Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1928, Page 14

SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. . C.. NOVEMBER < 1998 PART 1. TEXT OF GOV. SMITH’S MADISON SQUARE GARDEN SPEECH By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November Smith said: Under our American system of poli- tics a campaign should be a debate. ‘There could be no other reason for holding the national conventions as early as the month of June unless it was contemplated that the candidates would use the time between nomination and election day in an effort to make clear to the people of the country their stand on the great problems that are subjects of platform declaration. No such debate has been held in this campaign. because the Republican can- didate has contented himself with six or seven speeches. in which he deals with the problems under discussion in the most general way. and instead of debating himself, he has been repre- =ented in public discussion by prem: nent members of his own party, who acted as his spokesmen. That is exactly what the people of this country desire to get away from.| ~ They have had all they can stend of | the spokesman idea. and they want a | leader who will talk out plainly and | 3.—Gov. clearly to them, acquainting them With | jn agricultural pursuits are, according | speeches in this cam the facts and giving the ordinary man | and woman a little more information | about the operations of their Govern- | ment at Washington. | Hits Campaign Method. | Eorly in the campaign Chairman | ‘Work openly made the statement that the Republican candidate would not be drawn into any controversy with me. Obviously that attitude defeats the whole purpose of a campaign. A na- | tional campaign, in the very nature of | things, is & controversy between political | parties as to which policies or methods | are best calculated to promote the well being and prosperity of the United States. It is hardly fair to the American people for a man who is aspiring to the | high office of President to ask them to | rely on what somebody else says about the issues. The people of this country, | I am sure, would like to have heard | directly from Mr. Hoover, because, | after all, he is the candidate. and he is the man who will be chargsd with the responsibility in the event of his elec- tion. However, T never ran away from | debate in my life, and therefore I have had to take them all on. Following its old tricks, the Repub- | Yican party sought at the outset of the | campaign—and is still continuing—to | set up a smoke screen behind which they | hope to hide the record of the last seven and a half years. To perfect the smoke | screen they use the time-worn and | broken-down cry of prosperity, as though | there were some patented formula by which the Republican party alone pro- motes the prosperity of this country. Refers to Former Panics. They were particularly zealous about | it this year because they felt the neces- | sity of diverting the public mind from | the fact that the present prosperity, | high wages and high standard of living | came to the country under the adminis- tration of President Wilson. | The history of the last 50 years clearly | shows that there were more business and financial panics under Republican administrations than under Democratic ones; and the fact is that the Federal reserve act, designed to. stay financial panics, was passed under the adminis- tration of President Wilson, and was later referred to by Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, as the great stabilizer of business and finance, not | only in our own country, but abroad. The difference is that when trouble oc- curs _under Democratic administration, the Republicans call it a panic. When it happens under a Republican admin- istration the Republicans refer to it as a-depression. In fact, Mr. Hoover him- self, in the course of one of his speeches in this campaign, referring to the army of men out of work last Winter, said that it occurred during a depression. That the country is prosperous in spots at the present time nobody denies. But at the same time we have Mr. Hoover’s own word for it that the tex- tile and the coal industries are lagging in the march of prosperity. And the | Republican party in its platform admits that the agricultural industry is in dire distress. I am using their own words. Of course, it is another Republican trick to atiempt to link prosperity to the tariff. After my Louisville speech, in which I clearly outlined the Demo- cratic attitude of the tariff, the Repub- - lican leaders found themseives in a panic. Mr. Hoover weathered the storm by silence. Mr. Hughes said that it was doubtful if members -of * Smith's party in the Congress of the United States would follow his -tariff views. He was unable to find fault with the views themselves; he was compelled to admit that they would stabilize the business of the country, give confidence to business, preserve the standard of living and of wages for the working- man and protect business, large and small, as well as the farmer. 1 made immediate answer to his suggestion that the members of Congress of my party would not_ follow my views by broadcasting the declaration 90 per cent of them will follow exactly the icy enunciated by me in my Louisville speech, Outlines Tariff Plan. I repeat here tonight that under my administration there will be no general revision of the tariff, that the tariff, if amended, will be amended in spe- cific schedules after -study and careful investigation of all the facts by a com- | petent, thorough-going, able tariff com- mission. The suggestion by me that | the tariff be lifted out of the realm of partisan politics was .met with a | counter suggestion from Gov. Hughes | that that was an impossibility. With that I entirely disagree, and if Mr. Hughes and the Republican party b lieve that the people are compelled to countenance log-rolling, political ma- nipulation, favoritism and star cham- ber proceedings in the making of tar- riffs, they do not understand the view point of the American people. Nothing is so ridiculous in this cam- paign as the attempt on the part of the Republican managers to lead the American workingmen to believe that my election and my leadership of the Democratic party in the nation means that he is to bs driven from his home. I said in Newark that this was an insult to the intelligence of the rank and file of the working people of this country, and I definitely pledg> to them under me nothing will happen to the tariff that will take a 5-cent plece out of their pay envelopss. If we do anything with it, we shall make those envelopes buy more for them. I say furthermore that in dealing with this problem we will give full pro- tection to the farmer and to the busi- ness man, big or small. The Republican party has referred , to President Coolidge as the great apostle of prosperity. A newsbaper report of the press conference with the President ‘at the White House on Oc- tober 30 reads as follows: “President Coolidge also permitted it to become current that in his opinion there was no threat of an upset of pros- | perity by reason of the election. It I3 hardly a violent assumption that what he meant was that regardless of the result of the election the country would £0 on prospering.” Quotes From Editorials. ‘This opinion from the President does not square with the forebodings of evil coming from the minor leaders of the {)any in their effort to bolster up a lost cause. Newspapers supporting the Republi- can candidate, but desiring at the same time to be fair with their readers, agree with the President and violently dis- agfee with the party spokesmen and the Republizan orators generally. Lot me quote from an editorial in the New York Telegram, one of a chain of news- papers throughout tiie United States supporting the candidacy of Mr. Hoover. “But when Hughes goes clear back to*the days of Mark Hanna, trots out | the depression must be felt through | framework of the | public service has placed him and re- | that have beset labor in th2 last seven | sorts to political bunk and demagogy.” This is the opinion of a newspaper supporting the Republican candidate. It Take the coal strike. By appointment ‘ and a half years. at the hands of President Harding, Mr. apparently was unable to give editorial | Hoover himself was a member of a com- sanction to the false bugaboo of ca- | mission to inquire into the causes of lamity and business distress following | the unrest in the eoal industry and to Democratic ascendency that the Re- | | publican party, from the candidate | happencd to the proposed remedies? It down, have been trying to paint. For the further promotion of the suggest remedies for their cure. What is 2 matter of history that they went down to defeat, although Democratic | smoke screen, the Republican candidate | Senators introduced legisiation to carry | has made repeated reference to his at- titude toward immigration. It is not | an issus. I stand squarely upon the | Democratic platform which pledges a continuation of the present restrictive laws, except where they divide families. | Mr. Hoover and I are in agreement on this point and it is only. brought into the campaign to befog the issuss. Refers to Farm Situation. Now that I have demolished the smoke screen, let us bring out into the Let us take up the agricultural situa- tion. No man can. honestly make the | statement that there is widespread pros- | perity in_this country when the one- | third of the whole population engaged | to the distress. caused th last night to say, “Agriculture is the | most urgent economic problem in the | Nation today.” " Paralyze agriculture and you reduce the purchasng power of one-thrd of the ple. It follows as night follows day that if that buying power is paralyzed Republican platform, in dire | And it is that disiress that | every line of human endeavor. The farmer purchasing less, the swrekeeper’ sells less. The swrekeeper selling less, | the manufacturer manufacturcs less. | The manufacturer manufacturing less, the workingman works less. | ‘The Republican party has had cight | years in which to cure the evils beset- | ling agriculture. That they have known | of the evils is proven by the speech of | Mr. Hoover last night when he said, | speaking of agriculture: ! “There are ample causes for com- plaint. The Republican party has ihroughout the whole of the last seven and a half years been alive to this situation.” He should have added: “But nothing | was done about it.” And that is the | reason why agriculture is “the mos ur- gent economic problem in the Nation The trouble with agriculture is basic and fundamental and it cannot be cured by the application of remedies that do not go to the very root of the discase. Cites Lowden and Norris. Gov. Lowden, Senator Norris and the | leaders of agriculture generally through- out th> country are of one mind—that the solution lies in a proper control of | the exportable surplus with the cost im- poz2d upon the crop benefited, and un- | less and until a remedy is brought forth | based upon that principle you are only | administering palliatives and not seek- | ing a cure for the disease itself. Senator Norris, former Republican | chairman of the Scnate committee on | agriculture, in a Nation-wide address de- | clared that because of Mr. Hoover’s at- | titude toward great public problems, among which he believed agriculture to | be one of the foremost, he was in favor of my election. Gov. Lowden of Illinois withdrew his name from the Republican national convention at Kansas City upon the theory that the Republican party did not recognize the great un- derlying principle of cure for the stag- nation of agriculture. Mr. Borah and Mr. Hughes agree with | Mr. Hoover. Mr. Hoover rejects the | fundamental remedy and sceks to lull the farmer to sleep with talk about de- veloping inland waterways, something aboiti which there is no difference be- twzen us, and with talk about stabili- zation corporations, which will in some mysterious way not explained by him, bring a cure for the paralysis of agri- culture. The strange thing about it all is that Mr. Hoover was President Cool- idge's adviser on this subject during the last four years and never suggested any of these things at the time Mr. Coolidge twice vetoed the only relief bill that came from the Congress. Even now ha is so blind to the fundamental needs of the farmer that he calls the principle advocated not only by me, but by leaders of his own party like Senator Norris, | Gov. Lowden and Vice President Dawes, | State Socialism. | The Democratic platform and the | Democratic candidates recognize the | fundamental principle and promise a speady remedy. The hope of ‘the far- | mer and of those in the country depend- ent upon his prosperity is in the Demo- | cratic party. e Republican party, | according to the record, is helpless to <o anything for- them: { Power Held Important. ‘There is no more important question | in this country today than the one that has to do with the development of our great natural water power resources. Water power has been referred to as white coal and it is running to waste in sufficient quantities throughout the length and breadth of this land to pro- ! duce cheap power for industry, the home | and the farm. The division of opinion between the two parties is on the method of de- velopment. The Republican party ad- heres to the policy of private develop- ment by private individuals for private profit and gain. The Democratic party, | alded by progressive . Republicans, be- lieves in public = development under | public ownership and under public con- | trol in the interest of the rank and| file of the people, the rightful owners of the power. Senator Norris agrees with me and violently disagrees with the candidate of his own party. Senator Borah dis- agrees with the candidate of his party | to the point where he said, “If water | power were the only issue I would not support Mr. Hoover.” The Republican candidate stands n the corner of the power trust, and n his Madison Square Garden speech, right in this building, declared the Democratic policy as enunciated by me to be State socialism. The decision will have to be made on Tuesday by the American people as to the futrre of their power resources, that will cither commit them to the Democratic party for public develop- ment or put the Republican party in a position to hand them out to the pri- vate power companies. I have confi- dence in the judgment and common sense of the rank and file of the Ameri- can people, and for that reason I am | sure their decision will be rizht. | Urges Reorganization. There 15 & crying need today for a | reorganization Of the structure and | Government,_itself. Duplication of effort, overlapping of functions, waste of time, energy and money grow out of the present com- | plicated, disjointed and ~ disorganized : framework of the Federal Government. | This was recognized as far back as 1920, when the Republican party in its platform promised reorganization. Fail- ' ing during the administration of Presi- dent Harding, they promised it again in | 1924, but up to and including this day and minute, as a result of the promise, | they made just two consolidations or transfers of functions when they took | the Patent Office_and the Bureau of | | Mines from the Department of Com-; merce. i “This year they have left it out of the | platform entirely, evidently regarding it | as something impossible under Repub- lican auspices because of the Republican hunger for patronage. The Democratic | party under my leadership brought | about a reorganization of the govern- | ment of this State. Beginning with the | 4th of March that party will address it- | self to the problem in Washington and | I predict that its efforts will meet with ' success. ‘The Republican party just before elec- tion always professes its love and devo- tion for the laboring man. The Ameri- can workingman would be infinitely bet- ter off if he could get some of this the battered old full dinner pail and begins howling calamity, h~ gets down JcT the high plane where his great ! | thom into effect. ‘The whole problem of unemployment has been sidetracked. Again, we have Mr. Hoover as.chalrman of A commis- sion to inquire into and suzgest reme- dies by law to meet this important prob- lem. What happened to them? = The | record shows they went down to defeat although these ‘proposals were intr | duced and urged inthe Senate by Dem- | ocratic members of that body. When the business depression of 1927 again | brought to light the question of unem- | open the real isues of the campaign. | ployment. the Republican administra- unable to meet it constructively, becaus.. they had falled to do anything | tion w about the remedies suggasted as far back as 1921, The Republican candidate in paign spoke about progressing public improvements in times of unemployment. This is exact- e Republican candidate only | Iy what the Republican party did not do, | to recommend the changes he deems The Republican party in its platform promises an end to the abuses of unjust injunctions restraining labor. How they can make that promise in the face of the history of the last eight years is be- yond me, in view of the fact that a Republican Attorney General himself | suzd out some of the injunctions most A constructive | bitterly complamned of. program for the trouble in the mining seciions. a forward-looking poliey with | regard o unemployment and legislation | against unjust injunctions can only come from the constructive solutions suagosted by the Democratic party. Talks on Prohibition. ‘There is no public question that the people are facing today that is of greater importance to the future wel- fare of this country than a sensible, reasonable, proper handling of the pro hibition amendment to the Constitu- tion and the legislation sustaining it. ‘There can be no question that 10 years ago a great many well-intentioned and oroper-thinking people in this country | believed that the temperance and the | eradication of the evil of over-indul- gence in intoxicating liquors could be brought about by amendment to the Constitution. After eight-and-a-half years of ex- perience it is time that the American people took stock, looked around them and consulted the record to find out if these desirable objects are actually be- :ng attained by the operation of thes2 awvs. I hold that the eighteenth amend- ment has not promoted temperance. has not cured overindulgence in alco- holic beverages. hand, that there is more hard liquor being consumed in this country today than there was prior to the adoption of the eighteenth amendment. I am satisfied that the prohibition laws have | brought about a disregard and a dis- | respect for law on the part of other- | wise law-abiding citizens to a greater extent than was ever created by any attempt to regulate the personal habits | and customs of the neople. The illegal manufacture, sale and transportation of liquor is going on in every State of the Union. To help bring it about public officials charged with law_enforcement have been cor- rupted. Bootlegging has become an in- dustry followed by countless thousands. All that I have stated is a matter of public record and can be found in the | files of the United States Senate as part of the sworn testimony of public officials charged with the enforcement of prohibition. Would Define Intoxication. ‘The term “bootlegger,” its meaning and significance are known to the chil- dren in our public schools. It is im- possible for the American people to escape the question of what should be done about it. I have frankly met this issue. I have suggested that it his | It | 1 hold, on the other | be solved by the application of the Democratic and Jeffersonian theory of | States rights. I strongly belleve that the right of a State to be dry should be respected. 1 believe in continuing | the protection of the eighteenth amendment for the State that desires to be dry; but at the same time I be- lieve the State that desires a change should be permitted to have it after a { majority vote of all its citizens under | the restrictions and safeguards laid down by me In my speech of ac- ceptance. As to the Volstead act I am con- | vinced that the present definition of | what constitutes an_intoxicant is not | based upon study or upon scientific research. Unquestionably the present | drastic definition of what consiitutes an intoxicant has driven millions of citi- zens from the use of harmless bever- ages to the use of hard liquors, which are more easily obtained, more easily transported and which are legally m: ufactured in so many countries in con- | stant trade and commerce with the United States, As T said in my speech of acceptance. | | two_duties devolve upon the President of the United States with respect to | these laws. The first is to enforce | them. That I promise to do to the | best of my ability. The second duty is advisable. 1 will recommend to Con- gress the changes I have indicated in accordance with my speech of accept- ance. Further than that I believe it to be my duty to carry this matter to the American people and lay the facts before them, and let them make the decision. As against this clear-cut and straight- forward attitude, let us take a look into the Republican household. ~We start with the candidate himself, who refers to prohibition as a noble experiment, but who makes no suggestion for any change or improvement in existing con- | ditions. In his speech of acceptance he | <aid he would appoint a commission to look into it. That is an_entirely un- necessary performance. It has been investigated by the Senate and the record is all in Washington. Refers to “Sham Battle.” Senator Borah, speaking for the Re- | | publican candidate, said that the main- | | tenance of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act in their present form is the paramount issur cf this campatgn and proclaims the Republican party to be unalterably committed to | that course. Former Gov. Hughes made light of the whole question. He treat- ed it facetiously and said that so far as prohibtion is concerned, Smith and Hoover are engaged in a sham battle and there is nothing that can be done | about it. When Mr. Hughes made Lhat: statement he was following up the whispering campaign that has been go- ing on in the Eastern part of this coun- try to the effect that Smith can do nothing: that there is not any use vot- ing for Smith because of his ideas with regard to prohibition, because he wili be helpless. With this I vigorously disagree. Something can be done about it; some- thing must be done about it and if I am elected something will be done about ft. The Republican party would be unable to sustain its opposition to my program of States’ rights if they were true to their own platform. It makes a very glowing declaration in favor of the prin- | ciple of States' rights when it says: | “There is a real need in the country | today to revitalize fundamental princi- | ples. There is a real need of restoring | the individual and local sense of re- sponsibility and self-reliance. There is a real need for the people once more to | grasp the fundamental fact that under | our system of government they are ex- | pected to solve many problems them- | selves under their municipal and State governments.” Senator Borah, however, wedded to the eighteenth amendment and the Vol- stead act, would rip this declaration from his own party platform. Gov. Hughes admits the helplessness of his | own party to make good that declara. tion of political faith, and M < to its application to prohibition |tain influences working in or for the torney General to be fllegal and void, ki = | Republican party was a true statement | and yet he cooll dismisses the whole as State socialism. Hits Dry League. What is the trouble? The powerful and dominating influence of the Anti- Saloon League, that sets at naught all great declarations of political faith, sweeps aside all men and all measures not in sympathy and in step with their narrow, bigoted ideas and their desire of facts. many Republicans. 1t is accepted as such by matter as meaning nothing and not The Klan and the | worthy of comment. And when ques- | Anti-Saloon League are twin calamities | tioned about it the Republican candi- | working for the election of th> Repub- lican national ticket. ~Their pmclicesi are Intolerable. Their intolerance is ' disgraceful. | date himself declines to discuss it. While the Republican party careful to avold all reference to was the They have exhibited some 'record between 1921 and 1924, the Re- | of the meanest motives which ever had publican candidate is entirely willing |a place in American politics. What | to put the stamp of approval upon both to control the conduct of people who do |they offer as patriotism and public | R:publican administrations when he not believe with them. That is the whole thing summed up In a few words. The Republican party welcomes, and in this campaign has accepted, that support. Gov. Hughes frankly said that he was not satisfied with the pre: ent conditions. but, at the same time, said that nothing could be done about it I desire to ask the American people are they satisfied with it and do they share Mr. Hughes' belief that nothing can be done about 1t? The day will never come when the American people will be prepared to confess their in- ability to deal with any problem of government as far-reaching and as im- | portant as this one. It would be difficult for me to speak about the Anti-Saloon League without having something to say about its twin brother for the destruction of American prinicples and American ideals, the Ku Klux Klan. The Republican party has made feeble attempts to disclaim re- sponsibility for some of the activities of the Klan. But a campaign based upon religlous bigotry and religious in- tolerance is so out of line and so out of step with the American idea of gov- ernment that it was impossible for them to conceal it. It was destined to come out in the open before the cam- paign finished. And we had it laid bare before the eyes of the American people When Senator Moses, the Eastern man- ager of the Hoover campalgn, mailed scurrilous literature to be published in the State of Kentucky, making an at- | tack upon me because of my religious faith and incidentally upon 20,000,000 American citizens who share that belief with me. Quotes Chicago Tribune. 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Men charged with the solemn duty of pro- tecting and conserving the resources of the country are found bargaining them away In a_corrupt manner. Men charged with the custody of public funds found their way to penitentiaries from criminal violation of their public trust. The Republican platform is care- ful to refer to the Coolidge administra- tion, unwilling apparently to take any of the responsibility for what happenad in the administration of the President’s predecessor. j . “Cold and Callous Attitude.” They have taken a cold and eallous attitude toward the whole corrupt per- formance. Why, in this very year 1928 the sale of the oil royalties in the Salt Creek_district, originally made by Secretary Fall to a Sinclair company was renewed by the present chairman | |of the Republican national committee when he was Secretary of the Interior. although the original sale was illegal and void and he had been put on his notice with regard to it. His own ac- tion was likewise declared by the At- | | with unlimited power protected or promoted | said: “The record of these seven and a alf years constitutes a period of rare courage in leadership and constructive action. Never has a political party been able to look back upon a similar period with more satisfaction.” And Dr. Work adds that the people are tired of oil. I deny that the Ameri- can. people are indifferent to this out- rageous conduct on the part of its public officiels. The American people are disgusted, humiliated and ashamed of it. In his speech at Worcester, Hughes said “Qualifications for our highest office are not produced overnight. Thay are the slow growth of years of obssrva- tion, of study. of reflection, of contact with practical affairs.” | Hits Borah and Hughes. 1f Mr. Hughes really means that he should vote for me. But th2 trouble 15 that Mr. Hugh»s and Senator Bd)ran; are Republicans first. 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KitT Co. 1330 G Street Mason & Hamlin—Knabe—Chicl:ering Pianos and Ampicos numbers. This cam> very clearly from Senator Moses. when h> said: “Because there are 5.000,000 more Republicans than there are Democrats we are defiant. Bring on your candi- date and we will bury him.™ The Republican party was mistaken. The force of numbers is not with them in th's campaign. That has been made clear to me in my journey through this country during the last six weeks. ‘Throughout the length and breadth of the land the people are alive to the sit- uation and enthusiastic for a change. They are looking to the Democratic party. and I am satisfied that the over- whelming. r2awakened santiment of the American people will be reflected next Tuesday in a great Democratic victory. DEMOCRATS TC FURNISH: RETURNS FROM ELECTION Public Is Invited to Visit Head- quarters Tuesday Night and Hear Reports From States. An_invitation to the public to come and hear the election returns Tucsday night was issued last night by Demo- cratic_headquarters, 16 Jackson place in announcing that the organizatioa will hold open house on tnat occasion The trend of the results of the bzi- Ioting, as the returns are received, will be interpreted by John F. Costello, na- tional committeeman, and John B. C. poys. chairman of the local Demociatic central committee. C. F. Rhodes will be mester of ceremonies and an enter- tainment program will be provided Strangers in the city. it was announcer will be cared for by the siaff of Domo- cratic headquarters, Irish Castle Mas Banshee. Gormanston Castle, in Ireland, has banshee. or supernatural being, who | supposed to warn the family of an ap- proaching _death. according to recent reports. This particular banshee said to emerge in vapory white draperies crying piteously over the house, An- other story told is that a band of foxes appears whenever misfortune is about to befall the family. Viscount Gor- manston, premier viscount of Ireland. recently celebrated his fourteenth birth- day. and has paid little heed to th- } CLUB GRAND Special to Club Members $485 $3 a Week CLUB PLAYER Special to Club Members $312 $2 a Week CLUB UPRIGHT Special to Club Members $245 $2 a Week If You Can’t Come Mail This Coupon Homer L. Kitt Co. Washington, D. Please send me full particulars of your $1 Christmas Club. | Name | Address . | SVmiite bl eSO D) | ! s