Evening star., 1932-10-21
GARNER QUESTIONS
HOOVER ON RECORD
Speaker Asks President to
Explain Why Promises Have
Not Been Carried Out.
BY tie Associated Press.

BY tie Associated Press.
In Speaker Gamers opinion, Presi-
dent Hoover must tell the country why
the premises which he made in other
days have not been carried out"
Mr.. Hoover must do more than
said last night in formal statement.
"He must answer on his record"
The Democratic vice presidential cam
didate quoted from both the 1923 and
1892 campaign addresses Ct the Presi-
dent. He said. in part:
Mr.. Hoover cannot disregard the
fact, which the country we'll knows, that
he Goes not start with clean slate in
any discussion Of the present Nation
wide unemployment and distress. =
He must say why the promises which
he made in other Gays have not been
carried out. This he very carefully
avoided
Quotes 1928 Speech.
'I find cnly one 1928 statement by
which Mr.. Hoover in his recent utter
anceS still stands in part This state
ment was made in Newark in 1923,
when he said: The measure of our
national prosperity or our stability. of
our hope of further progress at this
time. is a measure of what We may risk
through a change in present policies
Mr.. Hoover, no doubt. would like to
strike from that sentence today the
reference to national prosperity"
Gamers statement continued:
AT Cleveland Mr.. Hoover said:
Nowhere do find the slightest refer
ence in all the statements of the Oppo-
sition party to the part played by the
greatest war in history; the inherit9nceS
from it may have had the re-
motest thing to 90 with the calamity
against which this administration is
fighting
There is similar lack of recognition
of this new found theory when we re-
view the record of Mr.. Hoover.
In San Francisco speech of 1923, he
said The outlook of the world today
is for the greatest era of commercial
expansion in history. The rest of the
world will become better customers.
Again in his speech of acceptance of
that year he very definitely put an end
to the postwar period when he said:
Our problems of the lcsG seVen years
have been problems of reconstruction.
Our problems of the future are prob
lens of construction. They are prob
lens of progress
In that statement, Mr.. Hoover posi-
lively placed the postwar period behind
him. yet in his Cleveland speech he
endeavors to resurrect it for alibi pur-
poses.
In attempting to defend Republican
ignorance of the advent of the depres--
sion. President Hoover in his Cleveland
speech said: I did not notice any
Democratic jeremiah
The partyy in power, with all the
Information and resources OF Govern
ment at its command, cannot escape
responsibility by saying that it was not
warned from the outside. l coubt
whether any one will accept such
remark as a substitute for sound rea-
soning.
Cites Madison Square Talk.
"The Democratic party contained no
false prophets such as the spokesmen
of the Republican party curing that
period. There is nothing in the record
to show that any Democrat made
fallacious claim like President Hoovers,
when. in his 1923 speech at Madison
Square, he said:
Prosperity is no idle expression. 1t
Is a lob for every worker; it is the
safety and safeguard of every business
and every home. A continuation Oh
the policies of the Republican party Is
fundamentally necessary to the future
advancement of this program and otner
future building up OF this prosperity.
mo Democrat promised, as MI
Hoover did, on the very threshold OF
the present crisis, that measures hao
been taken to prevent such a nap
pening."