Evening star., 1931-03-10
FESS IS PREPARING
TO GET IN ACTION
FOR g CAMPAIGN
Increase in Activity Planned
by Republican Commit
tee Head.
COUNTRY TO BE TOLD
OF HOOVER'S LEADERSHIP
Encouraged by Reports From Many
Sections-Statement Issued by
James Francis Burke.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

i. The Republican national organization
under the leadership of Senator Fess OF
Ohio is preparing to 'get into action"
for the coming national campaign, al
though the elections are more than a
year and a half in the future.
The Republican national chairman
who is not going to vacate his present
office, but who will become more active
than he has been in the past, ndl-
Gated today that the National Com
rnittee would undertake more publicity
would provide for more subcommittee
to deal with special subjects and would
do all it could to bring about greater
activity by the Republican State COM
Inittees.
The statement of the Republican ma
tional chairman comes on the eve OF
conference of "Progressives," at which
the Republican administration Is likely
to be vigorously criticized, and within
a few davs of the meeting of the Demo-
cratic National Committee at which
mans were laid for financing the Demo-
cratic national organization TO the ex-
tent of s6,000,00O to carry that party
through the campaign.
Fess Visits White House.
Senator Fess was a visitor at the
White House today, but SAID tnat ne
had not gone over the plans Tor the
Campaign with the President. The ONO
senator is going to Florida the end OF
This week or the first of next for
holiday. On his return to Washington
he said he would lay the program before
the President.
saThe time has come" said Senator
Fess sswhen we must let the country
know fully about the quiet, steady con-
structive work that has gone on mere
under the leadership of President Hoo
yer. In other words, we are going 10
get into high gear"
Republican leaders here have been en-
couraged by reports from many sec
tions Of the country, declaring that the
people are looking with more and more
favor on President Hoover and his ao-
ministration.
Al formal statement issued by James
Francis Burke, general counsel for the
Republican National Committee, en-
phssized TODAY the fact that there Is
to be no early meeting of the national
committee and that when the commit
tee does meet there will be no attempt
on its part to discuss party policies or
10 dictate platform planks to the next
Republican National Committee.
Seen as Reply to LaGuardia.
Mr.. Burke's statement was regarded
in some quarters as a reply to the oe-
rnarld made Sunday by Representative
IaGuardia Of New York that the ma
ticnal committee meet and go into the
prohibition question for the purpose OF
aligning the q. o. P. with the wet cause.
It was intended also TO indicate that
the Republican National Committee
did not intend to follow the course laid
down for the Democratic National
Committee by Chairman John j. Ras-
kob.
Mr.. Burke,s statement declared that
the country was suffering from an over
dose of politics Mnd needed rest. He
said:
"The American people are already
suffering from an overproductton OF
politics. Some parts of the country have
been clamoring for flood relief, others
for farm relief and others for drought
relief, but the whole country is now
praying for political relief. So why not
give 1t short recess. particularly since
1882 is bound to be a political year?
"An overdose of politics is one OF the
worst maladies that can aff1ict ma
ton. This is particularly true while we
are struggling to recover from world
wide economic disorder and business de-
preston. Sensible men in every walk
OF life have been making every effort
to diagnose the cause and prescribe the
cure for an affiiction that has crippled
every country in the world. President
Hoover has devoted himself to this task
with an intelligence and an industry un-
surpassed, If not unequalled by any
other individual in any other govern
ment on earth. Never in the history of
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