The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-02-06
Washington Letter.
TIMES ON
HOOVER-WILSON'S LAST HOPE

LINES ON
HOOVER-WILSON'S LAST HOPE
Washington, Jan. 30.-The Repub-
lican Publicity Association, through
its President, Hon. Jonathan Bourne,
Jr., today gave out the following
statement from its Washington Head
quarters:
"The suddenness with which the
Hoover boom has sprung into promi-
nence eXcites the wonder Of the peo-
pie at large, and arouses the suspici-
ons of those who have been intimate
ly associated with the selection of
Presidential candidates in the past.
An investigation of the various
sources from which the Hoover pro-
paganda has so Unexpectedly appear
ed indicates that there is ample rea-
son for LOGGING askance at it's sim
cerlty. The seeming spontaneity
with which people in various parts of
the country have felt called upon to
get behind the Hoover candidacy is ex-
planned when one realizes who they
are ard from whom they have taken
their inspiration heretofore.
Herbert Hoover is the information
alist par excellence. His life has been
spent in Australia, China, Burma, and
England, except for his young man.
hood which he lived in the United
States until twenty-three years of
age. During the war it has been his
business to distribute food among the
various nations according to their
needs. To do so he has used the DOW
er delegated to him by the President
to ration the people of his native
country, and compel sacrifices on their
part for the good of the world as a
whole. He is one of the leaders of
that school that insists the United
States should subordinate all thought
of its own national welfare in the in
terests of humanity in general He is
therefore, an ardent supporter of the
league of nations, and staunch be-
lever in the Wilsonian policy of in
ternationalism.
"a review of those who are calling
the loudest for Mr.. Hoover for Presi-
dent shows that they are the same
men who have been most vociferous
for the ratification of the peace treaty
The New York World,
President Wilson's mouthpiece, is out
spoken in advocacy of Mr.. Hoover. |
Democratic Senators, who have stood
by the President and accomplished
the defeat of the Lodge reservations
at his dictation, are now Offering their
support for Hoover. Mr. Taft, while |
careful not to endorse him unreserv-
edly, extols Mr. Hoover's qualities as
an executive, and testifies to his be- |
lief in the league, ain which he is |
deeply interested and which he be-
lieves to be essential to the stabilizing |
OF the world The ex-President warns |
Republican Senators that they must |
the Lodge reservations or
Mr.. Hoover will enter the campaign
and secure a large part of the Re-
publican vote.
"Mr. Wilson knows that he cannot
hope for a third nomination and elec.}
ton. He is not physically or mental
y fitted to stand the strain of another
even if assured of enough
support to make him the candidate of
he convention. Furthermore, he must
realize from the attitude of the Sen
ate, and from the various straw votes
hat have been taken throughout the
country that there is not the slightest
nope of success for the unamended
eague as campaign issue. He knows
hat any candidate holding to his own
eague views, and who has been ac-
lively identified with pro-league activ-
ty in the past would be doomed to de-
eat. His one best hope is to force
he election of somebody whose views
ire more or less of mystery to the
people as whole, but who, he is con-
'inced, will carry out his own league
policy if elected to the White House.
Mr.. Hoover is the man, and his sud-
len entrance into the Presidential
imelight so soon after Mr.. Bryan's
declaration for league reservations
'ears out the belief that he is Mr..
Wilson's choice. AS one man puts it,
If the Democrats run him it will be
because they are politically bankrupt,
md hope to save something out of the
wreck"