Evening star., 1935-11-24
NEW DEAL INVITES
HOOVER CANDIDACY
Farley and Guffey Attack
Former President-Cabinet
Shifts Rumored.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

!. Postmaster General Farley and Sena-
tor Guffey of Pennsylvania-replied
] last night to the recent New York
s speech in which former President
j Hoover attacked the New Deal.
!. In effect, they invited another
J Roosevelt Hoover contest for the pres
! 1dency.
7 Meanwhile the cabinet reports had
s st that Attorney General Cummings
before long would step out and Sem
ator Robinson Of Arkansas, veteran
leader of his party in the Senate,
: would be appointed in Cummings
/. place.
) Friends of the Attorney General
discounted the report, insisting there
was no disposition on the part Of
the President to have Cummings leave.
Senator Robinson frequently has been
. mentioned as a probable appointee to
the Supreme Court, whenever a va
J. cancy occurs. The suggestion that he
, be appointed Attorney General held
also the implication that this would
be q stepping stone to later appoint
!. nent to the bench.
: Originally Slated for Philippines.
} Cummings was the Presidents
fchoice originally to become Governor
General of the Philippine Islands. On
the death of Senator Walsh of Mon
tana, Just before the Inauguration Of
President Roosevelt, the President
d, picked Cummings to take the
post of Attorney General. for
which Walsh had been slated. At
the time, it was said the appointment
of Cummings might be temporary.
: Cummings, however, fitted into the
i office so well nothing has been done.
Senator Robinson comes up for re-
I. nomination and reelection next year.
Not long ago the cabinet makers" in
t. Washington had Cummings leaving to
!. return to the private practice of law,
) with Senator Barkley of Kentucky as
( his successor as Attorney General.
Apparently the Democratic high
command deems it necessary to make
. reply to the campaign which Mr..
. Hoover has launched against the New
Deal. So Chairman Farley of the
Democratic National Committee,
I speaking last night in Portland, Oreg.,
! and Senator Guffey. chairman of the
Democratic Senatorial Committee,
{: speaking here over the radio, aimed
: shafts at the former President. Both
=, insisted Hoover was the logical Re-
I: publican nominee for President-the
:. antithesiS of the New Deal.
: Exponent of Old Regime"
: "Within the last few days" said
+; Farley, "the foremost political ex-
ponent of the old regime has renewed
his prophecies of disaster in the event
o: the continuance of the Roosevelt
administration.
"It Is a curious position in which
Mr.. Hoover finds himself. He does
, not admit that he is candidate for
a comeback. But he rushes up and.
down the country comforting with
every one on the Republican side who
had or has influence in that party'S
councils"
Referring to Hoover's recent stric-
lures on the Roosevelt reciprocal trade
agreement with Canada, Farley said:
I'VE will gain by increased business,
vastly more than we give up, which
sounds to me like pretty good bar
gain, and yet I note that Mr.. Hoover
sarcastically describes the incident as
affording the more abundant ife-for
Canada.
THE former Presidents own ad-
ventures with the tariff, the apologies
he made for signing an exorbitant
tariff bill in the face of the protest of
every economist in the country, hardly
qualify him as an expert in such mat
ters. But it was the act of Roosevelt
and, therefore, in his opinion, all
wrong.
No, I do not know that Herbert
Hoover Is to be the standardbearer OF
the Republican party next year. I
have yet to read anywhere any dis
claimer of his ambition in that direc-
tion. 1t Is, Of course, none of my
business whom the Republicans nomi-
nate, but it does seem to me that MIR.
Hoover's nomination would be quite
logical. He represents more closely
than any other individual the phi
losophy of those who are assailing the
Roosevelt policies"
EXtolling the A. A. A. and what it
has done for the farmers of the West,
Farley continued:
"It so happens that control of the
Republican party is vested In the East.
1t has always been so. Consequently
1t is only fair to assume that if the
East dictates the candidate and the
platform OF the next Republican con-
ventlon repeal of the agricultural |
legislation will be one of the principles |
advocated"
Reassures Business,
Chairman Farley took occasion to |
say the President and the Democrats
are seeking only the best interest of |
the public.
Nobody is seeking a change in our |
system Of government" he empha-
sized. Nobody is seeking to take the |
prof1t motive out Of business. It must |
be plain to every citizen with a ca
pac1ty to think at all that the success
of any administration is wrapped up
lin the same package with the success |
of business generally"
rdI1ey ueCldreQ the results of the
elections on November 5 showed Presi- |
oent Roosevelt as strong or stronger |
tnan ne was when he was voted into |
the presidency, and that he would be |
overwhelmingly reelected.
Taking as his text Democratic gains
in Pennsylvania, Senator Guffev |
worked around to Hoover. He pre- |
dicted Roosevelt would carry Pennsyl-
vania. once banner Republican State. |
and exclaimed: What has brought |
about this change in Pennsylvania" |
"The policies or lack of policies of |
the Republican party, as exemplifed |
by MIR. Herbert Hoover" the Senator |
said. "Mr. Hoover, the titular head
of the Republican party, has become
that party's leading spokesman and
critic Of the President and his admin
1stration.
! "Mr. Hoover assailed what he
termed the New Deals planned scar
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