| Show raise Censure Greet Challenge I Hurled by Smith Wheeler Declares Speech Sounds Like House of of Morgan Speaking WALSH LAUDS FRANKNESS FRANKNESS' 1928 Nominee Hits Roosevelt as Demagogue tB IB By Ai Frus SAGINAW Mich April 14 Mich 14 Mich Michigan's igans igan's 38 votes in the Democratic na national national national na- na convention were pledged by bythe bythe bythe the party's state convention today to Governor Franklin D. D Roosevelt of New York for the presidential nomi nomi- nation naHon I cn a Dr Associated Press Frets WASHINGTON April 14 14 PraIse Praise and criticism marked the reaction on Capitol hill hilt today to Alfred Allred E E. Smiths Smith's spee speech h challenging the candidacy of Franklin D. D Roosevelt for the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic presidential nomination In a Jefferson day address last night the 1928 nominee quoted from Roosevelt's recent speech urging re relief relief re- re lief HeC for lor the forgotten man at the bottom bottom bottom bot bot- tom of the economic pyramid and said This is no time for lor demagogues I 1 will take off oU m my coat and vest and fight to the bitter end any candidate who persists in any appeal to the masses of working people of this country to destroy destro themselves by b setting class against class and rich against poor Senator Wheeler D. D Mont a supporter supporter sup sup- porter of Roosevelt said Smiths Smith's speech was unworthy of him and sounded like the house of Morgan speaking Senator Walsh D. D Mass a Smith advocate praised the speech as a afrank afrank afrank frank and courageous statement of his views on the political questions of the hour heeler said that as an ardent supporter of Governor Smith In 1928 I am sorry to see sec him for his own sake utter such foolish statements as he did last evening It only goes to prove again the truth ruth of the old proverb Who the gods would destroy they the first make mad II Wheeler said Referring to Smiths Smith's proposal for lor a year 40 moratorium on foreign debts he le said These foreign governments of oC course cant can't pay payoff off their indebtedness indebted- indebted ness with commodity prices as low as they are today but I am much more interested in the little business man the he farmer and debtors in this country coun- coun try ry than foreign debtors Unless the dollar can be cheapened cheap ened there will be wholesale repudiations repudiations ions of debts not only In Europe but butin butin in n this country Governor Smith didn't feel leel that those hose who advocated a greater purchasing purchasing pur pur- chasing power on behalf behal of the farmer farm farm- er in 1928 were demagogues Smith Throws Weight Against Roosevelt By Associated Press WASHINGTON April 14 The 14 The opposition opposition opposition op op- op- op position of Alfred E. E Smith suddenly and forcefully expressed today stood across Franklin D. D Roosevelt's path toward oward the presidential nomination of the Democratic party A stern challenge with its Us object unnamed but indisputably identified was thundered out by the happy warrior of ot 1928 last night in his address ad dress to the Jefferson on day doy gather gathering Continued on Pa e Two VARIED VIEWS GREET SMITH Continued From Pan Page One o of the party's great a great a gathering which had been heralded as a unity meeting to forward Democratic sue sue- cess in November Roosevelt elt was not there Other business kept him in fri Albany but bu many of his supporters were in the throng which heard Smith after quotIng quoting ing Roose elt utterances promise to take off ot my co coat U and vest and fight figh to the bitter end any candidate who persists in any demagogic appeal to the masses of the working people of this country to destroy destro- themselves b by setting class against class and rich against poor poor It was Roosevelt who only last las Thursday pleaded the cause of the forgotten man at the thc bottom of the economic structure the farmer and the small householder householder In that same address he labeled a stop stopgap gap the idea of a n big public works bond issue to stimulate employment Smith who sponsors just such a project quoted this word stop stop gap gap gapin in in referring critically to exception taken to his plan in m the recent speech of a leading Democrat whom he did not name It was that reference which gave his audience one of the definite clues to the direction his words were taking OFFERS DEBT DEnT PLAN Smith flung into the meeting also a 3 proposal for settling the war debts and stimulating American foreign trade rade by this governments government's offering I the he debtor nations to forget their obligations for 20 years meanwhile reducing their total each year by 25 per cent of their purchases o of Amen Ameri can ran goods Considerably elaborated this his plan received an art uncertain response re- re with much less applause than thanas was as volunteered many o of his utter ances Earlier the group had been startled by jy the proffer of a compromise wet plank lank from the dry state stale of Virginia Former ormer Governor Harry Flood Byrd proposed immediate amendment of the he constitution to make possible a direct referendum by the people to tobe tobe be ic held thereafter at a date unmarked by political contests on the direct issue o of cont continuing abridging or repealing the he eighteenth amendment This with Smiths Smith's renewal of his urging for lor a states' states rights plank allowing allowing al al- al- al lowing owing states to remain wet or dry dryas as is they chose was one of the few references to prohibition in m the party proceed proceedings Roosevelt Refuses to Comment on Oil Speech ALBANY N N. Y April 14 UP UP- UP Go Governor Franklin D D. Roosevelt smilingly smilingly smil smil- refused to comment today on former ormer Governor Alfred Allred E E. Smiths Smith's address last night at a Jeffersonian day dinner In Washington to about Have you anything sa say the he former governors governor's speech a reporter reporter re- re porter orter asked No replied ed the governor with a huckle but Ill I'll tell you a funny one one ne neA A friend of or mine called from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York City today and said that a terrible attack Al AI Almade Almade made on Alfalfa Bill Murray The governor indicated he would not ot become broiled in any battle over vcr the Deh nomination |
