Arizona republican., 1920-04-04
HOOVER OPPOSES. USE IF NAME IN
 ANY THIRD PARTY.
Such a Possibility Is Pre- cluded, He Says-Favors Economical Campaign And Asks That No Criti- cism of Rivals Be Made
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NEW YORK. April 3.-Herbert Hoover, who has announced he is ready to accept the republican presidential nomination if it is demanded of him. requested he be not further embar- rassed by suggestions of some inde- pendents that his name be placed be- fore any other party. as "a primary sense of team work in any party or ganization would preclude such a pos sibility." in a statement issued today.
 NIT. Hoover said in his statement he had no great record of partisan activity and admitted" that his political activ- ity was confined to membership in a prominent republican club and ale glance to the party over a period of years. He added that, because of his profession of a mining engineer. con tinual shift of residence had prevented him from exercising as much as he de- sired the privilege of every citizen at the polls.
 Declaring his administrative duties in various relief organiza tionS would prevent him from making a personal campaign for the nomination, MT. Hoover said he expected Hoover or ganizations throughout the country would have to expend certain amounts for printing and other expenses, but that he hoped they would confine them selves to minor subscriptions and ex- penditures and would be prepared to open their books to public inspection
 Mir. Hoover requested that men and women advocating his nomination bear in mind that personal criticism of the other names before the party is chiefly of service to the opposition"
 Name Not in Primaries.
 "All these men," he said "are pa- triotic, honorable Americans. They have all served the country we'll and are entitled to respect"
 Because he had refused to allow his name put into the primaries. Mir. Hoover declared there was little or ganization on his behalf and at this late organization possible that could compete with other organizations. He urged that his supporters confine their energies to promoting of their views to the country and the delegates al- ready named, with full respect to their prior pledges"
 MT. Hoover said that he had no ex- pectation that his entrance into the presidential race would be welcomed by the type of person who eoriceives that fitness for office, patriotism and citizenship depend upon placing sheer partisanship above national interest or who requires years of demonstrated participation in work with mechanical politicians"
 .I cannot assist these people with explanations trying to prove that be- long to their class" he added. Some people of this sort feel great trouble of mind that in a letter addressed to a friend last year, I expressed my alarm at the then growing partisanship and pressed the need for unity of action be- tween legislative and executive branches of the government, while we were still faced with the problems of war. It was obviously my duty as an important war official to support the president without thought of any polit ical interest to myself from the day I entered the administration until I left it, and put no qualifications upon or apologies for loyalty to ones chief in office.''