Item Info
Media Type: Cartoons (Commentary)
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:
To the regular politicians, it seems, the most irritating thinf about Mr. Hoover is his apparent indifference to party lines...."If Mr. Hoover is still unable to say whether he is a Democrat or a Republican it is because he is thinking in terms of issues and not in terms of party organization."
"How the Papers Size Up the Hoover Boom." Literary Digest 6 Mar. 1920: 13-15. Vol. 64, No. 10. Web. https://books.google.com/books?id=5LI5AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA9-PA14&lpg=RA9-PA14&dq=hoover+party+lines&source=bl&ots=ngfCOhpHWT&sig=udgIOHx50x5SWzwf3c_RN3qatJA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oR-5VOjYIYS1ggSqtoCQAQ&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q&f=false
He was "the man toward whom intelligent voters in every party, men and women alike, are lookinf as a possible Presidential candidate." ...His nomination would cause "such a demolition of strict party lines in November as Americans have seldom seen." ...Even party-faithful commentators...sometimes felt compelled to admit that Hoover's candidacy was necessary since it would "compel a more vigorous consideration of actual problems."
Himmelberg, Robert F. "Hoover's Public Image, 1919-1920: The Emergency of a Public Figure and a Sign of the Times." Herbert Hoover: The Great War and Its Aftermath, 1914-1923. Ed. Lawrence Emerson Gelfand. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1979. 207-232. Web. https://books.google.com/books?id=9WvYbNHs5v4C&pg=PA224&lpg=PA224&dq=hoover+party+lines&source=bl&ots=nlxqwpFMg5&sig=SDLO5aKWgCU_mHWuCKP02opsCkk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oR-5VOjYIYS1ggSqtoCQAQ&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q&f=false
Bibliography:
Sykes, Charles Henry. "--- Said the Spider to the Fly." Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA). 1920, March 11: p. 8.
Creator Name: Sykes, Charles Henry, 1882-1942 - Artist