Evening star., 1931-12-16
HURLEY DECLARES
DEMOCRATS HAVE
NOTHING TO OFFER
Secretary Says Leaders in
Congress Await Hoover for
Ideas for Program.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Secretary Patrick j. Hurley of the
War Department carried the war to
the Democrats in an address to the
Republican National Committee, meet
ing at the Willard Hotel today
Declaring that President Hoover has
sent to the Congress a well designed
and sound economic program to aid
in the economic recovery of the coun-
try, Secretary Hurley said:
Our Democratic friends have neither
accepted nor rejected that program
The Democrats have offered nothing
in lieu of it.
The Democrats have no program.
They are probably waiting to get all
of the Presidents ideas to use them
in an attempt to set up program
Of their own. We hear the Democrats
mumbling lot about sfiddling while
Rome burns, but Notwithstanding all
that kind of talk, the Presidents pro-
gram is before Congress and If there
is any fiddling being done during the
conf1agration, Congress is doing it."
Cali on President.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Hurleys
address the committee adopted a report
submitted by former Senator Charles A.
RawSon of Iowa for the Committee on
Memorials.
1t took up and adopted without op-
position the report of the Committee
on Call of the National Convention,
which fixes the delegate strength of the
convention at 1854 and the date for as
sembling, June IA, 1882, in Chicago
Having concluded its business, the
committee then adjourned. The men,
bers of the committee went to the
White House, where they were received
by President Hoover.
II any OF the members of the COM
mlttee had intended to bring before the
session the liquor issue, they abandoned
tne loea. The prohibition question was
not mentioned.
Mr. Hurley said that it was President
Hoover and the Republican party who
had prevented the adoption of Fed
eral dole in this country.
Says Hoover Blocked Dole.
ut is singular enough" said Mr.. Hur-
ley, that the first speech attacking the
administrators economic program by
the new Democratic Congress advocated
the dole system. In my opinion, the
dole system would have been adopted If
it had not been for the efforts of the
President Of the United States"
Outlining what the President has
done to aid the people of America in
the present period of distress, Mr.. Hur-
ley said:
This Nation has passed through IS
depreSSionS in the last century. Never
in our history has a President been
called upon to direct the Nations COM
merce, industry and banking; to create
jobs for millions. to provide funds for
the care of the unemployed, to lead in
the mitigation of the effects of the de-
preston, to mobilize public opinion and
the economic forces of the Nation for
its recovery. All these things have been
done by the present Chief Executive of
the Nation.
Throughout the depression the Pres
ident has been doing the work that
should properly fall upon the leaders OF
industry and commerce and banking.
In all previous disturbances finance
has had its intrepid leader or leaders
Today we hear leaders of finance shout
ing for leadership, but presenting very
little evidence of that quality in their
own establishments. They fall back
on the President of the United States
throw all their problems on to his lap
and throw up their hands and shout
Save u.s.
From the very beginning the Presi.
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