TEXAS SENATOR TROUNCES G. O. P. IN AIR SPEECH
TEXAS SENATOR TROUNCES G.O.P. IN AIR SPEECH Senator Connally Blame Old Guard Policies for Current Business Depression (Special To The Progressive) CHICAGO. 111. — Charging that the Old Guard...
...Huston, was cashiered on the field of battle...
...In his address, also, the Senator made the charge that the administration's program of farm relief had utterly failed, and he cited present prices of farm products as proof of this statement...
...Senator Connally declared that the Old Guard is making frantic and desperate appeals for the election of its candidates and is "hurling broadsides of abuse and denunciation" at Democrats and others daring to challenge the record of the Hoover administration...
...Charging that the Old Guard Republican party was responsible for the present nation-wide depression and declaring that the Hawley-Smoot tariff act should "never have been conceived," Senator Tom Connally of Texas denounced the present administration and its leaders m a L,abor,Day radio address here over the network of the National Broadcasting Company...
...When its crushed and shattered remnants were gathered up after the explosion, Republican apologists and political contortionists promptly announced that, silly speculations and foolish plung-ings were the causes of the tragic misfortune—that neither the administration nor the 'Hoover market' had anything to do with the results...
...IDLENESS, POVERTY ARE U. S. EVILS BOSTON—Idleness and poverty were classed as national evils by Mayor Cur-ley in an address to the Knights of Columbus annual convention...
...s is the new chairman of the Republican national committee...
...The old chairman, Mr...
...Commenting on the election of Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio as head of the Republican National Committee to replace Claudius H. Huston, Senator Connally said, "Senator Fe...
...He declared that inflated condition of the stock exchanges of the country in what was boastfully named at the time by the Old Guard as the "Hoover market," was the result of the stimulation and excitement of official and political prophesy...
...said Senator Connally...
...He stated that inasuuch as Congress and the presidency were controlled by Old Guard Republicans, the coming campaign must be settled on the basis of the record made...
...The election," said Senator Connally, "will determine what congress shall be for the next two years," and niu.-l not be fought out on abuse...
...Huston was the personal selection of President Hoover...
...In the broadcast, which was one of a s;ries sponsored and patd for by the Democratic National Committee at a reputed cost of $5,000 each, Senator Connally pointed out that the exports of the United States in the first six months of 1930 have dropped half a billion dollars as compared with a similar period of 1929...
...It is time that the intellect of America, the richest nation in the world, applied a solution for these evils," said the mayor...
...The Republican's have a new chairman, but it is the same old organization...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 40
