South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-07-04
SAYS HOOVER
IS CAUSE OF
PRESENT ROW
Montague b II a mes Former
Food Administrator for
Present Trouble.
c. o. P. ADVICE BAD
Herbert Might Have Straddled
Donkey and Rode to
Victory.
BY JAMES j. MONTAGUE.
lNaWa-TImra Cnrrrsnnnhnnt

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July g.
When Mr.. Herbert Hoover. Of Iowa
San Francisco. Belgium and Wash
ington decided that il would be a
nice, bright thing 10 put his fingers
10 mis- nose and wriggle them deris-
lively at the democratic party he
made the biggest mist exc that has
been made since Charles Evans
Hughes believed the man who told
him that Hi Johnson didn't have
any friends in California
Herbert could have had this nom
ination, he could have had it the
day before yesterday ne could have
picked his vice-president and his ma
tionL chairman and written his plat
form with his own fair hand. The
democrats thought that Herbert was
a dear gaZelle to gladden. them with
his soft, brown eye. but when the
dear gazelle turned and bit the hand
that was about 10 feed him. the
nomination was all over. Hoover
IS the lad that made all the real
trouble that has been CONFUSING this
convention.
Hoover Basis.
The party had all got organized
on Hoover basis. they thought that
they had in Herbert a man who not
only had publicity but popularity.
man who would leap lightly a strad-
die OF the donkey and lash him TO
victory in November.
And. then, Hoover took a lot OF
bad advice and said that as far as
he was concerned he couldn't see
where the democratic party got OF
and ne wouldn't accept q nomina-
ton at their hands even IL they said
II with flowers. 1t was a mistake
IA sad one.
For Herbert was led up on the
wrong mountain by the republican
HoOverites and showed kingdoms of
the earth that were, in other words
he was gyped out of the nomination
before he even had Il chance for a.
And when having missed the z.
o. p. express he looked longingly at
the time table he saw that the dem
Ocratic extra gone BY.
The democrats are leaving this
town between the twin spirits of
gloom and despair They have or
Will have a nominee but there has
>becn so much backCapping and mud
singing and baCkbitiEg that the
seeds of RANGER and discord are
spread abroad.
Blame Hoover.
Everywhere you hear the word
Hoover. spoken not in praise but in
blame and usually coupled with adj
jcctives that are not pretty in print.
IL IS too late now, OF course. The
harm is done Hoover Is back In
the privateSt kind Of private life
and IL looks as II he would not
merge until some fresh invader be-
gins 10 take the candy OF sustenance
away from the Belgian children.
But what a walk over he'd have
had here; how he would have romp
"a away leaving all other contend
ers gasping in their banled rage.
The democrats wanted him and
wanted him bad. The republicans
didn't want him at all.
Horned His Way in
lie sought 10 horn his way. an
unwelcome guest into a gang that
would have called the police had he
got beyond the front door
Here in san Francisco tho feast
was furnished forth the table was
spread. the cocktails all poured and
hundreds OF bottles cooling on the
ice.
And Herbert refused because he
said he wasn't democrat.
What difference did that make
who Is a democrat this year?