Evening star., 1919-08-31
FIRE UNDER POLITICAL
POT IS GETTING WARM
Republicans Revel in Presidential Booms,
While Democrats Look On in
Silent Envy.
BY n. o. MESSENGER.

BY n. o. MESSENGER.
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rent profiteers. hammer
ing at the high cost of living and all
that sort of thing-aren't few bets
being overlooked at the politicai
ringsidec
Some political gossip is going around
which might be interesting. They do
say that Herbert Hoover. of food ad-
ministrator fame. is launching a boom
for the presidential nomination on
the republican ticket. He is reported
to have bought "a California news
paper and to be dickering for a New
York evening paper. California al
ready has one "favorite son" in the
field. Senator Hiram Johnson. and Mr.
Hoover's ambitions. if they be direct
cd at the presidency. would run
counter 10 the plans of Senator John
sons supporters.
But now comes another version OF
the gossip which says that Mr.
Hoover is not after the presidential
nomination in reality, but is aiming
to enter the race for the senator
ship from California, against Senator
PheIan. democrat. That sounds more
like it, the politicians say. adding
that in a contest for the presidency
Mr.. Hoover would be sure to encoun-
ter the opposition of the farmers or
ganizations of the country. 1t is re-
ported on good authority that there
is widespread feeling among the
farmers - countrywide that Mr.
Hoover's administration of the food
bureau was not to their financial
benefit.
The republicans are confidently ex-
pecting to elect a senator to succeed
Senator Phe-
G. o. p. HARMONIOUS Ian They
IN CALIFORNIA. claim that
the party is
reunited in the state, under Senator
Hiram Johnson's admitted leadership.
and that both factions will join in
1920 to make it a republican year.
in California In this connection. the
friends of former Representative
Kent, now a member of the tarin
commission. are urging him to enter
, the senatorial race also. He may. it
is said in California, decide to con-
test the senatorial nomination. in
which event considerable interest
would be lent the subsequent pro-
,ceedings.
Which brings the proposition back
te Mr.. Hoover's first reported play
for the presiden-
EXPECTED TO DO tial nomination
MUCH LOOMING. and suggests
that Mr.. Hoover,
II he finds Billy Kent's hold upon
sociation with them and his fine rec
ord in several public Offices too diff
cult to break. may conclude to have
q try-out with Senator Johnson for
the" favorite son" Endorsement in the
national convention. At any rate. it
would appear that California is to
loom large in national politics. She
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paign, the republicans recall. when
she Overwhelmingly elected Senator
johnson to the Senate and gave heF
electoral vote to President Wilson.
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That Hoover gossip was going along
finely until, just as the foregoing
paragraph
ha;-
FOR HOOVER GOSSIP. written, in
came John
Dunnigan from San Francisco direct.
who says he knows to a certainty
that Mr.. Hoover is not an aspirant
for any political office; that letters
from Mr.. Hoover to that effect have
been published on the coast. How
ever, it is too bad to spoil good pc
IiticaI gossip by a cold shower Of
facts such as that. SO let all the talk
go into the caldron and stew.
Pershing talk sets in from now on.
sThe politicians calculate on his hav-
ing his fling as
spAWES PRoDS soon as he comes
PERSHING BOOM. to these shores.
Charles G. Dawes
xpf Chicago, who was controller of the
currency under President Mckinley,
was in the city last week. He is just
back from distinguished service in
France, having laid aside the presi-
dency of a large trust company when
the war broke out to go over. He told
some of his friends in Congress that
Gen. Pershing is not only a fine SOL
dier, but one of the best business men
he ever knew, and Mr.. Dawes is
recognized as likely to know good
business men from poor ones. The re-
publicans in Congress pricked up their
EARS at that statement about Gen.
Pershing being a good business man
and have been passing the word
around.
Which affords opportunity for the
.semark that it is we'll known in Presi-
dent-making circles of the republican
party that one of the indispensable
attributes of the presidential candi-
date, to be insisted upon, will be that
he shall be a good business man. The
friends of Gov. Lowden of Illinois
make his qualifications in that di-
rection their chief claim for support
Of his candidacy for the nomination.
The democrats are not saying a word
about presidential candidates Just at
present. The rea-
DEMOCRATS BUSY son is that no