Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-06-22
Statement By Represe n tative
Vim. A. Old field.

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III the Republican party is satisfied with
Herbert Hoover as its candidate for the
Presidency, certainly Democrats have ne
reason TO complain" was the comment
from Democratic National CONFESSIONS
Committee headquarters. in Washington
made through the chairman. Represents
tive William A. Oldfield.
But Mr.. tlOOvers nomination must b.
a bitter pill for old-line Republicans LIKE
Senator Curtis of Kansas, Watson of Ia
diana. Lowden Of Illinois. Butler of Massa.
chusetts. Hilles and Wadsworth Of New
York. and Others who. like them. haVs
been fighting the party's battles for q
quarter century or mOrs. Mr.. Oldfeld went
on. From early manhood until 1917. MT
Hoover lived abroad. From 1917 until
1920. he was regarded a Democrat. Ia
1920. he styled himself as an Independent
His conversion TO Republcanism was zap
idly being accomplished Ia 1920. he
became Republican. aud during the few
years OF his Repubicanism, he has al
ways been an OfficehOlder Certainly. in
Mr. flowers case. turning Republican has
been Profitable. know of no man in our
history who has so quickly harvested such
big dividends from his craftsmanship. But
ii must be a bitter dose for regular Re-
publicsns, who have borne their party
banner all their lives. to have an eleventh
hour convert come in aud waltz off with
the prize cherry. However. If that is all
right with the Republicans, il certainly Is
with me.
But there is more at stake than the
personality of the individual who Is to be-
come President. From the day he became
a candidate, Mr.. Hoover has not taken a
stand on any public question, except We
know that in the background he has Op-
posed equality TO the farmer. Il is the
general opinion that he more than any
other Individual has been responsible for
defeating the effort TO give agriculture
square deal and the farmer chance to get
back on his feet and earn living. On the
Mississippi food control problem, Mr..
Hoover accomplished straddle as wide
as the Mississippi at its mouth. On pro-
hibitiOn. his dodge was 50 successful that
he has been applauded by both vets and
drys. On corruption III elections and in
public office. he has been as silent as an
Egyptian sphinx. Nevertheless. he must
be satisfactory TO the election crooks. IL
is significant that when the Republi
haa in hs biol
ance, il was the Pennsylvania boss. Sena-
tor-reject Ware. who lined up the Pennsyl-
vania delegation and gave Mr.. Hoover the
boost that put him over.
III will not be forgotten that Mr.. Hoover
BECAME a Republican and entered upon his
official career as a member OF the Harding
Cabinet in an administration that dis
otaced America. He was the associate OF
Albert Fall. Of Harry Daugherty, Of Will
flaws and Edwin DENLY He sat around
the Cabinet table with them at the very
time Fall was baJtering away the Naval
oil reserves in the worst scandal in the Ma
tons life and at the very time Harry
DauRherty was making the Department OF
Justice a rendezvous for crooks and trait
ors If Mr. Hoover IL the wiss man he has
been made out TO be, he Is bound 20 have
had some knowledge, or at least some sus-
Dicion, of what was going on. But Ia all
the years that have passed. he has never
lifted his voice to utter one word OF con
demnation of the scandalOus record OF the
Harding administration, In which he was
an important figure. Mr. Hoover may BY
this time be good Republican,, wholly
satisfactory to viii Hays. 10 Daugherty. TO
Fall, to Rush Holland, Daueherty's' Rxer.
10 Bascom Slemp and the others who rode
herd on the bOught-snd. delivered negro
delegates who helped TO nominate him.
but he has never been on the 1ring-line
for honest government. tie may be
ereat engineer. but he certainly is no cru
sader. And he is Objectionable to the
thirty million farmers and their families
who, by the platform the Republicans have
adopted and the candidate they have
named have had notice served upon them
that they can expect neither aid nor even
sympathetic consideration from that patty
, under the Hoover leadership