Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-29
ny WILLIAM HARD.

The Republican and Democratic par
ties now face the final elections with
prospects of a more vigorous fight than
had at one time been anticipated. This
is because of various Developments,
among which may be mentioned more
combative attitude on the part Of the
Republican administration.
The week which has just passed IN
Washington may perhaps be recorded
as marking a turn by President Hoover
from policy Of sort Of defensive
jujitsu, wherein you try to break an
opponents spirit by ardently. unobtru-
sively pressing a muscle In the. back OF
litical method Of trying to ernbarraSs
and puzzle him by banging him on the
nose with brass knuckles. go.
The President this last week, in the
matter Of the bill for the further relief
of World War veterans, uses brass
kruckles for the first time; and It Is
fairly reliably reported that he has gone
into training for learning more about
them and for being able to exercise with
them daily. He proposes, It Is said. to
change the Republican, national COM
mittee from q cemetery into a gym
nasium.
The present chairman Of the Repub-
lican national committee, Mr.. Claudius
H. Huston, will In all probability re-
sign, it is, said, shortly after the Con-
gress has adjourned. He and his imrne-
diate predecessor, Or. Hubert Work,
have guided the committee through Q
period which might almost be, entitled
Life in the Catacombs" Or. Work
thought that the committee needed no
stan and contrtved to discharge almost
all of it. He also was annoyed BY the
spectacle of files containing data for
political pugnacious purposes. He ex-
hurting of international missiles. He
was the embodiment of spirit which
till now has broadly peryaded the at
mosphere of the whole Hoover era. He
strove to create for the Republican party
on the national field a cleared empty
space occupied by himself and the Barr
Building, holding his tongue, and, by
the President IN the White House, keep
ing his own counsel. .... -.
It was dignined, but the public did not
know it. The public thought it was only
tndecisiye.r Thousands of reports have
been brought here regarding the atti-
lninistration. They have indicated fol
many months q widely prevalent tend
ency toward dissatisfaction and dis
affection. They have indicated, at the
base Of, that tendency, q .bewi1dernent
as to the administrations specific be-
liefs and concrete intentions. and en-
deavorS.
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With the greatest good will, Mr.
Jouett ShouSe and Mr.. Charles Michel
son Of the Democratic national COM
mittee for many months past have pub
licly pointed out to the President that
his main trouble has been that the peo-
Pile did not know what he was thinking
of or where he was going. The Presi-
dent seems to have thought that the
people could tell without being told. -.
He had got almost precisely the sori
Of farm relief bill that he wanted. He
had asked for Limited" revision Of
the tariff and had secured at any rate
D revision more limited" and raising
fewer industrial duties and decreasing
more such duties than any other, tarif1
revision ever signed by q Republican
President. He had crushed ont The
effort of his adverSaries to transfer tht
ultimate. control of the flexible .provi-
sions of the tariff from the executive tt
the legislative branch of the Govern.
ment. He had crushed out similarly
their efforts-both I'm the farm reliel
law and in the tariff law-to INTRODUCES
into our national policy the idea Of farm.
relief through export debentures upor
farm products. He had accomplished
his primary prohibition aim. Of. trans:
ferring prohibition enforcement from
the Treasury Department to the, De.
partnent Of Justice, He was experienc.
ing fewer reversals Of his continent:
In the Senate than were experienced hS
President Coolidge, who throve on suct
reyersals into q triumphant popularity
He managed to be more positive anc
more victorious than Mr., Coolidge, and
to look more negative and more de-
feated.
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This was largely through his passion
for conveying his positive views lprinci.
paily. orlly, to private auditors t11inedi-
ately Iegislatiyely concerned and through
his equal passion for trying to wrench
the most and the best--from his point
of view-7out Of 3 legislative situation ht
private elastic negotiations rather thar
by public pacorpr onnising Ioapifestoes
This general system, which his friends
which his critics have denounced IS be.
ing furtive, was strained TO the snapptns
point. IN the controversy over the BIZ
for veterans relief. -, 49,.
The President SGT IN on the Legislative
veterans, relief game for d. long time
without tipping his hand. A large mum.
Der Of Republicans In the House of Rep
resentatives, getting no emphatic. lead
from the President, followed the lead Of
a Democrat, Mr.. Rankin of. Mississippi
into q, bill which the President, as thu
custodian Of the Treasury, felt he couIt
not sign. It passed the Rouse and went
RI the f7nQnaa NOyf1vSniffna ri f1aa 70
where there .ensued an incident of the
lveliest iroi1ic. color.
The finance committee of the Senate
upon suggestions By. two Democrats, Mr.
Walsh Of Massachusetts, and Mr.. Con.
rsily ct Texas. voted tentatively z
Grams for an disabilities. They adoptes
It with q certain scale Of payment. Tn
scale was high. Thereupon Repnblica1
members OF the committee brought bacl
to its secret deiibefatioris b prospective