Evening star., 1920-04-04
MARYLAND IS NOT
RUSHING TO HOOVER
Former Food Administrator
Ar0uSeS No Enthusiasm as
Presidential Aspirant.

BALTIMORE, Md, April 3 Especially.
-Herbert Hoover's definite entrance
TO the fight for the republican NOM
tnation for President has caused no
fnthusiasm among Maryland repub-
1icans The leaders of the state or
Eanization, as stated previously in
these dispatches. are close in their
SS SmpathieS to the national chiefs of
me party, and, since the latter have
SHOWN no consuming desire to have
the former food administrator as
their standard bearer. it follows that
The Maryland delegates to the Chi
'aso convention will display no in
cIination to rush to the Hoover camp.
mere has been no statement. how
ever. from the state leaders. who have
been discreetly silent for months.
View OF the PrOgressives.
The progressives' view of Mr.. Hoover
is probably best reflected in a state
inent made by Charles J. Bonaparte.
who was a member of the Roosevelt
cabinet Il feel no enthusiasm for
Mr. Hoover's candidacy" he said when
Interviewed upon the news from Cali
f"rnia- 81 never heard of him as
pubic man. or, indeed as anything
Else until he undertook the highly
laudable and charitable work of fnd-
Ing food for starving Belgians. What
q" uiu tHeI WAS pFdlScWOTtHy anu
|ereditable. but did not. to my mind,
|show any special fitness for the presi-
oency of the United States"
Independents Want Hoover.
There is. however. evidence of a
& mand for Hoover on the part of in
dependents. How far this will go
toward influencing the republican
thieftains remains to be seen. The
first tangible sign of a Hoover boom
in Maryland. excepting a small num-
Der of individual declarations by
prominent men, came this week in
The announcement that organization
OF a Hoover club has been completed
|et the Johns Hopkins University and
|incIudes in its membership fifty MEM
hers of the faculty and students.
President Frank ]. Goodnow of the
university was one of the first Mary
|cIub was formed before the announce
|,nent that Hoover had entered the re-
/ publican primary in California, and
regardless of what party might nomi-
|4ate him. Many of Hopkins most
prominent professors are among the
Irigners of a petition making an un-
partisan appeal for Hoover for Pres1-
|dent.
| Lieut. Col. John Philip Hill. former
Il nited States district attorney for
maryland, came out openly this week
flor Maj. Gen. Wood. Col. Hill has
|been mentioned as a possible Balti-
|tnore city aspirant for republican
domination for Congress.
senator Smith Asks Reelection.
|, United States Senator John Walter
|Smith filed his papers this week for
by the democrats in
1.-THE Maryland primary May 3. IL IS
Ii nderstood he will have no opposi-
Gre concerned, and there is no indi-
|cation that any independent demo-
|erat will enter the race against him.
lit has been said that Senator Norris
|of Baltimore, president of the state
Isenate. has been urged by the vets
20 run in the primary against smith,
IWho has a dry" record. but has de-
|olined to consider the matter up to
| the present.
1t now looks as If Smith and o. E.
IW eller. who long ago announced him
self for the republican nomination,
Twill fight 1t out in the general cleo
|tion next fall. Factional opposition
ito Weller seems to have died away.
| Senator Smith has refused thus far
ito express a preference between rival
candidates for the democratic nomi-
nation for Congress on the eastern
shore. If he continues to keep his
hands off, TIE signs point to a finish
Hight in the first district between Col.
a. W. Sisk and T. Alan Goldsborough.
both of Caroline county. Hilton w.
Robertson of Wicomico is also in the
Race State Tax Commissioner w. W.
heck of Kent and w. Mason Sheehan
f Talbot have espoused the cause of
5:oldsborough. and former State
Ssenator Cooper of Caroline and State
Senator Orlando Harrison of Wor-
lester are working for Sisk. Strong
forts are being made by both the
5 SIX and Goldsborough cohorts to get
d -nited States Senator Smith to cast
fiis favor upon their respective can
] dates. Robertson, newcomer In
olitics. is making bid for popular
Y by opposing the drastic features
the Volstead dry enforcement act.
robertson is himself dry and is
baking his fight in district which
stand against the Volstead act is
laid 10 have the support Of prominent
Sloliticians who also have dry records.
| Republicans of the first district will
tenominate Representative Andrews
bf Dorchester county for a second
Term.
John r. Riggles Of Prince Georges
bounty this week filed his candidacy
forj the democratic nomination for
f,ongress in the fifth district, which
= S now represented by Congressman
Sydney z. Mudd. He has announced
y platform advocating the political
program of the American Federation
Nf Labor; the complete enfranchise-
b ent of women, and beer and light
wl1e legislation. He also is for the
Plumb railroad plan and the national
zation of roads leading from the Dis
krict of Columbia into Maryland.
JOHN A. ELGERT.