U.S. PRESIDENCY

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1932, Page 6

U.S. PRESIDENCY

ROOSEVELT IS CONFIDENT

(United Press Association —By Electric

Telegraph—Copy right.)

NEW YORK, June 27

Governor Roosevelt to-day telegraphed his supporters at the Democratic convention to cease the efforts to abrogate the two-thirds convention rule. He indicated his confidence in their nomination without resorting to a change in a. long observed rule.

DEMOCRATS BITING ATTACK

ON RECENT REPUBLICAN RULE

CHICAGO, June 27

A biting attack upon Republican rule through three administrations, and a plea for a vote on the repeal of the eighteenth amendment was laid before Democrats’ National Convention to-day. * •« "■ IMS' V & lii a keynote speech by Senator \Y. Barkley (Kentucky), lie called the Harding administration the darkest chapter of public betrayal in the history of this, or any other, nation, and heaped the blame on Mr Calvin Coolidge, and 'the secretary and treasurer, Mr Andrew Mellon, for the orgy of supeculation and inflation that had no foundation in real values. He termed the Republican plank on prohibition as “a promiscous conglomeration, and a scrap of lumber,” and denounced President Hoover and the Republicans for the exorbitant, indefensible rates of the Smoot-Hawley tariff which promised to lift tariffmaking above the sordid processes of log rollers and back scratchers. Senator Barkley urged that tile convention recommend the passage by Congress of a resolution submitting the repeal of the eighteenth amendment for ratification by the people, through State conventions ’ whose delegates should be chosen upon that bsu n alone.

He proposed that Democrats should solve the tariff problem by inaugurating a friendly international conference with the view to re-opening normal channels in the world, and make the tariff commission a path-finding body for Congress. Senator Barkley advocated tire consideration of a fiveday week, or a six-hour clay as a possible solution to employment problems.