Evening star., 1935-03-24
NEW DEAL LASHED
BY COL. ROOSEVELT.
Joins Hoover in Charging
Spending Policy Leads
US. to Bankruptcy.

SACRAMENTO, Calf, March 23'-
Former President Herbert Hoover and
Col. Theodore Roosevelt launched
caustic attacks today on the national
administration and called for re-
birth of the Republican party.
Both said the Democratic Roosevelt
regime was pointing the country to-
ward bankruptcy. They urged the
Nation to reject the administration
brand of bureaucracy" and regimen
tation."
Whether the Hoover pronouncement
signifled the PREPARATION for his active
appearance in the 1886 political arena
was the subject of varying opinions.
He left one possible clue, however,
when he said:
"+ Rebirth of the Republican
party transcendS any personal inter-
est or the selfish interest of any
group"
At another point he said:
The productive genius of our
people, which is the sole road to re-
covery and increased standards of
living, is being stif1ed, the Nation i'm
poverished instead of enriched. The
theories of this administration do not
work"
inexperienced Bureaucracy"
Col. Roosevelt. a distant cousin of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
charged in an address prepared for
delivery before the California Repub-
lican assembly today that the present
administration is "hampering recov-
cry by an insensate mass of regula-
tions imposed on farming and busi-
ness by a narrow, inexperienced
political bureaucracy"
The Hoover statement was a letter
to the annual convention of the as
sembly, group of young party men,
bers who applauded it fully five min
utes. The former President did not
attend, being in Berkeley to take part
in the University of CALIFORNIA; char
ter day program. There he was given
an honorary degree and applauded
as champion of American individ-
ualism."
A vote Of deepest appreciation"
was given the former Chief Executive
after Sheriff. Halbert. presiding,
shouted:
He never had a fair chance when
he was President
No one present would comment on
whether they considered the message
a bid for consideration as 1886 pres
idential contender.
Merriam Silent.
Gov. Frank F. Merriam, head of
the party IL California, did not attend
the first sessions and made no COM
ment.
The former Chief Executives mes
sage charged that the most solemn
Government obligations have been
repudiated. The Nation is faced with
the greatest debt ever known to our
country. The currency has been rem
oered uncertain
The attack of Col. Roosevelt, presi-
dent of the National Republican Club
of New York, was no less severe.
Our national policies today predi-
cate national bankruptcy and there
fore the destruction of the Nation and
the ruin of the people" he said.
Two years have passed since the
present administration took Office and
conditions are little better than they
we're then. One-siXth of our people,
about 100000 are on relief in one
form or another.
Other countries of the world have
made great strides toward recovery,
though handicapped by foreign dan
ger and internal dissensions to far
greater extent than we are.
FLASHES of Activity"
"All we have seen in this country
are occasional flashes of activity
brought by Government expenditures
as brief and as useless as the rally of
a dying man under drugs. ="
Col. Roosevelt said the Government
had crippled confidence by tampering
with the currency; destroyed "a per-
centage of the value of the savings
accounts of forty to fifty million
Americans and of the life insurance
policies of $4,000 900 American policy
holders"
He charged the administration had
'piled up a gigantic and largely un-
necessary debt that will cling to the
shoulders of our people like the old
man of the sea-
He called for balancing of the budget
by abandoning the N. r. A, the
A. A. A. and other such agencies; by
the discharge of more than 100000
people who are now living off the
public; by curbing of colossal waste"
of works funds and by deporting thou
sands Of aliens now on relief.
AS even the most drastic action of
the type have outlined will not suf-
fee" he said I'VE should carefully |
consider and revise our taxes up
wards"
1T is the eleventh hour" he added. |
Let the words go through the Nation. |
Let the minutemen rally!"