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Show ROOSEVELT RAPS G, 0. PJEFEN5E Candidate Declares Old Guard Is Conspiring to Buy Election OMAHA, Neb.. Aug 28 Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic vice presidential nominee devoted considerable consid-erable time in an address here toniRnt In discussing what he declared was i the Republican tduh fund." declaring declar-ing that Senator Harding should dis-charne dis-charne Will Hays, and Krod W L'p-ham. L'p-ham. national i hairman and treasurer, treasur-er, respectively, of the KcpuMlcan party. Mr Roosevelt's address here, given !ln the cltv auditorium, closed a busy :day in which he carried the Democratic Demo-cratic campaign into several Nebraska c it lie--, including North Platto. Grand Island Columbus and Fremont, w here he delivered nhort addresses while en-I en-I route to Omaha. In his address tonight he took occasion oc-casion to defend his record as assistant assist-ant secretary of the navy. MUCH INDIGNATION. ' All day yesterday and today in coming through Wyoming and Nebraska." Ne-braska." he declared, "I have heard expressions of indignation over the I Republican slush fund." This morning I read the lame answers ans-wers by Treasurer I pham and Will Hays. Vine of them sns there Is an I important distinction between a queta land a budget; the other makes denial j by saying that Governor Cox and 1 dream in millions Such a defens-would defens-would fall before any Jury. "But I want to stress one thing In I particular, w e are again face to face with a hig national moral issue. We I have had campaigns in the past where 'money was spent like water. We had hoped that as a nation we were got-tlns got-tlns awav from thai degrading and dangerous evil In our national life. II VS l.osFS TKMI'tR. "But this year wc find that it has sprung up anew to threaten us. Beginning Be-ginning only a short time ago with the exposure in the conviction of Senator Sen-ator Newberry. The conspiracy of the old guard is not the only feature of this case The general attitude ofi their munagers is another evidence of their policy of the end Justifies the means ' They have started a campaign of falsehood, misrepresentation and slan- der. HavS speaks yesterday of my j knowledge of the burning of billions, bv the administration' as his answer to the campaign fund exposure Mr Huyn must have lost both his temper and the control of his tongue Of course. In the first place, the war ex-pehdlturea ex-pehdlturea Ot the government have no 'relation to this fund exposure and In jtho second place. Mr. Has cunnot get away from his dilemma by seeking Mice the cuttle fish, to escape from pursuit hy ejecting an Inky stream to Cloud the waters. As for my own part I In the work of tho United States DAV) in the great war, I am ehtlrely willing iu let the record speak " III t.III s TOI R RE ULIiED. GRAND ISLAND, Neb Aug 28. ddresslng between one and two thousand people at the Union Pacific depot. Franklin D Roosevelt, vice piesidentln I Demorratii candidate, de-j de-j voted most of his attention tp the proposition 'It it 'li" Democratic part;- i this year offered the most progressive program presented to the American electorate, that the front porch rocking rock-ing (hair plan of presenting Ijmuo by the opposition party resulted from the disclosures of Governor Cox with touring Of Hughes In 191C and that th-- disclosures of Governorv t'ox with referenci i campaign expenditures would demonstrate to the people that the Republican party's success would moan going backward and that the administration of tho country's affairs would be placed largely In the hands of the selfish few l oU.nwKP BY COX, FREMONT, Neb. Auk 28 fetrp-ping fetrp-ping from tho rear platform of his special train h' n- today, Franklin P Roosevelt, Democratic candidate for . 1 1 . president asserted the big lsSU of the campaign is proaresslvlsm against reaction. 'M trip through the country will be followed by Governor Cox," he said, "because we believe it Is right for us to go uround the country and " bring the big Issues home to tho people. peo-ple. We believe we will to bettei Americans and more capable national officers ti getting better acquainted with the United States " He classified women aq a thinking e lament among the voters, and defended defend-ed the administrations stand on the league of nations. "There Is no more danger to the United States In going into the league than there was in starling the Monroe doi trine 99 years ago, "was the concluding con-cluding argument. Sill |