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N Rickey Rickey- Rickey Correspondent TON ETON April 16 We Ve We shall between now and Chicago about the ineligibility of I Hoover as the Republican c candidate for president nt because of ot his position I in the fall of ot 1918 toward President i I Wilsons Wilson's plea for tor the election of at a I Democratic congress I Already leading Republican machine VV i if ff politicians s ar are are getting themselves in interviewed interviewed in- in in partisan to the the effect that Hoovers Hoover's rs r's nomination by th the Republicans Republicans' is outside the realm of ot practical politics because of ot this Incident In an ar article In th the Philadelphia T Public MI Ledger throughout I the country former President Taft Tatt commenting commenting- in a most judicial and friendly way on the Hoover candidacy candidacy can can- emphasized what Hoover is supposed to have said about electing I Ia a Democratic congress in the fall faU of I 1918 as ti the one ne great stumbling M block IT in the way of his nomination I considered from the standpoint of ot practical politics Taft said It It has not has not seemed probable probable I able to impartial observers that the Rep Republican convention would take for I its candidate a man who had pUbliclY advised the election of a Democratic congress In n response to the appeal appeals I I of of- Mr Wilson in October 1918 Undoubtedly Taft Tart does not over overestimate overestimate overestimate over over- I estimate the use which the bigoted partisan leaders of the party are going to make of the Hoover attitude at that time It seems important therefore that I there here be a clear understanding of just just what Hoover did say especially in I view of tho the fact that h he did not advise the election of a Democratic congress as as' as is charged The statement by Hoover which is 1 the the basis of th the attack against his I Republicanism was made in a a letter writ written en to Frederic R R. Coudert of ot New York dated November 2 1918 I This letter was in answer to a a letter from Coudert of ot the same date The r two lei letters ers follow w COUDERT TO HOOVER My Dear Mr Mi Hoover Our country has has' been so united Jn In the prosecution of the war and the union with Ith our allies s so so complete that the enemy is now collapsing on all sides Can we maintain that unity in achieving the objects which all Americans desire a desire a Just and enduring endur endur- ing peace I ICan Can these be obtained unless we are area a unit in m regard to the policy to to i be pursued in the fundamental readjustments read read- i that must be brought about It seems to me that divided counsels counsel's now now may imperil the fruits of victory ry Will the allies repeat theold the theold theold old old errors of the historic past and andI thereby t lay seeds of ot future conflict I as Napoleon did after Jena and Prussia Prussia sia sla after Sedan or can an an enduring peace based upon Justice j retributive and deterrent be now now achieved Your Tour very unique experience in Belgium France and Germany during the war and your gr great at knowledge o fall those underlying economic factors fac tae tors upon which world peace and war war so largely depend make your opinion of very real value These questions naturally transcend all 11 matters of party politics and I know the objective ob objective ob- ob spirit Jn to which you view them They are the problems pr at which we weare weare weare are all thinking and you can aid us to think them through Believe me I with sincere regards as always very faithfully y yours yours urs FREDERIC R. R COUDERT I HOOVER HOOYER TO COUDERT I My Dear Friend I r have hav yours of November 2 in front of me My own views are summarized summarized sum sum- in a word that word that we must I I have united support for tor the president I In Inthe the issues before us there can be beno beno I Ino no party policies It is vital that we have a solid soUd front and a sustained leadership I r ram am for President Wilsons lead leadership leadership lead lead- not only in the conduct of the war war but but also in the negotiation of peace and afterward in the direction of A Americas America's erica's burden in the rehabilitation tion of the world Our object in this war is to see the establishment of governments in hi the central empires that are i responsible c possible to their people This Is the vital safeguard to permanent permanent per per- manent peace The passing of their militaristic autocracies must be andis and andIs andis Is rapidly being marked by such treatment treatment treatment treat treat- ment as ag to put the system out of action forever There is s no greater monument to I any mans man's genius than the conduct of negotiations with the enemy by the president There has been a steady I growth of ot realization by the German people and her deluded allies aUles of the I debauchery Into which they and the world have been plunged by militarism mili mili- I The president preside has by his conduct and word stimulated simulated this this I realization He his h assured them I justice if they themselves will throw I off oft theIr ther yokes and he has not hesitated hesi hesi- hesitated In application of our eVery every I hesi resource in force against their their military mm- mm tary tarv dictators If It the final overthrow and arid surrender surrender surrender sur sur- I render of autocracy can be accomplished accomplished pUshed through the German and their I allied J people themselves the president will not only sIP sive the lives of a a million American boys and nd countless innocent women and ond children t n but will have attained more complete victory and a 8 more permanent guarantee of peace than any Rny other means The presidents president's dArs has gained gigantic strides strides' in this this' course ourse course The I of nf r are arp b bpI made ma byI by hy I Marshal Foell and our leaders lead lead- I ers era T- T Te The e t ton on nn of t t tp A TUi Ru R ar aran an sli and Ind Aus A Austrian n ha hae or orIs oris of these is forcing forcin the acc I terms terms The German coole themI themselves them- them i selves will sooner or later do so i t I Our objects In n th the the overthrow of all alii I autocracies In Europe and the estabi i i nt of government by bv the tv-p p Is but part of our r rat r at burden for v how this w a wn Y n these Immediate immediate oh oh e i ts tI are arp attain 1 we till have before us uc tl th rr r e c test that our our government nt has nas ever ever- faced Caca If we weare weare we weare are to prevent Europe's Europe immolation in ina ina a a conflagration of anarchy n such as Pt ea is J plunged d in today We e must nur p Furone Burone barite barc tb to Industry and iI R ort and e we wem we weIn m st order lyre f IiI 1 en In th P s sT T o P ran Tl h he c c om- om p l v l iI 1 r nv hv Jw I same arne rne leadership a ti MIO th ron nf nce e of the he great tva r rf f f io r 1 in m The president president pres pres- ident ITS has ut this war wart t p ns of o th ya yet t majority I of f. f the A Ant m n pone There Is no other leadership TI possible now if we weare f pre are re to fi d in these great issues Yours HERBERT HOOVER If any f fair r minded man can an read Into Hoovers Hoover's letter JEtter a plea plea for th the e I election of a Democratic congress congress he can do more than I can He distinctly distinctly dis dis- I says says says' In the first paragraph that in in the issues before us us there ther e can be be beno no party policies and th the e tope of the whole I letter r Is Is' Is pitched In Ina Ina ina I a key of ot and statesmanship statesman statesman- ship of the first order It was at a time when the delicate n negotiations ns which brought brough td t about the sinning of ot the armistice an and d ending endIng- of ot the war were at their most critical stage and was nothing more mor e nor less Jess than the appeal of a ma man n who had seen more more of the horrors o othe of ot f the war than any other r American America n for support of the president who was wn ns s trying to end it That the writing of such a letter at t such Ii a a time timp should be used as as th thA chief argument against the 1 of a a man for the Republican Republica n presidential i nomination simply shows show s I the theof utter bankruptcy of the old school nf of political partisanship |