on the Defensive Des Moines, Oct. 10, The United States was never ithin $2,700,000,000 of gain, off {hi +The gold Standard, James. A. feed, former United States senator said {in his speech to-night answering the assertions of President Hoover: who spoke from the same platform a few days ago, "The. President's statement that we were once nearly off the old standard is absolutely untrue, he id, He is the first in the present impaign to definitely accuse the ut of false Reed, seve the "Democratic opted in this campaign of frightening the people would not be suecessful.
He accused President Hoover of, initiating the wartime regulation of wheat prices which limited the price at which the farmer might sell but lett untouched the things he had to buy. Through this kind of maniulation the farmer suffered at both ends of his transactions.
Since Mr. Hoover has been president, "he said, tariffs have been raised, enabling manufacturers, to maintain those wartime prices but the farmer is unable to sell his pro-duets abroad because of them. F eign nations have retaliated, he said Until the farmer is without & market for his surplus crops.—United Press.
Washington, Oct. 10, Tu a national radio broadcast, apfor foreign as tie listeners, Under-Secretary of tate, Mr. William Castle, urged the adoption of President Hoover's disarmament plan as most logical means of reducing 188 expenditures, armament expenditures were hampering economic recovery, he said and reduction of these expenditures would be along step toward habilitation. ghee Hoover plan for a one-above the actual police requirements, banaing tanks, large mobile 1d bombing planes. Battleship fleets would be reduced by one-third, cruiser, destroyer and. aircraft carrier. tonnage would be reduced a fourth and nation would have more than 85,000 tons of submarines.
This was what the President termed, "cutting through the brush," and adopting a broad method of reducing expenditures, "Adoption of this plan would speed economic recovery which in turn would let the sunlight of confidence break through the clouds,"
speaker said, "The plan is a simple, clear cut method of reducing costs and at the same time increasing world security, since it is based on the principle of reducing the offend sive measures. in warfare. Under this plan armaments would primarily for National defence and the possibility of aggressive moves fon the part of nation would be from Europe and said he was not efithusiastic over the prospects of, disarmament.—United Pros New York, Oot. 11.
Burley, (Idaho) Oot 12.
_Senator William E. Borah opened election campaign here to-day with a speech in which he advocated the expansion "of United. States Jeurrency sufficiently "to do business and to afford people a medium exchange", 'While not, particularly mention war debs, he said that debs' had up until men no longer wor) with a view to build, construct or develop but to pay for a dead horse.
Washington, Oct. 12.
President Herbert Hoover laid aside the considerate speech "which has characterised his campaign to date and in his address to-night to the American Bar Association, he spoke of his opponents as false'prophets, false leaders and betrayers.
While he did not directly apply {these "descriptions to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt by name, the inference was plain.
The President defended the economic programme of the Administration and of the Republican party an sane and sound. He attacked bitterly the "false prophets of the mil-onium," who were offering the American people worthless theories fand making promises that could not be fulfilled.
'Often in the history of the world we find that. the peoples' interests have been betrayed by these false leaders offering unworkable, disastrous theories, "he said. ' "That doubled by the fact that these vail allurements are to-day offered to our harassed people by men of public reputation in the field of economics even by men in public life. These allurements have undoubtedly been offered under the Pressure of public clamour.
The President pointed out that people in distress were often too eager to accept promises, remedies and alleged remedies regardless of their soundness. Some of the, re-that have been offered during the existing depression, he were definitely dangerous iaced_ good government. Some' of the changes that have been demanded during the' present cam-Palzn would" destroy' personal liberty and sweep away the security, the savings, the income built up'by centuries of experience.
Speaker John Garner, Democratic candidate for the vice-Presidency of the United States, is simaltaneously a candidate for re-election as a representative from the Fifteenth Congressional district of Texas, His return as congressman is considered virtually certain, Thus, if the Roosevelt-Garner ticket is defeated but the Democrats retain control of the House, Garner wil! be available for continue ey of the Speakership. vice-presidency, he will preside ov the United States Senate. In thi event Rep. Rainey, Dem., Milinot Present Democratic floor would be in ship if the jority in the House.
If the Democrats lose control of the House, Rep. Snell, ably would be the colleagues for Tu that event Michen-Democrat, and Bachman, rebably would be the lead:
'Twenty-one thousand persons jammed' Madison Square Garden, scene of famous prize fights, cir-uses and great conventions, hear ex-President Calvin Coolidge's first, political speech since he left the White House.
The great crowd was not disap-Pointed for Mr. Coolidge was enthusiastic in his support "of Hoover and sharply caustic in his handling of the tariff question.
The United States walks ne glong the busin pathy be ed, for lower tariffs. 2 sive mocratic pleas ""Livery nation wants our tariffs Yeduced," he said, "but not one of hem wants. our commerce, "They don't buy in our markets unless they fire compelled to. do ihe price and quality aus-to them, concerning the Ds Stent that America's high tavift had alienated foreign nations and they fad retaliated "by imposing high tavifts on American goods until they Ake, racially "nesleable abroad, also. had proposed arrangements, be Reciprocity is impractical an certain fo produce not only dissatisfaction abroad but domestic jealousjes which ave bound to be harmful," hho bald.=—United Press, Some of the most prominent personalities of the House are alread; cut of the political Rey Hawley, Republi over the House Ways and Committee when the tariff act of 1930 was formulated, has al ready gone down to defeat Oregon primary election. He obtained high protective duties for most industries, but his colleagues pul did not force through duties "on lumber and lumber products high enough to please his forested state.
Representative Chindblom, Republic, Illinois, was another prominent member of the Ways and Means committee to meet promature defeat. Representative Wil-Hams, Democrat, Texas, Chairman of the Territories Committee, and author of a bill proposing fundamental changes in the Organic Act of Hawaii, is not a re-election. Representative Hare. Democrat,.S.C., Chairman of the Insular Affairs Committee, is another who eliminated himself tal vance of the campaign.
Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of William Jennings Bryan, was defeated in the Florida primaries. Reprstentative, Yon, Democrat, "mem:
of the Insular Affairs Committee who visited the Phil last year, was another Florida con-
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