New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 28, 1928, Page 22

FAILED IN Party Lacks Leadership "and Is Directed From “Behind the Scenes” ' Governor Asserts in St. Paul Address — Criti- cizes Coolidge for Veto- CONSTRUCTIVE WORK “enunciated a principle which he says he finds in the McNary-Haugen blll, but which is not the ene over which the battle has been fought for the last four years.” “What'’s the matter with the doc- tor?” Smith asked. *“I'll tell you. | The doctor is unable to distingutsh between the principle and machin-| ery for making the principle oper-| ate. He has tried to put two prin- ciples into one thing.” | Jardine’'s Speech | pare a plan.” “So while there's life, thery's hope,” Be added amid applause that fairly rocked the auditeriym. The governor sald the flood con- trol bill, while authorizing an ap- propriation of $325,000.000, appro- priated only $15,000,000, and added: “That, incidentally, is something which is a new practice which has grown up in Washington. It was in- vented in the interest of economy. Its undoubted purpose is to lead some people to think that they are going to get something.” Hits Nail on Head The democratic platform, he as- serted, “hits the nall aquarely on the head because it not only de- NEW BRITAIN DAILY ing Offering Nothing Else in Farm Program and! |the governor seized on tary’s remark, |vears we have managed to get the that “for Turning to a spcech by Mr. Jar- dine at Riverhead, N. Y., last week, the secre- several | clares for the plan and the compre- hensive survey, but for the appro- | priation to make it effective. 1t also | looks toward development of the northern part of the river, some- latien “¢id its full share” to build up this country, including “the great Scandinavian and German immigra- tion to the northwest.” The hall where Gov. 8mith spoke was estimated by police to have held 13,000 persons. It was jammed to the doors 20 minutes after it was opened at 6 o'clock. This was three hours before Gov. Smith began his | speech. Almost as many were said to have stood around the structure and in a park opposite it, while hundreds pounded away at a dozen or more entrances trying to gain admittance. | Newspapermen, many in Gov. | Smith's personal party, were among | |the great pumber who literally had to be carried in by police, and at |least a dozen Minnesota reporters could not get in at all. To add to the confusion outdeors someone dis- | charged a foul edor bomb. | Inside, the uproar was terrific and NEW ENGLAND A L0SE PRESTIGE ' Another Section Claims Origin of Revolt Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 28.—UP— The New England Yaukee is given entirely too much credit for the Revolutionary war, to the detriment of the colonists of Pennsylvania. This in the opinion of the Dauphin County historical society, which has | been studying old records and early | history of this section of the state. | The “spirit of '76” has been fos- Its Place. ‘ farmers a pretty good price for|thing he said the flood control bill {wheat and -otatoes.” “A good price for wheat," Smith | expostulated. “The secretary is do- | St Paul Minn, Sept 25 UP—|ing a little Moran and Mack stuff.| Leaving behind another attack O A good price for wheat—a price | the republican party and admidi- |jees than the cost of production.” | stration, this time a triple barreled | The nominee took a rap at Nye agault for alleged inaction on the for lining up with Hoover on farm questions of farm relief and inlund | pelief_while at the same time favor- waterways and for “Whispering, |ing the McNary-Haugen bill and de- | Gov. 8mith takes to the roud again clared his argument and that of today for the last specch of his|Chairman Work is “completely an-| western drive for the presidency. |nihilated” by the Norris comment Tomorrow night at Milwaukes, lon the Omaha Speech that Gov.| the democratic presidential candi- | smith proposes to take care of the date will wind up his two weeks' | surplus and charge it #6 the pro- stumplng of the middie and far west | ducer.” | with an address, probably on pro-{ “All three gentlemen thit I have| hibitlon. The democratic state con-|quoted,” the governor said, “are| vention at Rochester next Monday, |members of the republican party. | which he also plans to address, then The difference is that Senator Nor- | will be his only engagement before ris looks at it through the big, returning to Albany for a rest. | broad, liberal progressive way; the | No Vigorous Leadership | |other two men look at it through ! Ripping into his republican oppo- 'the crude and narrow little peep- sition, Gov. Smith told a crowd that hole of stand-patism.” | jammed the St. Paul auditorium last Waterway Legislation | night that there was an “absolute| As for inland waterway legisla- | lack of vigorous leadership” at!/tion, the nominee said republican | ‘Washington and had been for the effirt along that line “runs pacallel | 1ast seven and a half years. Because | with the farm problem, and it could | of this, he asserted, republican plat- | be offered tonight as another exhi. form declarations on farm relief iLition or another example of the| and inland waterways have amount-|glaring need of vigorous leadership! ed to nothing more than “glowing in Washington.” promises.” | Taking up the 1920 republican On the other Land, he declared, /platform, the governor said it men- the democratic platform “hits the tioned a broad and comprehensive nail squarely on the head” on these plan of inland waterway develop- subjects and it is from this party ment, but nothing happened. The that real relief must come. same inaction, he said, followed 1924 The nominee charged into Chair- rations for “the most feasible man Work of the republican nation- waterways from the Great Lakes to 8l committee, Secretary Jardine and Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf Benator Nye, republican, North Da- of Mexico,” and now in 1928 he Keta, on the farm relief score, and quoted the republicans as favoring| quoted a statement by Senator Nor- |us a measure of relief to agriculture, | ris, republican, Neb: issued the continued development of inland | sfter his Omaha farm speech, as waterways.” | gurnishing his best defense from cri-| There was laughter when he add- tleisms of that address. |ed: Tackling this question first, after| *I think what they meant to say declaring that lack of leadership at|was a continuance of the amount of | Washington had led such western|development you have already got.” | eenators as Shipstead, farmer-labor, | Challenging another republican Minnesota, and the late Senator La contention that the Washington ad- | Follette to “bolt” the republican ministration during the last four party, Gov. Smith repeated that years initiated a systematic develop- he stood for the principle embodied | ment of the Mississippl, the nominee | in the McNary-Haugen bill for read the title of an act, “For the! handling surplus crops. Then he control of floods on the Mississippi | tackled Work. and its tributaries, and for other He referred to him as “The Doc- purposes,” and said this was the adopted falls to provide for. Loud booing came from the gal- leries when Smith mentioned an article in the 8t Paul Dispatch, & republican paper, which advised him not to discuss inland waterway de- velopment here “for fear the mat- ter of the 8t. Lawrence waterway might give him some embarrass- ment.” “Nothing embarrasses me,” shout- ed the nominee to cheers, and then added: “I do not see anything in the republican platforms of 1924 er 1928 about the Bt. Lawrence water. way. 1 read very carefully Mr. Hoover's speech of acceptance. He does not y anything about the 8t. Lawrence waterway. 1 am afraid that is where the embarrassment is." Declaring that in spite of his statement in his acceptance speech that, while be Qad favored the all- American rvoute from the lukes to | the sea he would abide by congress’ decision in the matter after a re- study of the question, “whispering agents of the republican national committee are around whispering in a person's ear, ‘Keep him off; he will be for the New York route.’* “Incidentally, here is another whisper that I discovered,” the nominee continued. “The whisperers are circulating the word around that Smith and the democrats intend to take the embargo off of Argentine cattle, which are now kept out of the country because of the prevalence of the foot and mouth disease.” “Did you ever hear anything more ridiculous than that?" he asked continuing: “There is another whispering cam- paign that is going on and it is prevalent in this section country. ‘Be careful of Smith. ,He |favors unrestricted immigration. He is going to open up the flood gates and let Europe pour all over this country." This he termed “nonsense” whel it is considered that both the re pubican and democratic platforms, in different language, “declare ab. solutely for the retention in full force and effect of the present re- strictive measyres in the immigra- tion laws.” “I declared for it, so did the re- publican presidential candidate,” he | sald, “except that he said that the “just as nice as ever. of the| in its ago when The |twice during the speech every light | . 04 in Pennsylvania as early as /in the place went out. Gev. Bmith 1765, the society declares, and fur- |calmly waited for them to §0 on | ner'asserts that in 1769, six years "‘_““ as whispers of alarm spread perore the opening of the war, Penn. over the sudiece. eylvania colonists manifested the They were out only for a few sec- |ypirit of rebellion to the estent of jonds on each occasion, but there .apturing an English fort in Amer- | were reports, which could not be o tne firat to be taken by colonists iconfirmed, that some one had ih this country, itampered with the switches, In 1763, the society says, the | colonists formed a raiding gang, | | the “Paxton Boys,” to stop the at- tacks on their frontier homes by o 50590 the Indians, after the Quaker gov- |ernor refused to take action. The EN" "F HIS R“ T[ | raiders eventually took matters in | their own hands, descended upon the — ‘Coneltoxo Indians in Lancaster - , |county and killed them ruthlessly. | i The government swiftly punished Oldest Active Garrier fo Retire I, *ciics™ . imi s 2iaiee FN m band's descending on the Lancaster Jil} so (] prison to kill the remaining Cones. | togos who had taken refuge there, 4 |and then marching on Philadelphia, Pittatield, N. H. 8ept. 28 UP— | (he seat of the government, where New England's tigst rural mail car-|pioodshed was averted through the rler and probably the oldest active|jn(iyence of Benjamin Franklin. deliverer of countiy mail in the United States is to retire, George B. Johnson is 65 years old this month, and that is the age at which Uncle 8am requires his mail carriers to give up active work and go on the pension list. The retirement date in this case, Lowever, has been stretched to No- vember 1, which will enable John- | son to round out 30 years of con- . tiuous service ip the federal em- ploy. Rural mail delivery was infancy three decades | Johnson won his appointment. ! federal government was just experi- menting with the idea. He used to give the youngsters | along his more than 20 mile route | present each Christmas. But he | has not done that in recent years. Johnson explains why. Children of today and the world general “are brought up on a igher plane, financially, than they |used to pe,” he philosophizes. Most oungsters of today would not go out of their way for an orange or |some other well meant present, as they uscd to, the veterun contenas. | Jonnson does mot’ hold this against his boy and girl frie.ds, | however, and he avers they are tor” and said he did not know only dugislation he could find in | national origins law was not werk- The long years of out-of-doors A0 400 LUO Fouua)iveinds sguis s s apettial LY Supus guv- COBELL W WUcE TO LMt Lue BGUVe- LEw UL LaUES LEVUD gt WS Wy Suppucd WFlmh BUULUMUUE dlu WieaY 10 WATsUGLE Mdlsun augucd by bliusa reprisas tas suprsulicut ol Wby oL Luelr uu- ek, LG Cuvie SUsToulued bon L0UUOR @ud T0SCEd LLGIE Fyjoave. FUUP yuars ller sUDuLF cucum. stances cuuscd auother uprising, re- SuiuLg in toe nrst capwure of an Lugusa tort 10 Americs waen kori Beuiord was taken. Atter they freed the imprisoned colonists the at- tackers departed, Soviets Announce Plan ror rubuc umprovement .\A_\:uww. Bdepl. ¥ (U)—Lne con- cessions committee of the Soviet government has announced a plan tor public improvements costing 1,- 500,000 rubles which would involve opening concessions to foreign capi- tal on favorable terms, The improvements would include 2. plants, street raliway lines, wa terworks, electric plants aad canals in 60 towns and are expected to bring an increase of 20 per ceat in i’lhe population of the towns within five years, Moscow, Leningrad, Odesss, Via- |divostok, Tiflls, 8verdlovsky and Kharkoff would require $00,000,000 rubles of the total tor thelr im- provements, it was estimated. Can’t “Browbeat” Owen To Vote for Smith |L. Owen, former democratic sens tor from Oklahoma, supporting Hoover declared he couild not be | “brow-beaten" into voting for a can- {didate “who would give the govern- ment of the United States over to Tammany Hall.” Ever eat beans baked in the ground? 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