Finale

Baker, Smith, Young, Davis, Cox, Raskob, Reed, the two Walshes, Long, Hague, Curley, Daniels, Breckinridge. . . .

Norris, Johnson, Cutting, La Follette. . . .

These were some of the national figures who crowded upon the Democratic stage in the closing days of the campaign. Before the political footlights they were all singing the same song, the chorus of which was: "Turn Hoover out! Give us a Change!" They made the land ring with their denunciations of the G. O. P., often forgot to pay more than perfunctory tribute to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the production's hero whom they were all straining to put into the White House.

Brooklyn and Boston, Princeton and Montclair heard the polished periods of Newton Diehl Baker. His refrain: "The Hawley-Smoot tariff was conceived in sin and born in iniquity." He charged that with this law the Republicans declared economic war on the rest of the world.

James Middleton Cox, the party's 1920 nominee, urged his Ohio to vote a Change. At Mineola, N. Y. John William Davis, 1924 nominee, said approximately the same thing. At Troy Alfred Emanuel Smith, 1928 nominee, ridiculed President Hoover for trying to frighten the nation.

As the party's greatest industrialist, Owen D. Young, General Electric's board chairman, appeared in Manhattan to retort to the Republican campaign of fear: "It is no time to make threats. Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions. Threats can destroy business just as they can build barricades. Let no one be afraid--let no one be coerced. . . . The plant manager who thinks he is indispensable to the plant and that no change can be made without ruin is likely to think that the old machine is better than the new, that scientific progress is a myth In the language of the old French proverb, 'the indispensable man is yet to be.' I have no objection to a man saying he would like to hold his job but I resent the attitude that the safety of this country depends on any man holding his job."

John Jacob Raskob proposed ways to bring back prosperity: i) Repeal the 18th Amendment: 2) tax beer; 3) apply a 1 1/2% general Sales Tax; 4) balance the Budget. Through Indiana Josephus Daniels cheered for his onetime subordinate in the Navy Department, at Frankfort, Elkhart, Wabash. Muncie. Philadelphians were begged by Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley to contrast the records of Hoover and Roosevelt. A "gold brick standard'' was what the Republican Administration was on, in the words of Col. Henry Breckinridge in Richmond. Va. Up & down the Pacific Coast trooped Nebraska's Senator George William Norris, Republican insurgent, telling its electorate that President Hoover was under the thumb of the ''Power Trust." California's Republican Senator Hiram Johnson broadcast from Chicago: "The crisis demands a change! When a miracle man fails and a mystery man explodes, instinctively we turn to one who knows and understands and feels with us. Such a man is Franklin D. Roosevelt. He's no miracle man or mystery man. He's just an American!"

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