The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-05

word of mouth and in the press are heard commentators of the democrats in congress for expedit- ing the relief measures proposed by the administration, and the president himself in signing the Reconstruction Finance corporation bill made acknowledgment of the non-partisan cooperation he re- ceived. It was therefore a matter of surprise that thre administra- tion spokesmen should have taken this particular time, when the dem- ocratic house and the democratic members of the senate were giving earnest aid to measures designed, at least, to tighten the depression, to inject partisan notes into the situation.
 The first of these came from Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, who made an address in New York, in which, according to the Associated Press report, he "laid the blame for economic ills on the doorstep of the democrats" and made the serious charge that the difficult and economic international prob- lemsm grew out of loans made by the Wilson administration, nearly $2,00O, 100000 of them, after the war and without legal right to do so."
 Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, who, as secretary of the treasury at the time, was named in the accu- sation, caleld the attention of the senate to Secretary Hyde's charge, and characerized it as "malici- ous fabrication in spirit and in ext false from beginning to end"
 The senator presented letter from Secretary of the Treasury Mellon confirming the legality of the loans referred to as in strict conformity with the Liberty Loan acts, which fact, Senator Glass said, the secretary of agriculture might have learned by inquiry at the cabinet table.
 Senator Tess of Ohio, who is al- so the titular head of the repub- lican ratoinal committee, attempt ed to bolster up the Hyde accu- sation by asserting that he had voted against some of the foreign that the loans under discussion "were made by the treasury de- partment with the approval of the president, and congress never acted on one of them," and therefore that the senator "had no oppor- tunity to vote against any of them."
 It transpired that the loans which Senator Fess asserted he had voted against were issued in the Harding administration and one of them was a loan solicited by the present president of the United States.
 No one, of course, accused the ohio senator of making a wilful misstatement concerning his vote. although, it is recalled, Senator Fess once admitted on the floor of the senate on another occasion that he had made a staetment to newspaper correspondent, follow int: a visit to the White House. that twas not true" His excuse was that he wanted "to get it across"
 The third partisan note was sounded by Secretary of War Hur- ley, generally accredited as MT Hoovers pre-convention campaign manager, in speech at Chicago, giving MT Hoover credit for every thing done to relieve the depres- SlOu. AILeT repeating d II lic4uChI- ly made staetment by administra- tion partisans that the president "was the target of vicious propa- ganda to defame his character and ability to gain a political ad- vantage" Secretary Hurley de- clared:
 "But even the critics have been driven by the people to adopt the nrosident'e prOgram.
 The connection between theese two staetments is regarded as more or less obvious, to the effect that the critics who have "defamed the presidents character" are the ones who were forced to adopt his pro- gram; that Is to say the demo- cratic membership in congress.
 It has been frequently shown in public statements issued by respon- sible democratic spokesmen. and fortified with exact quotations. that the only persons who have ever attacked the character of MT Hoover have been leaders of his own party, or the one to which he now belongs.
 The statement of Senator Glass. in refuting the charge by Secre- tary Hyde and confuting the state- ment by Senator Fess. is also re- garded here as having direct bearing on the accusation and im- plication in the speech by Secre-