Evening star., 1928-06-06
Alabama Expected to Yield TO
California for Naming
of Secretary.
BIG TEST Is DUE TODAY
IN FIGHT FOR DELEGATES
Texas Case Scheduled Before Com
mittee-26 Votes In
volved.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
staff CorfespOndent OF The Star

stan Correspondent OF The Star.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 6.-Her-
bert Hoover is to be the first candidate
for President placed In nomination at
the Republican national convention.
unless the present plans of his cam
paien managers go awry When the
roll of States is called. Alabama, first
on the list, will yield to California. and
California will present Hoover as its
candidate. John McNab Is to deliver
the nominating speech.
The Hoover organization appears TO
be hitting on all four cylinders up 10
date. The big test, and the final. in
the contested delegate cases comes for
the Hoover people today, when the
Iexas case comes before the Republican
national committee for consideration.
Predict Hoover Victory.
The anti-Hoover forces, which have
been trimmed repeatedly in the dele
gate contests during the last two days.
are bending every effort to break
Lnrough and to seat the anti-Hoover
IeXas delegates. The prediction by
sOLhe OF the committeeman, however,
as the contest opened, was that the
Hoover delegates would be seated. Civ
ing Mr.. Hoover 26 more delegates on
the temporary roll of the convention.
II TIE IexaS contest goes for Hoover
ne VIII nave gained about 10 votes in
eLIe delegate contests. 1t has been dem
onStrated again and again that the ma
Jorlty OF the national COMMITTEES Star,ds
with the Secretary of Commerce. There
are threats TO take the fight over vari-
ous oelegatlonS to the credentials COM
mlttee, and II necessary to the floor of
the convention PYtf
conservative members of the national
committee Is that the decisions of the
committee VIII not be oyerthrovn
eltner IN the committee on Credentials
or IN the convention itself, if the con-
tests ever gets that far.
It's Hoover or Coolidge" according
70 many OF 'the Republican leaders
gathered here. The Lowden and Dawes
supporters are keeping a stiff upper
mp and seeking to show that a deadlock
Is inevitable in the convention.
Farmers Demonstration.
But some of the Lowden people are
feeling q bit low. They are doing their
pest TO retrace some of the steps by
Wnlch they have become known as the
anl-aominiStration and anti-CooIidge
group, but with comparatively little
success, While they still talk of a
farmers demonstration in Kansas City
during the convention. there is some
soft peddling OF earlier statements.
Ihe Hoover people express conf
oence that President Coolidge viii not
run and that he viii so indicate either
before the halloting begins or as soon
as the first delegate votes are cast for
MN III the convention. At present the
group Of Midwest presidential candi-
oates and their supporters are hopin.
tor a working union with the ''draf,
Coonose leaders from the East. In.
Guiding Charles d. Hilles of New Yorl
and Henry j. Rorahack Of Connecticut
Inns Is another reason for Soft-ped
oiing the anti-Coolidge propaganda
Whlcn mas been put out recently b,
some or the farm leaders because a
the veto of the McNary-Hausen farm
aid bill A coalition of these forces 4
admittedly somewhat like mixing oi
ana water, difficult at best. There
no rhyme or reason for such a comhina
tlon. except the desire 10 prevent TIA
nomination of Mr.. Hoover. The effors
toward such coalition has failed sig
Many IN the national committee so far.
whieh mas been dominated by the Hoo
yer sentiment.
ward washington. The big New York
delegation, 90 strong, is to caucus here
Monday afternoon. on call Of Mr. HilleS.
AT that time, he said today. there would
be discussion OF what the delegation
would do on the first ballot in the con-
yention,
New York Split Likely.
II is likely. however. that the delega-
tion viii be split on that ballot, rs has
been the case With many New York
delegations 10 Republican national con-
yentionS III the past. Mr. HilleS' in
formation is that 20 OF the delegates
will vote for Mr., Hoover on the firSt
ballot, What the rest will do he did
not indicate.
In reply to a question aS to whether
an effort would be made 60 nominate
Charles Evans Hughes of New York. in
case the President should be abSo-
lutely unavailable. Mr. HilleS said he
had no further word from MIR Hughes.
beyond his early statement that he was
not a candidate and would not run. Mr..
Hughes, he pointed out, is scheduled
TO sail for Europe ON June Is. The ex-
pectation OF Republican leaders Is that
the convention Will adjourn ON June Is.
Secretary Mellon chairman of the
PENNSYLVANIA delegation. Is % arrive
here Monday, Ills advent viii bc
watched with keen interest. for Penn
SNNatlta N nSActcO 10 pS the keN ~
the situation which win face the dele
gates in the convention. Prank ..
Lowden OF Illinois win have the four
delegates at large from South Carolina,
for the opposition has withdrawn the
contest nled earlier. Joseph w. IOlhert,
the veteran national committeeman and
boss Of the Republican organization In
the state, has favored t4owden for
President and 1t has been generally as
Sumed that he would throw the dele
cation to the former Illinois goyeraar.
sitting until past the dinner hour last
night, the national committee disposed
OF the contests for the IL delegates
nom Mississippi BY unanimous Voge,
the committee seated the Perry Howard
delegates, after hearing both sides, The
Howard delegates are favorable 20 the
nomination oG Mr., Hoover
Louisiana Decision,
Not hong before that decision was
rendered the committee had placed cn
the temporary rga the Hover dele
gates nom Louisiana. With Two eNcep-
tionS this means another 10 Hoover
votes In the convention, II the aStien
ef the national committee Is ratified
BY the convention, The exceptions were
Walter |. eohen and J, II, Lowery
of the sixth district Cohen, eolered,
OF customs at New Orleans,
led the opposition 20 the hooVeE dele
cation and said he favored tha nelNi-
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