Arizona republican., 1920-03-31
HOOVER TO RUN FUR |. |. ?. F
 PARTY DESIRES
Is Not Seeking Nomination, but Will Take It If Issues Demand His Service, He Says in Announcing Polit- ical Stand
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

SAN FRANCISCO, March 30.-Her- bert Hoover today expressed willing ness to accept the republican nomina- contained in telegram to the Hoover republican club of California, was con- ditioned upon feeling in the repub lican party that the issues demand his candidacy.
 The former food administrator. tele- graphing from New York. said he was naturally affiliated" with the "inde- pendent element" of the republican party and declared that if that party adopted a forward looking" platform he would support it. He reiterated for mer declarations that he would not seek the nomination.
 Concerning the peace treaty, with it's league of nations covenant, MT. Hoover expressed himself as differing with equal wilderness from extremists who opposed "any league at alp and the position taken by the president
 Reason for Decision
 Recent developments in the treaty situation, MT. Hoover said, were one reason for his announcing his willing ness to accept the nomination. Others were "stagnation in economic adjust ment' and urgent representations con- corning the situation in California, his home state. These factors, he said, casued him to confirm the action my republican friends there have already taken without consulting me"
 The telegram, addressed to Warren Gregory. president of the Hoover re- publican club of California, follows:
 T had not wished to enter, nor could I hitherto see any real public service by entering into partisan political dis nending inc clarification of the diverging views Of the different groups in the parties on the great new issues. The recent de- veIopments over the treaty, stagnation in adjustment of our great economlc problems, and particularly the many urgent representations that l have re- ceived as to the situation in my own state. convince me that it is my duty to confirm the action that my republican friends there. have already taken without consulting me.
 Present Conditions
 q understand that there is great wish among the republicans Of Call fornia to have opportunity to express themselves in favor of the league or nations with proper reservations safe guarding American traditions and in ferests as opposed to the extreme view advocated against any league at all. I differ just as strongly with this view as I QlIIer WllT1 tile cAlIcliC pOoiSAOA taken by the president on participa- tion in purely European affairs. This issue is whether with reservations protecting our position, we should Join the moral forces of the world to re- duce the dangers again growing around us. or whether we will, by pre- tense of an insularity that we do not possess. sit by in the face of growing armies navies, national antagoniSmS, reaction, or, in reverse, the spread of bolshevism. through much Of the world This would be the defeat of hopes for which our sons were sacri- ficed in this war.
 "Entirely aside from this moral idealism of the league and the danger to our own ultimate peace. the solu- tion of our domestic problems; such as the size of our armament. reduction in taxation, and the prevention of agri- cultural and industrial depression and consequent unemployment, is depend- ent upon stability abroad and upon our access to the worlds markets. which today are endangered by discrimina- tion against us through our inability to exercise our veto under the treaty. believe it is the transcendant service which the republican party can render to the nation to settle league effici- enty designed to give us these ma tional projections
 Must Have Right Platform
 "No one should be able to dictate the policies of great parties yet every man and woman has a right to decide what issues and measures he will support. If the republican party-with the in- depndent element of which I am nat urally affiliated-adopts a forward looking, liberal, constructive platform on the treaty and on our economic is- sues. and if the party proposes meas ures for sound business administra- tion of the country, and is neither re- actionary nor radical in it's approach to our great domestic questions, and is backed by men who undoubtedly as- sure the consummation of these poli- cieS and measures, I will give it my en- tire support. While I do not and will not myself seek the nomination, if it is felt that the issues necessitate it 1 and it is demanded of me. I cannot re- | fuse service. CSigned) HERBERT HOOVER"