Evening star., 1939-02-14
Hoover Urges 6. 0.P,
10 Work for Peace,
Recovery, Freedom
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Lincoln Day Speech
Vigorously Attacks +
New Deal
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NEW YORK, Feb 14.-In a speech
recalling his own efforts to meet
"the sorm of 1929" Herbert Hoover
last night summoned the Republican
party to three-fold mission, in
cluding preservation of peace for
America" in which he said lay its
greatest opportunity since Abraham
Lincoln.
pKeynoting the SD annual Lincoln
Day dinner of the National Repub-
lican Club-at which other Repub-
lican leaders from as far West as
Colorado spoke-the only living OK
President made his most vigorous at
tack since 1885 upon the Roosevelt
administration.
The great resolves" Of the Re-
publican party other than peace, he
said, must be economic restoration"
and preservation of the country'S
'high purposes" of freedom which
"are being undermined by the pol
icies now pursued at home and by
alien theories from abroad"
Mr.. Hoover appeared on the plat
form with long list of party dig
nitaries, and the second seat of
honor was occupied by District At
torney Thomas E. Dewey of New
York, the unsuccessful gubernatorial
Candidate of last year.
SoJ,,&aS GPice ~ Vouth
: Although not glancing in Mr..
Dewey's direction. the former Presi-
dent interpolated in his prepared
address, after saluting "the rise of
youth in our party" this unamplified
remark:
Their qualities have already
made an impression on the country"
Mr.. Dewey was introduced to the
gathering, but did not speak.
The Hoover address was delivered
amid general predictions of others
who shared the platform with him
that the Republicans would win the
presidency in 1910; and stretched
behind him was great banner read
Ing: "1940 Victory, Through Unity"
Much Of his talk he devoted to de-
Veloplng the assertion that the Re-
publican party was the party OF
true liberalism" From this he went
on to say that it was his own Re-
publican administration which, in
1880, was "the first to announce the
national obligation that no Amer
lean through no fault of his own
should go hungary or cold, and first
to organize Nation wide relief for
the unemployed"
1000 Hear Address.
And" he said amid shouts from
the ballroom where he spoke before
a crowd officially estimated at some
1000, "it organized relief in a fash
Ion which excluded corruption, waste
and decentralization of community
responsibility And it is high time
to return to a system that does not
play politics with human misery"
The other major speakers, Cows.
Ralph L. Carr OF Colorado, Frank
Fitzgerald of Michigan, Harlan
Bushf1eld of South Dakota, Julius
p. He'll of Wisconsin and Raymond
E. Baldwin of Connecticut, all took
up, in one way or another, the slo-
gan proclaimed by the banner at
their backs.
THE people of Wisconsin," said
Gov. He'll, "and the people of this
country are tired of family dynasties
In Government"
Gov. Fitzgerald, saying he spoke
with "the happy conviction that our
country is on the way back, added:
"We want to get rid Of the tax-to-
spendto-elect era"
Gov. Carr contended that the ac-
ton of the voters in Kansas, Wyo-
ming. Idaho and Colorado during
the last campaign in electing Re-
publican Governors was "a forecast
OF what is going to happen in 1910
when similar platform is offered
to the country at large"
Halls Republican Front.
Gov Baldwin of Connecticut, COM
menting that he was proud to be
part of the united Republican
'front.'" added that wherever the
message of forward looking Re-
publican leadership" had been Of
fered to the public, "the peoples ac-
eeptance of it has been instant and
unmistakable"
Gov. Bushfield, in a reference to
. phrase once uttered by President
Roosevelt, said "the people of the
Middle West look with disfavor"
upon the new instruments Of pow
er" which had been formed by
those in authority"
: Mr.. Hoover, referring to the No
yember elections, said Americans
had again spoken their demands
that the safeguards of liberty be
maintained"
Turning to his definition of true
liberalism" he declared that it
sought freedom from both bureau
cracy and private privilege in the
confident belief that without such
freedom the pursuit of other bless
lngs is in vain
G. O. P. Reforms Enumerated.
= It was the Republican party or
Republican administrations, he add
ed, which first initiated regulation
Against monopoly and business abuse
An the States; which had created
s'seven of the 10 greatest Federal
Regulating agencies of today; which
had first proposed the child labor
amendment, and which had first
declared the right of collective bar
gaining through the creation of the
Mediation Board"
: The Republicans now have ere
inforced leadership in new Gov
ernors and in Congress" he said,
adding, "and can say at once that
there has never been q time In the
history Of the party when In major
questions there is such unity as
there is today. We are engaged in
no purges Of honest men.
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