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Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-14 | Page 2 | France Plots Rout for Hoover Parade

Type issue
Date 1932-06-14
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
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Article Title France Plots Rout for Hoover Parade
Type article
Date 1932-06-14
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 2
OCR Text France Plots Rout 1 For Hoover Parade j Blustering Opponent Threatens to Presidents President's Bandwagon 1 By RAY BLACK t J United Press Staff Correspondent 1 CHICAGO June 14 14 Dr Joseph Irwin France sole opponent opponent nent of President Hoover for the Republican nomination blustered with confidence to today lay after IvIn I himself a rousing pep talk As the national convention opened all the former senator from Maryland could see ahead was triumphant nomination nom norn- and success at the polls The first time I 1 was ever beaten at anything he said was when I Iwas Iwas Iwas was a freshman a at t Hamilton college in ji New York and was wrestling the sophomore champion He threw me not lot because he was the better man but because I had s Ive no now you can bet on it I believe Ill I'll defeat deleat Hoover at the convention as badly as I 1 did didin didin didin in the popular vote vote about about 10 to 1 Dr France paused in his stride interrupting 5 minutes of pacing back and fo forth th across the floor Ioor of his convention convention con con- headquarters in the Congress hotel and 5 minutes of football coach style exhortation He drew up his pound muscular frame to its slightly more than six feet and shook his hi fist Therell be no Hoover bandwagon on he cried Well tear its wheels ot off and start a bandwagon of ot our own with red wheels and gilded angels on the sides Dr France France he he also is Farmer France ranee and Banker France since he owns a stock farm near Port Deposit to Md and is a director in a bank the then thell speaks in a pleasing friendly v voie lei except when he talks about campI V issues or national problems Then h hi h booms and shakes his fist or lower lowen his voice in evangelists evangelist's manner A such times Umes his features twist and hi eyes flash in iii style old oratorical tn Ira I 1 was brought up outdoors outdoor h hi hi reminisced My father was first I lawyer lawer and then a Presbyterian ruin ister There were six children M sac we didn't have much money I 1 was born 60 years ago in Caneron Cameron Can Cam eron Mo but we moved around I Ilot lot and I grew up mostly in norther northen New York state I fish fished cd and hunte hunted and swam and played comer lo baseball and football I could roa roia roi ro a boat when I was 8 Like a new scene in a movie newsreel news news- reel Dr France shifted the topic top to the coming fight on the political front fron tIm t. t Im no prophet nor the son of i I a prophet he thundered I believe in God and the republic and Im I'm per cent for that With a theatrical gesture he poInted point ed cd to a large Amer American can flag draped over a man mantelI mantel tel I r believe Ill I'll win
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