Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-18
CRITICS Of HOOVER
TAKE MGDER Tone
Mature Reaction to Depres-
sion Is That No Man Could
Have Prevented 1t.
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Republican spellbinders in this cam
paign are hammering home the old
argument that If the Democrats are
placed in power, with pledges to lower
tariff duties the standard of living on
the American farm and of labor gener-
ally will suffer greatly in this country.
It is an argument that has had Its
effect in the past, and may be success
full In many congressional districts this
year.
Many Believe Hoover Handicapped.
Many voters say today they do not
believe that the President has had an
opportunity to go ahead with his plans
for betterment because OF the copapse
of the market and business depression,
and because of the hostility to him IN
his own party in the Senate.
Criticism of the President crops up,
It is true, on the ground that he sho I'D
have been able to deal more enectlNeIy
with the insurgent Republicans On
the other hand, when such critics are
pressed to show wherein the President
has failed in his contests with the
coalition, - few instances are found 10
prove that the coalition was actually
successful in defeating the President;
The Farm Board, set up under the
new farm marketing act by the Con-
Cress and the President, has been the
target of the grain trade, the big mid
dIenen in Kansas City, Duluth, in
MINNEAPOLIS and st. Paul, in Chicago
and other grain market centers. And
these traders have undertaken in many
places to diSparage the Farm Board to
the farmers. The low price OF wheat
this Summer and Fall has played into
the hands of the traders in this I'M
dertaking The grain trade insists that
the activities of the Farm Board are
merely the activities of Government in
business when it talks. not to the farm
ers but to business men. Had 1t not
been for the drop in wheat prices,
however, the farmers themselves might
have taken a different view OF the
board and what it has been doing. In
deed. there are many live stock men
and dairy farmers who do take much
more favorable view of the board than
that held by the wheat farmers, SUI
fering from wheat crop surplus and
low prices forced In the grain market.
westerly States Suffer Less.
The more westerly States have not
suffered this year nearly as much as
Ohio Indiana and Illinois. Colorado,
Nebraska and parts of South Dakota
and Kansas and Iowa have done well
both on the farm and in their business
In the cities, as compared to their
easterly neighbors.
The drought did not hit them so
hard, and their crops have been good.
Where conditions have been fair, the
criticism of the President and the adj
ministration has not been nearly so
great. Even In Illinois and Ohio there
Is a disposition to walt and see what
happens during the next two years OF
the Hoover administration before a
verdict is brought in.
What proportions the protest vote"
against the party in power win reach
in the congressional elections no one
can say definitely. Doubtless the Re-
publicans underestimate and the Demo-
Gratis see 1t larger than 1t really will be-
That there will be a protest Is quite
sure. 1t will be the voters hitting at
hard times. hitting at national pro-
hibition, somewhat blindly, perhaps,
but hitting nevertheless. The protest
is against conditions rather than
against the President and his admin
istration The Republican party, how
ever, is likely to bear the brunt of the
protest and the President must suffer
with his party. In Ohio, one Of the
most politically minded States in the
Union, there is already talk OF presi-
ACuttdl CdllOl0dJC9 ia ACOG. AAAC bCAApAo
belief is that President Hoover can have
the denomination IL he wants it. though
depending in a measure upon what
happens In the next two years. Ohio
Democrats are talking Of presenting
candidates for their party,s nomination
for President at the next national con-
Vention. A boom has been launched
to raise the banner for Former Gov
Jimmy Cox" who ran for President
a., ruffI, UIro., tn n Dr0ckvalt
now Governor of New York, as his run
ming mate for the vice presidency. So
far the boom has not gone far. 1t
would be interesting, however, Cox
and Roosevelt, the old team, were con-
testants against one another for the
presidential nomination in 1882.
Newton ID. Baker Considered.
II Ohio goes Democratic in November
and there is good chance that 1t may
this State, central and in a measure
pivotal, may have a good deal to say
about who shall be the Democratic
standard bearer Newton D. Baker,
Secretary of War in the Wilson adj
ministration, might have try for 1t, If
his health is good. Cox has been re-
garded as a wet So has Baker. The
Democrats may be looking for q wet
candidate in 1892; indeed, 1t seems
highly probable that the next Demo-
cratic nominee for President will be a
wet in sentiment. "A suggestion is made
that Robert j. Buckley. the Democratic
candidate for Senate this year, might
be brought forward as a presidential
possibility. But it must be admitted
that some of the Democrats do not take
this suggestion seriously at the present.
Ohioans are looking with some salts
faction to the important part which
the State is playing once more In ma
tional affairs at Washington The
Craftsmanship of the Republican Ma
tional Committee is held by Senator
F'ess. Walter Brown is Postmaster
General. Joseph r. Mutt of Cleveland
is treasurer OF the Republican National
Committee. Nicholas Longworth 10
Speaker of the House. A few years
ago after the scandals which developed
in the Harding administration Ohio
sang rather small in Republican coun-
ellis But that has changed.