Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-14
KEYN0TERLAUDS
HOOVER RECORD
Dickinson Tells Convention
That Democrats Failed
in Crisis.
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which confronted the delegates. Chi
Cages thousands, as we'll as the visitors
from every State in the Union, were on
nand to crowd into the huge audi
tcrium
Dickinson Pictures Crisis.
The delegates and the convention
guests were on hand today to listen
to the rumbling of the Republican big
bass drum, the keynote speech of the
temporary chairman of the National
Convention, Senator L. ]. Dickinson of
Iowa.
The keynote speaker did not disap-
point them. Senator Dickinson pic
tured a crisis. He said, in lines that
recall the first great Republican Presi-
Gent OF the United States, Abraham
Lincoln:
Ihreescore and twelve years ago our
Nation was at grips with its most peril
| Gus political crisis. 1t faced the propo-
sltlon of whether this Republic-dedi-
Gated by the blood of patriots on score
OF battleflelds-should endure
In that dark hour the Republican
party gave to the country its first Re-
publican President. Abraham Lincoln.
He preserved the Union and made it
certain that government of the people.
by the people, for the people shall not
perish from the earth
To-day our Nation is in the midst Of
its most perilou economic crisis. 1t
faces the proposition of whether the
fundamental principles upon which 1t
was founded and has grown great shall
be preserved.
In this grave hour the Republican
party meets again in national conven-
ton to nominate another stalwart
American, Herbert Hoover"
Nothing About Prohibition.
The Iowa Senator reused to enthu-
Siasm the great audience with his
praises of President Hoover and the
record he has made as Chief Executive.
He denounced the Democrats-their
efforts to hamstring the Hoover admin
istration and their ineficiency when
placed in control of the House OF Rep
reSentatives.
He discussed the reconstruction plan
of the President, the tariff, radlcalism,
agriculture and national defense and
the need of wiping out crime and the
gangs and racketeers.
OF prohibition the keynote speaker
never said a word.
That issue was left to the convention:
When its Resolutions Committee shall
have brought in aprohibition plank the
floodgates of oratory are expected to
open. A fight on the floor seems in
evitable with the extreme vets and the
extreme drys at each others throats.
and the moderates-represen the
misunderstanding the greatest
number of votes
If the convention declares for resub-
mission, as 1t is expected to do, the
G.. O. P will have taken its first great
step as national party away from the
cause of prohibition. There seems no
other way to interpret it. How long and
how firm step it will take is still to
be determined by the convention.
The flag-this is Flag day-was the
inspiration of the opening address by
Chairman Simeon D. Fess Of the Re-
publican National Committee, who
called the convention to order. Duty
to the flag. and the great Nation over
which it floats. The national anthem
was sung by the Columbus Glee Club
and the audience joined in.
Then came the Bishop of Washington
Right Rev. James E. Freeman, with the
invocation-a solemn moment
Committees Elected.
! Followed the reading Of the call for
| the convention by Secretary Keim Of
the National Committee, and the roll
call of the convention-the so-called
temporary roll.
The convention then elected Senator
Dickinson temporary chairman and he
launched into the keynote speech. When
he concluded, the convention elected its
committees on Permanent Organization
Rules, Credentials, and Resolutions.
Adjournment was taken until tomor-
row morning at IL O'Clock.
Discussing the Republican record"
Senator Dickinson said America was the
last of the great nations to come under
the shadow of the economic storm
cloud
Herbert Hoover" said the keynoter,
was at grips with the forces of depres-
sion before the country as whole had
had times to realize the menace it faced.
His first act averted a financial panic.
Invoking the powers of the Federal Re-
serve Board, he prevented this catas-
trophe.
With the knowledge that every major
economic CONFUSION In the past had
been attended by strikes, riots, blood
shed and death, President Hoovers next
concern was to maintain social order.
10 tlllS emu ne summoned 10 LNe WIlltt
House industrial leaders of the Nation
and obtained from them a promise to
maintain existing wage scales as long
as 1t was possible to do so.
"On the same day leaders of organ
| lied labor sitting around the same con-
ference table, gave their pledge that
| there would be no industrial wage dis
turbances.
Had Herbert Hoover accomplished
no more in this depression, he would
| have done more than all of the other
| Presidents had done in the fourteen
major economic dislocations which have
gone before"
Draws Picture of Program.
Senator Dickinson drew a picture for
the convention Of the program adopted
by President Hoover to meet the de-
preston. His opposition to Federal
dole and the use of the resources OF
the Government to provide work in an
orderly way. He contrasted conditions
in this country with the revolutions
which have shaken foreign nations IN
the years Of depression. And he gave
credit to President Hoover for prevent
ing still further collapse abroad by his
prompt action last June to bring about
a suspension of intergovernmental debts
and reparations
The President, he said. had worked
out the National Credit Association
with half billion dollars to assist
weaker banks and to end the war of