Nogales international., 1932-06-25
HooDer OF '32 Same As Hoover Of rs


IT NAV he safely assumed that none OF the VIC
t of the stock market crash in the first year OF the
Hoover Administration and the calamltous depres-
sion heraded will take the keynote speeches OF Sen
ator Dickinson and Representative Smell at the he
publican National Convention with any great oegree
of seriousness Even their political opponents Wlll not
feel in the existing circumstances, like crtlclzlng
them with the severity they would otherwise deserve
It would be no easy task Tor keynoter even thougn
he possessed ''the adroit mind OF an Elhu Root mo
table kevnoter Of Republican National ConyenuoIs)
10 make out anV plausible kind or case Tor HERBERT
Hoover and his Administration. Such effort on the
part Of lesser spokesmen must necessarily nave re-
suited either in humiatlng failure to explain the
acts and utterances OF Mr. Hoover as an executive or
in such hyDerbolc euloqV regardless OF the record as
to make the intended Hoover portrait carlcatlre
and themselves absurd and ridiculous AS no plausible
explanation was possible, the latter course was more
or less inevitable n the present case
It must be admitted that it required some degree
Of reckless hardiAood for the Iowa Senator to tell
even convention made up of about fifty per cent OF
office holders that Herbert Hoover at grips with
the forces Of depression before the country had time
to realize the menace it faced when at the particular
time described the President and his Cabinet
telling the people 'who did not realize the menace
thew faced" that there warrant for their fear
of pessimism and denying that anything disastrous
had happened or asserting that it would all be over
in sixty days.
One does not look for consistency in keynoter
trying to savage SOGIng from TIE WRECK VI di du-
n;stration but it is somewhat amazing to hear Sen
ator Dickinson blaming the Democratic party for post
war Geflation Of agriculture when it is recalled that
he himself said to the Rotary Club Of indianapolis on
April TO- 1923. as reported in the Indianapolis News,
2 Republican paper: "It not alone that Nlr HO0V-
er suppressed the price of farm products without
horizontal reduction OF the price OF things that the Tar
Ier has to buy-With the result that while the whole
country has been going through great period of
prosperity agriculture is depressed and the farmers
alone have operated at loss since the war"
In this same speech, Senator Dickinson said:
'The nomination Of Hoover will be mmedlatey y ac
cepted as victory for big business combinations of
the country His candidacy will have appeal in an
atmosphere of depressed business conditions
employment great change has taken place since
then but the Hoover of 1892 is the same Hoover of
1928 except for the issues of prosperity with sur
1rade and the abolition Of poverty If Senator Dickin
son is not logical he is at least creduous and
trastful
Of Representative Smells speech, it is only neces-
sary to cite couple Of sentences to show how weak
and puere are all the heroes Of the world when
pared with the one Mr.. Smell heroizes.
"No man living or dead Mr.. Smell declared "has
had to grappe with such gigantic problems at hOmei
or abroad Gas Herbert Hoover).2
mo man living or dead Mr.. Smell continued,
"has fought worldwide economic adyersity with sol
stout heart and 50 deep an understanding Gas Her
bert Hooyer).
No one would be inclined to question that the
President has dealt with the depression 70 the extent
Of his ability and understanding after circumstances
and events had compelled him to admit that there was
q depression, nor would anyone wish to deny that
some Of his acts were 1nerOrous But unfortunately
for Mr. SHELLS hyperbOle there is fairly completed
record Of Mr. HOOvers state Of mind concerning the
DEPRESSION This record shows that as late as one year
after the storm broke Pres dent Hoover said, "The|
depression is but temporary halt in the prosperity