Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-06-21

other candidate for the party nomination, and
for some time his nomination has been rgarded
as a f~oregone conclusion. So clearly indicated
was the result for some time before the con-
vention met that the proceedings took on more
the aspect of ratification than of selection. The
convention itself therefore lacked many of the
spectacular features which have attended other
conventions when the struggle for supremacy
continued through ballot after ballot, with the
issue long in doubt.
Mr.. Hoover has reached his present position
of eminence by virtue of hard work and through
the recognition that has come to him in in
~creasing measure of his ability as an organizer,
an executive, a doer of big things. Born on an
Iowa farm, the son of a country blacksmith,
his early experiences were those common to
hundreds of thousands of clean, healthy Amer
lean boys. Without any of the advantages of
wealth he worked his way through school and
through college, developing as the years passed
a strong liking for the profession OF egineer-
ing which was to carry him into the most re-
mote parts of the earth. His opportunities
grew with the development of his capacity, and
larger and more important demands were made
on his talents. He became the organizer of
great enterprises national in their scope, and
in carrying them out it was necessary for him
to do business, not only with individuals and
private companies, but with diplomats and
governments, to settle disputes, to harmonic
conflicting interests, and to unity and CONSOLE
date heterogeneous elements. No American
president yet elected had an experience so
broad, so varied, so calculated to bring a man
into touch with the complicated affairs of the
world.
The world war created the need for a man
of Hoover's type. He was called into service
to organize relief work for suffering humanity
abroad, and when his own nation entered the
war there was imposed on him the duty of
mobiliZing its food resources so that while its
armies and the armies of its allies were fed, its
own people might not go hungry. The manner
in which those duties were performed is a mat
ter of histoy. Production was speeded up, sup
plies were conserved, and care was taken that
those who produced should not be penalized by
having their products left on their hands with
out a market when the war closed.
The selection of Mr.. Hoover as secretary of
was fitting and logical. No man in
the country was better qualified for the posi-
ton, and his work in that department has been
on a par with that which he had performed so
ably in earlier years.
There were several a~spirants for the Republi-
can presidential nomination. No man has a
monopoly of desirable %qulities, and while no
other man who was discussed had in like meas
ure the kind of qualities possessed by Hoover,
there were in the group able and honorable men,
who, if chosen. would have given distinguished
service. Without detracting from the merits
of any of them, and recognizing the disappoint-
ment felt by friends of candidates who failed
of nomination, it can be said that in selecting
Mr.. Hoover the Republican party has chosen a
standard bearer whose record through many
busy and e~ventful years is an assurance that
he will measure up to the requirements of the
great office for which he has been nominated,
exemplifying in a fine way the spirit of true
Americanism.-Grand Forks Herald.