Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1932, Page 4

A—4 BREAD-LINE VOTE PIVOT IN MICHIGAN Democratic Hopes High, but Hesitate at Claiming State. F4 6. 0. P. Roused. (Continued From First Page) pole and cut down an effigy bearing a Hoover label and a banner also at- tacking Henry Ford. The fight over the State ticket enters into the campaign picture. The publicans have renominated Gov. Wilber M. Brucker and along with him the lieutenant governor, Luren D. Dickin- son. Brucker, formerly a dry, has in- dorsed President Hoover's interpreta- ton of the prohibition plank of the Re- publican national platform. Dickinson has been a prohibition advocate for years and is still regarded as the dry- est of the dry.” Brucker has running against him for the nomination three other candidates, all wet, who piled up a huge vote. He had a plurality. how- ever, although he trailed one of these candidates in Detroit. Democrats Completely Wet. The Democrats, on the other hand, have gone completely wet, and are hop- ing for help from the Crusaders and the women's organization for prohi- biton reform, both of which are strong in this city and have finances to Back their choice. The Democratic nom- inee for Governor is William A. Com- stock, who has carried the Democratic banner for years in this State. Com- stock is popular and widely known and had little trouble defeating his op- ponents for the nomination. He has been engaged in some large real estate operations and in the depression, ac- cording to his own admission, has gone broke. Indeed in a public address before the Democratic State Convention last Tuesday Comstock discussed his losses frankly and predicted that before the November election one or more of his creditors would force him into invol- untary bankruptcy for political rea- sons. He declared that he expected to pay all his debts, however. His finan- cial situation was known during the primary campaign and failed to check Comstock’s victory in the gubernatorial nomination race. There are so many hard hit by the depression in this State that his plight may win him votes rather than lose them. But the Re- publicans are asking why the voters should jutin office to handle the State's finances a man who has not been able to handle his own. The Republicans seem to have for- gotten their factional differences in the peril of the whole party. They had both a harmonious and an enthusiastic State convention here yesterday, when 1,400 delegates renominated without a dissenting vote their candidates for State office, including secretary of State and attorney general, and put through the State platform with no discussion whatever. But the speakers at the convention, from Gov. Brucker down the line, all warned the Republicans that they must get out and fight this year es they never have done before. The Democrats have certainly thrown the fear of the depression into them. Foreign Voters Numerous. ‘There are large blocks of Polish, Hun- garian and colored voters in Detroit and most of the first two and some of the third group seem to have jumped the Republican reservation. The city is said to hold more Poles than any other city outside of Warsaw. In the past they have been Republican. In the first congressional district the Poles and colored voters are particularly numerous. When the primary election was held there the Poles swarmed over to the Democratic side and nominated one of their own people. In the Re- publican primary, ‘Mahoney, colored, was nominated. Incidentally, the Dem- ocrats polled 34,551 votes in their pri- mary to 17,250 for the Republicans in that district. ‘The fourteenth district saw 38157 voters on the Democratic side and 26,120 on the Republican. This is Representative Bob Clancy's district. For various reasons he still has a fight- ing chance for re-election. But the Democrats are expected to pick up several congressional seats in the com- ing election and to hold the seat they now have from the eighth district, rep- Tesented by Michael Hart. The Repub- licens have nominated Willlam M. Smith, a great mixer, to oppose Hart, and they hope to win the eighth dis- trict back. Unless there is a big change in sentiment, however, it does not seem probable they will. The Republicans may receive aid from disgruntled Democratic support- ers of Al Smith, disgruntled because Smith was denied the presidential nom- ination in Chicago at the hands of Roosevelt and McAdoo. Quite & con- troversy has been waged over the Smith-Roosevelt affair in the Michigan Catholic, between Rev. John A. Mc- Clorey, S. J., and William F. Connolly, former Democratic national committee- Time Out Iy v for Rest ROOSEVELT AT RANCH IN ARIZONA. tour. The Governor and Mrs. G OV. ROOSEVELT met Mrs. Roosevelt in Afizona and rested at the ranch of Mrs. Jack Greenwood before roceeding eastward on his campaign . Roosevelt (left) are shown with their hostess, who is a national committeewoman from Arizona. On the right is Senator Thomas Walsh of Montana. —A. P. Photo. HOOVER T0 LAUNCH MAJORG. 0. P. DRIVE 260 Speakers to Follow Up His Midwest Attack at Des Moines. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 30.—The Re- publican battle for the political winning of the Midwest is about to begin. Their first major offensive for the farm vote of the great corn and wheat belts will be launched next week with President Hoover's address at Des Moines, Iowa. Party leaders at campaign head- headquarters here today said they ex- pected the President’s speech would be “a complete answer made by outlining a definite plan for agricultural relief” to Gov. Pranklin D. Roosevelt's recent farm speech at Topeka, Kans. Forecast Hoover Appeal. The Republican spokesmen expressed confidence that Hoover's speech would include definite suggestions for aiding the farmer by loosening credit, allowing additional time for payment of mcrt- gages and bills and creating new mar- kets. The Republicans have criticized Roosevelt'’s farm program spsech as “dealing in generalities.” Immediately after the Hoawer speech next Tuesday Republican lexders are expected to center their campaign in the Middle Western States. Ready to pick up the farm vote at- tack where Hoover leaves off and carry his farm principles into additional ter- ritory are half a dozen of the party’s leading campaigners. ‘They include Vice President Curtis, Secretary of War Hurley, Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Mrs. Dolly Gann, sister of the Vice President, and Assistant Secretary of Navy Jahncke. 8650 Speakers Listed. There are 260 active speakers listed in the Republican National Committee Speakers' Bureau, headed by Repre- sentative Ramseyer of Iowa, and a good- ly portion of them are ready to quest for Hoover-Curtis votes in the farm | States. In addition, there are several scores of speakers working out of the New York and Washington campaign headquarters. Vice President Curtis, will be campaigning at Maryville, Mo, only about 150 miles away, when Presi- dent Hoover speaks next Tuesday at Des Moines. meet. Considerable missionary work in the agricultural States already has been done by Secretary of Agriculture Hyde. In the concentrated farm campaign of the next few weeks, however, such men well known in the Midwest as former | Gov. A. O. Eberhart of Minnesota, At- torney General Oscar Carlstrom of II- linois, Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, | Henry Field, Republican nominee for | Senator from Towa, and Hanford Mac- | Nider of Iowa, former Minister to Canada and one time national com- mander of the American Legion, are ex- pected to assume leading roles. man and also a Catholic. Father Mc- Clorey has urged the Smith Democrats, and particularly the Catholics, to “go | fishing” on election day, certainly not | to vote for Roosevelt, whom he charges | was nominated over Smith because of | religlous prejudice and by men who | have had the support of the Ku Klux Klan in the past. Believe Revolt Halted. Judge Connolly, on the other hand, who was an ardent Smith supporter, but is now out for the Rcosevelt- Garrer ticket, has replied to the charges brought by Father McClorey, urging the Catholics not to be “bigots” and prais- ing Roosevelt for his support of Smith in the past. The Democratic leaders claim Judge Connolly has succeeded in halting the revolt against Roosevelt emeng the Catholics here and that while there may be some defections they will not number more than 5000 and cer- tainly will not be a deciding factor in the election. ‘While the prohibition issue has largely been taken out of the picture in Michigan as between Hoover and Roosevelt by the President’s acoeptance speech, the Democratic candidates do not expect to get the votes of the ardent drys. If there are many of them left) in" the State, they may be a deciding factor in favor of the Republican ticket. No one seems to know definitely just how many of these dyed-in-the- wool drys there are. Some of the veterans—a lot of them it is said in some quarters—are against the Republicans because of Hoover's | opposition to the payment in cash of| the soldiers’ bonus. The Democrats put into their State platform a pledge to, pay the bonus in cash. The Republicans ignored the bonus issue. Real Trouble Defined. 1 But the real trouble of the Republi< cans was summed up in a sentence by one of the Republican candidates for Congress: “You can't talk against a bread line.” At the present writing Michigan must be placed in the column of doubtful States. The Republican drive may, change this, now it is getting under, way. The Republicans have the fld-l vantage of organization in all parts of the State. ey have practically the! whole State press with them. Here in Detroit the Times, a Hearst paper, is the only one supporting Roosevelt and Garner, So far as can be discovered, meither side has much money with which to conduct the campaign. Firemen to Hold Dances. TUXEDO, Md, September 30 (Spe- cial) —The first of a series of Friday evening dances, under auspices of the ‘Tuxedo Volunteer Fire Department, will to behld tonight at 9 o'clock in the fire house., Proceeds will go to buy equip- ment for the department. A card party will be held by the Ladies’ Aux- iliary of the department tomorrow night ia the Se house at 8 o'clock. Women to Broadcast. Republican women prominent in the party’'s affairs will participate in a radio campaign beginning next week in behalf of President Heover's candidacy. Next Wednesday, October 5, will be "ladies’ day,” with five well known women launching their voices into the political arena over the National Broad- casting network. Mrs. T. L. Smith, head of the farm women's section, Re- publican National Committee, and Miss Anna Weinstock, head of the women in industry section. will speak in the “women scan politics” program to be broadcast from 2:15 to 2:30 pm. (Central standard time) from Chicago. In the morning, from 9:30 to 10 p.m. (Central standard time) the N. B. C. system will carry the address of Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, vice chairman of the Republican National Committee; Mrs. Bina West, prominent business woman, and Miss Margaret Deland, novelist. VAST PUBLIC DOMAINS DESCRIBED BY SPEAKER Land Office Official Tells Cosmo- poltan Club of Homesteading Acreage. A talk on the vast public domains of the United States by Commissioner General A. B. Moore of the United States Land Office featured the weekly luncheon meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club in the Carlton Hotel yesterday. The Government, Moore told the club members, still has 176,000,000 acres of land available for homesteading, in ad- dition to 130,000,000 acres of land now | under Government administration in-| side the forests. The Government also owns 400,000,000 acres of land in Alaska, he said. The speaker said Texas alone could support the entire population of the country if the ,23,000,000 persons in the United States could be moved within its boundaries and would work the land, as do some foreign countries. SCOUT LEADERS TO MEET Four States and District to Be Rep- resented Next Friday. Plans were nearing completion today for the annual meeting of Scout leaders from Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and the District, which will open in the Shoreham Hotel next Fri- day. High officials of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America will gather here in connection with the sessions. James E. West of this city, chief Scout executive, will be the speaker at the banquet October 8, which will be the eoncluding feature of the confer- ce. mes. ~ incidentally, | However, they will not | Bl PARTES FACE STRUGBLE N EAS Hoover Counter-Thrust West Temporary Center of Interest, However. in "By the Associated Press. ‘The presidential campaign passes into the usually decisive month of Oc- tober with the activities of both major political parties centered temporarily in | the West, but with plentiful signs that | an inch-by-inch struggle is to follow al%o in the East. | The Democratic drive for the in- }surgem Republican support wast of the | Mississippi, led by Gov. Roosevelt, has | received increasing attention in the | closing days of September. It will be | followed almost immediately by a Re- | publican counter-thrust, led by Presi- dent Hoover. The Western sector is destined to see still further stubborn | dispute, but the thoughts of both party | commands already are turning toward the Eastern seaboard and the Midwest | for the real wind-up of the campaign. West Declared Won. After Gov. Roosevelt's exchange of friendly words with Republican Sena- | tors Johnson in California, Cutting in | New Mexico and Norris in Nebraska, Democratic Chairman Farley returned to New York angouncing that the West | was won and took up a study of the | Eastern war maps. Farley's conclusion was disputed by Republican Chairman Sanders, who said Republican defec- | tions would not come up to Democratic expectations. The prospects are, how- | ever, neither party will neglect either East or West in its plans for future action. | Mr. Hoover will make his first out- | of-town campaign speech next Tuesday | night at Des Moines, Iowa. He wiil speak largely to the West, although he will cover several subjects. Vice Presi- dent Curtis already is moving westward |on a swing all the way to the coast Secretary of the Treasury Mills, much | relied on as a campaigner for Hoover, is headed in the same direction. Even while the Western Republican offensive is developing. the Democrats will be setting off their first real fire- works of the campaign in the East. Gov. Roosevelt will end his Western trip just in time to attend the New York State Democratic Convention next week. Alfred E. Smith also is expected to be present, and reports multiply that he will have something important to | say. Northeastern Plan Holds. ‘There is no indication that the Demo- cratic managers, however much atten- tion as they may be devoting to other things, have abandoned their original plan for an intensive attack on the Northeastern block of States. In Mr. Roosevelt's own State of New York, especially, they intend to make the strongest campaign of which they are capable. In other words, Chairman Farley is not content to rest on any hope of electing his nominee, as Wilson was re- elected in 1916, by Western and South- ern strength alone. It is his idea, if possible, to keep the Republicans fight- ing all along the line, and this the Re- publicans intend to do. In such a scheme of things, New York naturally becomes a key State in the East, and Illinois, Indiana and Ohio in the Midwest. The Democrats want New York because they argue that Mr. Hoover cannot be re-elected if he loses New York. The Republicans want Tlinois, Indiana and OEID because they argue that Mr. Roosevelt, if he loses the East, cannot win without one or more of this Mid-Western trio. As the tide of battle verges eastward after the first days of October, moving through the larger centers of popula- tion, both sides will greatly infensify their efforts, in the hope of arousing voter enthusiasm to a much higher pitch by November 8. LECTURES TO BE GIVEN ON CATHOLIC IDEALS David Goldstein Will Speak Sun- day at 4 P.M. on Campus of University. David Goldstein, well known Catholic orator, will deliver the first of a series of leciures on Catholic views and ideals at 4 pm. Sunday on the campus of Catholic University, it was announced today by Fred J. Rice, State deputy of :}rxletxm‘hu of Columbus of the Dis- ct. Sunday night Mr. Goldstein will speak outside the Sacred Heart Church. He will deliver talks in Franklin Park Mon- day and Tuesday at 12:30 and 7:30 p.m. ecch day. Wednesday night his talk will be in Hyattsville and Thursday night at Berwyn. His schedule calls for further speeches at the park at Seventh sireet and Pennsylvania avenue Friday :’igl):: and in Takoma Park Saturday ight. He will make a tour of Baltimore be- ginning October 9. ASKS $10,000 DAMAGES Son of Former Poolesville School Principal Files Suit. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., September 30.— In a suit filed in the Circuit Court here yesterday Robert W. Stout, jr. son of the former principal of the public school at Poolesville, this county, asks damages of $10,000 from John R. Hall, son of Julius Hall, well known Poolesville resi- dent, as a result of injuries alleged to have been sustained in an automobile collision on the Rockville pike, neax Rockville, May 26 last. He is represent- :guwmwmeydohnl.oxmo(m e, v = 1au drar VW ADLLLIN U LU, (6. 0. P. NEARING GOAL IN YOUNG VOTER DRIVE Organization of 10,000,000 Be- tween 21 and 36 Approximated. 17 State Campaigns Under Way. By the Assoclated Press. L. U L aciasandy today they were approaching their g0al—10,000,000 young men and women betwasn the ages of 21 and 36 teking an active interest in politics. Organization of the younger voters has been started in 17 States, it was an- nounced at the league’s offices in Re- publican national campaign headquar- ters, and several States have been or- ganized on a county basis. “We intend to form a permanent or- ganization into which a first voter can enter at the age of 21 and remain for 15 years,” George R. Olmstead. chair- man of the league, sald in a statement. hds left to do organization work in the New England States. = are 28,000,000 voters under the age of 36, and until now they never have had a permanent organization to direct their -political energies. 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