New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-08
Hoover Says
There Won't Be
A Third Party
Past Experience Shows
Government Is Run by
Great Political Organ
izations, He Declares
To Pass Up Convention
Believes League of Ma
tons and Economics Will
Be the Leading Issues
Special Dispatch to The Tribune


PHILADELPHIA, June 7.-"There is
not going to be any third party"
Such is the belief of Herbert Hoover,
former food administrator and Presi-
Dental possibility, expressed to-day on
his way to this city to attend COM
College, at which he will receive the
degree Of Doctor of Laws.
Third parties are not a success"
said Hoover. "Past experience has
shown that this government is run by
the great political parties"
"Will this be Democratic or Re-
publican year," he was asked.
1t depends on the candidates and
what the Democrats do" he answered.
Hoover was reticent on politics.
mo, have had no conferences with
those interested in my campaign" he
said, in answer to a question. II keep
in daily touch with the convention
through the newspapers. I am going
from here to New York and will not
go to Chicago during the convention
and will not attend any Of it's sessions.
"You say my name is not mentioned
prominently in the Chicago dispatches
and that there is intimation that my
friends are going to spring q surprise
Well, any surprise will be as much a
surprise to me as you.
Don't I feel bit nervous going
fC ho hot - f~;1
Sproul and Mitchell Palmer, where
both have been awarded degrees?
Big Issues of Campaign
"Why should L? Governor Sproul is a
member of the Society of Friends
Attorney General Palmer also is a
member. l am member Of the Oregon
Meeting of the Society Of Friends
Swarthmore is the oldest Friends COL
lege in the United States.
president Swain Of Swarthmore Col
lege was one of my first professors al
Leland Stanford Junior University. He
has been my friend for twenty-five
years. am going to be in the company
of friends.
"What will be the big issue in the
campaign? The league Of nations O,
economics, I believe"
When it was mentioned that pictures
of his two sons had never been pub.
lished and that one Western candidate
had once obtained large number oil
votes by distributing thousands OF
copies of his children's photographs
Mr.. Hoover smiled broadly and said:
Mrs Hoover does not believe in
making political capital of the family
There will be no family pictures dis
tributed."
No Better Primary Plan
AS to the method Of conducting pri.
maries, which in some quarters has
been attacked as "a fraud on the PEG.
ple," Mr.. Hoover said he had mo bet.
ter plan to Offer" Then, with more
interest, he turned to relief in Europe
Europe will soon be able to take
care of Europe, although we may have
to carry them through next winter in
diminished degree. am now in the
midst of a conference with neutral
European powers about their taking
over the problem on a larger scale
than they have before. Poland and
the nearby nations probably are short
100000 cattle. 1t is matter OF
gradual growth back to normal for
these countries.
"This year the various European
neutral nations contributed $50,0O0,0 900
for relief work. They are gradually
taking on new responsibilities, and our
share will be a diminishing one"