Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-10
HOOVER WILL NOT
. RUN AS DEMOCRAT
Declines Positively in Letter to
Massachusetts, State Com
mittee Chairman
FAvORS LEAGUE IN SPEECH

New York. April 10 Herbert Hoover
: yesterday sent the following to Chand -
Ter NJ. Wood, chairman of the execu e
tive committee of the Democratic state
committee of Massachusetts
.'Your published letter asking if l
would accept the Democratic nomina
tion has been received by me this morn
ing and | appreciate the implied COM
pliment. | gather that il was written
prior 60 n statement of mine last Sat
urday which appeared in Boston and
other papers. You will no doubt there
fore now appreciate that the answer
to your inquiry is no.
"HERBERT HOOVER.
Mr.. Hoover. in speech on Ameri
canism delivered AZ banquet Of
the Social Service Commission Of the
New York Methodist Episcopal Church
ut Kingston last night, pleaded for Il
League OF Nations. He said that by
sour failure TO join in an organization
that would mitigate dangers of future
wars we are silently watching Rome
burn"
'gThere is an ideal in League uf
Nations" he went on. IAN ideal fitting
TO American character and American
civilization. Not an ideal that we
should prevent war by arms. brt an
ideal that war could bc prevented by
negotiation, by arbitration and the ven
tilGtion of public opinion Of the world.
Tho ideal Is not dead in tho hearts Of
The American people. If we have swung
that far back in our hopes and as
pirstious it can only mean that our
moral sense has been dulled for the
moment under the impact Of partisan
ship.
Large Charity in America
Another ideal which wish to toucn
upon is that of national charity. During
the last six years of misery abroad our
people have shown that large charity
which exists in every American heart.
We have poured out literally hundreds
of millions in order that life might be
saved in the midst of this terrible mael-
strom. While the whole world has been
bent upon destruction, we have come
forward in leadership Of the allcvia.
ton of misery and of wrong.
"It has been my great fortune to have
been the instrument Of the American
people in some Of this effort. and then
returns to appeals have been matter
of hourly inspiration. II We canvass
the books of the agencies cXpending
millions in the saving Of human life, you
will find the bulk Of their resources have
come from those TO whom contributions
have meant real sacrifice. 1t has been
the charity Of the poor toward the poor.
"Our people have suffered great losses
and their resources have been greatly
diminished, and wnic misery in the
world has been nmcliorated there still
remains much to be done. Two mil
lions of people in America arc dependent
today upon the charity Of the United
States for their daily bread.
'Three millions of children are being
fed daily throughout central and eastern
Europe through American exertion.
Bread is being supplied to ten cities in
Europe through the action of our gov
eminent. Typhus and contagious dis
eases are being fought by American
hands over n front OF thousand miles.
It Is true that this effort is but an echo
Of that with which We were faced n
year ago, and the need will gradually
diminish as time goes on. But these
measures require further support. Their
continued existence depends solely upon
the idealism of fhn!AmeriCan people.
1--WE have heard some complaint that
we neglect our own people in tnrSe
efforts to save others. But as great
as our needs we have no children IN
the United States dying from starva
tion. If We can carry this work
through to the end. il we can say to
future generations We nursrd Europe
through a famine far greater than the
Thirty Years War. in which a third
Of the population died, We will have
chapter TO American history that We
will look back upon with no less pride
than on our accomplishments in arms.
"Our armies dominated the continent
Of Europe, yet our political disiutercst-
edness and idealism have loft us without
a flag flying over an acre Of annexationS.
Nevertheless. our charity has left the
American flag pressed in the hearts Of
millions Of poor. A stimulus to human
sympathy and willingness TO sacrifice
has grown in the American heart"