Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20

OPINION
DIVIDED
Unable To Agree About
Hooyer's Part During
Campaign.
GET WIRES MIXED
Republican Comment On
Roosevelt Speech h Is
Contradictory.
By RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent


United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright. 1882, BY United Pres0
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-Divis-
ion in the cabinet is responsible for
the delay of President Hoover in
making known his campaign speak
ing plans.
Secretary of Treasury Ogden
Mills is urging Mr.. Hoover to re-
main in Washington as originally
contemplated. Secretary OF War
Hurley, just back from the west, Is
telling Mr.. Hoover that he must go
out to the country if he expects to
win the election.
The barrage of conflicting advice
has been pounding on President
Hoover ever since the Maine elec-
ton returns week ago. 1t reached
an intensive stage over the week
end. Some fear that unless MIR.
Hoover intervenes and cuts off the
controversy major schism which
might weaken the morale of the
party organization may result. Ad-
viserS are lining up on one side or
the other. The question of wheth-
er the Republican strategy shall be
revised in the midst Of the battle
by sending Mr.. Hoover out on the
stump threatens to obscure all
other matters within the party gen.
eral staff until it is settled.
Republicans have ceased to treat
Governor Roosevelt lightly. The
Republican comment on his Salt
Lake City railroad speech was that
| it had been cribbed from President
Hoover
The Republican national commit
tee view was authoritatively stated
by Secretary of Labor Doak when
he said that Mr.. Hoover had rec
commended to congress the very
plans which Mr.. Roosevelt now
adopts as his own"
Considerable surprise therefore
was caused when a few hours later
Senator Hatfield, Republican, West
Virginia, after a conference with
Mr.. Hoover drew from his pocket
typewriter statement which COM
mented on Roosevelt's Salt Lake
speech as follows: This is not
presidential stuff. 1t is the kind
of economic nonsense that one
would expect from visionary, or
a peddler of dreams"
Mills Puzzled
Secretary of Treasury Mills, who
has supervised most of the Repub-
lican propaganda, threw up his
hands when he read Hatfields
statement. He declined to trust
himself to public comment.
Mills wants President Hoover to
sit in Washington and educate the
country as to the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation by radio talks.
He believes the Republican fight
should be staked largely on the r.
F. c.. He is soon to leave for the
coast on speaking tour of which
the climax will be an address to the
American Bankers convention at
Los Angeles. He believes similar
trips by other cabinet members will
be sufficient.
Hurley on the other hand feels
that the cabinet has fired its heav-
lest shots already and that the
President himself must take up the
battle. Some of the Presidents
advisers believe that the party will
have to talk about something be-
sides the R. F. G. to win the farms
states, where mortgage foreclosures
are taking farms away from their
owners and throwing them on the
hands of banks and trust COM
panies. In fact some advisers ques-
ton whether Mills, with his New
York financial background, is like
ly to win support for the admins
tration In the western states.