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would like the nomination If it would
promise to be worth anything but for a
variety of reasons do not feel it mourn
bent upon them to sanction huge dele
gate campaign with all the expense and
energy attendant thereon. Mr.. Palmer
is still regarded as q putative candidate
but his friends realize that his enforce
ment of the law against the labor leaders
who would have tied up the country with
the coal strike, however meritorious Il
may have been from the general point Of
view, might prove embarrassing to the
candidate of a party which is angling for
the labor vote.
Mr.. Palmer, DESPITE, his advantageous
position with the administration, is
not outwardly showing any stronger
symptoms of candidacy than good many
other Democrats. Even Champ Clark,
whose sudden sentimental sweep of sun
port Unexpectedly gave him a majority
OF the delegates in the National Conven-
tiop of 1912, SO far has made no announce
ment of his desire with respect to the
nomination.
ATTRACTING THE SOUTHERN INDEPENDENTS
Getting back to Hoover, his friends de-
clare that he will make a strong appeal
20 the rapidly growing independent vote
IN the South. This is not an independent
vote in the ordinary sense of the term, for
it implies no break in the Southern sol
idarity which ever since the Civil War
has been cemented by opposition to racial
equality oD that point the South will re-
main solid forever. as probably the North
would if it had the same immense colorcd
population. But the South is thinking
more in terms of economic s than of poll
tics, in these modern days. Immigration
from the North and West, large influx
of Northern capital and such "A run of
prosperity as has more than restored the
wealth sacrificed I'D the Civil War have
developed industry III the South along
with agriculture, while the farmers IN
the last half dozen years have diversified
their crops and been the direct bene-
ficiaries of the Hoover policies during the
war 1t has been thought that the great
farming interest as n whole Is hostile To
Hoover, so it was something of revela-
ton when Senator Gronna, the IN lion
aire wheat grower of North Dakota, in
iroduced his bill to abolish the Grain Cor
poration, to find even the farmers of
GronDas own State protesting ard declar-
ing that unless the Hoover policies were
continued for a while longer the prices of
farm produce would drop still lower than
the level TO which they are now settling
ne hoover IotlcF kept sugar NJ p ieaSoh-
able price during the war, and every house
wife IN the land knows that with the hand
of Hoover removed the price has doubled.
1t might be violating confidence to give
at the present the names of some of the
leading men and women IN both parties
who are clamorlng for the nomination of
Hoover for President, but it is only stat
ing news to say that they are very nu-
merous. The Pacific coast is showing strong
Hoover symptoms and the southern Demo-
Gratis, after their first hasty EXPLANATIONS
over the declaration for Hoover by the
New York World, are DOW talking in
different strain and even discussing his
as the Democratic nominee.
The situation is anomalous, to say the
least, for we have the word OF Julius Barnes
that Mr. Hoover is a progressive Repub
lican."