The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-16
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
G. o. P. Men in Legion Plan
to Boom Pershing for
President of u. S.
BY EDWARD w. PIcKARD

BY EDWARD w. PIcKARD
POLITICAL leaders in Washington
1 have learned that there is full
fledged movement within the American
Legion to promote the nomination of
General Pershing for the Presidency
by the Republican party. The general
Is to go to France on the Leviathan
as the guest of the Legion, and it is
said that influential members of the
organization who are also influential
Republicans will be aboard with him
and will take the opportunity to ar
range the details of the plan. Then.
at the Legion's convention in Paris, the
boom is to be sprung as the climax of
a series of demonstrations. 1t will
be easy to keep the former commander
of the A. E. F.. in the limelight over
there, and the boom will be brought
back to the United States all devel-
oped,, according to the plans of it's
promoters.
Ever since General Pershing re-
turned from France after the war he
has been intermittently doomed for the
Presidency. In 1919 movement for
his nomination in the 1920 convention
was started, but it failed to develop
sufficient momentum to place him ac-
lively in the field in the preconven-
ton contest. His name figured Occa-
sionally in the discussions during the
convention, which finally selected War
rem G. Harding.
If General Persning should become a
serious contender for the nomination
next year he would be the Oldest can
didate in the field. He will be sixty
seven years of age on September 13.
Frank o. Lowden will be sixty-seven
next January. Charles e. Hughes was
sixty-five last April, while Charles G.
Dawes is sixty-two and Herbert
Hoover fifty-three.
Vice President Dawes and Secretary
Hoover are still leaving their booms
in the hands of their friends. both hav-
ing said they were not seeking the
nomination. Mr.. Lowden, on the other
hand, is out in the open as con-
tender and has appointed as his pre-
convention manager Fred Starek, for
mer director of the war finance cor
pOration. Just before President Cool
idge left Yellowstone park he was
visited by party of Wyoming edi-
tors, nearly all of whom told him they
and their communities favored the
nomination of Hoover because he
helped frame the Coolidge policies, is
a good administrator and. they be-
lieved, would safely carry on the pres
ent national prosperity.
Reports have been current in official
circles in the summer capital in Rapid
City that Secretary Hoover will offer
his resignation to President Coolidge
within the next few months and devote
his energies to winning delegates.
Campaign committees for Hoover are
ready to spring into existence in many
states and headquarters will be opened
In Washington and directed by his
present secretary, George Ackerson.
n EMOCRATLC leaders hear that
~ there is prospect that many
states, especially in the South, will
send uninstructed delegations to the
Democratic national convention for
the purpose of avoiding, so far as pos
sible, the bitter factional strife that
characterized the convention of 1924.
Some of the hackers of William G. Nc
Adoo in that contest are among
those responsible for the uninstructed
delegation policy. Their original
thought was to bring about harmony
by agreeing in conference at conven-
ton tiine upon the nomination of some
one other than either McAdoo or Gov.
AL Smith of New York.
EARLY among the Presidents call
IL ers after his return to the Black
Hills was Senator Wesley Jones of
Washington. He is chairman of the
senate merchant marine committee,
and after his talk with the Chief Elk
ecutive he declared himself in favor
of keeping the American merchant
marine atloat and insisted that If 1t