The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-10
HOOVER RECORD
Is ASSAILED BY
SENATE SEEKER
Kentuckian Bases His En-
tire Platform on Failure
of Administration
BY RAY TUCKER
Scripps Howard stan Writer

LOUISVILLE, oct. 10.-President
Hoover's record forms the princi-
pal issue In the senatorial contest
IN Kentucky, where Judge M. M.
Logan Of the court Of appeals today
IS conceded to have a slight advan-
tage over Senator John M. Robson,
Republican incumbent.
Logan, a fat, round-faced, full
bodied figure, feet tall, who lets his
black hair drape over his coat collar
Like Borah, and talks with legen-
dairy drawl Of a Kentucky colonel, Is
handling Hoover, his cabinet and
his opponent In scorching terms. His
principal issues are the tariff, I'M
employment and Hoover's alleged
lack Of leadership.
Assailing misleading state
inents on business conditions. Logan
refers TO Secretaries Mellon and
Hyde and Senators Watson and
Grundy as "fioover's happiness
boys"
Lost in the Wilderness
Il don't include the President"
he explains from the dollhouse
porticos, because he is lost in the
wilderness and doesn't know what
1t is all about"
Logan is conducting a unique. JEFF
ferSonian campaign. He prepared
for it by visiting every important
city in the United States to observe
economic conditions, and he paints
word pictures of closed and smoke
less factories, winding bread lines,
men vainly seeking employment,
and hungry families.
He attributes these conditions to
the administration, but particularly
to the tariff, which he calls "the
most iniquitous bill ever enacted"
Something at Home
The great humanitarian in the
White House has done so much for
the people abroad he concludes,
that it's time for him to do some
thing for the 100000 folks at home
who are out of work and can't get
it"
Robson, defending the tariff as
designed to preserve prosperity,
blames unemployment on too much
immigration.
That proves my opponent Is the
most ignorant man ever offered for
public Office in this country" re-
taliates Logan.
1t is doubtful if President Hoo
YER has been made so sharp and
central an issue in any other state.
But the bluegrass country is in
bad way. Kentucky, farming
state, felt the drought severely. The
rich pasture lands in the central
section were burned black.
Tradition Against Robson
Water still is being shipped in by
tanks-and Hoover gets the blame
for that. Factories and railroad
shops are operating only three days
a week, and Logan holds the tariff
partly responsible.
Thus Logan is believed to have
good chance to win by a narrow
margin, although G. o. p. leaders
predict victory by about $4,000.
Tradition, however, is all against
Robson.
Kentucky has not reelected any
senator, Democratic or Republican,
for twenty-five years, which was
one reason why ex-senator Sackett
was glad to swap an insecure SEN
atorial seat for the post of am
bassAdor to Berlin.
Neither candidate is talking pro-
hibition. The revulsion of feeling,
especially in northern Kentucky. is
so great that it has become an en-
barrassing topic. Robson and his
associates are saying nothing about
1.-The noble experiment. The Anti
Saloon League, once power IN
certain counties, has become neg