PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 06/22/1935 - HFSID 37357

HERBERT HOOVER
The former President signs a typed letter encouraging a young man to join the Young Republicans and to "go into battle with them".
Typed Letter Signed: "Herbert Hoover", 1 page, 7¼x10½. (Palo Alto, California), 1935 June 22. To George Innes Ellsworth, Montclair, N.J. In full: "Your kind letter of June 5th reached me upon my return to Palo Alto. The only suggestion I can offer is to join some organization as the Young Republican Club and offer to go into the battle with them. There is indeed a great service to perform." In the Spring of 1911, 32 young men under the leadership of Benjamin M. Day, a Manhattan lawyer, noted the lack of any Republican association especially appealing to younger Republicans in New York City. They sought a forum for expressing views that might on occasion be at variance with those of the party leaders. In order to work within and for the Republican Party, yet be free to criticize party policies and leaders and to champion candidates and causes independent of organization control, these men, in April 1911, resolved to form the New York Young Republican Club. The Club's first public appearance was a dinner held in December 1911. The guest of honor was President William H. Taft. The New York Young Republican Club is the oldest of the hundreds of Young Republican Clubs in the United States. Creased. Faint yellow stains in blank areas.