Evening star., 1936-10-24
Kansan to Speak Tonight
in Bid for ID Votes of
Hoosier State.
PARTY PLATFORM HELD.
PACT WITH U. S. CITIZENS
Every Pledge Made in Campaign
Carefully Weighed, G. 0. P.
Candidate Asserts.
(Tert of Gop. Landon's Tulsa Speech,
Page A-5.)
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, October 24.-Gov
ALT M. Landon, Republican nominee
for President, reached Indianapolis at
e:A5 am. Central standard time) for
a 24-hour visit to this city, during
which he will make one of the major
speeches of his campaign and confer
with party leaders.
Boarding the train at Clayton, Ind.
half hour before its arrival here,
were George A. Ball, Muncie manu-
facturer and Indiana Republican ma
tional committeeman; Ivan c. Morgan
of Austin, State chairman, and a score
Of other party leaders.
The Union Station vas crowded with
several hundred persons who cheered
as the nominee left the train and en-
tered an open car for a ride to the
Claypool Hotel.
Moving eastward on a 3,000-mile
dash from Pacific to Atlantic, Landon
assigned this week end to a bid for
Indiana's IA presidential electoral votes.
In his speech at Indianapolis to-
night he is expected to discuss foreign
affairs. The address will be broadcast.
Turning his drive southwark after
leaving Indianapolis Sunday after
noon, Landon scheduled a speech
making stop at Baltimore, Md, at
10:45 am. Monday before reaching
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Monday night. Tuesday night he
will speak in Pittsburgh. Then he
planned to stop in Trenton, N. j., at
noon Wednesday on his way to New
York for the climatic speech of the
campaign Friday night.
This campaign in Indiana as
everywhere else is a fighting cam
paign on the part of Republicans and
independents and Democrats for good
government" Landon said in a brief
statement.
Eve want a government that is
concerned about the economic rights
and the opportunities of the average
man. We want government that is
also concerned about the pocketbooks
of everybody. We are all paying taxes
every day in our lives.
This is serious business to all of
us. The kind of government that
we are going to live under and do
business under in our local commune
ties, in our State and in our Nation is
always serious business
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every word and every pledge that I
have made in this campaign. shall
continue to do so. To me the plat
form adopted at Cleveland is pact
with the American people on which
the Republican party must make
good. Party platforms to me are not
to be thrown away in the waste paper
basket after election"
Swinging across Oklahoma, Mis-
souri, and Illinois overnight, Landon
made some concessions to a cold and
sore throat, but apparently was feel
ing much improved.
Statements Held Untrue.
At Tulsa. Okla, he denounced as
uGLGIly u1lti NC dllo QCCClIlul VIII.
cation" statements he attributed to
an unnamed member of my oppo-
nent's immediate family" that Kansas
school children were deprived of
educational advantages" Neither
the Governor nor his aides elaborated
on the immediate family" reference.
Wearing a hat, the candidate asked
the indulgence of the crowd-esti-
mated at 0,000-because of his cold.
81 wear the same size hat as a
presidential candidate as did when
I came down here as an oil man." he
added.
Where's your old hunting hat,
Alf?" voice shouted.
MY wife took it away from mes'
Landon rejoined, and the crowd
laughed.
Changing his tone, the candidate
denounced "the malicious charge"
that "458 schools have been closed in
(See LANDON, Page A-2.)