Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-14
SH0USE
ASSAnS
HOOVER
Democratic Chief Urges
Election Of Party Man
AS President
G. o. P. FLAYED
p olly a ma Statements
Of Administration Are
Denounced

LOS ANGELES. April IA. Wp)-
Jouett Shouse, chairman of the
Democratic National Executive COM
mittee, attacked the administration
of President Hoover and urged that
a Democrat be elected to the pres
idency in 1892 when he addressed
Democratic leaders of IL western
states at the annual jefferson day
banquet here last night.
The delegates were mere for
three days session intended to bring
unity in Democratic ranks for the
1882 presidential campaign.
Shouse condemned the RepubIi-
can administration of President
Hoover as drifting and evasive.
IAN harrassed and indignant ma
ton is preparing, if I read the aug
| uries correctly, to rid itself of the
most inept, inadequate and incom-
petent administration that fate
| has brought to Washington in at
least two decades Shouse said.
For more than two years, the
government of the United States
has simply drifted,' Shouse charged.
I'VE have had avoidance of re-
Sponsibility when leadership was
poignantly required.
Not only has nothing been done,
but we have not even had any
statement of policy or principle
that was not so hedged about with
qualifications and so obscured by
evasions that nobody could clearly
read its meaning.
Even after two years you will
find people in different parts of the
, country arguing from exactly op-
posite viewpoints what the Presi-
dent really thinks about the tariff,
the farm problem, prohibition, pub
lie utility control, and in fact every
other major issue that is engross-
/ ing the attention of the nation"
Shouse attacked President Hoover
for issuing "Pollyana statements"
regarding the unemployment situa.
ton, and charged that the signing
of the recently enacted Grundy
tariff bill was "a betrayal of people
who were struggling out of the
morass of business depression"
Gave No Warning
Mr.. Hoover, he said. supposedly
had his fingers on the business
pulse" while he was secretary OF
commerce for seven years, but "nev-
er by SO much as a word did he
sound (warning) of the impendA
| ing crash of the New York stock
market. Instead his voice was
loud in the chorus that proclaimed
the full tide of prosperity, and, in
effect, beckoned us to buy more
and more stock. Perhaps it is too
much to expect that the great econ
omic engineer would detect that the
ice was growing thin"
Referring to the forthcoming elec-
| ton, Shouse said:
II believe that historical prece-
dent will be followed in 1892, that
a Democratic victory in the con-
! gressional election presages q Re-
publican defeat in the presidential
election.
Our party has rarely been as
well organized or as united as 1t is
, now. we nave the opportunity OF
making a clean sweep of every
branch of the government next
year. The only things that can
bring about disappointment are
over confidence and a cessation of
our present militant course"
Shouse appealed to the voters of
California to elect Democrat to
the presidency.
"You gave us the last Democratic
President, for without CALIFORNIA;
electoral votes Woodrow Wilson
would not have remained In the
| White House after 1916, and ap-
peal to you now that you repeat
that rebuke of that day to the
forces of reaction and selfishness
now entranched in the administra-
tion.' j.