Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-13
1.-THE Atlanta Cournal News BureauO
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RY THEODORE TILLER

WASHINGTON, March 12.--De
spite the declination Of Herbert
Hoover to permit his name to go on
the Democratic primary ballot in
California, Senator James D. Phelan,
Democrat, Of that state, said today
that the 26 Democratic delegates from
California to the national convention
would all be for Hoover. That
Hoover's name did not go on the bal
lot was solely in Difference to his
wishes, Senator Phelan said.
A number of senators from the
Rocky Mountain and Pacific coas
states report a strong Hoover SEN
timent in their sections. In CONVEX
satioas with one another in the SEN
ate chamber and cloakrooms, these
senator's are said to admit that If
Mr.. Hoover would actively enter the
Democratic contest, he could get
most, if not all, Of the states west
of the Rocky Mountains.
Herbert Hoover, however, is pur-
suing a consistent course. From
Georgia across the country to Ore
gon have come demands upon him
that he enter the Democratic pri-
maries or conventions. In each in
was not candidate for the presi-
dency, that he was more interested
in great national issues than in the
political fortunes of an man, him
self included, and that he saw no
reason why at such a juncture he
should make a partisan alliance with
any organization. If he were a can
didate. Mr.. Hoover suggested, it
would be another matter, but Mr..
Hoover is eschewing politics, al
though he cannot help but be aware
that friends in all sections of the
country are clamoring to present him
as the strongest man the party may
put forward.
New Hampshire's Choice
Senator Phelan's statement that
the California delegation will be for
Mr.. Hoover at the convention makes
more significant the result in an
other faraway corner of the United
States. New Hampshire is going to
send a Hoover delegation to San
Francisco. Mr.. Hoover was no more
a candidate in New Hampshi1 than
in California or Georgia, but he ran
away with the Democratic primary
and the New Hampshire delegation
tc San Francisco will go there to
bring about if possible the nomina-
ton of the man the Democrats of
New Hampshire want.
Up to this hour Mr.. Hoover's posi-
ton has been quite consistent. He
has repeatedly declared that he was
rot a party man and not in presi-
Dental politics. But he has never
| said he would refuse the Democratic
nomination. Mr.. Hoover has frien7s
Mt Svo n 90 tI7c
| them under circumstances that are
personally embarrassing to him, SIM
ply because he is not a candidata,
| Mr.. Hoover ha: never said that ne
| would reject a nomination from
| e her party.
There are few, if ary. men who
would reject presidential nomina-
| ton, and in his position in this re-
| spect, Mr.. Hoover is quite human.
Politicians here are rather amazed
a. the California and New Hamp-
shire developments. 1t is InusuaI
| that man not seeking delegates and
| bearing no party label should have
! delegates virtually forced upon him
| by democratic voters of two SOW
ereign states. This is what - hap
| pened, nevertheless, in the extreme
| southwes tern part of the country
and in the extreme northeastern
| part Of the country.
| Had Mr.. Hoover allowed the use
| of his name in either California or
New Hampshire, he would have be-
| come a candidate for the nomina-
tion-which he doesn't propose to
do. 1t would have beer, impossible
| to regard Mr.. Hoover as not a can
didate bad he gone ahead. and told
| voters of these two states that they
were authorized to use his name.