Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-23
HOOVER TO REMAIN
IN CABINET DESPITE
PRESIDENCY BOOM
Secretary Will Retain Post,
Although in Forefront of
1923 Possibilities.
OMMERCE HEAD SEEN
AS LEADING G. O. P. FIELD
Observers View Chances as Partic-
ularly Good, With Favorable
Turn in West.

Herbert G.. Hoover, Secretary Of
Commerce. has no intention of resign
ing from the cabinet TO become an
active candidate for the Republican
nomination for President.
Mr.. Hoover, who has just returned
to Washington from the West, is Civ
ing his attention to the work of his
department. He is not talking poll
tics. He is not establishing Hoover
for President organization"
All this. however, does not mean
that Mr.. Hoover is not very much in
the picture of the next national cam
paign. He has ardent supporters
throughout the country who are ready
to go to work for him at the slightest
sign. and some of them without any
sign whatever.
Soon Must Take Stand.
Within a few months at most Mr..
Hoover must either assent or decline
to allow his name to go before the Re
publican voters in a number of States
where presidential primary elections
are held for the purpose of instruct
ing the delegations to the Republican
June.
Mr.. Hoover is regarded in many
quarters as one Of the strongest, if
not the strongest, prospective candi.
dates for the Republican nomination.
The situation gives promise of clear
ing in such way as TO make the
nomination of Mr.. Hoover extremely
probable. In the farm States Of the
West. where there has been opposition
to Mr.. Hoover because of his known
ehmity TO the McNary- Haugen farm
relief bill, conditions are better. with
prospects of good crops, and even that
the corn crops may be satisfactory.
Change in California.
Furthermore. the political situation
in California. Mr.. Hoover's own State.
is far different from that which existed
in 1920. when Mr.. Hoover's name was
presented to the Republican national
convention.
At that time Senator Hiram Johnson
was the choice of many of the old Bull
Moosers and Progressives for the Re.
publican nomination. He dominated the
Republican organization OF the State,
and he went to the national conven-
ton with the delegation in his vest
pocket.
Today, however, the suggestion that
Mr. Hoover be candidate for Presi-
dent has brought a real response in
California. Not a few of the men who
have supported Senator Johnson in
the past are known to be strongly in
favor of placing the State delegation
solidly back of Mr.. Hoover.
The Hoover candidacy would be
greatly strengthened in the national
convention in that event.
Johnson Wants Reelection.
Senator Johnson next year comes
up for reelection to the Senate. He
wants TO be reelected. Life in the
Senate suits him Many months ago
he renounced all idea of becoming
again a presidential candidate. His
failures in 1920 and 1924 give him no
reason for advancing his candidacy
again. If he wishes to return to the
Senate, Senator Johnson would have
little to gain by launching an attack
in California on a movement to send
a Hoover delegation to the national
convention.
While Mr.. Hoover is not an active
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion and will not lift a finger at this
time to obtain delegates 10 the next
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