Evening star., 1927-05-10
HOOVER CANDIDACY
DENIED BY CALDER
Ex-senator Makes An
nounCement After Confer
ence With Secretary.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Former Senator Calder of New York
has let il be known after a conference
with. Secretary Hoover that the latter
is not a candidate for the presidential
nomination of 1923, but, instead, ia
vors the denomination and reelection
of President Coolidge.
This information has not surprised
the National Capital, but Mr.. Hoover
has been sending letters to that effect
for more than a year to those friends
who have been eager to start move
ment for him on the assumption that
Mr.. Coolidge was not going to be a
candidate. None of the letters has
been made public, but they are all sub
stantially to the same effect, and are
reinforced every now and then by con
versatiOnS in which Mr. Hoover's al
legiance to Mr.. Coolidge is unques-
toned.
But It is suspected here that former
Senator Calder was given a true pic.
ture of the situation by the Secretary
of Commerce, with the hope that those
groups in New York who are constant
ly looking for politics in whatever ac-
tion he may be taking once and for all
will abandon the idea that he is seek
Hint at Future Chance.
Mr. H0over's strength with the in
dependent voter is conceded, but he
never has really been regarded as IA
vorably by Republican leaders as he is
today, and not a few of them are say
ing that he is young enough man to
have a chance in 1882.
AS for 1928, all the men who would
e IIyv
same ones who want Mr.. Coolidge.
If by any chance Mr.. Coolidge does
not care to become a candidate, the
name of Herbert Hoover, along with
that Of Charles Evans Hughes, would
probably be seriously considered by
the Coolidge wing of the Republican
party.
But everything here is proceeding
on the assumption that Mr.. Cool
idge is going TO be a receptive can.
didate and that nobody shis own
camp, at least, is going to enter the
lists against him. If any opposition
is to develop against the nomination
of Mr.. Coolidge it will have to come
from the friends Of Mr.. Lowden or
Mr.. Dawes, who have not been on the
Coolidge side at ALL
The reasoning of the pro-Coolidge
men is that if the Republican party
is to go before the country on the
basis of its record, the only man who
can defend that record is Mr.. Cool
idge, and that if he is not nominated
nobody else who was connected with
his administration can be said to have
any greater opportunity to win on the
Coolidgesrecord.
Cabinet Unanimous.
Meanwhile there is in the Coolidge
cabinet a unanimous feeling that the
President should run again. The /
cabinet officers feel, however. that
any statement from them would be
construed as an opening Of the cam
paign. Mr.. Hoover has been embar-
rassed by the references to him in
political discussions. and the letters
he has been writing have been with
held from publication, as he has not
cared to be in the position Of forcing
the Presidents name to come formal
" into the political arena for renom-
The President himself is not talking
about his nomination ~to anybody,
though he is naturally displaying a
good deal of interest in the plans
of the Republican party for 1928,
something which he feels, as the
titular leader Of the party. he should
do, irrespective of his own political
fortunes. Mr.. Coolidge's attitude has
suggested to many observers the
thought that he knows how impor-
tant it Is for a President who is UP
for denomination to be in the posi-
ton of being sought by his own party
instead Of actively seeking to be
chosen.
copyright 1927