Nogales international., 1932-08-24
EXPONENT OF SAME LIBERALISM

The attempt of Hoover campaign leaders to de
net Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt as radical and,
in some instances as demagogue, apparently IS not
succeeding anv better than the efforts OF the hoover
administration to successfully the country for
the last three years.
Those leaders who so eagerly grab phrase, like
the forgotten man" in recent speech by the Demo
cratic candidate for President who quote an lsol-
ated sentence from his utteranceS concerning the con-
troll Of public utilities in the interest OF fairness to the
public ignored the fact that Governor Roosevelt has
record Of public service that is open to the lnspec-
ton of everybody. It began In the State Senate OF
New York many years ago; it was continued at WasN-
ington in the administration OF the Navy department.
as Assistant Secretary during the White House IN
c1lnbencv Of Woodrow Wilson, including the PERIOD
Of the World War 1t was resumed in later years as
the Chief Executive of the Empire State, which has
q population Of one-tenth Of the entire nation
It is a significant fact that none Of the Hoover
srategsts in their desperation to lind some law In
the qualification of Mr. Roosevelt for the highest
executive office in the nation has cited any act
in that long record to sustain their charge OF radical
ism or demagogy. IF any proof of their assertions
were contained therein, they would have found and
presented it long ago
The record Of most recent events also offers
abundant evidence of the falsty OF the accusations
brought by the Hoover SrategiStS to SrepreSent the
Democratic nominee for President. part Of this
most recent record is the timely publication OF book
written by Mr.. Roosevelt entitled Government, Not
Politics" which contains his views and philosophy OF
government specifically relating to many present
day national problems and issues such as Taxation,
Public Relief Public Utilities, the Tariff Public Cor
r17ption, the Hoover Record Financial Methods of
I927-29 Farm Relief and others.
In review Of this book by Mr.. Arthur Krock,
the Washington correspondent Of the New York
Times and an experienced political analyst in
,nent upon and quotations from the work. delivers
Of fhO
campaign leaders, He says:
1T has often been asserted by critics Of :
Franklin Delano Roosevelt that he
lacks program. There is no lack of pro-
gram here. He has been termed denagogue
and radical There is no denagogy in these
writings AS for radicalism, except :.
for the equalization fee, there is none here
which will not have strong appeal for some
of the most conservative groups in the pop
1lation. The householder, the farmer the la
borer, the artisan, the business man who is
not in the 'captain-of- industry class, wo-
men, social workers and tariff reformers will
find much to commend and little to critic
ize"
The writer asserts that Mr. Roosevelt's prescript
is much more that of Wilson than a Bryan
In other words, Governor Roosevets utterances
show him to be an exponent Of sane liberalism that
makes for enlightened progress, with the safeguards
that protect the interests Of capital and business to
the extent that they cosonant with the interests
Of the body Of citizens and with human rights.
Former President Coolidge, who was reported
to be backing Mr. Hoover, was invited by President
Hoover to represent the Chief Executive at the open
ing of tno Olympic Games in California but de-
clin9d was invited to attend the ceremonies in