Monday, Sep. 05, 1932
6-c- Notification
Fortnight ago Kentucky's Senator Barkley, as temporary chairman of the Chicago convention, wrote Speaker Garner a letter in which he notified him of his nomination for the Vice-Presidency. Last week Speaker Garner wrote Senator Barkley a letter in which he accepted the nomination. The whole ceremony cost two 3-c- postage stamps.
Nominee Garner flayed the Republicans and President Hoover for "all our civic troubles." It took him 2,400 words to get squarely planted on all the party's platform planks. Prettiest passage in the Garner acceptance letter: "It is not government business to make individuals rich, though too often has government been bent to that purpose. . . . Attempting to enforce morals by law [is] an unjustifiable invasion of the field preempted by the churches and schools. . . . Government is not a pedagog nor a parson nor a pied piper; it is merely a convenience of civilization."
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