The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-30
As Nominees
Are VieYed BY
One Observer
az N. ID. COCHRAN

/ - M ~ OOGAAAeAN
7 OOKING at the presidential
II candidates from calm and
unenthusiastic mental viewpoint,
Hoover and Smith are interesting
! studies.
Not being a hero worshipper,
couldn't give three cheers for any
living man. All I can see in a king,
president, dictator or any other out
standing human is a two-legged hui
man being, with lungs, liver and
lights like all the rest Of us.
Even prize fighter is better
equipped physically than Coolidge,
King George, Mussolini or George
Bernard Shaw.
There is a difference in mental
equipment, to be sure. Not neces-
sarily as to kings and presidents,
however, because one is the acct
dent OF birth and the other the ac-
cident Of politics Dictators and
political bosses can't get along with
out brains, but kings and presi-
dents can get along very nicely with
a very meager mentality.
But this year we have to choose
between two men of unusual mental
equipment; and we will have to
get along for the next four years
with President who has brains.
have met Hoover and never even
have seen Smith, though I have
listened in on the radio when he
talked. But one can't know q man
| by meeting him once or twice and
talking to him. 1t takes a long time
for one man to know another.
So don't know Hoover and I
don't know Smith. All I know is
what my judgment tells me.
My judgment is this: Smith is a
faster but not sounder thinker
than Hoover, and while a good
thinker he hasn't got the back
ground of experience and training
that Hoover has. He will capture
the popular imagination much fast
er than Hoover, because he is a
better politician. He understands
better the human emotions.
Both came from the ground up.
If there was any advantage in
childhood 1t was with Smith, for
his parents were not very poor. AS
they grew up Hoover had the adj
vantage in education.
In later years Hoover's education
was international, Smiths provin-
cial. Hoover learned to know the
world, Smith to know New York.
Il
THERE is some advantage, in
Il Smiths knowledge of human
nature as we find it in the biggest
American city, with immigrants
from nearly every country in the
world crowding the melting pot.
Hoovey's knowledge Of European
people LAS been learned among
them in their own country, where
he was bossing a humanitarian
rather than a political job.
Smith is genial, kind-hearted,
sympathetic and a good fellow in
the best sense of the term. Hoover
is reticent, not congenial, different,
yet kind-hearted and sympathetic.
All of Smiths geniality and good
fellowship shows; Hoover's doesn't.
Hoover isn't a radical Neither is
Smith. Business is perfectly safe
with either of them.
To cut this story short, my judy
ment is that Smith will get off to a
big start; that Hoover will be slow:
that Hoover will be handicapped by
the sinister influences back of the
Republican.party for years; but that
Hoover will slowly but surely emerge
from the mess and be himself, and
that he will grow stronger as the
campaign advances.
And finally that he will stand out
for what he is himself and will
make a strong appeal to the plain
people regardless Of some of his
vicious surroundings.