The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-03
Communists Scored
BY Richmond in
Demo Keynote Speech
Reds Called "Trespossers. Frouds."
BY Attorney At Pierce County
Convention At Eagles Holl

". A. Richmond. Tacoma attor-
ney and former state legislator,
was the keynote speaker at the
Democratic county convention.
which convened in Eagles hall. So.
18th ST. and Fawcett ave. satur-
dav.
Highlights of Riehmond's ad-
dress follow:
The world today is in a terrible
mess. We are gathered here as
Democrats, or supposed to be
Democrats, to have convention.
and. as we hear and read the re-
ports from most of the rest of the
world We begin to realize that we
have the honor, yes, the privilege,
to be peacefully gathered together
to jointly discuss our problems, to
make resolutions and to adopt a
platform in one of the few remain
ing major representative democra-
cies on the face of the globe. and
by the grace of God. with our coll
lective courage and character. may
our country always remain, rep
resentative democracy.
Il said we are peaceably gath
cred together today. We are
peaceably gathered, but we won't
be peaceably gathered together
long. We are going to run true
TO form. In a few minutes from
now there will be men and women
pounding their fists on their
chairs, desks, or upon the head of
the bald-headed man in the seat
In front Of them. They will be de-
manding the floor. demanding the
right to be heard. hollering at the
top of their voices, a dozen at
time, and all trying, ! hope, to
make this country safe for democ-
racy. That is our American way
of life. From colonial times that
has been and is our method of
approach, and there is not one of
us here who wants to change that
system for a dictatorship.
Republicans kidded
A few days ago our Republican
friends held a couple of conven-
tons, one county, and one
state convention, both in Tacoma.
They know we are pivotal coun-
ty, and we're all as one. I don't
know why they did not hold their
county convention in a telephone
BOOTH believe if they tried hard
they could have all squeezed in,
and besides, it would have helped
them to have balanced their bud
get. That's about all they talk
about anyway.
"I'll take that back-Hanford
McNider, the keynoter at their
convention, has discovered a new
tune for the Republicans, he's re-
versed their position. He says now,
that we have not been spending
enough money, especially on pre-
paredness, and our great president,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and his
cabinet, says that within the past
seven and a half years, we, this
country, have spent nearly four
thousand million a billion dollars)
on preparedness, on the army and
navy in excess of the normal bud
get. Who's right? We Democrats
know who is most always right
our great president, of course.
And, is this convention for him
what is your answer?
Want Cold Turkey
Men and women of this con-
vention, we are gathered here to-
day to get down to cold turkey
we don't expect two chickens in
every pot as ex-President Hoover
said. What we want is cold tur-
key; we want to separate the
wheat from the chaff; we want to
take soundings; we want to hear
the voice of the people. We want
to lay our course for a bright and
better future. We want to laud
our president, and we want to
criticize where we feel criticism
is due. County, state, or nation
ally, we are not robots. In short,
we are not afraid.
speaking of the national