Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
1928 IS BATTLING
NEW YORK CHIEFS.
State Factions Split Over
Native Sons and Hoover,
Inquiry Shows.
BY WILLIAM HAD.

Specldl OtSpdbch 10 1ae 5taf.
NEW YORK, August ia visit
of inquiry to the Umpire State and
to the metropolitan city reveals to the
inquirer that our imperial and metro
politan political minds of the Repubh.
can party are divided in the FIRST place
between three favorite sons Of New
York and in the second place between
the favorite-son idea on the one hand
and the Herbert Hoover idea on the
other.
The three favorite sons who bask
in the established regard OF our
largest and mightiest and richest
State are the distinguished but re-
luctant jurist. Charles Evans Hughes;
the able and courageous but indolent
and casual ex-senator and near boss,
James w. Wadsworth, and the limit
lessly energetic but also daringly wet
president Of Columbia University,
Nicholas Murray Butler.
big Business" Favorable.
big business" in New York has
become thoroughly accustomed to all
three Of these names and would not
be at all afraid to confide the White
House to the ownership Of any one Of
them. Eastern big business" as
usual. looks for an arrived personality,
an established characted, familiar
name, a safe sound. Eastern big
business" had to have William Nc
kinney forcibly thrust upon it by
Mark Hanna. 1t had to have Warren
Gamaliel Harding forcibly thrust upon
1t by Mr.. Harding's circle Of friends
in the United States Senate. Nothing
is falser than to imagine big bust
ness engaged in bringing out a can.
didate. It never does it. It isn't
doing 1t now.
1t now would be charmed II the
name Of Coolidge could somehow be
conjured back into political presiden-
tial existence for four years more by
the next Republican national conven.
ton; and in moments when that hope
grows dim, 1t for the most part re-
peats to itself simply the nearest and
least strange and least alarming great
names: Hughes, WadSworth, Butler.
No. The country need not have
the least fear that Wall Street is
conspiring to put across its man."
1t has not any man. The corn belt"
is a much better "conspirer." It has
Mr.. Lowden. Wall Street as Wall
Street concertediy, has nobody.
Politicians at Sea.
In the meantime the Republican
politicians Of the Empire State are
most OF them just as lost as the
eminent bankers and heads of trusts"
They cannot but remember the dis.
astrous management that Mr.. Hughes
gave to his presidential campaign of
1916. They cannot but remember the
carelessness with which Mr.. Wads-
worth, when Senator, attended to his
local political fences and the defeat
which was thereupon imposed upon
him by the Democratic candidate for
the Senate, Robert Wagner. And.
finally. particularly Ii they come from
up state they fear that Mr.. Buffers
Enthusiastically aggressive attacks
upon the Federal prohibition amend
ment might prove to be highly danger.
Gus to party unity If New York
should give him any further great
national political prominence.
Yet they greatly and Justly admire
these local celebrities Of theirs and
their national political vision does not
go much beyond them; and In their
present mood they might well go to
the next Republican national coUyen.
ton with a split delegation and with
three hookS-Hughes and Wadsworth
and Butler-on their presidential poli.
tical line, just to see what they could
then get by the only political art they
know, which is still fishing with
standard store bait.
Hoover Has Following.
On the other hand. there is now in
New York, prcsiGentially speaking, a
new rare Phenomenon. What might
pc called. little business" has a can
didate. 1t is Mr.. Hoover.
fc
young engineers, young lawyers,
young business executives who are
Followers Of Mr.. Hoover's business
leadership. Many of them have
worked with Mr.. Hoover in one or
more of his multitudinous scientific
or humanitarian enterprises. They
are zealots for the new twists which
Mr.. Hoover has given to the Depart
ment OF Commerce in the service of
little business" They see in Mr..
hoover no enemy to any business that
Is big: but they see in him @ great
special friend to the business that is
relatively small and that is striving
to climb the hill.
They point to the way in which Mr..
Hoover has tried to develop trade
associations" which will distribute to
all the firms in any given industry
the statistical information regarding
trade conditions which till recently
could be secured only by the statisti.
cal STATS of our largest trusts" They
point to the way in which Mr.. Hoover
has favored and stimulated research
laboratories, both Federal and private.
which would make free and open to.
everybody the industrial scientific de-
velopment which SO often has been the
exclusive possession Of the research
laboratories Of our largest and richest
corporations. They regard Mr..
Hoover's whole policy I'm the Depart.
ment Of Commerce as just so much
promotion work for little business
legitimate aspirations.
Aided by Secretary.
Here in New York, where there Ia
SO much foreign trade, they especially
appreciate this policy in the matter of
the activities displayed in Mr.. Hoov.
er's Department Of Commerce by his
foreign commerce bureau. That bu.
reau, as now organized and operated.
they see as giving them the same
expert knowledge Of the foreign field
that Is given to the big trust" by its
export department.
OF course, Mr.. Hoover has his own
straight away political friends here
such as ex-Gov. Miller and MANY
others; but the general lineup for the
control of the Empire States massive
pivotal delegation to the next Repub.
hcan national convention may still be
stated to be as follows:
On the one hand. the "higher-ups"
who are following the regular New
York habit Of clinging to great and
brilliant local names.
On the ofhor hand the Nnauo, oIo
ment," who are all on edge to, get
going as soon as Mr.. Hoover win
let them, and who think they have
the numbers and the energy to make
a local revolution and, as they ex.
press 1t. to cause New York State to
go to a Republican national conven-
ton for once with a new 1osnel and