Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-05-01
Chairman Shouse On Pacific Coast
Tour Riddles Failures And
Preteuse OF Hoover
Administrations.

JoUett Shouse. Chairman, Democratic
National Executive Committee. recently
delivered four speeches in principal cities
OF the Pacific Coast under the auspices OF
State Committees and local organizations.
in which he urged party workers. even
though victory in 1882 was an apparent
certainty not to relax any effort to achieve
il.
At Jefferson Day dinner at Los Angeles
he characterized the present Republican
National administration as ''the most inept.
inadequate and incompetent 10 at least
two decades"
He said that for more than two years
not only nothing has been done but we
have not even had any statement of policy
or principle that was not so bedeed about
with qualifications and so obscured by
evasions that nobody could clearly read its
meaning"
mo man can be blamed" he said. for
not having been born or for not having de-
veloped into a major statesman. But it is
a question whether aspiring to post for
which one is not fitted may not be as bad
a public offense as deliberately neelectine
the lob TO which he has attained.
Another pointed shaft was "A man
dues not have to be miracle worker that
his (Mr Hooveris) proponents represented
him to be in 1928 to realize 1t signing
the Grundy tariff bill was betrayal of a
people who were struggling out of the mo-
rass of business depression which. in
cidentally. would never have taken US
unaware had Mr.. Hoover been the marvel
of wisdom and foresight Of the picture they
gave us.
At San Francisco. Chairman Sho0se
recalled Mr.. HOoveris campaign promises
of prosperity. resulting only IN bread lines
and soup houses He depicted the change
that had taken place in the attitude Of
foreign nations toward the United States
as result Of the Hoover Grundy tariff and
the decline Of $4,000 100000 year 10
American-foreign trade. He asked the
people if they we're satisfied with existing
conditions relating TO their vineyard indus
try and the subterfuee that permitted
market for their products Of that industry.
At. Portland. Oregon. he referred to the
election Of General Charles H. Martin.
retired Major General of the Army. to Con-
Rress as an evidence that the Democrats
there were following the advice Of Demo-
cratic Headquarters TO select the best men
available for party nominees. Here as else
where he recalled the veto Of one OF the
Wagner unemployment bills and the man
ner in which Senator Wagner was dep lsed.
for political reasons. as Chairman of the
Select Committee on Unemployment Insur-
ance by his two Republican associates On
the committee.
He recalled the vet1es Of the McNary- Hau-
gen bills. and the failure Of the Legse Farm
Board. which was Mr.. Hoover's substitute
for the McNsry -Haueen plan Of farm relief.
At Seattle. Washington. Chairman Shouse
referred TO Senator Wesley Jones absurd
contention" that conditions in the magis-
trates' courts in New York City were the
paramount issue OF the coming Presiden-
tial campaign as an illustration of the pow
erty of the Republican Party in arguments
for continuation OF the Hoover admins
tration." He then told of Senator Jones
.'ehastly silence" during the era OF c1rrup-
ton in Hatdine's administration. although
the Senator was member of the COM
mittee which investigated Attorney General
Dauehery. He then enumerated the fail
ures Of the Hoover administration and the
determination OF the Democrats to right
them, and declared that the nation is ready
20 change.
The root Of all disaster Chairman
Shouse said in conclusion, was in the
distortion Of government from its ostensi-
BILE purpose Of public welfare into the prin-
ciple OF government for favored interests