Evening star., 1928-08-07
Work Also Plans Drive Along
Atlantic Seaboard When
He Returns East.
SECTIONAL CONFERENCES
TO CANVASS SITUATION
Hoover Opposition Believed Fading
in Midwest-North Dakota
Is Seen in Line.
BY G.. GOULD LINCOLN.

Chairman Hubert WoTk pI tue ttc-
publican national committee is to turn
his attention to the New England and
Atlantic seaboard States as soon as he
returns from the Pacific Coast, it was
announced today at Republican head
quarters here. In these States, in the
opinion of many, is to be the real battle
ground of the coming campaign for the
election of a President.
Tentative plans for meetings Of party
workers with the chairman in the
Northern and Eastern States were made
before DR.. Work left Washington for
the series of conferences in Chicago. He
is to attend the notification of Mr..
Hoover in Palo Alto. Calf, before he
returns to Washington.
Earle S. Kinsley, Republican national
committeeman for Vermont. Chairman
Works assistant at national headquar-
ters said today it was hoped to have
in attendance besides the represent
atives of the national committee in each
of the Eastern States, the State district
and county leaders.
To Canvass Situation.
"These meetings" said Mr.. Kinsley,
will afford an excellent chance to
canvass the situation, discuss common
problems and enable national leaders
to learn what is being done in the
field, and to enable them at the same
time to tell the State and county lead
ers what is being done TO put over the
S-o a { R1nifh-
lican ticket.
I'VE will stress at these meetings the
desirability of emphasizing the great
qualifications of both Mr.. Hoover and
Mr. Curtis for the offices for which they
they have been nominated"
Gov. Al Smith, the Democratic noni-
nee, will have the support of many of
the wet voters and of the Catholic vot-
ers in the New England States. While
these States In the past have gone Re-
publican with regularity, the margin Of
Republican victory in some of them has
not been great at times. For example,
two years ago the Democrats elected
Senator David l. Walsh in Massachu-
sets. and Senator Walsh is again on
the Democratic ticket this year.
Opposition Is Fading.
Reports from Chicago indicate that
the situation is clearing for Hoover and.
the Republicans in many of the States
of the Midwest and Northwest, where
there has been opposition TO the RepubL
ican nominee on the ground that he
opposed the McNary- -Haugen farm aid
bill and was antagonistic 70 agricul-
ture. Gov. Smiths declaration that he
would not stand for the equalization
fee, the heart of the McNary- Haugen
LII 80 80 xNn2 - Aa-1~N
cratic cause IN those States. and the
Republican leaders, some of them dis
gruntled at the time of the Republican
national convention, are swinging into
line.
The situation in North Dakota, it Is
reported. has materially improved.
Judge F. j. Graham, Republican ma
tional committeeman from that State,
has informed Chairman Work that the
Non-Partisan League faction in that
State viii support Hoover and Curtis
and that both Senators Nye and Fra
zier will do so. Under such circum-
stances. a Republican victory in North
Dakota seems assured. Neither Sena-
tor Nye nor Senator Frazier is here,
but the best information available
seems to bear out Judge Graham IS
claim that they will be found working
for the national ticket and against al
Smith
win Affect Other States.
If the Republican factions are found
united in North Dakota, II will have Its
effect on other States of the Northwest,
including South Dakota, Minnesota and
Wisconsin, where Progressive sentiment
has run strongly in recent years. -Four
years ago the Dakotas cast their elec-
toral votes for President Coolidge, al
though desperate efforts were made to
land them in the La Toilette column
The same was true Of Minnesota. Wis
conain alone turned away from the Re-
publican ticket and voted for its favor
ite son, the late Senator La Toilette.
This year Senator Frazier is rum
| ming for reelection on the Republican
ticket in North Dakota, and Senator
Robert M La Toilette, jr,, Is a probable
winner Of the Republican senatorial
nomination In Wisconsin. The names
Of both these Senators In the Repub-
lican column on their State tickets will
be an aid 10 the whole ticket, 1t Is
believed.
Hansbrough Backs Smith.
Former Senator Hansbrough, who
! represented North Dakota as a Repub~
lican IN the Senate for 18 years. is
heading the Smith Independent
| League" and takes the view that the
| public record OF Gov Smith is suffi-
| cient guarantee that If elected Presi-
| dent Smith would deal fairly with the
| farmers. The league which he heads
| will work for the election of Smith as
a means of rehabilitating agriculture.
! The view taken here by other North
| Dakotans, however, is that the farm
| situation In the State, SO far AS 1t af~
| fects the national campaign, is easing
| off. Just how The wet and d. qucs"
ton will affect the result, however. u
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