Evening star., 1932-01-10
HYDE SEES HOOVER
REELECTION SURE
Agriculture Secretary Boasts
of Presidents Leadership
in Talk TO Women.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January s.-The re-
election Of President Hoover was pre-
dicted today by Secretary Of Agricul-
ture Hyde as he stood beside Mrs.
Hoover addressing the Women's Ma
tional Republican Club.
None but Hoover" he declared, will
be the cry of the voters.
when other men have counselled
despair, Hoover has persisted" he told
the / 100 members Of the club assem-
bled for their eleventh anniversary
luncheon.
When forces beyond the borders Of
this continent have threatened, he has
not hesitated to take such steps as will
best protect his countrymen.
Rejects Passive Doctrine.
"He has refused to accept the doc
krine that the depression must run its
course. He has striven to stay the
process Of disintegration, to reconstruct,
TO build
He may be wrong. He may even be
overwhelmed in defeat, but If he is, he
will go down fighting, not for himself
but for the welfare Of his country. one
thing is certain. He will never dip ms
colors to panic, or bow his head N
submission Of fear"
Secretary Hyde's prepared speech
ended there, but, fearing that those
who read copies Of it might mlScon-
strue the last paragraph, he ADDED:
But he (Hoover) will not pc oe-
feated Already the skies are hltmg
Already the horizons are clearing. Soon
{f NAV be said that the rock upon
which the tempest spent its force was
the faith and courage OF Herbert
Hoover.
And next November, when the
Iegions of our fellow citizens march to
the polls. the universal answer to the
question. Who but HooverP will be,
None but Hoover
Later Secretary Hyde, referring TO
The close of his address, told reporters:
There seemed to be some doubt what
I meant. I was speaking of the de-
preston. not the election. To eliminate
that doubt put the whipcracker on II"
BIames Democrats
In his address he laid the blame for
economic ills at the doorstep of the
Democrats.
Our Democratic friends, in their
anxiety to make political thunder from
the difficult and delicate economic and
international problems which grew out
of these debts (American loans to Eu-
ropean nations)," he said, should
pause long enough to remember it was
woodrow Wilson, William G. McAdoo
and Carter Glass not Herbert Hoover,
who made these loans, nearly $1,000
OOO.0 900 of them, after the war and
without a legal right to do so.
I'VE hear much these days OF over
production as a cause OF our distress.
The vastly increased productive ca
pacity and the monumental surpluseS
which have wrecked price levels fer
agricultural products are the direct re-
suit of the stimulation afforded by the
war
Amid the crash OF governments and
of, financial systems, the United States
has had not even so much disturbance
as a strike of major Importance, and a
dollar is still dollar, both in America
and throughout the world.
do you think that We, as Republi-
cans, should apologize for leadership
which made it possible to say-that2 I
do not apologize for that leadership,
boast Of it,"
Referring to the Democrats, he said:
Apparently their statecraft beings
and ends with beer. The lack of beer
was not the cause Of British distress,
nor has its plentiful supply relieved the
German crisis"
Started Things Upward.
He said on three separate occasions
Hoover started things upward, he
secured the cooperation Of labor and
industry, he suggested the definite post
ponement of international debts for one
year and he proposed the national
credit corporation"
Assistant United States Attorney
General Seth w Richardson, COM
menting on the gathering Of Democra-
tic leaders in Washington, said:
The slogan of our friends in Wash
ington last night was What the Nation
needs is leadership Oh yeah?
DO they mean the Seabury-sick
leadership in the North End of the two
headed monster, or the kind Of leader
ship that is being investigated by the
Hastings Committee in the Sunny
South?
Who wants to come to New York
City and look upon it as testimonial
of the kind of leadership we might
have in the White House?"
Mrs. Worthington, Scranton, Re-
publican national committeewoman
from Pennsylvania, in discussing the
coming campaign, said:
I'VE will have the fight of our lives
1t is the American way to blame the
party in power for all the ills