New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-09-01
BOOM FOR HOOVER
REPORTED WAXING
May Combine With Sen. johnson
to Win California
BY GEORGE H. MANNING

Washington, d. G., Sept. DE
spite the fact that Herbert Hoover
refuses 10 allow any organized et-
fort to advance his chances for the
republican nomination Tor president,
every day reveals new political sup
port pilins up Tor him.
While there has been no public
announcement OF the fact, indica =
tons are that Senator Hiram John
son is about 10 withdraw his opposi-
ton TO Hoover back in their home
stat" OF California. Senator John
sons chances Tor the presidency are
all gone. He faces a campaign 10
keep his seat in the senate next year
He and Hoover could unite in Cali
lornia TO tn" benefit OF both. Hoover
has come out in favor OF Senator
Johnson's Boulder Dam plan.
May Team With johnson
There is a story that Hoover will
work with Senator Johnson to get
San Francisco chosen for the re-
publican national convention in 1925.
and that Senator johnson will turn
his support in California 10 Hoover
for the presidential nomination.
A. least two cabinet members. and
possibly more, are supporting Hoov-
er. Secretary OF the Interior Hubert
Work, who as postmaster general
and as secretary OF the interior, has
made political friends all over the
country, is for Hoover. 1t is even
rumored that he viii head Hooyers
campaign. Secretary of Agriculture
William VI. Jardine certainly favors
Hoover for the nomination.
Hoover, who kept the country
guessing through five years Of pub
lie life as to what his party atfilia-
tons were, has always been believed
to be practically devoid OF support
among the politicians, although in
high favor among the business peo-
pie, and a man OF uneXCelled
strength in the administration. Yet
the politicians seem to be coming
around to him.
II President Coolidge decides to
throw his support to Hoover. the
nomination might be assured. The
president could throw the southern
delegations to him, and doubtless
these southern delegations would de-
light to cast their vote for the man
in the administration who is doing
more for the south than anyone else.
Hoover is back in the south now.
working out his engineering plans
for the prevention OF floods in the
lower Mississippi
Wall Street Cool Toward Hoover
Eastern financial interests are not
believed to be particularly friendly
to the Hoover candidacy. but if
Charles Evans Hughes persists in
his conviction that he is too old to
run. they might easily turn to Hooy-
er as the man who has most con-
sistently supported the Coolidge add
ministration of all those who are
in the running. Hughes is 6S:
Hoover is So. Speaker Nicholas
Longworth opposed the president in
supporting the demand for thre"
cruisers. Frank G. LoWden and
Vice President Charles G. Dawes
are opposed to the presidents farm
relief policies.
Despite his opposition to the mid
die vests ideas Of farm legislation.
Secretary Hoover might gain the
middle west through the fricndlinrss
Of the business interests there, and
because he was born there, No man
from west of the Mississippi has ever
been elected president OF the United
States.
Orphan At Early Age
Herbert Hoover was born at West
Branch, Iowa, on August II. 1874.
His father was a blacksmith. His
mother was a Quaker preacher.
Both parents died before the DO,
was seven years old. He has made
little Of his humble origin in his
public life but he has never mad,
a campaign for election. His first
political office was that of secretary
OF commerce. barring. OF course. the
humanitarian and business orgaui2a-
ton work he did in a public capa-
city during the World war
Perhaps that is why it is so lttlo
known that he was an orphan boy
living with relatives on a farm and
that he began TO earn his own living
when he was - years Old working
e. in truck gardens in Oregon. He has
been office boy and clerk. and he