The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-15
The Opposition to MT. Hoover.
(New York World ]


 Secretary Hoover is in the delicate position of a man who hopes to inherit rich uncles estate. The rich uncle is MT. Coolidge and the estate is the Presidency The proprieties redure that Alr Hoover shall pretend that while he would accept the estate the real desire of his soul is to have the rich uncle live and retain the estate. So when anybody says: Let draft President Coolidge-Mr. Hoover has to be the first to step forward, cross his heart, and avow that of course Mir Hoover is above all eager to have MT. Coolidge again. To say anything else might make the rich uncle angry.
 The movement to draft Mr. Coolidge derives it's strength from number of different clements. There is no doubt dash of sincerity in it; that is to say, there some Republicans who still hope that MT. Coolidge did not what he has said and who reason that if only Mr. Cool idge will the Republicans need worry no about 1928. Mr. Coolidge, they believe, would easily sweep the country against any Demo- cratic candidate But these deaists are associated with much larger collection of Republicans who using the draft Coolidge" slogan for their own purposes. In this collection to be found those politicians who hope by deadlockng the convention to slip over candidate of their own. There also to be found the political representatives of those large financial interests which very much opposed to the nomination of MT. Hoover ss4
 The opposition to Mrl%Hoover is a Formidable one. There is very considerable array of politi- clans who have looked him over and have decided that he is dangerous man. That is to say, they have decided that he is of those uncertain geniuses who cannot be relied upon to see eye to eye with the politicians They feel in their bones that he might do queer and original things. Mir Hoover likes power and is not afraid to exercise it. He belongs to the Roosevelt and Wilson school rather than to the Harding and Coolidge school. He would be his President and that is not the kind of thing the politicians relish For eight years they have lived in a political paradise, and the prospect of seeing real per sonality in the White House alarms them. MT Hoover's best efforts to prove that he is good loyal Republican have not convinced them that they would have a pleasant time with him. He is too essentially non-political. He is too moody He is too brilliant. He is too full of surprises
 Among the most powerful financial interests there is also deep opposition to MT. Hoover. He is very strong with the ordinary American busi- ness man, but among the great international banking interests he is not we'll liked They don't like his prejudices which are deep and per- sistent. They think he is vastly overrated as an economist, that he is in fact unsound and ob- stinate on many vital questions. They dislike the supreme confidence he has in his own judg- ment and they fear his tendency to strike out boldly without taking their advice
 1 All of this opposition is working underground to defeat him. It cant work in the open be- cause it cant afford to antagonize him. since he might after all be nominated, and he is a formidable person. But under powerful efforts will be made to defeat him because in the last analysis he is not the kind of man whom the high Republicans. the real political and financial bosses of the party, want.