The Washington times., 1928-07-11
HOOVER MAKING
BID FOR VOTE
Of WOMEN
BY VIM. X. HUTCHINSON
International News Service

Herbert Hoover's campaign for
the presidency will include a spe-
cialIy organized and nationally con.
Quoted drive to capture the votes OF
the is ,000, 900 American women
eligible for suffrage in November,
it was learned here today at Re
publican headquarters.
Efforts to swing the feminist
vote almost bodily into the Republic
can party, will include use OF State
Republican organizations, special
women's clubs and Independent so
cieties created to win sentiment
among women for the Hoover and
Curtis ticket. Hoover himself has
approved the preliminary plans for
creating special campaign clubs
among women interested in public
affairs.
Women To Confer
The first move to corral the
woman vote, 1t was announced. viii
be a conference Of Republican ma
tional committeewomen from the
Northeastern States.
Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, Of Kentucky.
vice chairman of the Republican
National Committee. will call the
conference and preside. Her pur-
pose will be to initiate the drive for
feminist votes In the moist Atlantic
seaboard States, where many Hoover
leaders believe the campaign will
be decided.
Similar conferences of women
committeeman will be called later
| in other sections of the Country.
until the women of every region are
thoroughly organized. Special ef.
forts will be made in each section
to get the independent and seldom
voting class of women out to the
polls next November and to get
them pledged to the support Of
Hoover.
Cheered By Straw Vote
The Hoover lleutenants, who
sponsored this drive. were cheered
| by news from North Carolina that
Hoover received $50 out of a posi-.
BILE $500 votes cast by women
teachers in straw balloting at the
Asheville State Normal summer
school. This straw vote. indicative
of Hoover sentiment among school
teachers from all sections Of the
South, merely confirmed the belief
of Republican chieftains that
Hoover would get extraordinary
support from Southern women in
the election.
Hoover meanwhile was rapidly
closing his affairs at the Depart.
| ment of Commerce, preparatory to
departing for the West Coast Satur-
| day. His departmental duties in:
cluded some work on budget mat
tiers and the signing of numerous
governmental documents. which re-
quire his personal signature under
the law.
Hoover will be the guest of Vice
President Dawes at his Evanston,
ILL.,, home during his four-hour stop
over in Chicago Sunday, en- route to
President Coolidge's summer camp
in Wisconsin.
1t will be the first meeting of the
| nominee with Dawes since Hoover
forces turned thumbs down on the
Vice President at Kansas City a
month ago.
A week ago Dawes announced in
Chicago he was ready to take the
stump in behalf of Hoover and Cur
It's, and it is expected that the Vice
Presidents part in the campaign
may be discussed in the brief visit
Sunday.
Immediately upon his arrival in
Chicago at 2 p. m. Sunday, Hoover,
accompanied by his wife, will be
driven to Dawes lake short home. A
series of conferences, with Middle,
Western managers probably will
take place in the Dawes home.
Hoover will spend Monday and
Tuesday with President Coolidge,
leaving Brule Tuesday night for San
francisco by way Of the Twin Cities,
e4AAhA and Reno.