The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-16
NEW DEAL CRY
is SOUNDED IN
C. 0. P. RANKS
Modern Pep to Save Party
From Fate of Wings Is
Held Need.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press STAN Correspondent

bI hA1MOND CLAPPER
United Press STAN Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1s.-Agita-
ton for new deal" is spreading
into the Republican party.
There is cry for new faces. new
ideas and youth. New pep is being
called for to save the party from
the same sort Of dying old age that
overcame the once mighty Wing
party.
The most powerful voice raised
thus far in behalf of summoning
fresh blood to the Republican cause
comes from one of the oldest heads
in the party-Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler of Columbia university, who
was presidential candidate with
Taft twenty years ago. He says the
hope Of the party lies in youth.
1t is natural for leaders of a
party to have dark fears for the
future after an overwhelming de-
feat. But the Republican situation
at the moment is something more.
Retire Old-Time Leaders
The voters formally have put a
period at the end of Republican
generation in retiring such long
time leaders as Senator Reed Smoot
(Rep., Utah. When Smoot first
came to Washington, Franklin
Roosevelt was a Harvard college
boy.
They have retired Senator James
Watson (Rep., Ind), who came to
congress before any one outside of
the navy ever had heard of Admiral
Dewey. Cleveland was President
then.
They have retired Senator Wesley
f. Jones (Rep., Ore), who first
came to congress about the time
Theodore Roosevelt and his rough
riders were doing their triumphal
march up Fifth avenue after San
Juan hill.
They have retired Senator George
Moses, who furnished more than
his share of the brains in the fight
against the League Of Nations.
These defeats strip the senate of
its Oldest regular Republican
leaders.
Need Presidential Material
The situation is much the same
with regard to presidential material.
Almost the only name mentioned
now is that of Treasury Secretary
Ogden Mills.
The party is faced with the
equally important task of develop
ing issues which will attract new
timber.
A million young men and women
reach voting age each year. Since
the World war ended, probably
100000 persons have reached vot-
ing age.
College men and women who
voted for the first time in this cleo
ton can not remember the start of
the European war. They just were
emerging from kindergarten when
the Armistice was signed.
These young men and women.
seeing doors slammed in their faces
by the depression, are thinking
more and more about public ques-
tons.
Youngsters Consider Politics
Tho mo cro 1iY,oc oro f,,1I &c o,.+;oIo-
on politics by youngsters still in
college or barely out They testify
that many of their classmates are
thinking seriously of entering poll
tics.
Senator Hiram Bingham (Rep.,
Conn.,, just defeated for re-elec-
ton in Connecticut, has son who
is just out of Yale, and is starting
a magazine which is announced as
friendly to Socialism and political
experiments.
1t is significant that an appeal
for new deal in the Republican
party, for reorganization toward
a more liberal point of view, should
come from the head of America S
largest university, and one where
there is high percentage of po-
litical-minded youth in the student
body.
Skeptical Over Experiments
The difficulty raised by politicians
here in answer to such SuggeS-
tons is that the party experimental
with a nonprofessional so-called
liberal in Mr.. Hoover.
He is the first President who had
not served an apprenticeship in
running for Office. Old-time politi-
clans were skeptical of him before
he was nominated in 1928.
Many of them are more convinced
than ever now that the party
should stick to graduates of its own
school of politics.