Statements

Comment on Hooverism by outstanding figures included the following:

Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois, farmers' friend, recessed Republican, said he was "much impressed" by the Hoover acceptance speech, called the farm relief passages "very heartening," but issued no endorsement of Hooverism.

Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, refractory Republican, said the Hoover acceptance speech "abounds in glittering generalities. . . . To me it is disappointing and unsatisfactory. . . ."

Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota, repining Republican, said: "I cannot bring myself to support actively Secretary Hoover or his policies with regard to agriculture. On the other hand I cannot support Smith. I am a Republican still, although I expect to be very still in this campaign."

Nicholas Murray Butler, Wet Republican president of Columbia University and of the Carnegie Endowment Foundation for International Peace, the G. O. P.'s Nominee for the Vice Presidency in 1912, sounded off at great length in a letter to the New York Times. He said he could not put up with Nominee Hoover's position on Peace and Prohibition. He was, he said, confident that "Literally, millions of earnest Republicans" would agree with him:

1) That the Hoover declarations "we must and shall maintain our naval defense" and "we must not only be just; we must be respected," were swaggering, hypocritical, tragic.

2) That the Hoover opposition to modifying Prohibition was based upon a mistaken notion of the meaning of "nullification."

Dr. Butler cried: "If that be treason, make the most of it!" But Dr. Butler did not say he would vote for Smith.

Adam McMullen, resonant Republican, Governor of Nebraska, said he was still dissatisfied with the Hoover farm-relief views.

William Gibbs McAdoo, Dry Democrat, said he would make "an important announcement" after Nominee Smith's acceptance speech.