The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-30

BOake Carter
What Republicans Seek
New Party Leadership
Minority's Opportunity

Minority's Opportunity
STODGY, unimaginative, hide
~ bound Old Guard leaders are
waging a bitter undercover war
against an upward surge Of
younger men in the Republican
party.
Herbert Hoover, who has no
more desire to run for the Re-
publican nomination for the
presidency in 1910 than the man
in the moon, is leading the fight
to force the Old Guard leaders
out of the picture.
Tagged as an old guardSman
himself in popular conception, it
is nevertheless an amazing fact
that the former President is
forcing the drive within the Re
publican party to get younger
men to take up the reins and
produce a constructive, sensible,
intelligent minority party.
THE Old Guard, without fore
l. sight or imagination, still can
not see that the people of the
United States have long ago
probably forever-tired of their
ancient shibboleths, moss-backed
issues and pointless criticisms,
unsupported by anything more
concrete than the old philoso-
phies of dead era.
How thoroughly the leader
ship, as epitomized by John
Hamilton and Committeeman
Joseph Martin, jr., of Massa-
chusetts; J. Will Taylor, Of Ten
nessee, and Ezra Whitlaw, OF
Idaho, has been repudiated can
be cleaned by these facts, little
known to the public or Repub'
ucan-minded citizens:
In a private poll of the Re
publican clubs in every county
of the nation, 81 per cent an
Swered the QUESTIONABLE. OF
this percentage, 81 per cent were
in favor of younger leaders, an
affirmative program, with a
brand-new set Of issues in tune
with the changing times.
On top of this a Gallup toll
revealed that almost 80 per cent
Of young Republicans in the
country favored a mid-term ma
tional convention, to wipe out
old concepts and old fancieS,
and rebuild the party from the
ground up.
Doth polls were concerned
~ with Republican citizens and
voters, and not Republican
county neutrality-suspicious..
The results of both polls dis
mayed and angered the politi-
clans. With one accord, led by
the top-notch old guardsmen and
still laundering blindly along in
faded dreams of the past, the
politicians Of the party have set
themselves to sabotage the ef-
fects Of the two polls and graft
themselves more tightly upon
the control Of the party.
So far their chief effort in
this direction is to chant namely
that Hoover is leading the party
revolt because he wants to take
another crack at the Presidency.
Instead Of using what little
brains they have left and exam
lining the proposals made on
their merits, instead of weighing
the significance of the polls
results among Republican citi-
Zens in the country; instead Of
taking stock of themselves and
asking themselves, Might it not
be a fact that we and our way
Of thinking have been out
moded?" they descend to per.
sonal attack.
THERE is a large group of
American cltlzenS-Some say
1t numbers as many as 2,000,.
900 to date-which has drifted
away from the Roosevelt New
Deal in the last six months.
But the significant thing is
these citizens have not drifted
into the Republican party.
Today the Republican party
under its Anticipated leadership
has nothing to offer. Though
a large segment Of the popula-
ton is seeking a good, two-fisted,
intelligent, minority party in
this country with hrand.nev is.