Evening star., 1928-06-01

All Washington roads lead TO Kansas
City. By the beginning OF next week.
though the Republican convention VIII
still be eight days distant, the Missouri
River metropolis viii buzz with q. O. P.
activities and moguis. The meeting OF
the national committee, scheduled for
June 4. IL the magnet whichW draw
many party leaders well In advance OF
convention hostillties Delegate con-
tests call for decision; physical arrange
ments for the party conclave need TO be
perfected: the vast machinery Of ma
tionai convention must be geared up
one hesitates TO say oiled up nowadays
and a mass OF other advance detail
clamors for attention. Chairman Butler
and his organization staff are already
on the scene-~nis rigi1t-hand personal
lieutenant. Jimmy" White and the In
defatigabie Bennett Gordon. red-haired
Heosier publicity director Of the g. o. r.
in several triumphant campaigns.
EVERYBODY Is headed for Kansas City
In tnc conviction that the convention !s
now far more likely TO be a fight than
a frolic. Despite Hooyer's long lead for
the nomination, the belief that he viii
be stopped" persists among men who
consider themselves wiseacres. Even II
Hoover cannot be checkmated, the Re-
publicang are certain 10 experience STIR
ring times before they agree on their
platform Whether the embatfied corn
belt storms the convention hall or not,
scrap over the farm relief plank Is a
certainty. Nor does 1t seem likely that
Kansas City will pass into history With
out a showdown on prohibition. Sena-
tor B0rah lis ready. II no one else does.
TO demand a platform that will spe~
cifically commit the party 10 upholdin2
Of the eighteenth amendment. The
fdahoan In not content that the con-
yention should adjourn with a mere
! law enforcement" manifesto.
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Three Of the leading ladies al Kansas
City will be Mrs. Alvin r. Hert Of Ken
lucky, vice chairman Of the Republican
national committee. Mrs. Ruth Hanna
Mccormick. nominee for Congressman
III large from Illinois, and Mrs. kicf1o-
las IIongworti. Mrs. Hert has been AZ .
signed the Queen Marie" suite In *.
C.'s" leading hotel Mrs, Mccormick
and Princess Alice" have taken fur
flished home for the convention season
and viii keep open house In IL. There
are no shrewder politicians In the
whole q. q. r. than this twain Of COM
radeE, each the daughter OF cele-
brated Republican. Two other unoffi~
clai dignitaries who VIII presently de-
acend upon Kansas City arc former
Representatives Frank w. Mon6eil Of
Wyoming and Philip Pitt Campbell Of
Kansas. Mondell was permanent chair
man Of the 1924 Coolidge loyefeast In
Cleveland and Campbell functions at
/ his elbow az convention parliamentarian.
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Alexander r. Moore of Pittsburgh,
who Ii now en route ~ South America
10 take up his duties as American AM
bakSad0r IN Peru. told his friends that
his ambition Is IN clear up the Tacna-
africa mess" Most of them believe hell
do IT. Az any rate, they're going 10
keep tab ON his application IN that A.
yearsold controversy 0f the Moore Dip
lomatle touch" as they call IT.. The
Pennsylvania publisher statesman u
methods are about M diMerent from the
stere0typed practices of professional
diplomacy as day ia from night, Moore
breaks at least one precedent day,
but every time he breaks a precedent. he
explains, he makes friend lie pur~
sued those lines In spain, with the re-
suit that the ANNALS OF tlle court or
Mh0Tla fec9Fd no more sncEessihl uipio%
mafic mission than the one Moore car
ried out there for Uncle Sam.
Judge Robert H. Heaiy general eonn-
vel NJ the Federal Trade Commission,
who Ii winning lanrels With his yigor~
ong conduct af the public utilities In
yestiggLi0n, comes from a historic town
Bennington, VI. He achieved renown
NJ the bar In Vermont early In life. f0r
/ the age Of 3i found him an aG60oiate
justice Of the Euprems Court OF the
Green Mountain State. Judge Hssly
NaA III TIl4nta flranLlHa ta EanhiaaiAn