Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-10
REAL BOSS|NG DONE
BY TWO NOMINEES
Hoover and Smith Leaving
Only Details to Party
Campaign Chairmen.
RY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Herbert Hoover and Alfred E. Smith
are the managers of their respective
campaigns for the presidency. Details
and mechanics" OF the game will be
In the hands Of national chairmen, re-
eionai subordinates and national COM
n1itteemen. but real direction Of af-
fairs will rest with the two nominees.
No major action and hardly any
minor action of consequence Will be tax
en- by the Republicans without the d.
rect approval Of Mr.. Hoover. Gov.
Smith will WELD corresponding author
fly over all and sundry connected with
the Democratic campaign. Although
the 1928 canvass is not vet 80 days old.
enough has transpired in both camps
10 convince the rank and file that the
supreme court" is vested in the virile
candidates each party has put in the
field. From their final DEGREES there
will be no appeal
Real Fight Under Way.
Thus. Hoover and Smith are fighting
each other in q very genuine sense.
Their competition for the Nations high
est stakes will bring brand-new type
nf political warfare into conflict with
the oldest kind extant Herbert Hoover
is applying TO his bid for the presi-
dencv the organization methods OF the
engineer. Al Smith is going to wage
his contest with the organization meth
DDS OF the politician. Hoover's tactics
never before have been tried in poiitics'
Smiths strategy is bulwarkeo by the
ex,erience If an old hand, tested In
many battles and seasoned with many
victories.
n is now an open secret that both
the Republican and Democratic NOM
inees for months before the conven-
tions were IN active charge of drives
for delegates. Names like Work. Good.
Moses. Slemp. Huston. Lockwood ana
others figured conspicuously IN the
Hoover pre-nnvention news. But they
were all taking their orders from the
Chief" consulting him at every stage
and meeting this or that situation, East
or West. only after Hoover o. KID mat
tiers. Hoover's role was that OF the
engineer in-ehief. who sits calmly at
his desk while sIhordinates do all The
visible tuning and f,iSsing out in the
field ~ actual operations. Hoover was
TIE irsniration nf his campaign for
nomination Work ct al. were the
PRESENTATION. 1t will be like that from
now until election day.
Smith Gives the Cues.
All Democratic leaders who have had
contact with Gov. Smith agree that he
is to be the master mind Of his presi-
Dental race. The first far-reaching
decision as his own generaliSSimo was
the Soft-pedaling OF the T5mmany note
In the Smith pre-convention struggle.
As soon as the Houston convention ap-
preached the governor let it be known
that his only authorized spokesman
there would be Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Ask Roosevelt WIS the reply given all
inQuirers at Houston when light on
New York's plans we're sought
There's talk of friction between Gov.
Smiths personal board of strategy
Ceorse r. Ven Nance. Judge "Joe"
Prnskauer and Mrs. Belle Moskowitz--
and the Tsmmany leadership repre-
ssnted by GRIND Sschem George W.
Clvany. The gossip need not be taken
too serious'v. IA" il the hcss. In die
course each groun will know exactly
where II gets of" That has been
Smiths wav in New York State poll
tics He viii employ it on Nation wide
iines this year.
Hoover's hand is plainly visible IN the
@. Q. p. scheme for making each Re-
publican national committeeman. for
the first time on record. directly re-
sponsible for carrying his own state
That's leaf out Of Hoover's engineer
ing, Belgian relief and American food
administration notebook He's a great
fellow to trust the man on the ground,
and then demand results. Hoover be-
lieves In a far-nung organization OF
units responding TO the policy of a
highly centralized directing agency. In
1928 the Republican directing agency
answers to the name of Herbert Hoover.
Smith began taking supreme charge
Of the Democratic party's campaign as
soon as the time came at the end of
May. 10 tackle the all-inportant ques-