Show I HOOVER TARGET Of REPUBLICAN lIGAN i ii i PROGRESSIVES I Rumors of Disaffection Are Arel Apparent as G. G 0 o. P. P Bloc Intensifies Campaign A G A I INS N S T I Senator Brookhart Declares I Many Favor a Liberal WASHINGTON May 13 UP- UP Rumors of di disaffection against President dent Hoover HoO were current today a athe athe as the progressive Republican bloc intensified in in- Its campaign to prevent pre rc rc- nomination of the president Senator Brookhart Republican Iowa said yesterday h he had received many letters indorsing his recent proposal for a progressive candidate Instead of Mr Hoover He said such letters had come from east eastern em aswell as aswell well as western states In his Ills list every eastern castern state except New Jersey He Ho said aid he had received more from Ohio Indiana and Illinois that from Iowa PRESIDENT CRITICIZED Senator La Follette Republican Wisconsin criticized the president last night In a radio speech for re refusing refusing re- re fusing to permit use of federal funds to assist the unemployed ed He declared himself in Jn favor of tariff revision and also aJro attacked the ad admInistrations admInistration's administrations administration's administrations administration's ad- ad ministrations ministration's farm relief program He Hc demanded increased taxes on the rich and on estates In each of or his major theses he took a position dIrectly di directly dI- dI opposed to Hoover policies Another and more prominent western western west west- ern cm Republican leader yesterday said aid he could not recall a time when politics poll poll- tics occupied such a large share of ot conversation so long before election The northwest he said Is uis Just mIllIng milling milling mill mIll- ing around like a herd of or cattle and he quoted a correspondent who said Minnesota was Republican anti but not yet Democratic At the same time the Democratic Continued on Page Pue Eighteen SI HOOVER TARGET OF REPUBLICAN PROGRESSIVES Continued from race Page C One strategists were busy getting under underway way a a. harmony drive chive to restore to the he fold those thise sections of the Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- south which became becam led lied in 1928 Incidental to 10 this tilLs drive was the tile purpose of assuring the thc south that hat that the northern Democrats had no desire to force their tion views s 's on their prohibitionist colleagues SHOUSE SPEAKS TN IN TEXAS In Itt line with this drive Jouett Shouse executive chairman of or the Democratic national committee last night addressed by invitation the Texas legislature This In view of the thc fact act that Texas went for Hoover Inthe in inthe the he last presidential election eJection was considered significant of or a po possible ible reversal of opinion Shouse a no Raskob appointee as assured assured as- as the legislators that while he personally approved Chairman Raskob's Ras- Ras I kobs ob's rule home plan of prohibition tion ion reform no iso att attempt was being made or would be made to force torce the south to accept an platform All lie 3 asked was S a a. frank expression He devoted most of ot his speech to criticism of the administrations administration's course during the economic dep depression depres sion ston thus to some same extent nt subordinating subordinating subordinating the liquor issue |