Evening star., 1932-11-08
SANDERS DEFENDS
HOOVER'S RECORD
Adversity Has Brought Out
Real Master, G. O. P.
Chairman Says.
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO. november 6.-Cnalrman
Everett Sanders of the Republican Ma
tional Committee in a final appeal for
votes said in an address last night that
the real Herbert Hoover" has been
brought out in relief by forces Of ad-
yersity
Sanders credited the President with
nlasterful leadership in assuming direc-
ton of combined efforts to oust eco
ncmc difficulties
Critics of the President. he said,
"lacked the abilities to measure the
emergencies of the hour. the courage
to grapple with them and vision to pro-
pose some solution"
The Nation, Sanders said. and its
people, have Jared better than any
other nation or people in this troubled
world" While other nations suffered
revolution and economic destruction,
Sanders said, the American Govern
ment passed through the period with
little disorder and with the national
currency remaining sound. Sanders
said in part:
1T is related that when the great
artist. Michelangelo, was at work
upon the masterpiece which beauties
the Sistine Chapel. there were those
who. because of envy or lack Of under
standing. stood by to criticize and per-
suaded others to do so. Unmindful Of
the criticisms, Michelangelo pursued
his work in silence When he had fin
ished. the clear outlines of his painting
appeared free from distractions and
those who had scoffed were awed by the
subimity and beauty of that immortal
masterpiece So it has been, over and
over in the world of art, science and
government.
Work Vindicated by Time.
Time vindcated the work of those
who were criticized and grateful peo-
pie held them in high honor.
The record of President Hoover and
his administration establishes a new
high mark of constructive statesman
ship in this or any other country. The
President instantly took the initiative
in handling those problems which pre-
sent themselves at the beginning OF
every great economic upheaval.
Herbert Hoover held it to be the
first DUTY of the President of the
United States when his Nation and his
countrvmen were face 10 face with
economic disaster to take command
Just as surely as such would be his duty
in event of a military crisis. Moreover
1t was the natural thing for him to do
because of his desire to be Of service
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keeping with the philosophy and the
deeds Of his whole life.
Nevertheless. it marked the first
time that any President-With the sin
gle exception of Theodore Roosevelt,
during the panic of 1907-whose ad-
ministration was overtaken by economic
disaster or threat of it, had actively
concerned himself and assumed the per-
sonal responsibility Of graphing with
the SITUATE providing corrective
measures for the moment and seeking
preventives against like occurrences.
Previously. from the days Of Polk down
to the administration Of Cleveland, a
national depression was regarded by
public officials and business leaders
alike, as something closely akin to the
legal act of God which could neither
be averted abated or shortened. 1t was
permitted to run its course. like fever
until it had consumed the substance
and vigor of all private enterprises and
exhausted the savings of the people.
Man of Initiative.
But Herbert Hoover sent to the
scrapheap of dead things that doctrine
of political and economic fatalism that
what is to be will be. He called upon
the spirit of America to assert itself
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pealed for the application of the good,
old-fashioned American principle Of
sound finance, public economy, conserv-
ative business methods, and, above all,
refusal to yield to the temptation Of
political magic and economic quackeries.
1T is a statement. conservative in
truth, that under Herbert Hoover's
leadership during these three years, this
Nation and its people have Jared bet
ter than any other nation or people In
this troubled world. This three-year
economic upheaval has taken terrible
toll from the nations of the world.
Over dozen have experienced revoiu-
tions and been overthrown. Nearly 80
collapse and their national currency
debased in value and purchasing power.
The greatest tribute that has been
paid the President has been unwittingy
paid him by those critics who have
repeatedly denounced him for having
attempted to keep up the courage of
the American people by leading them
to believe that if they carried on in
true American spirit they would over
come their economic difficulties.
There is a proverb that he who
faces the sun will never see the shad-
ow' The most helpful task President
low countrymen during the dark days
was keeping their faces toward the sun
until the shadows began to shorten. The
American eagle that faces the sun. and
not the croaking raven, is still the en-
blem of these United States, and the
American people are thankful that
they have had during this critical period
q man In the White House who fully
recognized that fact.
yet a few hours and the American
electorate will have again exercised the
high privilege of free and Self-govern-
ing people What it decides will be OF
deep and vital concern to the American
people 1t will be Of relatively small
concern to Herbert Hoover himself.
His work during the Great War in
behalf of the Impoverished starving war
peoples of Europe. his work In this
country in the various flood areas. and
his work during the present crisis re-
minds one of the tabled harp. In times
of calm and sunshine it was mute. but
when the clouds gathered and the storm
broke and the winds played upon the
strings, the strains of its music would
be heard by all the people and gave
them belief that the harp was being
played upon by the hand of an unseen
power who "ordereth all things we'll
and that was his message of good cheer
So with assurance they waited the pass
ing of the storm and the coming Of the
sun. The wind of adversely beating
upon Herbert Hoover has given the
American people, his fellow country
men, the true measure Of the nobility
OF his character"