1.-THE steady progress
OF natural recovery Is hampered by
the burden Of taxes and shadowed by
the fear of imitation" He said wages
have increased since 1892 from the
progress of natural recovery, living
costs have gone up, and the Ameri-
can worker faces today the possibility
OF that ruinotts rise In the cost of liv-
ing which comes from imitation Of
currency and credit.
1T Is law of our social order that
bureaucracy grows by what it feeds
upon. Once q government starts on
q career Of waste 1t finds itself unable
to stop. A government once embarked
on policy Of subsidies and gifts must
maintain itself by further subsidies
For people faced with this situation
there Is only one answer, and that is
to install another government"
He said there has been much talk
about soaking the rich" but added !:
There are laws of economics and
mathematics working here and these
laws operate to limit soaking the rich.
Beyond these limits, taxing the rich
destroys wealth and capital, reducing
investment, reducing production and
reducing wages"