New Britain herald., 1928-09-29
Vehemendy Repudiates Letter From Virginia C. 0. P. Headquarters Which Urges Women to Save This Nation From Being Roman ized."
Missive Sent by Mistake to Woman Believed to Have Accepted Vice. Chair manship of Republicals Precinct Committee.

Washington, Sept. c9 R - HerS bert Hoover has spoken out for th4 first time since the delivery of hia acceptance speech on the injectiou of the religious issue in the preals dential campaign.
 Nehemently repudiating letter. purportedly from the headquartere of Mrs. Willie w. Caldwell. republic can national committeewoman from Virginia. which included plea tQ American women to save the nas tion from being "Romanized," Mrs Hoover late last night declared that whether authentic or a forgery, the communication did violence to everI instinct that he possesses.
 Such an attitude" he said in c prepared statement, lis entirely op. posed to every principle of the re. publican party. made my position clear in my acceptance speech when I said:
 Comes Of Quaker Stock
 "In this land. dedicated 10 tol. erance, we still find outbreaks of intolerance. come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction stand for re. ltgious tolerance both in act and ia s. !r''. The glory of our American ideals is the right of every man to worship God according to the dic- tates of his own conscience.
 Il meant that then and I mean it now"
 The letter, described as form letter" was brought to light by the Washington Post which in a copy. righted story today said it had re- ceived it from Mrs. Clara Lyon of Virginia Highlands, Va, to whom 1t had been sent under the mistaken assumption that she had accepted the post of vice chairman of q re. publican precinct committee.
 Admits Letter
 Mrs. Caldwell was interviewed by the Post by telephone at her home in Roanoke, Va. and the Post quots ed her as saying that such a lettee had been distributed by her heaAa quarters but that she did not believe it had contained the words quoted from 1t. As given to the Post by Mrs. Lyon it was written on stations cry of the republican national coms mittee and contained Mrs. Caldwell rubber stamp signature.
 Letter 'Dresscd Up''
 The committeewoman explained tU the Post that her letters were out. lined to her secretary who then wrote them in her own language. h this case. she said, the secretary possibly dressed up" the letter. She would not reveal the secretary's name. The Post quoted her az says ing that only two or three copies e the letter had been sent out.
 Want Date Changed
 Hoover Is being urged by some of his advisers to deliver his Boos ton address, the last of his easter1 campaign. on the night of Saturday. October 20, instead of in the middle of the week following. as has beeU planned tentatively.
 Should he consent. he would make three major speeches on three suc. cessive Saturdays, carrying his cams paign into two democratic strongs holds. New York city and Boston. oR the last two of them. Next Saturday he will speak at Elizabethton. Tenn.
 Such a program as that proposed would make it necessary for the candidate to work much faster on :he preparation of his principal ad. dresses than has been his custom thus far in the campaign. In order to do that he would have to sharply curtail the time given to political conferences and the active direction of the campaign over the country.
 Hard Job
 Meticulous as he is about phrase. ology, the job of writing a speech is no small one for the republicaD presidential candidate and since his bStAAh " NSiiAiS tOAA AAOlt NAdu - month ago its execution has been made more difficult because of the pressure of campaign details which has been placed upon him. Much of the work on his Newark and Elizabethton speeches had to be done in time snatched between meetings with party leaders and long distance telephone calls from others in the field.
 With the EliIabethton address finally out of the way today. he ca1 begin next week on the preparattea of his New York Madison Square Garden address to be delivered thG night Of October 13. If he gets tha4 out of the way in time for tts 111p tribution to the newspapers by ma4 he will have to forego the brjef pegs iod of recreation which thess in01p diately around him at AeaAsuas1eGo