Evening star., 1928-06-18
CONVENTION OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Kansas City may 60 down in history
as the Forgive -and Forget convention.
That will be Its name II both Hoover
ties and certain late anti-Hooverites
can have their way. What they mean
Is that a whole lot of things said and
done In the heat of battle must be
sent to the scrap-heap Of oblivion,
Ii party harmony Is to be restored and
Republican success assured. For a
while 1t was thought that Senator
Curtis remark, on the eve OF the con-
vention, that the g. o. p. could not
nominate for President "a man whom
1t would have to defend till the hour
san. as far as any second-place aspira-
tions were concerned. Curtis did not
mention Hoover by name, but every
body knew at whom Charley" was tilt
ing.
The Senate leaders indirect allusion
to the Californian was tame compared
to the excesses in which other anti
Hoover "allies" INDUCED. Senator Goff
OF West Virginia went the extreme end
Of the limit. In his public address at
Kansas City, the night before the con-
vention opened, Goff ran the entire
gamut OF stock innuendoes about Hoo
ver-his "un-Americanism, his "un-
Repuhlicanism," his ruin of the farm
ers" and all the rest OF 1t. Hooyer's
people are not going to rake any of
these things up In a spirit OF reprisal.
now they're on top. Whether the Dem
ocrats will be so magnanimous--wel
that remains to be seen.
People addicted to fondness for al
literative effects have nothing to COM
plain of In the 1923 q. o. p ticket. with
an H: H." at the top and a &C. c." at
the other end Senator Borah handed
Curtis an unintentional middle initial
when he placed the Kansan in nomina-
ton for Vice President. Borah called
him THE Honorable Charles l.. Curtis. "
Microphone fright probably had some
thing to do with 1t. A few minutes
later. Representative Dyer of Missouri,
referring to the Chief Justice OF the
United States. spoke of Henry Howard
Taft" The conventions. prize platform
break was Temporary Chairman FesS'
slip In emitting Theodore Roosevelt
from the roster of Republican Presi-
dents from Lincoln to Coolidge. The
keynoter took Ave minutes of the con-
vention's time next day TO deliver an
amende honorable and an apology.
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West Branch, Iowa, which isn't far
from Kansas City, had grand jam
boree Friday night In honor of the
nomination of Bert" Hoover home
town boy for President. There's a
certain West Brancher who should
have a mighty pull with a Hoover ad-
ministration. He's already postmaster
and was Hoover's boyhood chum. Newt
Butler Is his name. His present claim
to fame is that he once licked Hoover
In a fist fight. West Branch conf
IDENTIFY expects It's illustrious son to re-
visit his birthplace during the cam
paign Hoover was last there In 1923,
For while there was some thought OF
having him deliver his speech Of ac-
ceptance on the ancestral heath.
Curtis nomination for Vice President
Is essentially gesture TO the agricul-
tural West. but was not dictated wholly
by Corn Belt consideration. II there's
TO be q Hoover administration, the
kansan will be tower Of strength at
the legislative end of Pennsylvania
avenue. No man knows the game on
Capitol Hill more thoroughly, and none
is more beloved there. When ari-
mintstration duty's TO be done. TO b.
done-~~to iilt with Gilbert and Sullivan
In THE Pirates Of Penzanee" Charles
Curtis lot will he a useful one, useful
one. Hoover captains consider that
prospect more vital one, from the
presidential nominees standpoint. than