The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-05

CONFINE CAMPAIGN TO
MINOR EXPENDITURES
Be Prepared to Open Books to the Pub
lie = No Apology for Appeal That
Partisanship Be Laid Aside During

III - NO f1poIoSy 1OA appear 1Aol
Partisanship Be Laid Aside During
the War
NEW YORK, April Sin statement
issued through Capt. John f. Lucey, tenn
porary chairman of the Hoover National
Republican Club, Herbert Hoover made
clear his position on some Of the ques
tions that have been raised in connection
with the movement for his nomination
for the Presidency
| Mr.. Hoovers statement was in full as
follows;
! Il shall be unable to take part in a
personal canvass, as my administrative
obligations to several organizations en-
gagged in the starvation relief of Europe
are such until their next harvest that
can give but little time TO any other mat
ters.
Having refused to allow my name to be
put into the primaries hitherto at every
place where ! have been consulted, so
Tar as ! know, it has only been done in
the state of California and Michigan, and
in one solitary district outside.
AS there is little organization on my
behalf, except the clubs that have sprung
up spontaneously over the country, and
as most of the primaries are closed, and
at this late date no organization is pos
sible that could compete with other or
B CARNATIONS, | do not consider my friends
/ VIII find any advantage in that direction
| IN other primaries.
Those who think ] should he nomi
I mated will. believe, find their energies
Y better applied to promotion Of then
views to the country and the delegate,
already named, with full respect to then
I prior pledges
Il had no expectation that my entranc,
INTO this situation would be welcomed b,
4 the type of person who concevcs tina
fitness for office patribtis and citizen
ship depend upon placing sheer partisan
1 ship above national interest or who re
pnrc yeas Of demonstrated partieipa
1 ton in work with mechanical politicians
L cannot assist these people with eXpla
J nations trying to prove that | belong t
/ thc'r class.
| Some Ieoplc of this sort feel grca
| trouble Of mind that in letter addresse
4 to a friend last year | expressed m
l alarm at the then growing partisanshi
4 and pressed the need for unity of actiO
N between the legislative and cxecutv
- branches of the government while W
wcra still faced with the problems Of wa
II 1t was obviously my duty as an importa
II war official to support the Presiden
II without thought of any political intcre
i to myself, from the day ! entered Il
II administration until ] left it, and ! ri
lr,f or 4.
II lovalty'.to one chief in office.
II "On the second point of their anxet
- ! make no pretention to great recon
---- of partisan activity | at once adm
that my political interest was confined
membership in prominent Republic;
=, club, and allegiance to the party ov
m years, but | earned my living in one
those professions that required so int
- mittent a shift of residence from n
~: home base as to preclude my taking SUI
'-R. part as / should have liked in the p
eat vilcgc Of every citizen at the polls
ana AT least no one can find political c
- pcndcncy in these things, so that to
'oh; those voters who believe that they col
prise the basis of choice before the par
ION. convention, wish it said at once that
$50 make no pretense to come within t
w. limits of their requirements
- The purpose Of the political part
-. % as / see them, is to organize teamwo
for the advancement and consummati
Ian Of their views on the issues and measul
nee that are before MS and the securing
ter men in public Office who will give exec
emf ton to these issues and measures.
Therefore, ] trust, first. that the IN
ana and women who do me the great hon
sicss to advocate my name will bear in mi
70 that personal criticism of the other nan
-. before the party are chiefly Of service
NJ the opposition. All these men are p
cen rotic, honorable Americans. They ha
all served the country we'll and are
ark titled to respect.
mce Second | trust ] shall not be furtl
NJ. embarrassed by the suggestion of some
sum dependents of the alternative of placi
. my name before any other party, for
tie primary sense of teamwork in any pa
=. organization would preclude such p
Sa. sibliity
j BY Il presume that the various clubs t
ings
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