The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-05
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JOHNSON SEARS
HOOVER, PLEADS
FOR ROOSEVELT
Presidents Policies LaShed;
Divine Right of Big
Business Scored.
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CHICAGO. Nov. 4.-Senator HI
ram johnson Of California, Pro-
gressive Republican, urged the cleo
ton Of Franklin D. Roosevelt Friday
night, not because he is a Democrat
but because hes just an American"
Senator Johnson scathingly de-
nounced President Hoover for his
policies in connection with farm re-
lief, unemployment, the power
trust, foreign securities, interna-
tional debts, the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, prohibition
and the bonus army.
These policies, said Johnson, are
not Mr.. Hoovers fault; his entire
education and business training
forced him to adopt them.
This same philosophy Of govern
ment has conducted our affairs as
If there were a divine right in Big
Business to exploit all the rest of
us" continued the senator, whose in
dorsement of Governor Roosevelt
several weeks ago proved a political
sensation.
Cites Hoover Philosophy
He spoke in the Aragon ballroom,
grandiose dance hall, where imita-
ton stars shine from the ceiling
and imitation Spanish balconies line
the walls. Chicago's foremost Dem
ocrats filled the balconies for the
address, which was sponsored by
the Roosevelt Progressive Republic
an League.
johnson spoke of Mr.. Hoover's
career as a mining engineer, re-
counted his life in London as
young man and said that the Presi-
dent had evolved philosophy of
economics and government which
reacts in favor of the rich and the
powerful.
1--WE have had three tragic years
in which want and hunger have in
vaded the land" he said. During
the greater part of that time, the
economic catastrophe and human
suffering we're viewed by the adj
miniStration with puzzled surprise.
1.-The attitude of the administra-
ton has been that of the promoter
who has beguiled gullible public
and then sings his siren song and
unctiously says 1t might have been
worse.
Let the 100000 pounding the
pavements in agony OF soul beg
ging for only chance to work
answer this hypocritical smugness.
Intelligence InsuIted
There is added to the insult to
our intelligence that it might have
been worse, the attempted cruel CO.
ercion of those who still have jobs,
and some constituencies employers
are endeavoring to cajole and force
working men to do their will.
"Despicable as he is, I prefer the
petty precinct politician who braz-
emily buys the vicious vote of the
ward heeler to these callous, So
called captains of industry who
brutally browbeat the men at their
mercy"
Mr.. Hoover, he said, claimed to
be the advance agent of prosperity
and when the depression began
had no conception of what was
happening to the country.
I'VE may grant the good inten-
tons of the President" he con-
tinued. 1--WE may even say that in
the best of faith he always guessed
wrong, but the American people are
justified in concluding that the man
who was at the head of the govern
ment, who was mine of misinfor-
nation, long since exhausted his
usefulness.
No subject, said Johnson, so
plainly mirrors the Presidents mind
as prohibition"