The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-13
WHY PRESIDENT HOOVER
SHOULD BE REELECTED

Ii ever a President of the United
States deserved reelection on his rec
ord, President Hoover deserves re-
election; and if ever our country need
ed the continued services of Presi-
dent, the United States needs the con-
tinued services of President Hoover.
Confronted with greater difficulties
than any other President has had to
meet in times of peace, if not indeed
in times of either war or peace, he
has been the outstanding leader in
preventing disaster and promoting re-
covery. From the first blast of the de-
preston to the present hour, in every
succeeding crisis, he has been more
resourceful in suggestion, more
prompt in initiative, and more etfec-
! tive in action than any other man or
official, or all others put together.
He closed the door to foreign immi-
grafton. He was the leading factor in
maintaining wages for eighteen
months, thus softening the first blow
of the panic. He promoted public and
private construction running into hum
dreds of millions of dollars and en-
ploying hundreds of thousands of
men. He secured prompt and effec-
tual relief of the drought-stricken
states of 1880. Almost entirely upon
his recommendation, Congress appro-
priated nearly one billion dollars for
the relief of agriculture. He proposed
and carried through the moratorium
which probably saved Europe from
complete collapse and our own coun-
try from untold disaster. In the face
of general skepticism he instituted a
surprisingly successful campaign
against the boarding panic of 1881.
He organized the National Credit Cor
poration to allay the epidemic OF
bank failures and to support the bank
ing credit'of the nation.
Thus, one by one, he dealt with each
new crisis. But the measure of his
craftsmanship was not yet taken. In
December, 1881, he laid before the
Congress a program of reconstruction
and relief so complex, vast and far
reaching, and in its implications so
beneficial to all our people, that it
must rank among the greatest achiev-
ments of any of our Presidents. Most
of this program the President, with
unequalled frmness and persistence,
pushed through Congress, stamping
out meanwhile dangerous proposals
that beset the way. Notwithstanding
assertions to the contrary, this pro-
gram was fundamentally for the re-
lief of the common people-the VIC
tins of misfortune in country, town
and city. Out of it came the Recon-
,, struction Finance Corporation, the
Home Loan Bank System, emergency
relief through help to states and
cities, enlarged relief to agriculture,
the balancing of the budget, the end
ing of the outward flow of gold, the
maintenance of the gold standard, and
the return of confidence in our finan-
cial situation to our own people and
to the world.
President Hoover has grown in stat
ure with these years until, in the
words of the independent Democratic
New York Times, he is "every inch a
President" He is a stronger Presi-
dent than ever before. His experience
is invaluable. He has not only achiev-
ed great good, but he has prevented
great evil. He has stood like a rock
against proposals that would have i'm
perilled, if not wrecked, the financial
structure of the government; and re-
peatedly, during the whole course of
his administration, he has had to sup
ply the courage which Congress woe
fully lacked.
And now, largely through the wis
dom, the courage and the statesmen
ship of the President, the country
seems to have touched the verge of
recovery. To change to untried leader
ship would be to risk reversal or dan
gerous modification of policies and
processes just now coming into ac-
ton and to invest the immediate fu-
ture with an uncertainty peculiarly
deplorable at this critical time.-Win-
MING esSav nv G. Scott Oklahoma