HERBERT HOOVER-MASTER BUILDER OF THE DIRTY ROAD TO POWER
HERBERT HOOVER-MASTER BUILDER of THE DIRTY ROAD TO POWER TBERE are stories to be told by men who went wrong because they were in a jam and #Mldn't help themselves. There are stories we all know...
...Ceaee with the gaetsnata this year so a research magnificent into a better anal finer way af ccQeeUVe Brine...
...He knew what the boys had gone through* They thought he, at least, would play straight ^with them...
...Let the aM parties raw about Hen or aaa rrtlfi— ar.d their Mrs...
...Crooks...
...It was almost the only constructive thing he did...
...In 1928 he is heartily endorsed by all of them...
...A COWARDLY SILENCE He is irritable and suspicious during all this enforced silence, afraid that people will know its cause...
...There is alio the story of Sockless Joe Jackson, one of the boys who threw a world's series and said, •Judge, I did it for the wife and kiddies...
...WHO...
...In the first place, Washington, D. C, is not the best kind of a place tor any kind of a political meeting, which mean* that it is especially so for Socialist meetings...
...Throughout the entire tour, the persons who came to hear us were s fine, clean, intelligent looting lot, consisting of industrial workers, office and other Hoover Relief on Religious Bigotry, Smith on Racial, Thomas Finds in Tour of the South On returning from his trip to Southern states, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, said: "I have just returned from a trip which took me to North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida as well as to Baltimore and Washington...
...WHAT HOOVER'S CABINET DID The boys were back from the war...
...People who started gagging and vomiting all over the streets of all the cities of the country at the sight of it were patted on the back by friendly editors...
...Much of the credit for the success of this meeting is due to Harry Feldman, formerly of the 3rd Assembly district in the Bronx, K.V.C...
...This b n charitable country...
...What they did in love we can forgive...
...Who stayed in right with the party politicians who had shown time and again that they alone halt the power to nominate a President...
...Aa a matter of principle he should have gone in with the Democrats...
...was so large and crowded...
...Friends reminded him that it was a normally Republican country...
...The Jacksonville meeting took place in the beautiful auditorium of the New Chamber of Commerce Building...
...Everywhere, Thomar, fascinated and completely captured his audiences...
...That was a constructive thing to do...
...It tried to have the inheritance tax repealed, fj...
...He didn't even have the excuse that Sockless Joe Jackson offered...
...The silence of a man who will do anything to get votes because he knows that ' system has worked so far...
...They had thought that people back home were doing their bit, tooT They thought the men they had elected to office would give hem a government, a country to be proud of...
...It would offend too many friends of his...
...In 1928 *J tare electing a man President for the good •* his sonL First Socialist Invasion of The South in Years Brings Large and Enthusiastic Rallies to Thomas Socialists on Alert to Build Strong Organization—Poverty Found Everywhere By Charles Solomon ^ORMAN THOMAS and I have just completed a tour of several Southern states as a result of which I am more persuaded than ever before that with financial and human resources we could build in this country a powerful party of labor and Socialism...
...When you stop to r-onsider that in each instance...
...THE UNITED STATES— A CHARITABLE NATION In order to try to convince himself that he never did sell out to bis ambition, he will ds the job of the big interests at Washington more completely, more heartily than any honest more hardboiled conservative, who was not oppressed by the need of constantly showing himself that he was right, would do...
...On the strength of this he has gotten, among people easily impressed, a reputation as a great Secretary of Commerce...
...Just now there is no sense of shame...
...That was too much even for Gilford Pinchot, who quit him then* and there...
...In Washington I wan so busy and the teaks...
...On the other hand, the Democratic campaign rests almost wholly on racial bigotry.- One would think that Hoover bad proposed to restore the Force Law, whereas all he ever did was to end segregation of civil service employees in his department...
...I mustn't forget to say that the newspapers were uniformly kind and generous...
...In Michigan they pert his name on the Democratic primaries...
...Edward LesvKKr...
...At that moment he had no party...
...Only the Socialist Party Is injecting a frank discussion of the issues that matter, and the response at my meetings shows that even in the midst of this intolerance such frank discussion of legitimate issues Is appreciated...
...Something about ** pace permeated and gripped me...
...He entered a cabinet that was to become the most famous one in the history of the country...
...He was an intelligent man...
...It led the movement to repeal the ex- - cess profits taxes and did repeal them...
...He knows that he is going to win because the country is Protestant and intolerant as a whole...
...And that he got...
...In fact not all there in the head...
...They were glad Hoover waa in the cabinet...
...Sinclair got Teapot Dome...
...It was a political move...
...And please remember thai all of this occurred under circun?,'tancea not the most favorable and in sections of the country regarded as fir from ideal from the standpoint of socialist party organization and socialist propaganda generally...
...He went abroad, made his knowledge pay, got to be rich...
...g It fought, through Its party leaders in Congress, any and every effort to Bring the coal industry under control...
...Of course they are...
...Ambition began to work inside of him like compound cathartic He was prominent...
...Not until he has been lectured at great length by the liberal press of the country to the effect that he is color-blind, that this country doesn't want a man who is willing to profit by intolerance and bigotry does he move...
...He will he irritable, dictatorial, given to sudden peevishness, even as he is now...
...Here he gathered around him ¦ group of men and women who tied the emotions wrought in them by the war around him...
...They had risked a lot for their country...
...In 1920 the Democrats wanted the League of Nations, the Republicans did not...
...What else did he do...
...They're wise boys...
...WHO, WHO, WHO BUT HOOVER...
...Hoover was one of them...
...Hoover and Hughes were put there to make H palatable to the country...
...We wound up the tour with a literally extraordinary rally in the auditorium of the National Press Club In the capital of the natlrn...
...The audience was large, gmerous and attentive...
...He became food distributor in Belgium...
...underpaid soldiers any form of eeon- * omie security...
...In the cabinet Hoover represented some of the highest hopes of the people...
...It looked as though history were going to repeat itself and the war party was going to be the dominant party in the country in the post war period...
...Hoover's silence in this campaign is a cowardly thing, and he knows it...
...The rest will be silence...
...In Richmond, we had our meeting in the fine auditorium of the John Marshal High School, adj'.lning the one tone home of the famous chief justice of the United States Supreme Court A splendid audience in every sense of the word and surprisingly generous In Its campaign con- | tributlon...
...Willebrandt, who showed the quality of her moral judgments by endorsing the record of Daugherty, endorses that of Hoover and appeals to ministers to rouse their churches...
...Who lent his sheltering prestige to the crooks...
...Bard as this life Is, undoubtedly on the adults, my heart b'ed for the poor tnuaten, helpless victims of this degrehttos...
...To favor his ambition he had become a moral coward...
...He won...
...When Borah, forced them into the open on that, a Commission was appointed of men who wanted to do...
...The Postmaster General, Hays, campaign manager, paf d the 1924 •—•"p'tgn bills with dirty oil money, coming from the graft...
...He knew thenpower...
...He blurts out h* straddling, hedging Hoovering* without « blush...
...through its eamdt and contemplated the great, SBbre grey structure, that held, for...
...For a man who wanted election to the Presidency the Republican* were "If Progressives Are In Earnest,—" sate far C S. Boaster to New Tart Stat* speaking at a achate betweea BerabUcans, Daeaaarala and Seetaasta at the Beekaway Foraaa, Backs way Park, aali: "It ammalna arc ta earnest la their iasaand far a real party at opposition ta the twa eat capitalist Barnes, they wtn stake a start towards the fa» matlen af aach a party by voting Ota Socialist ticket thai year...
...JQs After repeated sessions of the cabinet during which the oil leases were discussed, Secretary Fall gave property worth one hundred million dollars away to his friends and paymasters Sinclair and Doheny...
...His hope is that he may redeem hnnseM later—when luck is with him and he is in office...
...About the decency of his profiting politically from the misery of the Mississippi flood, the less said the better...
...So he is silent...
...was frequently a reveiaa sa and sltogeth<>r an education...
...It was, even on the first look at it, a messy crowd of political war dh eel era, such as Hays, Daugherty and Fall, and fat-cats such as Mellon...
...He made a formal promise to the hograisers, and then welshed on that, although when the Federal Commission reported that the packers were earning between 250 and 300 per cent more than before the war, he did nothing to stop them...
...Some of his friends said then, trying to laugh it off, "He didn't know what was going on...
...The men in the cabinet who profited financially from all this corruption were crooks, of course...
...Maybe he really believes the Eighteenth Amendment can be enforced...
...They were busy throughout America in binding up.the wounds of the industrial conflict, a dull and often thwarted business...
...He knew that the difference between the two parties was so slight that it was almost entirely a matter of name...
...B* lets his friends recommend him to the pubul as a competent and honest man in spite of hh failures on the coal, farm and nnempkryioeal situations that would make other men hi* their heads in disgrace...
...He has none of the futile disillusion about the country that sometimes characterises those who thought they were coming to Paradise when they came to America...
...However, all of Mi tboold not be overestimated...
...It is a :act that some of the former party members had not heard of party activities in their sections of the country in years...
...The handshaking parties after each meeting gave testimony of the reaction of the auditors...
...It sterilized all efforts at farm relief...
...Hoover likes it or not, his campaign is being pushed in a spirit of religious bigotry...
...So much has fallen that very little is* left...
...That makes his present talk about *not only being just but generous to the) veterans' sheer hypocrisy...
...Doheny got Elk Hills...
...Let me say right here that he was not the least of the Inspirations we encountered in the tour...
...In 1920 the old guard, the machine, was all opposed to Hoover...
...AMBITION DECIDES This big job did not keep him so occupied, however, that in 1918 he could not appeal to the country to re-elect a Democratic Congress...
...They will thank him by joining the other people who want very much to have him made President...
...Z was grateful for the courtesy of my reception and delighted with my audiences and with the general fairness of the newspapers...
...By that time he may have discovered how much the people whose will he hat been doing these past eight years were able l* continue their control over him—how little hs influenced them at all...
...I could not tear ajtetf away from it...
...Ma 'Good Man,1 aa political Meaalasj wffl fire as the world af peace, freedom and plenty fee which the Socialists are striving under the e—rafoaa leadership of Norman Thomas...
...The Labor Bureau of New York estimate* that there are 4 mil ion men out of work now...
...Hoover took the credit for fixing up the coal industry...
...Here, too, he became, in a way, the social work. en' dream...
...He knows that he has given up so much that he has gone color blind, can't tell the difference between black and white any more, between "going along with the boys" and "dirty work...
...Yeah—not quite bright...
...Back to the United States...
...Hoover has lost that ability...
...He didn't need money...
...If there is any more shameful swindle loose in this country at this time than the one of trying to get f our million jobless men and their families to vote for "Republican prosperity" by lying about the existence and suffering of 2,200,000 of them, it has yet to be discovered...
...Louis and New York there are unfortunate women, commonly known as prostitutes...
...It made every woman a vicarious Rose of Noman's Land...
...Whether Mr...
...Fie!din, Miss Hach, wt 1. Ka'ka, G. C. White, John O. mesa, at L. Miller C. A. Ricks, J. L. sawn, P. T. Wiiiiam,»<-n...
...Had the housewives of the country, from California to Maine, from Florida to Washington, grown a little weary of cooking three meals a day for men toward whom they no longer felt their first love...
...I was, however, seriously disquieted by the nature of the old parties' campaign...
...Fall got $100,000 in a little black bag...
...Food director...
...To the story about the Chinese dealings, to the fact that nixing wealth in three continents is still made largely from cheap- native labor, we need pay as attention* SELF-SATISFYING DAYS IN BELGIUM Here was a competent man, a man who could make his ability pay him money, good money, m 1914 he was on the scene when the war broke out...
...It was pleasant for Hoover to think that...
...He joined a movement for better homes...
...He knew he was talking to labor, and maybe he thought that the working boys are so dumb that they will swallow anything...
...I slmij oooldnt get the names of the comsis who wtre responsible for the smasharavceas...
...DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN...
...So Mrs...
...At Jacksonville, we had in the crowd a former Republican candidate lot the United States Senate who, insisting he could not agree with us, nevertheless warmly congratulated us on the meeting and the message...
...He has not apologised for that error...
...If I fall to record any names, I hope the Comrades who read this account in the places we have Just let will put it down to the fact that we weie rushed and that as chairman, on occasion, book seller everywhere, collection taker and generally handy man, I Just bad to slip up on swAmf here and there...
...hekamrille: Harry Feldman, Andrew laspen...
...The record of that party cabinet, under Harding and Coolidge, is known t 2c It tossed out the League of Nathans There went Hoover's pledge...
...There was to be the first Presidential election after the war...
...its power and prestige...
...There is a tragedy here, let us not deny it...
...The A." F. ofT* and other labor groups were' going for LaFoIIette...
...He knows the jealousy and envy of the rural sections and small towns of the big, wet cities...
...That Hoover knows at this moment that he is a broken man, a man whose virtue has been compromised away again and again until there is no hope from the laundry business for it, is fairly clear from his actions...
...He hesitated...
...They were grateful to the man who made them feel that way...
...From beginning: to end it was a perfect symphony of optimism and promise...
...What you say goes with me...
...He fixed the maximum price on wheat that caused to much trouble with the farmers, but then refused to stand up like a man and take the responsibility for it...
...There were better says...
...The party of his choice found that the conduct of the war had made so many enemies for the Democrats that they could have nominated a little yellow dog and won...
...Willebrandt from throwing matches into the sectarian gun powder...
...The year 1920 came...
...Food director...
...People throughout the country put,their faith in Hoover...
...That his family has been in the country two hundred years and produced good, useful men is to his credit...
...They've been around...
...i Here and there an old party celebritj was in the audience...
...He told me it was s "knockout.'* Washington A Rnvelation The meeting in Washington was a genuine revelation...
...Who did not let out a peep of protest...
...This is the story of Herbert Hoover...
...white collar employees, and middle class people...
...They said, "He's a good-hearted guy, but just dumb, you know...
...Furthermore, the Press Club auditorium Is located thirteen floors up and at the end ol a long winding corridors...
...Hughes and Hoover are our guarantee that the others will keep straight...
...In all my experience in the movement, I never met Comrades more loyal and inspiring, and nowher^have I been privileged to see efforts more unremitting and cheerful in behalf of our cause Nine Meetings Held We addressed meetings, Thomas and I, in Atlanta, Georgia, Jacksonville, Florida, Charleston, South Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, D. C. I addressed an afternoon meeting of 'the Washington Open .Forum while Thomas was speaking at a record breaking gathering in the Hippodrome Theater at Baltimore, Maryland...
...So a slight "hush" goes out from him...
...But not out of love...
...N. 'jate, and '.ast but not least, the Isaac Jrtle daughter of Comrade ¦akavn whr...
...I regret very much we were compelled to keep going continuously...
...In 1927-23 it starved the Federal Power Commission to the point it had to quit one of its most important functions...
...Never ha* Hoover spoken one good word for them...
...Senator LaFollette, who wasn't in any of them, knew all about it very shortly afterwards...
...Thirty-one prominent Republicans signed a statement to the country that they thought Harding would favor the League...
...This is ike story of a man who went wrong for what there was in it for himself, and for no other parpose...
...I qxxd an editorial out of a Charleston ape- that might have been written on hm of tin Clvtl War...
...It has been described as a hard job...
...We couldn't have named a more perfect standard tv&rer He hits these typical American audiences right square in the center...
...His silence is part of it...
...Hoover got something out of it, too...
...Week after week he sat in the cabinet meetings, taking part in its' deliberations...
...Davis and Robert E. Lee...
...Wssserstein, David LI dm an, BV Kcetow, Mr...
...HOOVER CONVERTS THE BLACK SOX That's not good enough...
...For if ¦* f ails of election he will have to retire with ** his curdled conscience in a nasty, hopelessly compromised mess...
...A. (Jeshwn the veteran chairman), Ben jishiifc J. Halmowitx, H. O. Stark•ahv, I. D. MotUn, H. Tradtn...
...the arte...
...Those who stand by and profit by their efforts also have a name...
...It is payment for services rendered...
...But he had seen the machine politicians able to nominate a man like Harding...
...No, Hoover knew all about it...
...He kept silent...
...He hesitated...
...He is afraid to antagonize that barge element...
...Lenroot—the lawyer for the power companies...
...When he was asked about it, he lied by silence...
...Who stifled any sense of common decency that was in him...
...Let as add that it had this saving easiness about it: everybody wanted to be friends with America, with the country that was sending in the food...
...He dare not speak any more about corruption in government...
...Hoover attended those meetings of the cabinet* One of the other oil companies protested, directly to Hoover, thinking here seas one honest man In the gyp joint...
...To bind up the wounds dramatically, under the eyes of the whole world, to the thundering applause of the whole country—what one of them would not have given his immortal soul to be in Hoover's place...
...You can picture our discomfort when I tell you that the audience at Jacksonville was dressed in palm beach and oibn light summer clothing, and llbera'ly used fans throughout the meeting Relief began to came wbeh we reached Richmond...
...The audience, more than eight hundred persons, Jammed the inadequately sized hall to actual overflowing...
...And while I am dwelling on this matter of contributions, they were remarkable, aP things considered...
...They have retained their gratitude...
...Even more than in other sections politicians talk dry and vote wet...
...Thomas and I, with no experience of weather conditions in the far Southland, were dressed in early winter clothes, and loaded down with top-roots...
...And while I am on this Jacksonville meeting, tt is Interesting to note the the chairman, A M. Jackson, is a genuine veteran in the cause...
...This silence, this conniving, profiting silence is the main achievement of his during the past eight years...
...What you save helps feed the soldiers...
...not for the sake of a starving family...
...Catholics are solid for Smith aad the Hoover supporters share the racial bigotry by trying to accuse Smith of friendliness to Negroes...
...His work in California, his learning to ke a mining engineer were signs of initiative, sf enterprise...
...It's a fetor Id be reckoned with, though...
...There is not a law on any statute book that registers an accomplishment of that organization...
...Also, the weather was not less than very warm...
...Women, social workers, began to mention him for the Presidency...
...Later, when forced to admit, whined "They didn't ask me that-" J 2. Mellon knew where the dirty money went, what it was being used for...
...HOOVER SOUGHT FALL'S GUIDANCE 7# h fought the Norris Muscle Shoals Bill, the Johnson Boulder Dam Bill with all...
...Pm mot telling the world a thing.** 12...
...I waiter...
...Industrialization proceeds In the South lad leaves la its wake the first symptoms tf )tt invasion, before .he rise of effective woomic and political organizations ol kkr, the tqualor aid debasement of nsbkst capitalist exploitation, let me go back a moment to Atlanta Bert I was driven out to see the Federal takeotiarr...
...You are all familiar with his speeches in this campaign so I will say nothing on this score except to add that they were especially clear, eloquent, pertinent and persuasive...
...Notwithstanding all this, everything considered, the Washington meeting was probably the outstanding success of the tour...
...For Harding was betrayed by his friends—who went a little too far a little too fast—but Hoover has been betrayed by bis own ambition...
...He reduced the number of door sixes, of bricks, widgets and other building materials...
...Were girls whom young men had left to go into the Army wretched because they could do so little toward ending the agony of the war, while the men did so much...
...The A. F. of L. says that in the manufacturing industries they are np 35 per cent, and that leaves out a large part si the country...
...Since I was speaking in Washington when Thomas waa in Baltimore I shall have to leave It to him to tell about this meeting elsewhere in these columns...
...nothing about the industry, and it did...
...Every party that had been in power during a war had always been swept back for another four years...
...During these seven and a half years there has been a mighty falling off of integrity...
...They got something for what they did...
...Atlanta Meeting Jammed to Doors The Atlanta meeting was held in .the Labor Temple and—I mean every word of it—was packed to the walls...
...My hat filed and a heavy feeling crept over at When It yielded, it was to the hope tat toon our time would come and to the fctemtaation not to forget when it did...
...In 1924 a national strike of mines threatened...
...When he talks about men out of work he should at least have enough heart left in him not to lie...
...the beat bat, the choice of an ambitious man...
...although less so than the audiences in other cities...
...If he was not lying at Newark he was certainly letting people know that the problem of unemployment was so little to him that he didn't even bother to read back his figures to check them up...
...He has spoken, appreciatively, of the work of the notorious National Electric Light Association at one of its conventions, but dare not say in public that he is against government development of Boulder Dam because he needs the vote of California...
...Bill Vare of Philadelphia recognized a brother at heart under all the pretence and made his nomination certain...
...The meeting at Charleston, in the very old and historic Omun Artillery Hall, was likewise sucoeasful...
...He knows that in discussion of it he would have to admit that it had exchanged one evil for another...
...That he offers that ancestry to the nation as a character recommendation is a minor fault in good taste...
...Introduced Ben Marsh smaf representative, outstanding La Ma* man in the 1934 campaign, and nmat supporter in this, as permanent AsaltaawsVaoB I cannot leave this account without ndnf the symptoms of poverty I saw ihg the Use of travel from the train ratio* at ve passed thiough the agrtattaal country Shacks, miserable and tanMedown, Instead of hemes, and bleak Mh in the cities, a few minutes ride tnn the exclusive residential sections taatanest kmd of slums In the shad' nTof the Pulton cotton mills In Atlanta lav men housing and general "living" satskaa as almost baffle characterizatm...
...What else did he do...
...Lots of advance publicity and generous space, editorially, in some instances, in reporting the meetings...
...He dare not speak about the pollution of the schools and press by the power industry, for he has three power magnates on his national committee, and had Lenroot as his lawyer in the Kansas City scramble for Southern delegates...
...What one of them did not thank him for raising the social worker to a new level in his own eyes at first, later in the eyes of the Community Chests...
...You can trust them...
...But it is not enough to stop Mrs...
...It is intereating to know that he came out of it without one friend among the independent and progressive men in congress...
...BUT HOOVER...
...Even when he is President Hoover will net be able to forget that the years of his prime have been shameful ones...
...Not a sirgle discordant or pessimistic note did I hear anywhere...
...He is afraid to meet the issue that it has brought with gangs, gang killings and corruption on a large scale, that every bootlegger in the country is going to vote for kirn as a vote for a vested interest which his stand will protect...
...Mathewson, loll party secretary...
...It was a little bandage for the little strain of throwing up his principles for his ambition...
...One of the Morgan partners, the assistant secretary of the treasury, said of him, "He knows nothing about finance, about economics...
...The miners' lead-' era stayed regular and Republican...
...handed Thomas a beautiful »1 tribute...
...Hoover is afraid to give up one jot or tittle of support that will repay him for all he paid out in silent connivance during the eight years...
...Loyal Comrades Everywhere I should say something about the Comrades, individually, whr, in their respective cities, labored heroically against odds ordinarily overwhelming, and sorely handicapped, to put these meetings over...
...We can only have eaeperstloa la place af competition, pease ta peace af imperialism and war if wa start saw ta form oar own party—the party af the hand aad brain workers af the co-try, who crease rather than own, who contract rather than destroy...
...George ant Libman, the latg 1st editor of the state party organ, Th Virginia Appeal," a snappy, breezy th ihtet edited by a practical working esssperman wnlrh Libman is...
...Hoover favored the League...
...The cause is plain enough to see, but the American electorate is often a bad judge of character...
...Nor did he dare say in Tennessee the other day that he is against Muscle Shoals because he needs the vote of Tennessee...
...Nosst dM I see one of Abraham Lincoln iteades, this soutnland, in many was, it tsent Talking to the i eople and more •whir/, reading the ed'torlal pages .-1 tat atwspepenv...
...He promised help to the advocates of the Child Labor Amendment, and then ratted...
...3. The Attorney General, Daugherty, sold the favors of bis office for money...
...Even Al Smith, who is no lily himself, can draw the line somewhere, at Hearst, at Hylan...
...The little farming community in Iowa where he was born bred decent men...
...It was desired to keep the miners' leaders regular and Republican...
...0,# Beds and sheets for the wounded veterans were sold out from under them...
...It saved the builders money...
...Both Democrats and Republicans fight fire Instead of appealing to higher motives...
...It would have been muck bettci if we had been able to spend more time in each of the cities visited to help lay the foundation stronger for party organisation work...
...And in this connection, at each of the meetings not only did we and the local Socialists meet the so-cJled old-timers, who in many Instances, are not so old at that, but many otheta who gave their names and addresses for membership in the party...
...Under-officials of his national committee send out letters asking for the anti-Catholic vote...
...Cawfeokav The K-nnlrons, Clarence, Hkr, national organizer, and a number fttbn wi», because of the nature of sir anrJoyment, would rather not have hrisflMs mentioned tn connection with » steam tkhnond: David O. George, H. Buy¦avp, Mrs...
...so loot, oar great and gallant Gene...
...WhqL he wanted out of all his silent, unprotesting connivance teas not money for his family...
...not out of the confusion at mind untrained to meet the world...
...During all this time who kept his warm seat In the cabinet...
...What they did in human weakness and confusion we on condone...
...He was hailed and acclaimed for H. He never did' another thing about it...
...WtUebrandta...
...It is the silence of cowardice...
...They wex» mostly members i th) Workmen's Circle...
...In Atlanta, set were the Jacobs, one of them, the ¦eje...
...With the explanation offered at the time, that he knew nothing about the oil mess, we need have no patience...
...He had been across...
...Professor Douglas says they aw only up 15 per cent...
...2# It fought the proposition to give As...
...It is not to his credit that he goes back there to refresh himself in the memories of them...
...And close to three hundred dollars at Washington...
...Not often, but occasionally...
...You aid tuners in the work of taking collections, what say you to eighty dollars out cf the meeting In Atlanta...
...Still he hesitated...
...Most people who talk wet or dry are thiwHwy race and religion...
...It became finally clear that there .was going to be a Republican landslide...
...J It lowered taxes on big incomes out of all proportion to other incomes...
...Perhaps it was a studied insult...
...It is a meagre record for a man who allows his friends to put forth great claims for him...
...On certain streets in Philadelphia, Chicago, St...
...It was a big job...
...flsxrc was temporary and Libman peratett chairman of the Richmond meets'ta the Ugh school building with piers <u the wall, as you came In, of Msaae...
...Hooverwas the man who fixed them up with a renew-, al of their wage agreement...
...L. Shevitz, Perino Oe Marco, X Btanini P. PUdey, Philip Wold...
...There are stories we all know of women who went wrong because «l misplaced trust and affection...
...Rutherford fitch these Computes of Richmond, si note (specially those splendid young Masai...
...He will always suspect that others knew what he knows himself, that he has become s coward, afraid of a public fight...
...chairman of our meeting...
...Hoover got the Presidency on a silver platter...
...It J* very Important to him, this hope...
...He is afraid other people are drawing it for him, and he won't know where it comes, and what's on one side and what's en the other...
...Hoover passed the letter on to his colleague Fall, saying, "You answer it, old man...
...By the tune he has been in office eight years and has to re* tire, he may just possibly have acquired ¦ ***** of shame...
...Not even Borah, who decided later that he would give up everything in return far the pleasure of knowing that it was illegal for a man to drink, was his friend then...
...They nominated Harding of Ohio...
...This is the story of a good man who went vrong...
...Behaviorism Drawn bv Art Yount for The New Leader...
...Hoover tried to laugh off 2,200,000 jobless men by lying about or misquoting figures...
...He also seems to know in a groping way that it is a worse mess than the one Harding was in...
...War days...
...He knows that the people want to believe that they were right when they voted for that Amendment...
...The Democrats expected to carry he country by a huge vote...
...Then he admitted...
...In this cabinet, after frequent consultation, men sold what was not even theirs, a hundred million dollars worth of property that did not belong to them, but to the people...
...I talked, to tbe guard* who remembered him with laptet aad affection...
...Let us get this straight...
...He was in at least five cabinet meetings where Teapot Dome was discussed...
...To kid the workers into voting for him by using blue-«ky figures is, to say the least, a dirty trick, like taking pennies sway from the blind...
...In 1928 the union is broken and defeated...
...Leundaus...
...Here he showed himself to be a competent man, got the reputation of being a good nan, a kind man...
...There is this to be said for them, however: They only sell what is theirs...
...Then he had his name taken off the Democratic ballot...
...So he became one of the two on whom they pinned their hopes...
...HOOVER ON UNEMPLOYMENT: FALSEHOOD OR INDIFFERENCE Sometimes his speeches get to be obviously indecent...
...Ike man who will be the next President of the United States knows himself and his shame, and is at times silenced by it...
...the cities we visited had not seen a Socialist meeting in eighteen to twenty years, with all of the Implications of such a situation, reader you may begin to appreciate the almost miraculous success ol the tour...
...He will make a very few liberal moves, such as the one appointing a Catholic to the cabinet...
...He said there' that "an accurate survey of the Department of Labor" showed that there were about 1,800,000 men out of work as contrasted with five to six million in 1921...
...He allowed himself the luxury of a $10,000 silence at government expense until they had the evidence to pin it on him...
...Raskin, Welntraub atsssn...
...Who stood between the Ohio gang and the public with a Sunday School face...
...He tried it again when he claimed that real wages were up 50 per cent since the war...
...11 conducted the illegal war into Nicaragua...
...It is the iiope of all broken men...
...Wherever we went we met Socialists full of enthusiasm and determination, literally pleading for cooperation in the exploitation of an extraordinary opportunity to build for Socialism...
...He knew that their opposition would be fatal to his ambitions...
...He had picked up plenty of that sweating cheap labor in Asia...
...He never admitted it during long months while Senator Walsh, even detectives of his own do -partment, were trying to trace it...
...It was the machine support for the Presidency...
...What the Department of Labor did say was that there were 1,800,000 less men out of work in 1928 than in 1925...
...All the Black Sox of Washington, Daugherty, Slemp, Smoot, Lenroot, McLean, Fall, Mellon are, behind him...
...Notwithstanding nis more than eighty years' he was with the welcoming party at the railroad station and stuck it cut, as it were, to the very end...
...The Food Director gave a new meaning to their housekeeping, to their saving...
...Since the war, as a matter of fact...
...In the next place, there is Utile party organization in the District of Columbia and the meeting mi in charge almost entirely of the local Workmen's Circle organization...
...Prostitutes are more decent than that...
...There wis no strike in the Presidential year...
...There were so few good men there...
Vol. 7 • October 1928 • No. 43
