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Running through his speech at Ft. Wayne with increasing vigor, Mr. Hoover showed on Saturday that much of the power of the Republican Party still depends on him. Although the latest salve against the New Deal contains nothing different from the usual offerings of sound money, economy, and freedom form government interference, his newly-found eloquence and his position as titular head of the party combine to make him the man from whom, until June at least, the Democrats have most to fear. If the stigma of responsibility for the depression did not disqualify him as a candidate, the former...
Despite his personal limitations, Mr. Hoover's periodic cracks at the Administration supply a valuable part of the campaign strategy. By directing public attention to the gyrations of "the Magician" and his band of "white rabbits", Mr. Hoover puts his finger on the issues on which the campaign will be fought. Though the Supreme court has relieved the Democrats of the hopeless task of defending the NRA and AAA, there still remain unemployment, agriculture, an unbalanced budget, a rising bureaucracy, and "the black magic of a managed currency" to account for. The Hoover speeches have repeatedly raised issues which...
...create the illusion of victory, saying that no matter what the opposition does, it cannot win. If the opposition can be thus persuaded to lie down and die, so much the better for the Democratic, party. But while the leading candidates are bickering over the nomination, Mr. Hoover has kept the spotlight on the real problem of showing up the basic fallacies of the New Deal. His recent bursts of oratory have done much to guide the party's policy and to set the Republicans on their feet for a successful campaign...
California's newspapers were last week filled with accounts of strange political tribes: the Roosevelts, the Sinclairs, the McGroartys; the Hoovers, the Landons, the Borahs. The final hour was at hand to file slates of delegates for California's Presidential primaries to be held May 5. Shortly before it struck came a news flash from Topeka, Kans., bringing Governor Alfred Mossman Landon's last word: He would "neither approve nor repudiate" the slate of delegates named for him. It was followed by a flash from Washington. Senator William Edgar Borah, who, ever since the opening...
Elephants. California, almost as rich in Conservatives as in Liberals, is a key state in Herbert Hoover's plans. Dear to his heart, dearer even than his desire to be the Republican nominee again, is this issue: Individualism v. the New Deal. To force that issue he must have a deciding voice in the national convention which writes the Republican platform, picks the Republican candidate. To run in California's primary, however, would have been to risk repudiation in his home State, to endanger his whole aim. Three stanch allies he had who shared his aims: Publisher George...