Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-28
Hoover Steps Out
Of Active Part:
Halls Young COP

CHICAGO STADIUM, June 70.
CUPD-Herbert Clark Hoover, elder
statesman of the Republican party,
Wednesday delivered over to the
new generation of the COP the re-
lentless fight he has waged against
his successor in the White House
Franklin d. RoCsevelt-and asked
them to carry on as crusaders OF
freedom"
And Republicans prepared to
back up Hoover'S accent on youth
by giving the 1914 COP presidential
nomination to 42-year-old Cover
nor Thomas E. Dewey CT New York.
Mr.. Hoover, who will be 70 within
two months, bowed out OF active
politics Tuesday night with a vale
dictory which was at once bitterly
Worded castigation of the New Deal
and a hopeful prayer that Repub-
lican youth can lead our people
away from the jungle of disorderiy,
cynical and bitter ideas, the topsy-
turvy confusions, the hopelessness
and lack of faith and defeatism
that have haunted this nation over
these dozen years.
Beads Of pecSpiration trickled
down his cheeks and his voice
trembled with a trace of rage as
he stood before Republican conven-
ton delegates and belabored the
Roosevelt administration for 'forg-
ing shackles OH the liberties of the
people
But his voice melloWed as he
reached the peroration, not hinted
at in the copies of his speech dis
tributed in advance. 1t was his fare
well, and a rallying cry to youth.
The delegates cheered, loud and
long.
I'VE who have lived long he
said, turn cur eyes upon your gen.
Grafton lovingly and with hope, and
with prayer, and with confidence
for the future of our country. q.
We of the older generation know
that you will carry forward.
Youth of the Republican party,
I, representing the generation CT
your fathers, greet you and send
you forth
The New Deal, following "in
milder form the tactics OF Euro
pean revolutions" he said, has Ger
tain methods in common with
those revolutions.
They seek" he said Ito destroy
every safeguard of personal liberty
and Justice. Their method was to
create centralized government and
simple political party. Purge was
their political weapon. Their eco
nomic system is RECOMMENDATION
through coercion in bureaucracy.
Their faith is the negation of Chris
tianity. Their strategy is to make
public opinion by falsehood and to
destroy opposition by assassination
of character through smearing."
Mr.. Hoover quoted President
Roosevelt as having said in a speech
on Jan. 3, 1886, that he had built
up new instruments Of public pow
er' which could provide Shackles
for the liberties of people in any
other hands
Freedom is not promoted by
shackles in anybCdy's hands" Mr..
Hoover said. I'VE now know the
peacetime shackle they provided for
the liberties OF the people.
They put shackles on our farm
ers. They put them on honest labor
unions, on freedom of Wcrkmen,
on honest business enterprise. They
have done more. These bureaucratS
with these instruments OF power
famed bitter hatredS between labor
unions which divided the ranks of
labor. And they famed hate be-
tween employer and Workmen. They
built class conflict instead Of ma
tional unity"
Asserting that only a change in
would solve these
gigantic problems" MI Hoover
said that if the Republican party
comes to power "it will not be to
liquidate either the economic well
fare or the independence Of the
United States"
Peace in the future, he said,
must be based upon cooperation
between independent, sovereign ma
tions,' but if the general assembly
of a world organization to preserve
the peace is mot to be mere de-
batting society it should be split into
three diVisions-one for Europe, one
for Asia, and one for the western