The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-12
G.O.P.LEADER
HURLS BOMBS
AT OWN PARTY
Republican Methods and
Record Are LaShed by
Lafayette Publisher.
SLABS AT jim WATSON
Dry Stand, Tariff and
Home Loan Bank As
sailed by Marshall.
BY BEN STERN

An amazed and affronted Repub-
lican leadership today anxiously
awaited the public reaction to the
searching indictment of party poll
cies and behavior leading to the
November reputation, presented by
Henry Marshall, Lafayette pub
Usher.
Importance of Marshall in the
party picture gave added weight to
his criticisms of the party record
and the management of the cam
paign, which he presented in a pa
per entitled Surveying the
Smashup," at the G. o. P Editorial
Association meeting Sunday. The
session was held at the Columbia
Club.
So pertinent was Marshall'S criti-
cism that it brought an almost
screaming denial from Edward Ev-
erett Neal, internal revenue collec-
tor and Hoover Robinson ap-
pointee.
UphOldS Hoover Record
Neal upheld the Hoover record
and predicted that he would be re-
nominated and reelected to the
White House in 1886. Applause
which had accompanied his talk up
to that point halted abruptly, and
H. R. Misener, Michigan City pub
Usher, rose to state that he hoped
no false impression of an indorse-
ment of Hoover for four years hence
would be created.
Marked silence greeted Marshall's
survey.
He prefaced his address with a
statement which was taken as a
yelled slap at the proposed teSti-
monial dinner to Senator James E.
Watson, saying:
Those who worship discredited
leaders or are too blindly partisan
to see the light may not relish a
statement of truth, but those Re-
publicans who earnestly seek light
and the rejuvenation and restora-
ton of their party to power will see
the truth in the survey and analysis
which we shall present"
Stout Given Credit
He gave George w. Stout, Lafay-
cite editor, credit for aiding him in
preparing the survey.
Marshall described how the In
diana G. o. P. platform contained
a common sense declaration for dry
law repeal.
He told how the fight for SINH
lar plank was carried to the ma
tional convention at Chicago.
Federal appointees and cabinet
members, in control of certain
groups of delegates, prevented the
convention majority from register
ing free expression of honest
sentiment, and in place of that
clear-cut Indiana plank, the con-
trolling forces in the convention put
over a meaningless hodge-podge of
phrases, which, very obviously, were
intended to confuse, to mislead, and
to avoid burning issue, bound to be
a large factor in the election" he
said.
Marshall scored the Indiana cam
paign, asserting the party organiza-
ton, misled by platform evading
state chairman Ca reference to
Ivan C. Morgan) and by side
stepping candidates, scrapped it's
platform and blunderingly at
tempted to base its claims for pub
lie favor upon the discredited tariff
bill, even going to the length of adj
vocating still higher tariffs, and the
home loan bunk"
Republicans in the special ses-
sion last summer ran away from
their own party pledges. And pub
lie confidence again was forfeited"
Raps at Hoover
Marshall told how the nation
looked .anxiously to Hoover for a
demonstration of leadership quail
ties. sincerity and forcefulness.
THE test came with the Hawley-
Smoot tariff BILL" Marshall said.
THE greatest opportunity that ever
came to President was within
Hoover'S reach.
But President Hoover signed the
bad faith bill and wrote his one
way ticket out of the White House.
He missed his chance to be a great
leader"
Prohibition Party to Meet
Plans for the future will be laid