The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-11-24
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beverly HlHS-Well all l know. is
just what I read in the papers and
what I hear as ! listen to Demo-
Gratis like hooking birds in the
tree tops. kinder thought that
when the votes were counted that
we had closed the arguments, but
We seem to have just started EN-,
so as they are still going over EN-
why we just as well join in. You
can never bee too late with a Post
Mortem, cause the corpse will al
ways stay dead till you decide On
what the cause of his death was.
That's one accommodating thing
about a corpse.
Now lets start from the begin
ming. What chance did Mr.. Hoov-
er have at any time, even before
the nominations? Everybody adj
mitted that if things don't pick
up whole lot why Mr.. Hoover
hasent got a ghost of a chance"
Well things dident pick up, every
body knew that. So why did they
run him, or I mean rather why
did he run himself, for naturally
he would be called upon by the
party to run. They never care for
the individual, it's always the old
hooey, "for the good of the party"
Now if Mr.. Hoover had just said,
''Now boys I have done all I can
for the good of the old party. I
have struggled with it, fought every
type of hard luck that was ever
invented, including some invented
by my own party. Now I know the
tide is against me, so why lead me
to the slaughter. If people want a
change so they evidently seem too,
why maby we could lead them to
accept change in our own party,
so just let me drop out. In fact I
don't care for another term
Now you see where he would have
been. Course you will say, Eyes
Will, but this is a second guess you
are making. It's easy to tell after
it's all over what might have been
DONE" But it's not a second guess.
1t was plain to him and all of EN-
all the time. The whole thing
hinged on Things Picking Up"
Well what was to make EN- pick
up. If they haden't picked up in
three years why were they going to
pick up this Fall? A slight gain
wouldent have meant a thing.
Away before the convention in
Chicago, T used to ask "Well why
does Mr.. Hoover run? You all say
that if the election was tomorrow
that he would be overwhelmingly
defeated, that the people just want
change. Why don't he step out
and let me nominate somebody in
his place and save that beating?"
Well they would always tell me.
"Well Will, don't you see that
would be admitting that the Party
had failed? And we couldent do
that You see it all gets back to
the Party. They couldent have
the Party" admit anything. No
sir he must run, whether he wants
too or not, 1--WE must stand for our
principals"
So another good man was sent
out to bite the dust. I'll bet you
that Mr.. Coolidge would have duck
ed EN- if he had been in there I'M
der these same conditions. He
would have mot Choosed" right in
their face. He would have told
EN-, "The running don't look good,
and I am not going in just for the
sake of running second The Good
of the Party" could have gone and
jumped in the lake as far as he
would have been concerned. They
wouldent have said Boys throw
some other good Republican Chris
tian to the lions. see the hand
writing on the wall in electric let
ters."
You see you could get over some
such resignation as this, "Citizens,
I am afraid that my administration
has not been entirely to your salts
faction, and there seems to be de-
cided element in favor of a change.
I have no alabi's to offer, I have no
excuses, I have done my very best.
It seems that it should have been
more. So for the good of all con-
cerned I decline to be a candidate
for reelection. Yours, Herbert
Hoover"
But the PARTY" wouldent have
allowed such a sane and sensible
course. It would have put them in
the hole instead of Mr.. Hoover. He
would have had the sympathy of
everyone, but the Party kept
hanging onto the idea that Things"
might pick up. They did. Demo-
cratic support picked up. But on
the other hand there just seems to
be something about running for
President that you can never get
out of a fellows head.
But its over and I guess every
body did the best they could ac-
cording to what they had to do
with. But I did hate to see a man
that had been as conscientious as
Mr.. Hoover had, take a beating
like that. He dident deserve it, he
deserved a straightforward declina-
ton to run again.