Show Grass Glass Roots Meet Cheers Bonus Payment Demand SPRINGFIELD Ill III June 11 UP A JP-A A demand for payment of the bonus drew cheers and applause today from midwestern Republican Republica delegates as they opened the second session of ot their grass roots conference conference con con- ference of 10 prairie states It was the first mention of the bonus in a formal session of th the rally attended by delegates and alternates The speaker was Harr Harry Glasser of Enid Okla introduced by the Oklahoma I If It the budget is to be thrown to to the thc winds then the bonus should be paid Glasser declared Whoops and applause greeted his statement He added It should be paid of course from the four billion dollar work relief fund Grass root Republicans today followed through followed through an shaft 18 attack on President Roosevelt with a declaration dee dec larati m of ot c constructive principles Members of the resolutions committee committee com com- committee went into session after adjournment adjournment adjournment ad ad- late last night to draft the declaration which Edward A. A Hayes of Illinois former national commander of the American Legion Legion Legion Le Le- gion said would contain principles constructive in character The atta attack k on President Roosevelt Roosevel t termed a declaration of ot grievances grievances grievances ances w was s. s brought in by Hayes resolutions chairman and was ratified ratified ratified rati rati- fied with cheers by the thc accredited accredited ac cr credited delegates tes in the big Springfield Springfield Spring field fair lair grounds coliseum Provoking shouts and applause Hayes declared we hold the president president president dent personally responsible f for r th the e record of his his' administration He has furnished a a pattern o of planned economy wh which ch if carried out sD spells the death of ot American America institutions I The 18 points in declaration of grievances s adopted by the conven conven- Continued on Pore Page Two o EGI rc O. O Pi P. CHEERS BONUS DEr AND Continued from Pate Page One tion in skeleton form follow i 1 i. i Violation of pledge to reduce cost of government 2 Increase of In federal payroll rather than reduction 3 Failure to stop borrowing failure to bal balance budget 4 Failure to keep government out of business 5 Failure to maintain sound Bound cur cur- rency 6 Congress reduced to a group of time servers 7 Disregard of ot states state's rights 8 Subjection of people to arbitrary arbitrary arbitrary ar ar- ar- ar dictates 9 Congress forced to appropriate to be used by the president president president pres pres- ident for secret purposes 10 Secret control of ot given to secretary of treasury 11 Destruction of food importation tion lion supplies 12 Millions spent on acreage re reduction reduction reduction re- re more millions on reclamation tion 13 Surrender of ot home markets to foreign nations 14 Destruction of free competition tion creation of monopolies 15 Attempted control of oC com C commercial m- m mercial banking 16 Attempt to control a larger mass of wealth than ever bet before ore concentrated In one man 17 Use of power to put political pressure on hungry and needy 18 Desire for centralized d power and distaste for tor constitution Bids for Support Robert G G. Simmons of ot Nebraska former congressman today joined other convention orators in making a bid for support from the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic ranks We Ve should welcome to our labors la labors labors la- la bors on a parity with us those who will subscribe to our purposes without without without with with- out regard to previous party affiliations affiliations affiliations Simmons told the morning I session at al the coliseum Patrick J. J Hurle Hurley former secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary of war appealed for a liberal liberal liberal lib eral and constructive course for forthe forthe forthe the party today Simmons said We Ve must offer a progressive lead lead- lead lead-I I There is no basic difference between between be be- I be-I tween the parties in social ideals he declared but we believe that the tho problems of a sick nation can canI I be solved by strengthening local units of government Earlier in ill the session the delegates delegates delegates dele dele- gates heard former Governor Frank 0 O. Lowden of Illinois sound the battles battle cry Save Saye the The flag draped coliseum which took tok on the appearance of ot a national national na na- na- na convention although ugh it il housed delegates from only 10 B states es of the corn hog and wheat belts rang with applause as SiR Lowden declared Hundreds of thousands of patriotic men and women women women wo wo- men of ol the Democratic party will rally to our banner in the gravest grayest crisis since the civil war The keynoter Harrison E. E Spangler Spangler Spangler Span- Span gler of Iowa Jowa said Wo We V c call upon all an Americans to join us in an ef effort effort effort ef- ef fort to defend and reestablish American American American Amer Amer- ican social economic and political institutions At the shrine of Abraham Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- coln in Oak Ridge cemetery thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands heard former Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M M. Hyde de demand demand dc- dc mand constitutional government and individual liberty Other charges leveled at the president president pres pres- ident in the declaration of grievances ances Included two on the farm problem Ho He has destroyed our food and in producing less to Jive live on has completed a decline in our living standard and while spending millions millions millions mil mil- lions to retire acreage he has spent hundreds of millions to reclaim millions millions millions mil mil- lions of acres heretofore unimproved proved Orators who harangued the grass grassroots grassroots grassroots roots convention took the same aim as that adopted by the resolutions resolutions committee and ratified by the delegates delegates delegates-at at Roosevelt rather than at his advisers The attack on President Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt Included shots by John D. D M M. Hamilton of ot Kansas ansas named permanent permanent permanent per per- manent chairman We Ve find despotism set up on a fixed course to destro destroy this government government gov gov- he charged We Ve need no longer resort to pussy-footing pussy terms when we speak of those who have deliberately planned a permanent permanent permanent per per- manent state bureaucracy |