Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-06-28

A CHALLENGE TO PARTY
Parties make platforms, then nominate men
to carry them out. Platforms are, more or
less, political boats in which to carry candidat-
es successfully through elections.
When the Republicans nominated Herbert
Hoover, that serious-minded business man
and humanitarian, they had already formulated
their platforms and resolutions.
Hoover was notified of his nomination. Next
morning the delegates, party leaders and
statesmen had a challenge thrown back at them
in the form of Hoover's message of acceptance.
No idle shiboleths or futile promises go with
Hoover. Here are a few excerpts from his
message to the men who nominated him.
"You have manifested a deep concern in the
problems of agriculture. You have pledged
the party. to support specific and constructive
relief upon a nationwide scale backed by the
resources of the federal. government. W.
must and will find a sound solution that will
bring security and contentment to this great
section of our people.
But the problems of the next four years are
more than economic. In a profound sense they
are moral and spiritual. This convention has
sounded a note of moral leadership.
"Shall the world have peace? Shall pros
perity in this nation be more thoroughly dis
tributed? Shall we build steadily toward the
ideal of equal opportunity to all our people?
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which is the essential assurance of life of our
institutions? Shall honesty and righteous
ness in government and business confirm the
confidence of the people in their institutions
and their laws?"
If many do not finch as they heard the above
paragraphs read to them on the morning of
June Is, this newspaper misses its guess.
Hoover, the orphaned boy of fifty years ago
who has since handled billions of dollars of
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not even the least insinuation of graft was ever
made, has thrown down the gauntlet to such
men as Fall, Daugherty and others of that cali
Der who may Turk within the ranks of the
party.
Hoover's message was a sheer, open and
aboveboard challenge to party leaders, cabinet
officers, senators and congressman.
THAT office (the presidency touches the
happiness of every home-I stand on that plat
FORM"
Hoover has never been known to breat a
promise. He has accepted the platform of the
Republican party and now he asks that the par
ty send only men to Washington who will con-
slider that platform as a solemn pledge, a bind
ing promise on which stands his reputation and
the reputation of the convention for honesty
and loyalty.
A few years ago, when Hoover refused to
turn over millions of tons of food stuffs to
IHe market mdIlpuldIOTS SO lndC Iney COulu
crash prices, he was dubbed a socialist, a boil
shevik, and other less commendable names. He
did not finch. He stood his ground and when
the Wilson administration failed to back up
his stand, he shipped the entire supply of food
stuffs to Europe, paid his own expenses and
sold it there and turned the money in to the
treasury. 1t required two years time, but he
saved the farmers for those two years. He
was too big, too courageous to be ignored, and
now, a nominee for the presidency, he challeng-
es the party to a test of honesty and sincerity.
Lets look at that challenge again:
"Shall the world have peace? Shall pros
perity in this nation be more thoroughly dis
tributed? Shall we build steadily toward the
ideal of equal opportunity to all our people?
Shall there be secured that obedience to law
which is the essential assurance of life of our
institutions? Shall honesty and righteous
ness in government and business confirm the
confidence of the people in their institutions
and their laws?"
'Ataboy, Herb Make 'em toe the mark.
They'll call you names again, perhaps, but the
country has learned to bank on you. They
maligned Washington and they shot Lincoln.
But you who stood between a German firing
squad and three American boys in Belgium will
not finch now
President Hoover sounds good to us.
Daniels County Leader.