Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-10-25 | Page 2 | Garner Strikes Back at Hoover

GARNER STRIKES BACK AT HOOVER B Br United Fuss Frew WASHINGTON Oct 25 Speaker 25 25 Speaker Garner struck back to today lay at President President dent Hoovers Hoover's ol oZ government finances charging that the chief executive lacks honesty has practiced practiced deception and cannot explain away his record of futility on incas meas ures to relieve the depression The Democratic vice presidential candidate taxing taking figures in the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican campaign textbook said the thc Hoover administration had increased the cost of government In the la last t two years exclusive of public debt retirement and interest Garner said total expenditures chargeable a against ordinary rc receipts excluding public debt retirement and inter interest sl were in the fiscal year ending June JUn 30 30 1930 and for the fiscal year ending end end- ing Lag June 30 30 1932 CRITICIZES SPEECH Referring to the presidents president's discussion discussion discussion discus discus- sion of federal finan finances cs at Detroit Satui Garner said Hoover whips himself into a self righteous fury because because be be- cause the thc Democrats have promised I a saving of a billion dollars in governmental gov gov- exp expenses and in the very breath in which he denies the possibility possibility he says says' that h he himself will save a billion and a ri half halt if ii allowed to remain In office Hoover figures justify every Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- accusation the speaker de de- de dared No matter how the figures of the past three years year are arc juggled the record of futility and deception cannot be chan changed ed The Thc truth of the matter is s that President Hoover and his associates s shave have become so d in would have if H and but logies for a task poorly do done e that they are no longer able to present their own contentions contentions contentions contentions' con con- logically or honestly Garner accused Mr Hoover and Secretary of f Treasury Mills of amnesia amnesia am lm nesia and aph aphasia la in recounting events of the past three years ANTICIPATES ALIBI Anticipating the alibi bi President Hoover and his apologists have been making Garner admitted the ex cx- cited included appropriations for the federal boll board rd the Reconstruction Reconstruction Reconstruction Re Re- construction Finance corporation anc and Federal Land bank expansion But Buthe Buthe Buthe he added that President Hoover has taken credit for every everyone one of these federal relief agencies When Mr Hoover takes the credit credithe he must count the cost cost the Democratic Demo Demo- cratic cratie vice presidential candidate as as- All through the campaign Garner said President Hoover and his Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican leaders have yet failed to cite any relief relic measure taken In 1929 or 1930 but have b based ed their cam cam- palen claims on measures undertaken almost at the end of 1031 1931 The recollection of the Americas American people who have been brought t 1 tc hunger want suffering and despai goes much beyond last December 8 Garner said referring to P Hoovers Hoover's frequent mention of his a anual an nual message to congress on or tha day CITES JOB FIGURES Taking up the Republican dam that the depression In fn the Uniti 1 States largely is due t to J condition abroad Garner said American Fed of Labor figures on 11 showed of the residents of the United States while on that same day u uc employment in fn England France Gei Gel many and Italy with a total tion of numbered persons The percentage of ot In the United States was 9 per teal ceni for the four leading Euro European an nation 5 per cent Garner declared Th Thea figures revealing a ratio of une nearly twice as 33 great her lien heras heras as in Europe hardly justify th theory that foreign infection has po O our economic bloodstream