Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-04-09
Herbert Hoover Clears His PoIit-
icaI Position and Announces
He Will Accept RepubG-
can Nomination.
GERMANY GROWS MORE QUIET
Emir FeiseI an Accomplished Trouble
Maker-Mustapha Renal Stirs Feel
ing Against Christians-Den-
mark in the Limelight-Day-
light Saving Confuses.
By (. r. cLIPsoN.

Mystery regarding the political po-
sition and party affiliations of Herbert
Hoover has been dispelled by the an
nouncement of his conditional will
ingness to accept the Republican presi-
Dental nomination. He has said that
he will accept if it is felt hat the
issues necessitate it and it is demand
attitude in the following words:
IF the Republican party-with the
Independent element, of which l am
naturally 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-
ton of the country. and is neither re-
dictionary nor radical in its approach
to our great domestic questions, and is
backed by men who undoubtedly as
sure the contamination of these poll
cies and measures. l will give it my
entire support"
Although Mr.. Hoover's declaration
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relieved the tension existing in the
camps of other candidates. Surround
ed by silence and secrecy, his atti-
tude had occasioned more or less
quaking in both Republican and Dem.
ocratic strongholds. No one promi.
len on either side felt like hurl.
ing a javelin at him for fear that it
might rebound and act as a boom
erang. Each party wanted his sup
port and the competition had been SO
keen as to take on the characteristics
of a race, with each side endeavoring
to get to him and land him first.
Mystery entered the situation some
weeks ago whep Secretary of the Navy
Daniels, positively refusing to give
a name, but speaking most emphat'
ically and auth~oritatively, said he
knew who the next president of the
United States would be. The most
active guessers were practically unani
nous In the theory that the secretary
had in mind Mr.. Hoover, and that the
food man had made promises or hat
definitely committed himself to the
Democratic party. The theory as t
the defniteness was modified later
when Mr.. Hoover, pushed to some ex
tremity for a declaration as to his pc
litical affiliations, stated that he haC
of late years been aligned with the
Progressive Republicans. In the con
gressional elections Of 1918 he ap
peared to favor the Democrats, an(
made some statements indorsing thu
leading policies of President Wilson.
The action of Mr.. Hoover ha'
brought the political pot from a NOR
or less simmering state to an actua
boiling point. His entry makes him
strong contender for the Republican
nomination, and his declaration o
principles will have much to do wit
preventing both parties from adopting
either extreme reactionary or e1
IRENE radical viewpoints. He ha
stated that no one should be able t
dictate the policies of great parties
yet every man and woman has a RICH
to decide what issues and measure
he will support. He thus creates a pc
sition which makes it possible for hir
to repudiate both parties after thei
national conventions. Some observer
see in this a hint that If the candidate
and platforms of the two parties d
not satisfy the liberal thought of tn
nation, Mr.. Hoover will be willing t
support a third and independent ticl
ct. Meanwhile several booms hav
already been affected by his entr
into the race. His supporters are el
gagged in an active campaign. In tn
Minnesota primary, where 1t was ne
essary to write " paste his name o