The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-27
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Vacillating Republicans

Facilitating Republicans
First President Hoover was to stay
at his desk and the Herculean task
of coaxing back prosperity in time to
roll up a Republican victory in No.
vember.
Then came Maine which put sim
lister and dark clouds upon the po-
litical horizon.
Following that came Secretary Pat
rick Hurley,s bungling trips to the
American Legion convention and
Huron, S. D. The fiery, immaculate
member of Hoover's cabinet made no
votes for the Republican presidential.
nominee at either place.
Walter H. Newton, Minneapolis
citizen and former member of con-
gress, now a Hoover liaison secretary,
returns hurriedly from Minnesota
and tells his chief that swing around
the midwest circle is imperative. A
few weeks ago, Mr.. Newton was re-
ported as having advised the presi-
dent against speaking tour.
There is every surface indication
that Franklin D. Roosevelt is win
ming the west. He is the beneficiary
of the general social unrest and
marked tendency on the part of the
people TO turn the "ins" out of office.
Many political writer's have noted
that strange psychology Of the vari-
GUS primary campaigns. The "ins"
nave suffered high mortality rate
and President Hoover, whether justly
or not, is in no different category
than the other "ins.
These factors then have produced a
bewildering vacillation in Republican
campaign headquarters. Such times
call loudly for master manipulators Of
the type of Mark Hanna, Boise Pen
rose, Murray Crane and Boss Barnes
of Albany.
In their place, President Hoover is
surrounded by group of political
novices. Some of them are college
presidents, others great captains Of
industry: men used to super stuffed
office appointments and plenty of
push buttons to summon the lackeys.
They may know business and educa-
tional currents; they probably can
write ponderous theses upon the
trend in international thought, but
they don't know how to carry ward
at an election. When it comes to po-
litical window dressing they are help
less.
President Hoover seemingly has no
place to turn in the emergency. He
is beset by host of advisers with as
many plans for winning back popu-
larity that was his in 1928.
Senator Borah was on the stump in
that campaign. Charles Evans Hughes,
now chief justice, did yeoman serv-
ice. There were words of encourage
ment from President Coolidge and
even the insurgent Republicans in
the senate, with the exception of
Norris of Nebraska, did nothing to
embarrass Mr.. Hoover.
Today there is no party solidarity.
A great engineer who may understand
what is the matter with the machine
and whose plan, if given time, may
steady conditions. is lacking in all po-
litical sense. His cabinet members
are like babes in the political woods.
They just blunder on. Attorney Gen.
eral Mitchell's statement concerning
criminality among the bonus march,
ers, il true, which is severely chal-
lenged, Is one shining example Of how
Mr.. Hoover is being victimi7ed by the
political boners Of his well-wishing
friends whom one prominent politi-
clan once prayed his Creator to be
delivered from. His enemies, he de-
clared, were less formidable.
Many lame-ducks have been pressed
into the Republican campaign. Con-
gresham Hawley Of Oregon, who has
been repudiated in his own district. is
to campaign for Hoover among the
farmers who execrate when the
dmoot-Hawley bill Is even mentioned.
They 'sgot" Hawley for the part he
played in it and many Of Hoover's
friends don't know to this day why
the president signed such an iniqui-
tous tariff measure which, along with
the farm board, has damned the adj
ministration most soundly. There are
many other political leaders, long since
relegated by their constituents, Sc
locted to carry the Hoover message to
Garcia. One more incident is suffi-
ctent. Press dispatches state that