Evening star., 1924-06-11
Sentiment Is on Increase
to Name Commerce
=, Secretary.
OBJECTIONS MADE
TO OTHER NAMES
Curtis Out of Grace for
Bonus VOte-KenyOn
for RadicaIisni.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE,

BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
: CONVENTION HALL. Cleveland
Tune 11.-Nobody has the vice presi-
niency assured today, but there are
certain definite trends
Herbert Hoover's chances seem at
the moment better than any one
else's, but when Nj. L. Burton Of the
University of Michigan delivers his
Grafton nominating President Cool
idge tomorrow, things may be differ
cnt. Nothing would make Calvin
Coolidge happier than to have his
lifelong friend and admirer, DR.. Bur
ton, named on the ticket with him.
The politicians are not sold" on the
idea of naming an unknown quantity.
but If objections to the various men
named. become too veheme mt they may
come to the choice of DR.. Burton as
the least Objectionable.
Speaking of objections, it is inter-
csting to hear the objections raised
by delegates to virtually all the can
didateS for Vice President. HIRE are
some, OF them . --~
Curtis Guilty of Heresy.
Senator Curtis of Kansas-Voted to
override President Coolidges veto of
the soldier bonus, which is hercsy in
this convention.
Judge William s. Kenyon of Iowa
Too much of a radical and it might
look as if the regulars were yielding
to the western insurgents.
, Representative Dickinson of Iowa
Not well enough known.
Representative Sanders of Indiana
Same thing.
Former Gov. Lowden of Illinois
he has said he did not want it and
would not take it, SO the Illinois dele
gates have grown cold about trying
to draft him.
Strength of Harbord.
Maj. Gen. Haroord-Not particu-
1arly active in politics and not sufi-
ciently identified with the Republican
party in the past to be regarded as a
vote getter, though his strength with
the ex-service men is counted as his
main card of admission.
Herbert Hoover-He is still looked
npon by some farmers as having been
RESPONSIBLE for the fixing of the price
Of wheat during the war, when they
felt they would have gotten more for
their crop if the government had not
intervened. Also Secretary Hoover's S
wavering IN 1920: when ne 1I,5, dld n, not Z
or Democratic parties, is still held
against him by the regulars:
NJ. L. Burton of Michigan-Cn- n
known, but acceptable if Coolidge
says SO.
Hoover Sentiment Grows.
Thus does the vice presidential race
proceed here, and after talking with
many of the leaders and some MEM
bers of the Coolidge cabinet the
writer is convinced that if there had
been a definite movement organized
here for. Herbert Hoover he would
have had an easy victory. AS 1t is,
sentiment for him is growing.
Some of the Hoover men realize that
the Secretary OF Commerce prefers to
run his own department and would
feel buried in the vice presidency,
but there's another angle to that. Mr..
Hoover is young. Some admirers think
he may be a presidential candidate
in 1928. The main handicap unoer
which he suffers in politics is his
Identification with the Wilson ad-
ministration in its appeal for a Demo-
cratic Congress in 1918, and his lack
of regularity. To be given d vice
presidential nomination by a regular
Republican convention would Tor all
times sweep away that objection, and
i; by chance he were elected it is
serious question whether his eXecu-
tive ability would be forgotten IN so
snort a period as four years.
Refused to Interfere.
The story is told here that Herbert
Hoover felt SO deeply that he ought
to be kept out of the vice presidential
contest that he personally appealed
TO President Coolidge recently to
suuclch the plan, but Mr.. Coolidge
smilingly refused to ask his friends at
cleveland to eliminate Hoover. The
ticket Coolidge and Hoover" has
Fascinated some of the Coolidge man
ayers. With one man from Massa-
chusetts and the other from Califor-
MIA, the idea of geographical breadth
is conveyed and that is something i'm
portant in politics-it may even be
more so this year with candidate
from New England at the top OF
the ticket and the west clamorlns
for recognition.
The making of the platform is un-
dramatic. There are no serious dlVl-
sions OF opinion. The committee on
resolutions stayed up most OF the
night trying to merge tne various
proposals into a compact platform.
The meetings Of the committee have
been characterized by the same spirit
OF defiance Of the La Toilette group
as has been manifested on the con-
vention floor itself.
incidentally, when Representative
Burton was keynoting. about third
rarties and the need for solidarity
and everybody was looking at the
Wisconsin delegation and urging its
u n
GOV Blaine of Wisconsin called
across the aisle to the, Pennsylvania
delegation, where Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon was sitting:
What you fellows want is not
solidarity. but solid-dollarity."
Some delegates thought they heard
Daugherty," but the chances are he
meant the former, anyhow.
To all of which should be added
the significant fact that wheat went
up AZ cents bushel yesterday; That
may seem like market news. but 1t
is really a piece of political informa :
tion, for as the price OF wheat ascends
and the Canadian crop appears to be
a more centented agricultural cleo
torate grow. And if that should be
the case, the regulars here feel they
would be justified in worrying less
and less about Ia Toilette and the
revolt of the west,
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