South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-02-08
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among those now talking OF Hoover for president
personal friends and ardent supporters OF Prest WI
SON"
Mr. Julius H. Barnes United states grain director.
lifelong republican and close personal friend and
associate OF Hoover recently the annual banquet
OF the National Wholesale Dry-GOods association de-
that his partner political Affiliations lay with
the progressive republicans" but at the time
strongly intimated that Mr. Hoover might even be-
come under certain circumstances democratic candi-
date. Mr.. Barnes said further.
Il have known Herbert Hoover intimately through
several years OF close association his work. feel
that from that knowledge / can state that he will
allow himself To be a candidate high office
nor allow his friends TO make EFFORT in his behalf
unless there shall come such ndspuable evidence of
spontaneous and universal popular demand that
it will overwhelm his present resolution not to enter
politics"
In the words of the Brooklyn EagIe CInd. Dem.,)
Hoover's hat thus SHE'D into ring already some
what crowded with headsear" even its owner did
not altogether approve the action.
If Hoover is nominated and elected. he will have
presidents in the elections of Cen Grant who had
mated him for the presidency and Zachary Taylor who
had voted for 40 years when he nominated and
elected. AS the Boston Herald Ond. Rep) says:
Hoover would represent the great His cleo
ton would be giving a president out OF the
He would stand for the atrulsm and the ideasm and
the sacrifice of America in the war The women
would like to vote for him, and they will have the
ballot in a goodly bunch Of states"
William Allen White, in Emporia (ISan.) Gazette
tInd) editorial that Hoover could be elected
the republican ticket He has all the elements OF
strength that Roosevelt had" this paper continues 1.-THE
people him, and the organizations against
him. The New York Globe (Rep) gives many reasons
why the people would vote for Hoover president:
The strongest supporters of the young Californian
admire him for the exact reason that he is not
politician. approve him because they
think he Is Of them and would give the country
the sound business administration for which they
have been signing these many years. Much OF the
labor vote would go TO him on the theory that he is
benevolent neutral the industriaI questions which
now stirring the country"
Politicians and laborleaders have come to recognize
"A element
We read in the Binghamton On. W Press 1nd) gen.
era statement to the effect that Just now Hoover is not
very popular with the farmers" The Buffalo COM
mercal (Rep) opnes that IF the farmer vetoes the
nomination Of Hoover. that settles 1t; party af
ford TO pick candidate opposed by the aSricultuTSts
And the Washington correspondent of the New York
Evening (Ind) sets forth in specific terms just
how HoOvers possible candidacy Is viewed by the Amer
Iean farmer;
Organized farmers will repddiate the candidacy of
Mr.. Hoover II ne should be nominated, they assert,
now that the matter is taking definite shape.
His record the farmers high cost Of living is
satisfactory. and his sympathies in the wrong
place, throughout his term with the food ad-
minstratlon, they convinced"
The New York Tribune (Rep.) after stating that
Mr. Hoover, both at home and abroad, is of the
most admired of Americana" goes to say:
About the only abstainers from praise those
OF the agricultural interest, who can't why wheat
raisers tethered by fixed price while others
were allowed to prcfteer freely the theory that
increase in prices would stimulate production and
that the interest Of the public in increased
ductiOn rather than in low prices.
white house, the political heir
Wilson, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
(Rep) emphatically states that the democrats no.
going nominate candidate for president who call:
himself q republican, matter how he qualities his
repubIicanism." The St Louis Post-Dispatch (Ind,)
which is from Missouri, also inquiries:
what Mr. Hoover's qualifications as states
man? We know from his utterances that he has an
understanding Of business of the factors in industry
commerce, and of the just relations OF labor and
capital and the public But has he q thorough under
standing Of questions that go deeper than these
questions that touch the fundamental basis Of free
government? Is he able to distinguish unerrngly the
powers and limits of constitutional government?
eve need something more than business organizer
and successful administrator in the presidency We