Keynote

FELLOW REPUBLICANS! Out across the crowded stadium in Chicago thundered a monster voice. On the platform behind a bank of microphones stood tall, trim, white-haired Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson of Iowa, partisan partisan. Temporary chairman of the Grand Old Party's grand old party, he was "keynoting" the campaign to come. Theme: The Depression would have been infinitely worse if it had not been for that "stalwart American, Herbert Hoover" and his Lincolnian efforts to meet the crisis.

Prohibition, livest subject in a lifeless convention, was utterly ignored by Keynoter Dickinson--a possible indication that the G. O. P., regardless of platform declarations, would shy from the issue in the national canvass.

Keynotings:

"In this grave hour the Republican Party offers this great leader with pride and confidence. . . . His first act prevented a financial panic. He cushioned the effects of the debacle in Wall Street. . . .

"The safety of the country requires the maintenance of the Gold Standard. The value of the American dollar must be maintained throughout the world. . . .

"The Federal Government has, during the last three years, poured into the agricultural industry nearly a billion dollars. . . .

"Twice as many criminals are now in detention for violation of Federal statutes than were in jails and penal institutions five years ago. . .

"Let party loyalty sound as the keynote of this campaign."

Flaying Democrats for trying to "smear Hoover," Senator Dickinson pointed with pride to:

1) The Federal Farm Board

2) The Hawley-Smoot Tariff

3) The Debt Moratorium*

4) The London Naval Treaty*

5) The Reconstruction Finance Corp.*

6) A Balanced Budget*

7) Federal Reserve credit expansion*

*These items were put through Congress as non-partisan legislation, actively supported by cooperating Democrats on the understanding with the White House that no political credit would be claimed by Republicans.

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