The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-10-18
IN THE TRADITION OF LIN
COLIN THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY OFFERS HERBERT
HOOVER FOR PRESIDENT

True to the spirit of Democracy,
it turns again to man of the people
for a successor to Lincoln, the rail-
splitter, Grant the tanner, and Gar
field of the towpath-to a blacksmith's
son, an Iowa orphan and country
schoolboy, raised by his own efforts
and his own merits, to a plane of dis
tinction in more fields of usefulness
than any man the nation has ever
been privileged to place in the White
House.
1t presents a civilian with the mill
tary knowledge of trained soldier.
1t presents an executive who has al
ready remodeled Federal administra-
ton, simplifed its machinery, de-
stroyed its red-tape worms, reduced
the cost and expanded the scope Of de-
partmental action.
1t offers humanitarian whose heart
has never questioned race or creed
and loyal citizen pledged by plat
form, record and declaration against
the hazard of foreign ENHANCEMENT.
His career is marked with the cal
louses of struggle and achievement.
He has pursued ambition along the
corn-row, across the furrow, into lab
oratory, down mine shaft, into great
administrative and engineering pro-
iects in America, Australia, Siberia
and China.
His university is Leland Stanford,
but his true Alma Mater is the map Of
the world.
The Great War did not make Her
bert Hoover; it simple revealed him.
The task of filling the Belgian-and
later the Allied-then still later, the
German, Polish and Serbian bread box
called for qualities of initiative and
organization beyond Old World eff
cheney.
Europe couldn't produce the man;
they appealed to America and got
him. And Hoover did the job. AS he
had done his daily tasks in America
and China And in Australia. And
in Siberia. And in Asia Minor.
AS he had done his job in America,
through Democratic and Republican
regimes alike.
And he's still on the job-handling
situations without precedent in exec
utive Carbohydrates born of emer-
gency-iobs for skill and tact. Jobs
requiring the cooperation and concll-
iation of antagonistic forces-joos for
imagination, for thoroughness, for
technical expertness-for business
head and a Quaker's universal heart.
No Presidential candidate ever be-
fore had the same range of contact
with the problems of capital and la
bpr-with the conditions under which
we severally do our daily chores.
The essential principle of the Re
publican Party is the safeguarding
and improvement of those conditions
the protection of prosperity against
the pauper wages and products of
Europe and Asia.
Herbert Hoover, qualified by years
of familiarity with foreign agricul-
ture, foreign factory standards, for
eign living scales, foreign methods,
foreign resources and foreign trade
strategy, is the one man to plan and
conduct that defense.
A vote for Hoover is a vote for
belching smokestacks, faring furn-
aces, changing hammers, busy looms,
honest and permanent agricultural
relief-a vote for peak production, for
steady employment, for the song OF
the riveter, for more automobiles
vote for better government, for SCUM
der business practice, for full time
and fuller pay envelopes-a vote for
impartial legislation, for the integrity
of the Constitution, for continued
equality before opportunity and the
lava vote for National safety, sol
vency and sobriety-and National
ideals. ........
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