Evening star., 1928-10-30

between the President and the leaders
of his party in the Senate, with the
promise that that quarrel will continue
I pledge an end to that quarrel and
/ an honest, open, fearless, unprejudiced
/ treatment of each problem on the basis
I of the facts. 5g
| / am entirely satisfied that the old
order of things can be changed for the
| better by the adoption of a forward
| looking, progressive attitude on the part
of the Government toward the develop
ment of our natural waterpower re-
sources.
Applying the old order. of things,
these resources must in time fall into
the hands of private persons to be
| operated for private gain and private
| profit. Following the new order Of
| things, they would be developed by the
| Government under Government own
erShip and government control to the
end that the benefits that flow from
them may find their way to the Ameri-
can people--their rightful owners.
| can only take the record, and while
Mr.. Hoover does not come out and say
, 1t in so many words, the record clearly
| and fairly indicates that he is to be
found on the side of the old order o.
| things.
BOrah Dlsagrees.
Nothing that I could say about his
attitude on this subject would be any
stronger or any more convincing than
that which comes from United States
Senators of his own party. Senator
Borah said only few days ago-and I
quote him as he is reported In the daily
press-"1 disagree with Mr.. Hoover on
the power question. If that were the
only issue in this campaign could not
support him."
Only last Saturday night Senator
Norris OF Nebraska, a Republican but
an uncompromising progressive, man
OF clear vision and forceful speech, told
the American people in unmistakable
language a great many reasons why
he was unwilling and unable to sup
port Mr.. Hoover in this contest. Prom
lnent among his reasons was Mr.. Hoo
yer's attitude toward the development
OF public power resources.
l5. Let me at this point say that I was
denied the great privilege of listening
to the Senator's broadcast Il had Just
/ finished my, own speech at Philadel-
phia). read his speech in the Sun
day papers, and. want to take this
| opportunity to assure i4im publicly that
he will never have any cause to regret
what he said with respect to my atti-
tude toward these great public quesl
tions. ss. ,..,s ---
What are the forces behind Mr.. Hoo,
yer which make it necessary for mem
berS OF his own party to repudiate his
views on waterpower development?
Senator Norris himself spread it out
before the American people. in his
speech of last Saturday night, and it Isl
nothing else than what has. become
known as the American power trust,
made up Of the individuals who have
their eyes upon these valuable power
assets and propose to have the wheels
turned for their benefit.
so lar as our great natural resources
| IN this country are concerned, that is
the old order of things, and with that
you may be sure that I am entirely
I dissatisfied. am thoroughly con-
vinced that the great rank and file of
the American people are with Senator
| Norris and myself in the endeavor to
set up new order of things, and are
unaiterably opposed to the order that
puts IN the front seat of privilege and
opportunity the power trust, in whose
corner Mr.. Hoover is unquestionably
| standing.
Waste in Government.
Particularly am I unwilling to accent
the old order Of things as it applies to
the framework and structure of the
Federal Government. There is no more
crying need In Washington today in
the interest of greater governmental
eLnclency and economy than the re-
organization OF the governmental ma
| chinery itself. Disiointed disorgan-
lied, scattered, producing and overlap
ping OF functions, duplication of en-
ergy. financial waste and a waste of
effort, the old governmental machine is
numbering along.
This was recognized by the Republi-
can party as far back as 1920. when a
oef1nite promise was made to improve
It, The promise was repeated in 1924.
entirely forgotten in 1928, and here at
TINS hour and minute the old order of
things obtains. Attempts at progress
have met with defeat. The reason un-
derlying the Republican failure is the
deslre OF the Republican leaders to =
tain the patronage for political pur-
poses and to continue to saddle upon
the American people the burden of
maintaining costly, high-powered po-
lltical machine. It has been variously
estimated that not millions but hun
dredS Of millions of dollars could be
saved by a thoroughgoing, business
ike overhauling of the structure of the
Federal Government.
AS against broken Republican prom
Use and failure and inability to progress.
I promise on behalf of the Democratic
party the rehabilitation and raorganiza-
tlon OF the Federal machine, bringing
II into harmonious and progre essive step
|
ness methods in the last quarter of a
century
In my Louisville speech I outlined my
position on the tariff. This position
taken by me and approved by Demo-
cratic members CT and candidates for
Congress, Is SO constructive, SO forward
looking, so well designed to protect the
workingnan in his wages and his
standard of living, to protect business
large and small, to give to. the farmer
his fair return and to increase and
improve the prosperity of the country
generally that the Republican party in
a moment of panic is forced-through
one of its spokesmen--to the reaction
ary idea that the tariff cannot be
taken out of politics.
Promises Tariff Reform.
This / dispute, and. unsatisfied with
he old order of things, definitely
make the claim that the Democratic
party. under it's platform and under
the formula put forth by myself in my
Louisville speech, will take the tariff
cut of the realm Of partisan politics,
will do. away with the log-rolling. and
will remove the uncertainty thai comes
to business b. every general revision OF
the tariff. This our opponents seem to
think cannot be Ccne. They seem to
b,lieve it is destined for all time to
remain the foot ball of poiitics,~to be
the object Of compromise and of log
1 Trolling. That Is the old order of things
complained about by Presidents Taft
and Roosevelt 20 wears ago.A I am en-