New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-17
Hoover Is Too
AutOcratic.
Says Pinchot
Relief Activity Called Not
the Kind of Work TO Fit
Him for the Gigantic Task
Confronting President
Hostility to Changers
His Sympathy Said to Lay
With Big Business, and
Not With the Consumer

Angus McSween, Eastern campaign
manager for Senator Hiram w. John
son. Of California. yesterday issued
statement from Clifford Pinchot, former
Progressive. in which Mr.. Pinchos says
that Mr.. Hoover is untitled for the
Presidency. The statement says in
part;
"Mr Hoover's relief work in Europe
was not such work as fitted him to be
president of a great democracy, for in
the course of it he met and dealt with
only few persons high in authority,
whose decisions were final, while
people relieved took what was given
and were grateful.
"The real Hoover is not the man his
earefu Y planned publicity campaign,
both 4Grtng and after the war, has
succeeded II creating IN the minds of
many people. BY nature he is as auto
cratic as President Wilson himself
Attitude of Hoover
"If he should be nominated and
elected, there would be in the White
House a natural aristocrat, whose
sympathy is with big business and the
middeman as against both the pro-
Queer and the consumer.
Under Hoover the Food Administra-
ton was run mainly by and for the
packers, Gamers, miilers, and other
great middlemen, whose subordinates
still paid by them-filled the Offices,
while the men who paid them made
such profits as they never had known
before. The farmers were wholly LETT
out
THE men in charge of farm pro-
duct.on IL the Food Administration
were not only ignorant of farm mat
ters, but they were actively hostile to
the farmer. During my service in the
food administration the man who had
charge OF milk production was a re-
tail tobacco merchant from New York
City.
The food administration was appar-
emily filed with the belief that it
was right Tor the n,iddlenen to exact
larger profits from both producer and
consumer than ever before, but wrong
for the farmers not TO grow crops in
abundance from patriotic motives alone
without regard to whether they could
feed their families or pay their debts
las Mr.. Hoover said himself in sub
stance IN speech IN Phiig lphia>.
For numb OF months I saw Mr..
Hoover frequently. During the latter
part Of tins time never saw MIN with
out part OF the Interview consisting
OF abuse OF the farmers by MIN. His
feeling toward them was so bitter that
It led him to refuse to guarantee a
price for the production OF pork when
such guaranty was the only thing that
could assure the absolutely necessary
supply OF this indispensable food for
our allies and ourselves. After ex-
haustlng every other means of obtain
ing this guaranty | finally, October
%, 1917. handed Mr.. Hoover my resig-
nation.
Sudden Affection for Farmer
Mr.. Hoover makes his appeal for
support largely upon the ground that
he Is not allied with the politicians.
IL may or not be true. But il Is true
that he is now and has constantly been
the close friend and follower of the
men Of the invisible government, who
own and control the machine politicians
Of both parties.
~ am little impressed by Mr..
Hoover's progressive talk and suddenly
acquired affection for the farmer. i
saw him wAen he had chance to do
Wtat he Is now talking about, and he
did precisely the opposite
In my judgment Hoover is wholly
united to be President, because in
action he has proved 70 be for the
few against the great majority. be-
cause he has too long been out of touch
with America and the American people.
because he Is essentially q foreigner.
ana, therefore, IS neither a real Re-
publican nor real American.