Mr, Hoover's Statement When Accepting Nomination Washington, Aug. 10.
Mr, Hoover, in a speech formally: accepting the nomination of the Republican Party as President of the United States, made it clear that] prohibition, even more than farm-relief, may be the vital and deciding factor in the campaign. He declared that he stobd for the efficient enforcement of the prohibition laws, while he described farm-relief as the nation's most urgent economic prolem and outlined a series of tariff increases to give agriculture "the same protection as other industries." Ky Although he did not refer directly to his opponent, the Roman Cathol Governor of New York, Mr. "Al Smith, Me. Hoover mat passioned appeal for religious tolerance. He recalled that he himself was from Quaker stock and declared that the glory of American ideals was the right of every man to worship God according to the dictates of his own conseience.—Reuter,
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