The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-24

LandOn was cheered enthusiast
tically by a delegation of 500
persons who met him at the
Indianapolis Union Station as
the G. o. p. Presidential nOmi-
nee continued his Indiana inva-
sion today. Smiling broadly,
the Presidential candidate &C
knOwledged the cheers and
then proceeded to the ClaypOOl
Hotel for a series of confer
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
ABOARD LANDON SUNFLOW-
Err SPECIAL, EN- ROUTE TO
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. "a GN.SO.
Carrying his presidential campaign
into the battle-ground of Indiana,
Governor Alfred M. Landon today
pledged an administration, if
elected President, that would con-
Germ itself with the economic
rights and opportunities of the
average man.
The Republican nominee was in
fine trim, although still a little
hoarse from a slight cold and
voice strain. He was scheduled to
deliver a major address tonight
in Indianapolis, possibly on the
subject Of foreign affairs. before
resuming his transcontinental tour
to the Atlantic Seaboard.
Landon had travelled nearly
1000 miles since leaving Topeka
last Sunday night.
This is fighting campaign in
Indiana as everywhere else, said
Landon, on entering the Hoosier
State.
For Average Man
It Is a fighting campaign on
the part of Republicans and
Democrats for good government.
He said:
1--WE want a government that
is concerned about the economic
rights and opportunities of the
average man. We want q gov
eminent that is also concerned
about the pOcketbOOkS of every
body. We are all paying taxes
every day of our lives.
This is serious business to
all of us. The kind of govern
ment that we are going to live
under and do business under in
our local communities, in our
State and in our nation is al
ways serious business.
$50 / have weighed very care
fully every word and every
pledge that 1 have made in
this campaign. shall con-
tinue to do So"
In Baltimore Monday
Landon will remain in Indian
apolis until 2:15 tomorrow after
noon.
His next stop will be in Balti-
more Monday morning when he
speaks at 10:45 a. M, arriving at
the Mount Royal Station. From
there, he will go to Philadelphia,
arriving at 1:20 p. m. for speech
at Convention Hall in the City
of Brotherly Love at $50 that
night.
Travelling westward through
Pennsylvania on an overnight trip,
he will arrive in Pittsburgh Tues
day morning and spend the day
there, delivering another major
address at p. m. in the Duquesne
Gardens. Leaving Pittsburgh that
night, en- route to New York city,
he will stop in Trenton, N. j.,
Wednesday noon to deliver short
speech at the Mosque Theater. He
will arrive in New York city at
4:30 p. m, participating in a pa
rade from the Pennsylvania Sta
ton to the Murray Hill Hotel.
Finale in st. Louis
Landon will remain in New York
city until after delivering a major
address in Madison Square Garden
at $50 p. m. Thursday. Then,
turning back toward Topeka to
complete an 8,000-mile trip, he
will close his campaign with final
address in st. Louis next Satur-
day night.
Landon came eastward after
making a direct appeal to Demo
Gratis to place love of country
above fealty to party name" He
told Oklahoma audiences President
Roosevelt has forfeited the right
to Democratic partisan support by
his abandonment of Jeffersonian
principles and the Democratic plat
form of 1882.
Landon also took occasion to
blast a Democratic campaign
charge that his economy had de-
prived 1857 boys and girls of
common school education in Kan
sas by closing schools. James
Roosevelt, son of the President,
made this charge in a recent
New England speech.
"Peddling a Lie"
Landon declared that anyone
who made the charge was guilty
of peddling lie" He called it
deliberate Justification" and
added:
"When utterly untrue
charges are openly made by a
member of my opponents fam.
lily, as a Kansan my indigna-
ton knows no bounds"
Landon boosted that Kansas
ranks fifth in literacy among
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