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The Presidents speech of acceptance was more than an
honest, able, lucid document; it was the utterance Of a man
who, in the course of the four turbulent years which have passed
since he spoke to the nation from Palo Alto, has experienced
a mighty growth in leadership.
The metamorphosis of Herbert Hoover from the eager and
inouiring student of politics and government in 1928 to the Pres
has been gradual but no one can fairly doubt, after his address
of Thursday night, that II mas been accomplished. Here MT.
Hoover stood on the solid rock of conviction; here there was
not the slightest trace of waverlng or lndeclslon; here was sim
plicity and holiness and sefassurance which marks the man
who knows, within himself, that he has met realities and con-
quered them.
The directness, clarity and candor of Mr.. Hoovers speech
of acceptance can hardly fail to confound and embarass those
critics who have recently attempted to picture him as one con-
tinuany beset by doubts and uncertainties. The President not
only told where he stood on the question of prohibition in terms
which no n could mistake; he took a positive and fortnight
stand, and one which was wholly impossible of misinterpretation,
on virtually every issue that confronts the country today. Mr..
Hoover is squarely for changing the eighteenth amendment and
squarely against the saloon. He IS urequivocably in favor of
a protective tariff. He stands squarely against cancellation Of
the war debts unless "some tangible form of compensation" is
offered the nation. He is definitely opposed to the federal gov
eminent undertaking the operation of the power business He
will insist on a. policy of rigidly restricted immigration. We
will approve no plan of disarmament which does not guarantee
the United States absolute security against invasion. He is
not in favor of agricultural subsidies OF a bureaucratic govern
ment control of farm production.
Down the list of issues Mr.. Hoover went, and never once
did he falter or equivocate or straddle. In his exposition of
the principles and policies his administration has pursued in
the depression, he neither weasened nor apologized, but stated
the case for them in a logical and unimpassioned manner. 1t
was not a more honest and sincere Hoover who spoke on Thurs
day night, but it was a Hoover who stood on surer ground, who
had established his convictions on the bedrock of experience
and observation, who had been seasoned and matured by four
wears of harsh contact with realities. 1t was a Hoover whose
leadership had been put to test in a series of sharp engage
ments with congress and which had proved itself effective be-
yond the fondest hope of his admirers. 1t was a Hoover who
had outived his reputation for political tyroism, for tactlessness,
for vacillation and who had emerged as a President who walked
confidently and unafraid along the course which he had charted.
Mr.. Hoover may still be no politician, in the ordinarily a-
cepted sense of the word. but that he is an intellectually honest
and tremendously sincere man who knows where he is going,
there can be no room for doubt. The myth of the President who
lives vaguely in the realm of doubt and indecision, thanks to
his brilliant address of acceptance, has been grandly disipated
and has definitely passed, we hope, from the campaign picture.
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