Evening star., 1932-11-02
ASKS PROGRESSIVE
| AID FOR ROOSEVELT
Senator Johnson Flags Lead
ership of G. o. P. Under
Hoover.
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, November Hiram
Johnson. United States Senator from
California, called upon Prcgressives OF
the State last night to support the
Democratic ticket next Tuesday as they
supported the Progressive movement in
California in 1910. when I'VE had q
Republican party dominated by a cor
rupt machine ="
Playing Wall Street and "big bust
ness" party regularity and the leader
ship of the Republican party under
President Hoover, Senator Johnson, in
a campaign speech, held out to his
audience "the Roosevelt philosophy.
He said it speaks the hopes and the
aspirations of this common humanity
demanding for all alike, rich and poor
high and low, big and little, the same
rights in government, and insisting that
the blessings Of government shall not be
showered upon selected class"
Cites Hoover Promises.
Remarking that President Hoover
upon entering the White House, out
lined an ambitious program to Danish
"the poor house from the land and very
soon thereafter all poverty" the Sen
ator said that IF 1t were prophecy OF
what superman could do, what an
awful realization we have had"
"The poorhouse may have vanished, v
he continued, but the multiplication
of the souphouse has been perplexing
to some of us whose thoughts were first
about humanity.
six months after the great crash OF
1929, when Americans began to tighten
their belts and business looked askance
at what was happening and what was
likely to come, the great economist IN
the White House, with all the power OF
propaganda that was his, told our people
that all the evidences indicated that
the worst effect of the crash upon en-
ployment would have passed within the
next go days
Upon what theory such perfectly
silly and unfounded statement was
made to our country, none can tell. -
Unable to Understand.
"The fact is that the President was
utterly unable to understand American
psychology or the American people. He
had lived in a different atmosphere;
his environment had been one utterly
at variance with ours; his activities had
been confined to the London stock mar
ket, where the only philosophy was as
he early in his career expressed it: The
great science of getting the most money
out of some other human being
OF party regularity, the Senator con-
tended that party ties which may bind
the Progressive Republican in ordinary
times, sit lightly upon him in times Of
great national stress and he would
rather be man without party than
an American without people"
Comparing the situation which con-
fronted Progressives in California ir
1910 with that existing today, the Sen.
ator said:
"Then we had a Republican party
dominated by corrupt machine, with
pilots at the helm like Harry
Chandler CLOS Angeles publisher) ano
his ilk. We were. then unafraid In this
State, and all the big and little Chan
dlers we're incontinently kicked out OF
the government by our Progressive rev.
olution.
Similar Situation Here.
To-day, nationally, quite similal
situation confrontS us. One philosophy
of government represented by the Chic
Executive believes in the divine r1gh
of big business to exploit all the res
of the people. It Is the philosophy o
government of the MELONS and Wares
the Morgans and the Millses, and th'
big and little Chambers Of Southern
and Northern California. 1t is th'
philosophy long since repudiated b.
| Progressives unafraid In this State"
Citing the philosophy Of Gov. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic presi
Dental nominee, he said it was Is
philosophy of government for which W,
have ever contended in this State
which we were proud to uphold In tn
glorious old days and which I an
proud to uphold in 1882"