Hooverizings

REPUBLICANS Hooverizings Notable among Hooverizings of the week were: Andrew William Mellon, over the radio from Washington: . . ."[after re- viewing fiscal history since 1920] The Republican party has given a notable instance of platform promises carried out. Under the leadership of President Coolidge, it has proved itself a party of constructive ability. In Mr. Hoover, it offers to the country an able and experienced leader, who will carry on the work of the present Ad- ministration. After a long and successful business career, he has held many public and official positions of the greatest responsibility. He has proved himself a great organizer, a far-seeing and resourceful executive, and has discharged every duty in a way to merit the highest praise and admiration. Based on nearly eight years of close association with him, I am convinced that he will give the nation a sound and successful administration of the Government and that he is supremely well qualified to deal with those great economic problems that influence so directly and to such a very large extent the prosperity of the country and the comfort, welfare and happiness of the people."

Gabrielle Greeley Clendenin, daughter of the late Editor Horace Greeley of the oldtime New York Tribune, in an open letter to "My Dear Sisters of the South": "Do not think me intrusive in speaking to you, but recall how my father, Horace Greeley, came down after the Civil War, to bail your President, Jeff Davis, and returned to face in consequence almost financial ruin. May I send you a word of greeting to say how glad I am that so many of you are breaking through party lines to vote for a great American, Herbert Hoover. "Herbert Hoover has grown up in the clean country, an orphan wrestling with poverty for a living and an education. After gaining these with his great natural powers he was called to carry on from China to Australia immense constructive works at the head of armies of co-workers with whom he has never had a strike or a misunderstanding. ..." Mrs. Clendenin then mentioned Nominee Hoover's feeding of Belgians and Germans, his flood-control work, Europe's understanding of him, and closed: "For these and a hundred other reasons, dear sisters, give Herbert Hoover your vote."

Newspaper advertisements covering full pages in the New York American (Hearst). One of them said (in part): "In the Tradition of Lincoln, the Republican Party Offers Herbert Hoover for President. "True to the spirit of Democracy, it turns again to a man of the people for a successor to Lincoln the railsplitter, Grant the tanner, and Garfield of the towpath -- to a blacksmith's son, an Iowa orphan and country schoolboy, raised by his own merits, to a plane of distinction in more fields of usefulness, than any man the nation has ever been privileged to place in the White House. . . . "His career is marked with the callouses of struggle and achievement. He has pursued ambition along the corn-row, across the furrow, into laboratory, down mine shaft, into great administrative and engineering projects. . . . "His university is Leland Stanford, but his true Alma Mater is the map of the world. . . . "A vote for Hoover is a vote for belching smokestacks, flaring furnaces, clanging hammers, busy looms, honest and permanent agricultural relief -- a vote for peak production, for steady employment, for the song of the riveter, for more automobiles -- a vote for better government, for sounder business practice, for full time and fuller pay envelopes -- a vote for impartial legislation, for the integrity of the Constitution, for continued equality before opportunity and the law -- a vote for national safety, solvency andsobriety -- and national ideals."