Evening star., 1935-10-06
POLITICIANS WEIGH
RIVALS SPEECHES
Farley Talk Hints Class Is.
sue-Hoover's Denies
Starving Policy.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

the Republican and Democratic par
ties-former President Hoover and
Postmaster General Farley, the DEM
ocratic national chairman.
For the first time since he went
out of Office, Hoover, addressing the
Young Republican convention in
Oakland, Calf, last night, took off
his coat and waded into the Roose-
welt administration hammer and
tongs. He spoke as the titular head
of the Republican party and struck
particularly at one phase of the New
Deal-its spending program and fiscal
policies.
Chairman Farley, who is expected
to conduct the campaign for re-elec-
tion of President Roosevelt next year,
invaded Kentucky yesterday to ad-
dress a meeting of young Democrats
In Louisville. He pictured Hoover as
the leader, the spokesman, the pens
man Of the opposition" to the New
Deal. Referring to Hoover, Farley
continued; He takes his place at the
head of the procession, prating the
old hackneyed phrases that tortured
our ears through the four Hoover
years of inertia and human misery.
He personifies the old deal; and the
people will take their choice"
Gives Democrats Chance.
Hoover's active entry into the cam
paign-which is now under full swing,
although the election is still nearly
13 months in the future-gives the
re noroortIJnitu fhnyy ho
been seeking. They are intent, If they
can, on making the Hoover admin
istration during the days of the begin
ming Of the depression the issue of
1896.
There are number of Republican
leaders who have earnestly hoped that
such an issue may be avoided; who
have suggested that the former Presi-
dent take himself as far out of the
political picture of 1896 as possible,
and that he issue a statement that he
will under no circumstances become
candidate for the Republican nomi
nation. Hoover, however, not only has
failed to make any statement about
his future political plans, but he has
now actively taken the stump against
Roosevelt and the New Deal
Chairman Henry p. Fletcher Of the
Republican National Committee IS
.sedulously keeping away from the dis
cuSsion of candidates. for the Republi-
cans. While he may have thoroughly
approved of the substance of the
speech made by Hoover in his Oak
land address to the Young Republi-
cans of IL Western States and which
was broadcast over a Nationwide
radio hook-up, the Republican chair
man made no formal statement
about it.
Points to Own Regime.
- During his attack on the Roosevelt
administration fer its failure to seek
to balance the budget by cutting ex-
penses or by increasing taxes, Hoover
struck blow or two for his own ad-
ministration, which has been under
constant attack by the Democrats.
He pointed out, for example, that the
spending Of Government funds under
ethe present regime will exceed that of
@the Hoover administration by some
100000, 900, and predicted public
debt of $4,000, 100000 at the conclu-
sion of the Roosevelt term.
Hoover undertook to reply also to
the Democratic claim that these huge
expenditures have been necessary. first
for relief and, second, for recovery.
When we protest at these eXpendi-
lures" said the former President, I'VE
are met with a sneer. Would you let
the people starve?' No never. 1t was
= y,tc cf n
1880 announced that no American
should 60 hungry or cold through no
fault of his own. 1t organized the re-
lief so effective by cooperation of the
Federal Government with the State
and local authorities that the public
health actually improved during the
whole period"
Cites Reform Expense.
Relief, he said, was imperative, and
generous relief. But he added that
relief would have been but a minor
part of the $4,000, 600, ,OO0-a-year ex-
penditure if the Roosevelt administra-
ton had not sought to try experiments
IN the name of recovery and reform.
And, using employment as a yard
stick of recovery, he pointed out that
there had been comparatively little
improvement in employment when the
figures of October 1882, are compared
with those of today.
The Roosevelt administration, he
insisted, has retarded recovery by
soaring business. Only the decisions
of the Supreme Court attacking the
N. r: A. and other New Deal measures
rr,,, I,o1 g. L,tes
of confidence in the last few months,
he said. This is the line Of argument
which many other Republicans have
advanced against the Roosevelt New
Deal and It's administration.
Chairman Farley, who went to Ken
lucky to bolster the Democratic cam
paign for the election Ct a Governor
in November, attacked Hoover and his
philosophy of government. He said
that when the starving idle asked their
Government for a chance to earn
their bread, the old deal answered
that the American way" was to seek
the bread of charity. He twitted
Hoover because of his assurance that
prosperity was just around the cor
ner." He charged that not one con-
structive act or thought came from the
Hoover administration. He eulogized
President Roosevelt for his immediate
activity when he became President,
and for the many measures which he
has put into effect.
Farley Praises Chandler.
At the outset of his address Farley
praised the Democratic nominee for
Governor. Happy" Chandler, the
present lieutenant governor, and in
sisted that the Democrats needed
chief executive in Frankfort who was
in sympathy with the Roosevelt ad-
ministration and the New Deal. He
predicted a Chandler victory over his
Republican opponent and also a vic
tory for Mr.. Roosevelt in the 1886
campaign. With the Democrats in
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