Show I Kentucky Keynoter N POINT of time covered immediate and past I IN I Keynoter Alben AThen W. W Barkley of Kentucky won over the keynoter at Cleveland nd Senator I of Oregon He not only spoke e at l least ast hyi twice e as asI long Iong but went went back back to Christopher Columbus lumbus I for some of his material Senator confined conI confined con con- I fined himself to those three long years for his spellbinding At both conventions for the first time in- in convention in-convention history noise meters registering registering registering regis regis- applause and other racket in decibels were installed The A. A P P. showed the meter registering 80 in the demonstration following following fol fol- following lowing th the speech ch As decibels is the top limi in the photo the tumult following the Barkley speech must have blown the thc top off the contraption In Senator Barkley the Democratic party chose an orator of the theold the old school whose Ciceronian Ciceronian Ciceronian Cice Cice- phrases were reminiscent of the best Fourth of July type of delivery His withering fire was directed at Herbert Hoover as his principal principal principal prin prin- cipal target though his predecessors were not neglected when he made his appraisal of the twelve long years in which the country was allowed to coast to the crash of 1929 Listened to or read the Kentuckians Kentuckian's castigation of the Republican party its policies and its leaders left nothing unsaid Major and minor shortcomings were dragged out and pinned on the line for all ll to see No Democrat has cause to complain that a thorough job was was not done As a partisan efforts effort at complete demolition of the opposition tion it was a masterly piece of work Perhaps four separate attack formations concentrated concentrated concentrated con con- the heaviest fire on the G G. O. O P. P front The rhe first the ex excoriation of those who appealed to Washington to save them when destruction and obliteration threatened and who are now in inthe inthe inthe the vanguard denouncing the Roosevelt administrations administration's administrations administration's adminis adminis- administrations administration's heavy second the futile efforts in twelve long years to help the American American Amer ican farmer contrasting them with A A A benefit benefits benefits bene bene- fits fit adding to farmers' farmers incomes third his analysis of the national debt of 2000 when we went into the World war in 1917 its increase due to the war its reduction under Wilson its increase under Republican administrations administrations administrations ad ad- ad- ad ministrations and nd the huge increases the Roosevelt administration with his j justification on of emergency expenditures and declaration that except for them the budget is is' balanced fourth his pointed allusions to the supreme court de delivered de- de livered with measured d self-control self leading him to c conclude that we are at least relieved relie of any obligation to underwrite the infallibility of the five whose views prevail 0 As Senator put his hs party's best foot forward so did Senator Bar Barkley l y He made a gallant and forceful defense of the new deal the president the Democratic congress and the p party Enthusiasm on the con convention floor was already high before he spoke afterward it got completely completely com corn out of control As a keynote speech the Kentuckian had done himself proud in an able ble forceful and and from rom a partisan standpoint logical logical and convincing presentation of f Democratic r strength and Republican weakness |