New Britain herald., 1928-06-15

Hoover went into the republican national convention in 1920 as presidential candidate and received but 9 1-a votes at his peak.
 He joined with Charles E. Hughes, William Howard Taft. Elihu Root and many other eminent republicans in signing statement on the eve of the 1920 election saying that elec- tion of Harding was the best way of insuring America would go into the League of Nations.
 Harding appointed him secretary of commerce in face of opposition from some politicians.
 Religious Issue
 Once it was thought to inject the religious issue into the figtiht against Hoover by circulating the story that he was married by a Roman Catho. lie priest. He was-by an aged mis- sionary in California of whom Mrs. Hoover was very fond. Hoover was then and is still a Quaker. Mrs. Hoover was an Epis- copalian but adopted her husband s faith. The HooNers were fellow students at Stanford university. where Mrs. Hoover, daughter of a former Iowa banker was among the first women 10 study mining engin- errng. Their common interest in mining engineering continued. Mrs. Hoover tramping with her husband to the remote ends of the world. To- gether they labored on a translation i of medieval work oh metallurSy which is now standard mining text,
 Hospitahle Home Their house in Washing gton is known as one of the most hospitablc and homelike in the capital. The agricultural fight against 1 Hoover is a long story. One anus ing incident of the campaign char cterizes much of it.
 | Not long ago in congress, Rep. Brand of Ohio was selected to make l the big speech against Hoover. He was 10 concentrate all anti Hoover poison in an address which could be printed in the Congressional Record and be mailed free during the cam paiCn.
 He delivered an eloquent address dencuncing Hoover in the strongest language permissible on the floor of congress
 Burton Answers
 Rep. Burton of Ohio, in answering i Brand. pulled letter from his pock- ct and read if 10 the house. IL was dated two years before. It was ad- dressed to Hoover. and was signed by the same Congressman Brand who had just spoken. It advised | Hoover that the writer. Brand. had just been 10 the White House to urge President Coolidge to appoint Hoover secretary of agriculture and closed with fulsome praise of Hoov. er'g services 10 agriculture.
 The campaign against Hoovevl was bitter in Ohio and Indiana es. pccially, tho two big states where he chose to oppose favorfte sons
 Fighting Ritter When tho fighting &hifNd 10 Kan. sas City. previous bounds were pass. ed. Wednesday night there wa slipped under the door Of every dele, gates hotel room a circular carrying the following headlines:
 Hoover tells starving women ant children to go to he'll"
 'Hoover supported Woodrow Will son."
 Hoover was for the League 0 Nations"
 'Hoover is 8 friend of the rowe octopus"
 'Hoover hankrupts farmers" Late Senator Boise Penrose di' not approve of Herbert c. Hoover
 "Hoover spells defeat. English man? American? Republican? o Democrat? Who knows?"
 Typical of the more extreme de nunciations was the language re gently used on the senate floor b, Senator Blease. South Carolina dem ocra'. in criticizine Hoover's orde aboliehing negro segregation ln th' census bureau-an order affectinj