Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume IX, Number 27, 15 October 1936 — General Hugh Johnson Returns To Roosevelt; Lambasts Republicans [ARTICLE]

General Hugh Johnson Returns To Roosevelt; Lambasts Republicans

Geri. Hugh S. John.son, former Aciministrator of NRA, m a speech brnadczst from Buffalo, N. y., t.ook Govemor Landon for a jolty ride at the same liour tlie Eepuhliean presidential eandidate v, ! as speaking at Portland, Me. Foilowing are extracts from the General*s pungent address: "It is a priceless Ameīiean privilege to euss the government. But onee every four years eaeh man looks over the two offerings, bal'ances out his likes and dislikes and makes his ehoiee. X have done that. i am for Franklin Roosevelt for President of the l!nited States. "A great Republican newspaper asks how ean I do that after lambastirīg part of the New Deal. I'U tell them. That was before I had seen the two-timing mess that eame aut of Cleveland and heard Alf Landon's exhibitions of oratorica! shadow-boxing. *** "My main reason for stcpping ihto this eampaign is that the rising tide of huneomhe and baloney' rolling out of Republican headquarters almost smothered me on the sidelines, "The Republican Piatform is just a sickly sister of the New Deal. Imitation may be flattery, but this isn't an imitation. It's a worthiess counterfeit. It has already been shown by the Vice Presidentīai candidate's speeehes to be just a eome-on for liberal suckers, Real Ftepubiican Progressives like Wm. Allen Whi'te, made the Republieans keep Hooverism out of the platform —but where are Bill White and all Republican Progressives now? They're in the Landon dog-house and Herbert Hoover has the key, '''Knox-Knox" " • K K / has repeatedly sc3n r Iīoo ir « rism had the depn muh ..Wd .11 1932 and that ai. ru(.s, ,tH I, to to do was just tu 'i o d nd iet the Gld G i'r work. "WhaL does this mean? It ean oniy mean one thing. If Hooverīsm the answer at our worst, then Hooverism is t ie answer t,hey are eooking 'up for us now. "Thal isn't a guess. That has been the Old Guard heliei for 140 years. They say that for Federal Government to try to do anything to control eeonomie forees :s unconstitutional, iminora! and obscene. These forces ean throw 15,000,000 people out of jobs. reduee agriculture to medieval peonage, leave 50,000,000 people destitute, let 300,000 homeiess cliildren roam the woods like abandoned dogs in a famine in the Dark Ages, wipe out half the wealth and half the Ineome accumulated in Amerlca sin e e Christopher Columbus, double the burden of private debt, threaten the dispossession of 5,000,000 homes, wipe out the people's life-Ume savings, crowd' our streets w r ith breadlines, fill our pwblic places wlth Hoover-! villes, for miserable sufferers in ! shacks, destroy courage and obliterate liope — but the Hoover 01d Guard says *Let it alone.* The Federal Goipernment has no constitutonal right to do anything about these things, The sturdy American ean take c,are of himself — rugged individualism. 'Root hog or die.' Hoovcrism Ramp'ant "That is Hooverism. That is the medicine a!l the Repub!ican spokesmen now sav Mr. Roose~ veit'shox3ld have api>lied. What does it mean? II means that the Old Guard have iapped up Landon as the whale gulped Jonah. It means liiai the Old Guard doesn't dsre eome out in the oj>en and f.glit this campaign on the principies they cherish in their liearts. You ca.il iead l'neii purpose plainiy ni an ine woras of forthrii i j K os—who's lh<. < \ \ i \ i vover who? Amiv Meiion ovt-v Hevbert Hoover and Alf Laiuion. ' Tht« w hoie issue of this eleelion is whet h e r £a r m ers, wage and salary earncrs f little

jtellqws in business, professiona? people—all who earn their living by work of head or hand—axe to join the Hover Old Guard in cnttiTiir off therr own political «grht to say how they shatl be foverned economieally—and vote tor Alfred Landon Or whether we shall keep our rifht to s»y how eeonomie forces shall be appiied to ns—and stick by Franklin Roosevelt. That s the only issue and all the rest is batonev, *The Repubiican offering is perfect for people whose interest lies in having eeonomie anarchy in the United Stet«s. They ought to fight and vote for it, But for the average American, it plaiu poison.