The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-23
BY GEORGE E. HELSfER United Press Stan CoFrcspOndent

United Press Stan CoFrespOndent)
 Sacramento, Cal, March 23-- (UP)--4erbert Hoover today de- clared D at the republican party faces it's greatest crisis since the days of Abraham Lincoln. and called upon the youth of the party to saveathe nation from un-Ameri- can, government.
 In a Strongly-worded message to lthe California republican assembly, the former president broke a tw0- year political silence to demand a rejuvenation of the party and a unity of purpos ein defense of American principles "jeopardized dailysbY regimentation and bureau cratic doninatiOn."
 The reabirth of the republican party. he said. ''transcends any Tersonak interest or the selfish in- terest of any group" and 1t Is the young men and women of the party who must 'igive attention to the drift from national moorings." :"
 He excoriatedt the democratic business, hpancial, relief, labor and Agrariap policies and declared the present administration had made the people ''pawns of a centralized tbAAu
 He demanded a return to 'eco- homie common sense" and to the Fundamental spirit of free men and women" GREATEST RESPONSIBILITY
 Mir. Hoover's message follows: MT. Sherrili Halbert, president. March 22. 1885:
 California republican assembly, Sacramento, California.
 Dear MT. Halbert:
 T am glad to comply with your request for a message to your forthcoming meeting.
 The republican party today has the greatest responsibility that has come to it since the days of Abraham Lincoln. That re- sponsibility is to raise the stand- ard in defense of fundamental American principles. It must fur nish the rallying p o It for all those who believe in these prin- ciples and are determined to defeat those who are responsible for their daily jeopardy.
 T. The American people have directly before them the issue of maintaining and perfecting our system of orderly individual lib- erty under constitutionally con- duct ed government, or of rejecting 1t in favor of the newly created system of regimentation and bureaucratic domination in which men and women are not masters of government but are the pawns or dependents of a centralized and potentially self .perpetuating government. T Il is, shall we as nation stand on the foundations of Americanism: gaining the great powers of progress. inherent in it, correct ing abuses which arise within 1t, widening the security and oppor- tunities that can alone be builded upon it?
 FREE MEN AND WOMEN
 Before us is the si n k into which first one great nation after another abroad is falling. Amer ica must look today, as in the past, to the creative impulses of free men and women, born of the most enterprising and self reliant stock in the world, for productive genius, for expansion of enterprise, for economic re- covcry, for restoration of normal jobs, for increased standards of living, for reform of abuse of governmental or economic pow CTS, and for advance from out worn modes of thought. The freedom of men to think, to act, to achieve, is now being hamper ed.
 "2. The American people have a right to determine for them- selves this fundamental issue, and it is solely through the re- publican party th a t it can be presented for determination at the ballot box. To accomplish this the country is in need of a rejuvenated and vigorous repub- lican organization. That rebirth of the republican party trans- cends any personal interest or the selfish interest of any group, that organization will be the stronger if, like your own ses- sions, 1t springs from the people who believe in these principles.
 "3. 1t is well that the young men and women of the repub- lican party should meet and give attention to this drift from na- tional moorings. Some of the concrete results of these policies are already apparent. The most solemn government obligations