The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-06-21
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II E@NA4
here that Herbert Hoover Ii really
an active candidate for the Republican
nomination against President R0ose-
welt next year Is the biggest comfort
the New Dealers get out OF the SUI
preme court decision. It Is the silver
lining to the constitutional cloud that
put the New Deal In the shadow.
That the Republicans would actual
y nominate Hoover Il too much.
friends Of President Roosevelt say pri-
vately, to hope for. But the mere
candidacy Of Mr.. Hoover at the con.
venti0n would produce q feeling Of Bit
~terness comparable to that which dis
tressed the Democrats after Madison
Square garden. It would lack the re-
ligious element. and even the pro-
hibition element. but 1t would be pretty
bad, they think. and with fair logic.
All this is based. OF course, on two
factors, either OF which may change.
One 10 that at present It appears like
u the issue Of the next campaign will
be rugged individualism versus govern
ment control Of wages, hours and trade
practices, and planned economy to pre-
vent overproduction, etc. Or, as the
New Dealers prefer to state II, the New
Deal versus the old law Of tooth and
claw. .E ye
The ideal candidate Of the Repub-
licans on such an issue would have
been Calvin Coolidge. But Coolidge IL
dead. Mr.. Hoover's views an to gov
eminent, business. and every point In
volved fit him ideally, almost, for the
leadership Of the opposition to Roose-
welt Also, as the last Republican
President. he Is the titular leader Of
his party.
But when that has been said for
Hoover, everything has been said, In
the opinion Of the New Dealers. His
weakness, as they see II, Is that he
IL branded in the eyes Of the country
not only as a failure. but as unlucky.
And the last is almost worse than the
irst. S*
It pleases the Roosevelt supporters
to recall that It was during Hoover's
administration that the public lost 80
much money and that so many lost
their Jobs. They point to the success
sion Of events that led deeper into
the depression and call them q sue
cesslon Of Hoover mistakes
Material Scarce
students of mass psychology insist
that once the public mind is frozen
about a man IT Is next to impossible to.
thaw that conviction out. It just sticks
there. For example, william Jennings
Bryan. The truth is he had a fairly
good chance OF being elected President
the first time he ran Only the most
adroitly managed campaign In history.
plus an enormous campaign fund, plus
intelligent and ruthless corporations
with Republicans BY employers Of la
Dor. defeated him.. E
Yet for some, curious reason Bryan
was stamped as a failure In the sight
OF the country. His campaigns after
that time were Just jokes. As one of
the Tammany orators said at Balti-
more. In 1912, -For Gods sake, Mr..
Bryan. get out Of the way and give the
Democrats aeehances
The other factor that seems to point
to Mr.. Hoover is the scarcity of other
available Republican,. One thinks
quickly Of Observation-Disclosures Sen
ator-Wadsworth. OF New York. But
the forces opposed to him for one rea-
son or another are still very strong
In New York state. NOTABLY the old