Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1928, Page 6

NELLON :Stressesfiqchgsof Coolidge - Administration. in_Promot-. ing Public Welfare. By the Astociated Press. 3 Secre Mellon last night asked thz electorate’ to apply business principles to its| chéice of a President and. if it approyes of the administration of Presi- en e and the Republican party, to contintie that party in power. “In 'my. own business experionce,” he said in an address which was broadcast by radio, “when a managefhent gave me satisfactafy balance sheet at ‘the end of the year..showing a reduction in over- head, a décrcase in indebtedness and at the same. timéah increase in dividends, 41 would be unwillin; managenient.” - 1 doult, to begin with, that business wouid find the prospect. of constant changing of tarfff ‘schedules a reassur- ing ohe.. It would bs like cutting off the dog's tail by faches in order to save him pain. So closely is the tariff in- terwoven into the whole texture bf our economiclife that no material change could be made without necessitating far- reaching - readjustmehts in business in anticipation of such a change. In the second place the tariff can never be taken entirely out of politics so. long as Congress must legislate on the sub- Ject, and authority to legislate, of eourse, must always reside in Congress, ‘While g to see a change in the Tariff Commission might report. the | facts 'directly to Congress, after thst has been done it is Congress who will decide how the tariff will be revised, y subordinate board or com- mission. * ¢ * kY Tariff Aid to Country. “The Republican party has never devi- ated from its historie attitude on this “Our tariff policy’ has been largely responsible for the development of man-, ufacturing in this eountry. Our tariff licy and our immigration policy have ‘brought to labor the highest real wages in its history. We have found that by the use afs labor-saving machinery and by manufatturing in quantity we can -increase the productive capacity per capita of labor and also eliminate waste. In this way we can pay high wages and still reduce costs, so that the finished products are priced low enough to stim- ‘ulate further consumption. High wages, in turn, have raised the country's pur- chasing power, and as & result we have today a domestic market of more than 115,000,000 people of great consumption capacity. In this market lies the in- dustrial power of America. Here also Tles power of American agricul- gorece & = il Sectetary Mellon declared it to be “a matter of vital concern both to the farme: and the country™ that some way be found of increasing the effective ‘profit from farming operations for the Producer without making prices so high as to cut down consumption. A Hoover administration, he asserted, would find a way of working out a solution for the ‘present agricultural difficulty. It Satisfied, Why Change? * 'The ‘Becretary concluded his address with a diect question to his auditors and & citation of his own business atti- tude toward affairs. “If President Coolidge and the Repub- lican E:rty have conducted the Govern- ment in a to_meri Qe | have an.adm - 'S0 far as our Latin American relations lives its citizens and in its relations to great economic forces by which * the avel man’s welfare is greatly af- fected. t the head of that business want to see a man of ability, who is' thoroughly familiar with all of its ; I want to see a man who un- hese economic forces with he must deal and, lastly, I want to be & man who has a feeling for with the conditicns un- average o I % ] H £ H ; 5F qualifications. will beé Safe ‘in. his hands. blican and as an American, rt him and vote for him I believe his election will do the most for the progress and' prosperity of | country and for the Jdarger welfare the world. * * * # v Lauds. Party of Progress. , . “ g (TG RE A | “The Republican parfy’is now, as’ it always has been, the party of progress. It has kept abreast.'of the times and has been prepared to meet naw condi- tllm;tu ey "ooeb.y gvét“i‘th }msl tesug each forward step . of soun econqmit; principles, and -of established American uradit 1t il Il 4 & E 2 ] jealously iyidual ini- erful contributing factor in'the farward march. It has ever recognized that mo- tion is not synonymous with progress, but that stability is essential to confi- dence, and that confidence is’the. very spirit of business enterprise. Nowhere is this more true than in the field of credit. ““Credit is a delicate structure. It is easily impaired or broken down. by ins Jurious laws and ill-advised policies of vernment. .. Any measure that tends impede or divert the ordinary chan- nels of trade.and commerce, or unduly burden industry or to break down val- ues and threaten stability, or any policy that places the Government in compsti- tion with private enterprise, immediate- 1y results in impairing lence and curtailing business progress, and ulti- mately must have an adverse effect upon the development of th> country and the ‘welfare and prosperity of its poeple. “The policies of the present adminis- tration have been in line with these general principles. Under a balanced program of debt reduction and tax re- duction the debt has been reduced by over $6,000,000,000 and expenditures and taxes have each been cut by more than $5,000,000 a day. “The administration has taken the Tecessary steps to safeguard industry and labor by sound tariff and immigra- tion legislation; it has encouraged and promoted foreign trade; it has pursued 8 consistent foreign policy, supported at Home and respected abroad. And it has helped in the stabilization of foreign currencies and has thercby made sure that, in the change and flux of post- war conditions, the gold standard of value shall be restored and continued unimpaired. “By all of these measures the admin- istration has helped to build up and maintain prosperity.” Policies Reviewed. ‘The Secretary described the mainte- nance of a protective tariff uvon im- rm.s. the restriction of immigration, he careful handling of credit and the encouragement. of individual enterprise &5 among principles traditionally and modernly held forward by the Republi- can party. “If any one will look back upon the position of the ‘two pariles upon vital political 1ssues-which have arisen in the rnsz and have bad to be determined by egislation or in’the adminlstration of Government, the Republican party has in general been the constructive party, whose policies have tended to build up and to promote stability,” Secretary Mellon said, “while the Democratic party has not infrequently champloned measures waich, i enacted inio law, would have had the opposite efTect. * ¢ ¢ It was true, and it is true now, of 1 fair to other nations as we would have 1 | cratic nomination for the presidency I yused the following language: “QGovernment should be progressive, not reactionary. I am entirely unwill- ing to accept the old order of things as the best unless and until 1 become ccnvinced that it cannot be made bet- ter Gov. Smith's Sp: eech, a8 prepered (fov delivery, follows: R K ¥ When I spoke these words I had someihing in mind, something born of a quarter of a. century of experience in elective public servic: During that iime I found men elected to office who were entirely satisfied with what I re-| ferred to as the old order of things, and | were entirely willing to accept the honor { and the glory of public office, but who were unwilling to devote thelr time, their ability and their energy into mak- ing government more responsive and more progressive. On the other hand, in my time I have sean men elected to public office who discharged their duties with a sincere desire for progress and beiterment. The last quarter of a century has seen the greatesi.material advance that the ‘world has probably ever witnessed, and a large ogafl of -the credit for it belongs to modern and progressive busi- ness ideas. ' The Government ' alone seems to. be lagging in the march of &‘ogress, It seems to be fastened down the older ‘order of things. As a boy T hedrd of the stand-pattet as one who wanted nothing done, the man who wes jentirely satisfied with things as he tound them, the man who followed the line of least resistance. Di.“sses Forelgn Policy. There has been less improvement in National Government in the last seven and a half years than in any similar period during my public life. In our ‘country Government is the agency of | the people for making eflecive the popular will. The man at the head of | «he Government is the s2rvant of the| people to direct- and shape and execute | sthe . policies that spring fiom the will of the great majorivy. In my speech of acceptance I said that any foreign policy must come from the people themselves. 1 go a step farther and say that the consutu- ‘tional requirement of a vote in the Senate of two-thirds of that body for the ratification of a treaty showed that it was the.intent of the framers of our Constitution that treales with foréign powers must be approved by the over- whelming sentiment and wish of the American people. It evidently was the | intent of the framers of the Constitu- | tion that agreements between our country and foreign nations be dis- tinguished - from ordinary legislative questions and be lifted out of the realm of partisan politics. Since our experience in the recent World War, unquestionably the fathers and mothers of country desire peaceful and friendly relailonships with every other nation. The man on the street, nor accustomed to. the high- sounding phrases of international dipio- macy, desires to have the Government apply the simple rule of “do unto others as_you would have others do unto you.” In my speech of acceptance I ampli- fied the declaration of principles con- cerning foreign relaticns set forth in the Democratic platform, and, with elec~ tion day only one week off, I have yet to hear a word in criticism or reply from the Republican candidate or his spokesmen. Quotes Root on Relations. It is extremely difficult to make a hard and fast rule with regard to our iten bee prompled. 4. the.belor thay t - belief t the administration of %fielgn affairs is iargely based :fi the 'y the sincere desire to be as just and (them be to us.: By that we must able to adhere are concerned, than the one set forth Ey Elihu I State, when he said: “We consider that the independence and equal rights of the smallest and weakest member of the family of na- tions deserve as much respect as those of the great empires. We pretend to no right, privilege or power that we do not freely concede to each one of the American republics.” That definite statement of policy, so far as Latin America is concerned, un- questionably recelved the widespread approval of the American peoples. If you desire to know how far the Re- publican party departed from that prin- ciple and policy, ask Senator Borah, for example, what he thinks of the for- policy of the present Republican tration in so far as it applies to ?x:" l‘::erventlon in an clection dispute Nicaragua. I am satisfied that the protection of life and property of American citizens in all epuntries should be a matter of national ccncern, but, on the other hand, I am satisfled that the American people. will no longer tolerate interfer- ence witlt the internal' affairs of the South American republics. End to Exploitation. Under my administration there will no diplomacy practiced that will permit the exploitation of weaker na- tions. You cannot preach one doctrine of foreign relations in Europe and prac- tice another doctrine in Latin America. Belleving as I do in the great broth- erhoo¢ .f man under the fatherhood of God,’I am satisfied that the American people will always be ready and willing t0. assume their. fair share of respon- sibility for the administration of the world of which they are a part without wflonl alliance with any foreign na- .. In that bellef I am prepared to make a real endeavor to make the qut- lawry .of war effective, by removing its causes and to substitute ths methods =f conciliation, conference, arbitration and Jjudicial determination. ‘The Rcpublican party holds out but little hope to the American people for a forward-looking foreign policy, in view of the fact that Mr. Hoover promises to follow the Coolidge policies, which policles have been uniformly—in *sea- son and out of season—denounced on the floor of the Senate by the Republi- can chairman of the committee on for- eign relations. Only by executive leadership, con- gressional co-operation and th> sup- port of the people can we hope to deal with the great questions that lie ahead of us. Only by this method can we hope to make the outlawry of war a reality. Only then can we hope to regain the confidence of our neighbors in Lalin America. Only thon can we hope to restore the Monroe Doctrine to what it once was and always ought to be—a mutual guarantee of p2ace on this | BALTIMORE, Md , October 30 (#)— | In my speech accepting the Demwo-! of public power resources. | denied the great privilege of listening Root, Republican Secretary,| tude to THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1928 Gov. Smith greeted by Baltimore throng. T OF GOVERNOR SMITH’S SPEECH IN BALTIMORE —Assoclated Press Photo. 50 long as there is a standing quarrel between the President and the leaders of his party in the Senate, with the promise that that quarrel will continue. 1 pledge an end to that quarrel and an honest, open, fearless, unprejudiced treatment of each problem on the basis of the facts. I am entirely satisfied that the old | order of things.can be changed for the better by the adoption of a fnrward-’ looking, progressive attitude on the part of the Government toward the develop- ment of our natural waterpower re- sources. Applying the old order of things, these resources must in time fall into the hands” of private persons to be operated for private gain and private profit. Following the new order of things, they would be developed by the Government under Government own- ership and government control to the end that the benefits that flow from them may find their way to the Ameri- can people—their rightful owners. I can only take the record, and, while Mr. Hoover does not come out and say it in so many words, the record clearly and fairly indicates that he is to be found on the side of the old order o: things. Borah Disagrees. Nothing that I could say about his attitude on this subject would be any stronger or any more convincing than that which comes from United States Senators of his own party. Senator Borah sald only a few days ago—and I quote him as he is reported in the daily press—“I disagree with Mr. Hoover on the power question. If that were the only issue in this campaign I could not support him.” Only last Saturdey night Senator Norris of Nebraska, a Republican but an uncompromising progressive, a man of clear vision and forceful speech, told the American people in unmistakable language a great many reasons why he was unwilling and unable to sup- port Mr. Hoover in this contest. Prom- inent among his reasons: was Mr. Hoo- ver's attifude toward 'the. development | Let me at this point.say that I was to_the Senator's broadeast (I had just finished. my, own speech at Philadel- phia). I read his speech in the Sun- and.I want to take this 0] 10 ‘suSure publicly that he will never have any cause to regret what he said with respect to my atti- fge. ward, these great public ques ‘What are the forces behind Mr. Hoox:| ver which make it necessary for mem- bers of his own party to repudiate his views on waterpower development? Senator Norris himself spread it out before the American ~po gle in his speech of last Saturday night,-and it is’ nothing els2 than what has. become’ known as the American power trust, made up of the individuals who have their eyes upon these valuable power assets and propose to have the wheels turned for their benefit. So far as our great natural resources in this country are concerned, that is the old order of things, and with"that you may be sure that I am entirely dissatisfled. I am thoroughly con- vinced that the great rank and file of the Ameriean people are with Senator Norris and myself in the endeavor to set up a new order of things, and are unalterably opposed to the order that puts in the front seat of privilege and opportunity the power trust, in whns:’i corner Mr. Hoover is unquestionably standing. Waste in Government. Particularly am I unwilling to accept the old order of things as it applies to the framework and structure of the Federal Government. There is no more crying need in Washington today in the interest of efficlency and economy than the re- organization of the governmental m: chinery itself. Disjointed, ized; scattered, producing and overla; ping of functions, a duplication of en- ergy, a financial wasté and a waste of effort, the old governmental machine is | lumbering along. This was recognized by the Republi- can party.as far back as 1920, when a definite promise was made to improve it. The promise was repeated in 1924, entirely forgotten in 1928, and here at this hour and minute the old order of things cbtains. Attempts at progress have met with defeat. The reason un- derlying the Republican failure is the desire of the Republican leaders to : tain the patronage for political pur- Poses and to continue to saddle upon the American people the burden of maintaining a costly, high-powered po- litical machine. It has been variously estimated that not millions but hun- dreds of millions of dollars could be saved by a thoroughgoing, business- like overhauling of the struciure of the Federal Government. __As against brok=n Republican prom- ise and failure and inability to progress, I promise‘on behalf of th> Democratic | perty the rehabilitation and reorganiza- | tion of the Federal machine, bringing | it into harmonious and progressive step with the material develobment in busi- ness methods in the last quarter of a century. hemisphere. Only by this method can we hope to build up the use of arbi-' tration and concillation for the pe: ful settlement of disputes. Only w this is brought about can thore be n= lasting understanding ith the maval | powers by which ths e burden | and terrible menace of compatitive armament can be forever ended. Ther2 is no use trying even to talk | about solving any of thesg problems ; | i the histotic position of the Democratic | party on the tariff. The platform of | that party calls for ‘duties that will| permit effective competition.” This must | mean, if it means anything, that duties | goods in our home market to the com- | petition of foreign products on a large scale. But we zre told that the Domo- cratic candidate favors a protoctive tar- | iff. Certoinly up to this vear his rar public utterances on the subject woul In his acceptance speech h2 reforred to | the Underwood tariff in a wey that scemed to denct~ h's egreem-nt with he is oppos~d to a general tariff bill, but wishes to take it out of politics and to mendations of an impartial Com.rn!.&slon."‘ Tarift i taken by me &nd aporoved by Demo- not so indicate, but quite the contrary. | will remove the uncortainty thay comes the principles of that bill. Now he says | b:lieva it is In my Louisville speech I outlined my posiiion on the tariff. This position, cratic members cf and candidates for Congress, 15 so construstiva, so forward- | looking, o well designed to protect ths | workingman in his 25 and his ctandard of living, to pro‘ect business! large and small, to giva to_the farmor | his fair return and to increase and improve the prosperity of the country | generally that the Republican party in a mement of panic is forced—through | one of its spokesmen—io the reaction- | ary idea that the cannot be | taken out of politics. Promises Taril Reform, This I dispute, and, unsatisfi ed with | shall be low enough to expose American | th> old order of things, I definite'y i attempted to dominate legislators or make the claim that the Democratic | rarty, under its plaiform and under| the formula put forth by myself in my | Louisville specech, will taks the tarid| ut of the realm of partisan politics, ! Al do. away with the log-rolling, and| to business b every general revision nt! 'the tariff. This our oppeneats s2em to | think cannot be ccn2.” Thoy sxxm to dostined for all time to | remain the foot ball of poiltics™to b2 { the object of comvromisz and of loz- revise it by piecemeal, on the recom-+volling. That is the old order of things ! complained about by Presidents Taft and Roosevelt 30 years ago, I am en- greater governmental | tirely dissatisfied with it. I can and I will improve it. The Republican party seems to think that this cannot be done. Let the American people decide that for themselves. Unwilling to accept the old order of things as the best, I am entirely dissatisfied with the conditions preyail- ing throughout this country as a result of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstcad act. I believe that both of them ought to b2 brought into harmony | with the best thought on the subject, to the end that we may restore respect for the law, promote temperance and wipe out official corruption, bootlegging and oTenses against public decency and public morals that follow in their wake. Standing by the old order of things the Republican candidate refers to it 2s a noble experiment, desires to deal with it constructively, but makes no mention of what he intends to do about it beyond the appointment of a com- mission. The average American citizen knows that this is entirely unnecessary, in view of the widespread knowledge of the effect of these statutes on Ameri- can public life and morals. Attacks G. 0. P. Dry Stand. Mr. Hughes, as spokesman for the presidential candidate, . says nothing can be done about prohibition; the Republican party must continue in the old course of attempting to carry water on both shoulders. To bolster up its false claim for a continuance in power it must pretend to be friendly with the wets and friendly with the drys, clos- ing its eyes to th: evil consequences that grow out of accepting the old order of things, professing one belisf and en- tertaining another, avowedly dry when appealing to the drys, attempting to mislead the wets by insidious propa- anda to the effect that nothing can g\wm—the old order of things must remain. ‘With that I entirely disagree. I be- lieve that there is no question in this ccuntry that cannot be definitely set- tled, no condition that cannot be made batter by the intelligent thought of the rank and file of the American people. Eight years ago the Republican party placarded the country with signs that read “Let us get awgy frcm wiggle gnd webble.” In no similar pericd in the history of the country has thgre heen as much wiggling and wobhling’as there has been in the last seven and a half years. The chicf spokesmen of the Re- publican Pnny ar2 wobbling all over on the prohibition question. -Thelr wirss are crossed, Sendtor Bofah holds pro- hibition to be the overshadowing issue of th: campalgn. Gov. Hughes, on the other hand, referred to it as a sham battie, and dismissed it as being no part of this campaign. Mr, Hoover finds himself caught between the wiggle and the wobble, and he gots off the hock entirely by referring to it as a neble experiment. ) Let us see the wiggling and wobbling between the Republican party platform and the attitude of the candidate and his spokesmen. The party platiorm, under the titie “The Rights of thel States,” says: Advances States’ Rights. “There is a real need in the country today to revitalize fundamental prin- ciples. There is a real need of restor- ing the individual and local sepse of respensibility and self-reliance. There is a real need for the people once more to grasp the fundamental fact that un- der our system of government they are expected to solve many problems them- selves under their municipal and State governments and to combat the ten- dency, that is all too common to turn to the Federal Government as the cesiést and-least burd>nsome method of lightening their own respon-ibility.” Following that statement in the plat- form there chould come from the R publican party a clear-cut, plainidecla- ration in favor of my solut'on of the prohibition question by the application of the theory and principle of States’ rights. Instead of that, when I make such a proposal, the Republican ora- tors are in violent opposition to it. The candidate himself -calls it socialistic, and Senator Borah says that the per- petuation of the present condition, vio- lative of States’ rights, diametrically opposed to his party’s platform declara- tion, which I just read, is the para- mount issue of the campaign. Talk about wiggle and wobble—where is there eny more glaring example of it than this? No man has performed a greater service in the cause of States’ rights in recent years than the governor of Maryland—and here in his own State let me talk as frankly and as freely to you as he has in the past. Let me say that the Republican party wiggles and wobbles on this subject, because it is held down to the earth by the forces of intolerance, well or- nanized for the destruction of the fun- damental principle of States’ rights, in order that their ideas of personal con- duct may be imposed upon the Ame; can people. They are made up of sev- eral groups. I can think of nothing that would go further to weaken the structure of our Government than to have such organized groups use their money, their political power and their | influence to browbeat the elected rep- | resentatives ‘of the people into xuhmls-' sion to their theories. It is a form of political blackmail that the American people cannot and—I1 am satisfied—will | not tolerate. Cites Anti-Saloon League, In his book on “American Indi- | vidual” Mr. Hoover, referring to propa- ganda essociations, said: “If they develop into warring inter- ests, if they dominate legislators and intimidate public officials, if they are | to be a new setting of tyranny, then they will destroy the foundation of in- dividualism.” ‘Will Mr. Hoover deny that the Anti- Saloon Lecgue is a propaganda asso- clation? Will he state that it has never that it has never attempted to intimi- date public officials? Just read the warning that was sent to Senator Nor- ris when knowledge of the fact got around the country that he intended to speak for me in this campaign be- ceuse of my prograssive ideas on so many subizcts that he has been fighting for in Washington. Coincident with | th2 flashing of that news around the ' country, he received the following warn- ing from the Anti-Saloon League: “The Anti-Saloon League has always | League will oppose Norris in future campaigns if he does this thing.” That is a threat. That is a coid- blooded threat. All of Senator Norris’ great work, all of his great influence in favor of pro- gressive legislation for the benefit of the men, women and children of this country, falls to the ground and is lost sight of the minute he goes counter to the narrow, prejudiced and bigoted ideas of the Anti-Saloon League. I can think of no greater force for evil in this country than an organization which, through any of its spokesmen, threatens disaster to the public states- man who does not submit to its dicta- tion, Propiganda in Churches. Throughout the length and breadth of ‘this land, the Anti-Saloon League has been engaged in the propaganda intended to make God-fearing men and women . belleve that the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act are dogmas of religlon. I know of no church in this country that makes Volsteadism or the eighteenth amend- ment an article of religious faith. It is nothing more or,less than legislation ratified during the excitement of war and lobbled through Congress by means of coerclon and threat and has no re- ligious sanctity about it. In fact, every religion worthy of the name teaches th: value of temperance, of sobriety and the danger of self- indulgence; and to say the least about 1t, it should shock the American idea of right to attempt to use the great moral authority of the church to maks sincere men and women belicve that if they attempt to deal reasonably and open-mindedly with a great social prob- lem they are unfaithful to their re- ligion, or that they have offended against God. You cannot make a new sin by law. If it was not inscribed on the tablets of stone that were handed down to Moses on the mount, it is not a sin. The Volstead act was not passed until 1919, and then over the veto of Presi- dent’ Wilson. In talking about the influences be- hind the Republican candidate, while in the State of Maryland and mindful of her. devotion to American principles and to religious freedom, we cannot overlock. the Ku Klux Klan. How must the American people. feel in' view of the countless billions of dollars that have been poured into the cause of public education, to have organized in this country a group r{terrlnx to them- selves 'as’ 100 per cent American, who stand in opposition to any American Ccitizen because of his or her religion? They are entirely, to my mind, without any understanding of the fundamentals of American thought and American ideals. That they are actively engaged in promoting the cause of the Republi- can party nobody would have the hardi- hood to deny, and there is abnndant testimony that their activity is encour- aged by some of the leaders of thz Re- publican party. Kilan and G. 0. P. Aligned. I hold in my hand a notice of a public meeting under the auspices of the Ku Klux Klan, and it is. stated that the meeting is to be in conjunction with the national Republican com- mlv.t%el.n Ordinarily I would probably pay lit- tle or no attention to this urd.gnyth-t I have nothing to back it up; but its appearance, published in the State .f New Jersey, lends color to its truth- fulness. It is true that the lozal Re- publican leaders disclaim knowledge of it, but one of them makes the signifi- cant statement that I would like to call to your sttention. When asksd whether or not the plans of the national com- mittee were submitted to him for ap- proyal, in so far as they concerned New Jersey; he sald: “They are sunposed to be, but they havtlJotten us in trouble before. Once or twice they have gone over our heads on that religlous question. I know ab- colutely nothing about this meating.” Vhat did the Republican leader in New Jérsey mean when he sald that the national committee got the local leaders in trouble by going over their heads on the religlous question? If that pieans anything to me, it means that some of ths plans formulated in the . national committee, without the censent of the local leaders, have had to do with the question of religion. Names Washington Pubtication. A -mewspaper publishad ' in Washing- ten, khown as the Fallowship Forum, is the official publication ‘of the Klan, and its every editlon contains the most contemptible and the most entragsovs obuse directed against milllons of iin‘\encnn citizens because of their re- iglon. One’ of the known owners of this scurrilous publication, the chairman of the Republican State ccmmittee cf Vir- |. ginia,.the public prints tell us, was in the party of Mr. Hoover on his trip to Elizabethton, in Tennessee. I was born in the United States, and my father and mother were born in the United States, From the time that I wds old enough to understand any« thing my mother told me that the great erowning glory of s wuntr{ was_the noble expression found in th Declaration of Independence—that all mex are created equal. I have served the Jargest State in the Union for a querter of a century and for elght years during that perind I_have been its chief executive. That I have given to i it the very best that is in me has been times without number publiely stt~sted by members of another political faith thon my own. On. my recent visit to Indiana my at- tention was called to a blazing cross alongside of the railroad track where the ear in which I was had to pass, and. I was informed that this was in- tended as a deflance by the Klan of my presence in the Sta‘e, although I came there ;not only as the candidate of a great party for the highest office in the Natfon but as the chief executive of another State. ‘What a hollow mockery—men fessing a belief in Christianity and in Americanism to find it necessary to toicg hetween heaven and earth the em- blem' 8f the Christien faith as a defi- enre tr me becaus® of mv religious be- | lief{. Nothing would be so out of line with American tradition and American history. Notb'ng could b= 2o far re- moved from the thoughts, the espira- tions..and the id-als of America. I supported Norris in the past, but if h> makes this sprech for Smith’the leagus is thv-ngh =i'h W The Anti Saloon would ‘rather go down to . ignominious defest {than to be raiseq to the greatest position in the gift of ths people by any influence that may be exerted by | any organization with such perverted ideas Americanism. While I think | of them as a small group of misled, if | not ignorant, people, nevertheless this campaign brings home to the electors— and in my opinion they cannot disre- gard it—that the Klan is one of the forces behind the Republican party. Kian Openly Hostile. That I have had during all my public career as governor their open enmity and hostility there can be no question. That they are supporting the Republican party in' this campaign there can be no question. As I said in Oklahoma, I seek support in this cam- ign only upon the record and upon the pledge and promise of what I am able to do for the benefit of all the people of the United States. I want no support because of my religious belief. | I repeat my firm adherence to the| American doctrine of the absolute sep-| aration of church and state. Political | activity in the church is in’the nega- | tion of that separation. | I belleve that I have made out a case in Baltimore that the Domncmuci party under my leadership will not be| satisfied with things as they find them, will not accept the old order of things as best, but will strive to make the Government constructive and not de- structive; progressive and not reac- tionary. No hope of this kind can come either from the Republican platform, from the Republican candidate, or from the Republican record. In the time allowed I have pointed out some of the forces behind the Republican party in this campaign. I come before the American people as a free agant. I was nominated on the first ballot, not as| the result of any compromise, and I made no promises to any individual or any group of individuals. I will take the oath of office as Presi- dent of the Uniled States with abso- lutely no obligation except to devote myself to the best interests of this country and to promote the prosnerity, the welfare and ha-"~-ss of all the people. ROBINSON PUSHES ILLINOIS CAMPAIGN Candidate Tells Hearers Hoover Has No Plan for Farm Relief. By the Associated Press. DECATUR, Ill, October 30.—The Tilinois political situation was scruti- nized by Senator Joe T. Robinson to- day in preparation for his second day of Illinois campaigning, which was to take him as far south as East St. Louls before nightfall. At Peoria yesterday the Democratic vice presidential nominee reviewed Gov. Alfred E. Smith’s record of sponsoring legislation for ths benefit of women. Last night in Springfleld he said that the small business man and banker could not prosper unless the farmer's problem was solved. The Senator characterized Herbert Hoover’s promise of an extra session of Congress for farm relief as “jus: another promise made at running time.” o “Mr. Hoover has no vlan for farm relief.” he declared. ‘“The only plan the farmers want he has called State Socialism. = There is no man who hears me who does not know that if Mr. Hoover ‘is elected there will be no farm relief.” Senator Robinson’s address here this afternoont was to b2 followed by an- other at East St. Louis tonight. Two . B.i;gs Stolen. ‘Two rings valued -at $900, an auto- mobile registration card and $2 in bills were stolen from the home of Mrs, Helen K. Winfleld, 3219 Macomb strest, last night. Report of the theft was made to police. A\ HOOVER CAMPAIGK, | | G. 0. P. National Chairman Makes Last Pre-Election Speech Over Radio. By the Assoclated Press. Herbert Hoover's campaign for the presidency was praised and that of Gov. Alfred E. Smith criticized here | last night by Dr. Hubert Work, chair- | man of the Republican national com- | mittee, in a radio speech which, he| said, was his “last public address in| this campaign, making special refer- | ence to our party officials.” “I have but one hitherto unexpressed wishful hope, which I know President | Coolidge shares,” he said in conclu- | sion, “and that is that Secretary Hoo- | ver and Senator Curtis will poll the | 1 largest popular vote ever recorded for | the presidency and vice presidency of 15 the United States.” | “All efforts to drag Herbert Hoover | into controversies on the low level of | personalities have failed,” said Dr. |t} Work. “His utterances have been those |j{ of a statesman, rather than that of 2| politician more anxious to get the ap- Concord Avenue 5515 3rd Street N.W. 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Praises Hoover's Appeal. | “I am willing to leave to the judg | ments .there formed a decision betwee | the calm and lofty appeals to intel geney and conscience of Herbert Hoo ver and thz outpourings of abuse an ridicule, misrepresentation and flippan. criticism which have constituted mos of the speaking campaign of the op- position.” The Republican chairman launded the Coolidge policies, saying “the whol> country has approved him and them.’ “We have no right as voters to specu- | | | 1ate on our welfare and that of our | neighbors,” Dr. Work declared, “or t to | gamble with the well-being of the Na- | tion by letting loos of a good thing, to experiment witl. something that some- | body merely says would bz better but | which we have reason to believe, from | cxperience with the same promoters, | may involve us in serious trouble.” ;* “The only general branch of indus- try in which there is trouble is agri-| culiure,” he continued, “and that de- | pression was much more serious when | the Republican party came into pow:=~ | seven and a_half years ago than it i | | teday. The Republican party inherited | from th> Democretic party, which was votad out of power by the people, an agricultural situation so desperate in March, 1921, that it has not been abl~ as yet to fully remedy it. The lac Democratic administration bankrupted the farmer. ‘Warns of Crisis. i “It is easler to bankrupt an indi- vidual or a group than it is to restor- them to solvency. But certainly no| rolief may be hopad for by reinstatin~ the party which d'd ths bankrupting through pulling the bottom out of farm nrices and credits. 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