Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-20
YORK SPEECH
OF HOOVER WINS
n WIDE APPROVAL
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
62S Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLEE

ment among members of congress
on the speech delivered by Herbert
! Hoover before the American lnStl-
tute of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers in New York is generally
| favorable. Both Democrats and Re
publicans agree that MI Hoover's
views in the main are quite sound.
Even old-line Republicans and poll
ticians, who get impatient whenever
anyone informs them that there is
a great deal of Hoover sentiment
throughout the country, had to ad-
nit that he made d good speech ana
showed an excellent grasp of pub
| lie questions.
In Democratic ircles the comment
was also complimentary to Mr..
! Hoover. Democrats do not get so
excited as Republicans when Mr..
Hover is mentioned here as a posi-
| BILE presidential candidate. but they,
too. know of the apparent country
wide drift toward Mr.. Hoover. Cor
respondence Of both senators and
congressman shows there is consid-
cradle Hoover talk north, east, south
and west. but nobody seems to know
just how the Hoover sentiment got
started.
Senator Capper in his comment
OH Mr.. Hoover's speech, said the
wheat farmers were against Herbert
Hoover, but this is not indicated by
recent straw votes taken in western
states, where Mr.. Hoover was we'll
in the lead. The New York World
today publishes a result of how
members of congress took Mr.,
Hoover's New York speech.
Worlds Dispatch
| The World prints the following
from Washington: "Old guard Re-
publicans frown at the mere men,
tion OF Hoover, for they realize the
movement for his nomination for the
presidency is becoming more for
midable. Southern Democratic
leaders who intend to support Will
liam G.. McAdoo or some other reg
ular Democrat for the nomination,
are still at sea as to how to coun-
teract the growing sentiment. Their
task is very difficult, as Mr.. Nc
Adoo will not permit the use Of his
name in the campaign, which is now
in full swing"
Congressman gave these opinions
of the Hoover speech:
Senator Walsh, Democrat, Mon
tana: AS a general proposition Mr..
| Hoover's views expressed last night
are sound. The speech shows a
grasp of public affairs and a clarity
Of thought that characteriZes all of
Mr.. Hoover's utterances."
Senator Hoke Smith, Democrat,
Georgia: Mr.. Hocver's views were
sound"
- ~
Iowa: II am not interested in Mr..
Hoovers views. If he wants to be
president why doesn't he come out
and say so?"
Senator King, Democrat, Utah:
With the exception, perhaps, Of
the communication regarding the
merchant marine, which seems to
propose TO keep the government in
| the business Of building and oper-
ating merchant vessels, Mr.. Hoo
ver's views are sound. I concur in
them. They show a grasp of the
problems which face the country to-
day. Mr.. Hoover is big man.
This and his other public utterances
and acts have shown him to be cap
able of performing any task or fill
ing any office in this country"
Senator Capper, Republican, Kan
sas: Mr.. Hoover's presentation of
| the problems and their remedies is
good for the most part, particularly
his suggestions regarding a national
budget, the labor problem and radi-
| calism and reaction. Mr. Hoover ap-
pears to be candidate for the pres
| idential nomination. He is not popu-
lar with the farmers in the west for
they believe he kept the prices of
farm products down during the war,
While the price of everything the
farmer needed was going up
| Senator Phelan, Democrat, Cali
fornia: Mr.. Hoover's statement OF
the problems facing the country and
the remedies as he sees them seems
to be sound, 1t should be acceptable
to the great body of the American
people"
Representative Kitchin, Democrat,
| North Carolina: Il read carefully
and could not tell where he stands
on any specific question before the
people, l have also read his state
ment of week or two ago and his
elaborate article in the Saturday
| Evening Post of December 81, 1919,
nave not yet been able to ascer-
tain what specific proposition in any
| dNSSI'OIl nc IdNOI opposes.
Representative CALDWELL Demo-
cratic: ut is all good democracy"
Representative Edmonds, Repubi-
can, Pennsylvania: "Mr. Hoover'.;
recommendation that the govern
ment should continue building ships
at current prices shows he is not
at all conversanG with the present
condition under which ships are
operated. Any man who has studied
the subject knows that, including
contracts for ships at present builG-
ing, there will be a surplus of ton.
mage over the shipping needs of the
world. The only thing which makes
the tonnage scarcity is the inefffci-
ency of the ship operation for vari-
Gus causes"
M. Clyde Kelly, Republican, Penn
sylvania: CAS- L understand his gen
eral proposition. 1 cordially approve
all he said
/ Representative Crago, Republican,
Pennsylvania: "A good sensible
platform eliminating some Of his
conclusions.
Representative Mondell, Republ;-
can, Wyoming: After reading it very
hurriedly, it struck me favorably."
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