The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-07-06
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
By LAURENCE TODD. Fed. Press

Neutrality-suspicious. / expect of
Hoover, if he should be elected, is his
rapid development into 9 more ettl-
cient Mussolini."
The speaker was the Washington
correspondent of one of the most IN
tluentlal and liberal newspapers south
of the Potomac. He is dry Protes-
tant, grounded in the Jeffersonian
faith and at least theoretically SYM
pathetic with the organized labor
movement. He could not bring hlm,
self to study socialism, nor to read
about the achievements Of the Soviet
state. He buSieS himself with pro-
i tests against the inhumanities of this
or that new Industrial development In
the South and wonders whether we
Americans are ever going to De free
as In the good old days when most
OF US stood on our own farms.
Hoover, to these liberal. Jefferson
ians, is the symbol of relentless adj
vance of life-crushing machinery.
Hoover in the White House they vlsu-
alize as a dictator, surrounded by
! charts and time schedules and stand
ardization plans, but deaf and blind
to every argument in favor OF ordl-
nary peoples interests as against the
private monopoly interests.
And on this background they
sketch the prospect of next Novem-
ber's balloting in the South. They see
attractive posters distributed in thou
sands by the railroads, cotton mills
: gas and electric companies, banks
pleading with the South to vote fol-
Hoover the business organizer, Hoov
er the pacifist, Hoover the almsgiver
But they see the South recalling it
historic racial feeling, its fear of die
2 tatorial leaders. its dislike of the ten
dency to put the white race in
treadmill of machin eproduction. An
finally they expect the South to or
d out against the Ohio gang, Sinclair
Doheny, Fall DENLY, Hays Lenroo
: and Smoot-all of them men of tn
, industrial north associates of Hoover
! When the South votes, it will vot
O against the candidate whom it fear
S as an imperialist abroad and a polite
o Mussolini at home.
=
n This prospect of Hoover's taking
7 strong imperialist attitude in foreig
II affairs has meanwhile led Mercer
\ Johnston, secretary of the Nations
Citizens Committee on Relations wit
e Latin America, to appeal to the Den
II ocratic platform makers to take 9
II anti-imperialist stand on Nicaragu
W Incidentally, Johnston may have spoi
ed the chances of Gen. Moncada, Ii
l. eral party candidate, to be elect'
al president of Nicaragua this summe
,, In a telegram to Mrs. ]. Bord'
TO Hartman, an honorary president al
a. member of the Democratic Nation
a Committee, Johnston protests again
r, the proposed $12,0O0,000 or S20,00t
ne 900 loan to Nicaragua by Wall Sire
banks. He saws Moncada told hi
when in Washington recently, tn
american bankers had been a cur
to Nicaragua, and unless the
stranglehold was broken it won
mean the destruction of his country
m Inasmuch as Moncada, who fore
ID the liberal surrender to Americ
troops in May, 1927, has been appro
y ed bv the state department as pre-
4 idential candidate. this hostility
bankers on his part has probably be
m concealed until now. It's disclosu
may wreck his career, as Americ
10. marines will control the election.
w
Impatiently the trade unioni,
10. have waited for Hoover to speak {
on the coal issue, the injunction ev
d. unemployment insurance, old age ps
IE sions, and other topics of direct a
l. immediate interest to themselves.
&c. They learn now that the G. o.
candidate, after comforting with Nj
IL es, Edge, Slemp, Gillette and Wo
has decided that his campaign
H. terances should be delayed until
gust and that the real campai
should not start until Septemb
His idea of a campaign is one era
massing of ~olitical machine pow
o. at the finish.
In the weeks that must pass
to fore the acceptance speech goes on