The Washington herald., 1920-05-01
DECLARESDIXIE
WANTS HOOVER
Vile Says Canvass Of
Twelve States Shows
Strong Sentiment.
KNOWS SoUTH'S NEEDS
Only Republican With
Chance to Break Solid
Democratic Lineup.
KNOWS SoUTH'S NEEDS
BY FREDERIc WILLIAM VILE.

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
Dixie wants Hoover. He is &C
claimed as the one Republican can,
didate who stands a chance O
smashing the long Democratic mo
nopoly OF the Solid South
A canvass of twelve States south
Of the Mason and Dixion line, which
among them account for more thar
q quarter of the ELECTORAL colleg,
votes, indicates strong sentiment ii
favor Of Hoover's nomination. II
certain States that sentiment 4
strongly expressed. 1t Is led in al
most every case by prominent Re
publicans. In others lifelong Dem
ocrats Of local distinction are pro
noting it.
Wide Field Covered.
The Public Ledger news servic,
Is enabled to present the result o
extended inquiries prosecuted dur
ing the past few weeks in West Vir
Einia. Maryland. Virginia, NortI
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
Kentucky. Alabama. Georgia. Miss
tsstppi, Louisiana and Florida.
L.
that Hoover has a full grasp ol
their particular commercial prob
lens He knows, they say, as mucl
about the dificulties of the cottol
planter as he does about the hard
ships of the marketeer OF wheat
He understands the economics o
keeping the spinning-jenny running
just as he understands the thing
- L. l.
mine producing. The industria
Businessman engineer in the Whit
House
Summaries by States
Passing to concrete evidence o
sentiment in Mr.. Houver's favor. tn
following summaries. State by State
are available:
West Virginia.
Z. L. Whitney. formerly a vic
president of the Leonard Woo,
League OF West Virginia, now 4
chairman of the Hoover ReEublical
Club Of Charleston, the capital o
the State. A West Virginia Hoove
Republican Club has been forme,
under the temporary chairmanshiI
of NJ A. Bratton. Mr.. Whitney re
signed from the Wood League upoi
learning that Hoover would accep
the Republican nc CmInation and ha
been followed ty many other Re
puolicans. The West Virginia del
egation at Chicago will vote 70
Senator Howard Sutherland ol
opening ballots The best opinio
is that IL will not long be able L
ignore the Hoover sentiment nov
crystalliIing in the State and vii
vote for Hoover eventually.
Maryland.
Wood money and organization
between them have manufactured
considerable Wood "sentiment." bu
Hoover Republican clubs are spring
ing into existence throughout tn
State in consequence of spontaneou
sentiment. In Maryland, as in 8
many States, IL is merely a Ques
ton of crystallizing Hoover-for
President sentiment Faith in hir
as the outstanding public man @
the day is universal. The Hoove
organization in Baltimore is the out
growth Of Republican-Demo
cratic bipartifa an movement J. !
Wilson. jr,. DR.. Frank GoOdnow, @
Johns Hopkins; John T. Stone, Will
lam II. Maltbie knd other Ieadin
Marylanders are ccrfdont Hoove
could carry the States eight doubt
full" votes into the electoral column
Virginia.
Republican Democratic bi-psrti
san movement for Hoover. Berkle
Williams, Of Richmond. member O
one Of the oldest and foremost Il
F. V" old-line Democrat. is Stat
chairman OF the Hoover Club, an
Alvin Smith. prominent bushes
man and Republican, is city chair
man in Richmond. Prominent Re
publicans and Democrats have band
ed themselves together in Norfol
and other Virginia centers for Hoo
yer. EX-Gov. Henry S. Stuart. Dem
ocrat, is an enthusiastic Hoove
man. General impression is ths
Virginia's delegation at Chicag
will support Hoover after formal
fulfilling State conventions in
structions for Lowden. Leaders ad
NIT Hoover is the only Republico
who can carry Virginia in Novem
Der, overturning normal Democrat
ic majority OF $4,000.
North CaroIina.
Many delegates elected to Chi
cago convention frankly admit the
are for Hoover because OF State
wide sentiment. Faculty and stu
dent body of famous State Univer
sity at Chapel Hill. a great influ
ence in the State. are for Hoover Of
Republican ticket. IL that is tn
only ticket he will run on. Hoove
Republican Club being perfected .
university. As soon as State pri
maries are over, leading Democrat,
both of State and national influ
ence will declare for Hoover on Re
publican ticket. No doubt express
ed in any North Carolinian quartz
of his ability to carry the STATE.
south Carolina.
Virtually every voter in Stat
takes solemn vow when register
for primaries to vote straight Dem
ocratic ticket. Were IL not 70
that tradition, Hoover would pol
tremendous vote among South Caro-
lima Democrats. AS IL Is, he woul
run far ahead Of anything Taft an
Roosevelt combined achieved 4
1912. Majority of newspapers Il
State have only highest praise 70
Hoover.
National convention delegates an