Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-09

One of the things likely to perplex
the incoming administration next March
is the extent to which the official Re-
publican old guard-meaning the rank
and file of party workers-shal have
precedence over the Hoover personal
old guard. The latter, a large and loyal
legion, which ramifies as far back as
Belgian relief days, took unto itself
much of the credit for Mr.. Hoover'S
nomination. It is expected to demand
a correspondingly generous place in the
sun after the Californian is in the
White House. c. o. P. stalwarts Will
not view such pretensions with equa-
nimity. Scores of them put their Shoul-
ders to the Hoover wheel when his pre-
convention fortunes were by no means
100 per cent prosperous. The enthuS1-
aStic volunteers, men and women, VINO
sprang up in Hoover'S interest all over
the country were undoubted factors IN
his triumph at Kansas City. But the
organization boys" contend that ex-
cept for their own skillful work In prl-
mary campaigns and later Hoover
would never have made the grade.
Herbert Hoover always had healthy
respect for Gov. Smiths vote-getting
CAPACITY, so there's reason to believe
that the victor was not a little sur
prised by the wretched showing the
vanquished made. The President-elect
credited the governor not only with a
stranglehold on his own State, but
throughout the Northern Atlantic re-
gion in which Smith made his last
stand. It was long before he was a
hot these
views of his opponents strength. AS
the campaign progressed, of course, the
G. o. P. standard bearer came to real
lie the sources of Smiths weakness.
Hoover came away from Boston in Oc-
tober thoroughly impressed with the
critical character of the Massachu-
sets situation, as he himself publicly
described it. He now knows that
Gov. Fuller was "apple-saucing" him
when the Sacco- Vanzetti hero at a Bos-
ton luncheon assured the nominee that
well be satisfied with nothing less
than $50, 1000 Hoover majority in Mas
sachuSettS."
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Washington newspaper men, who Will
have much to do with the next PreSl-
dents popular fame, are wondering
what sort of a subject he'll turn out to
| be on their reportorial operating table.
| Opinions differ. AS candidate
Hoover adhered to the existing White
| House on-quotation system, though he
varied it by permitting oral questions
to be fired at him without notice. The
Coolidge rule provides for written
queries sent to the Presidents desk In
advance of his meeting with the cor
respondents. Hoover as Secretary OF
Commerce was a prolific producer OF
news. No cabinet officer made the front
pages OF the country oftener or with
better stuff" Clothed with the great
err responsibility of the presidency, It
remains to be seen whether Hoover VIII
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This writer had a hand in the first
extensive publicity ever given TO the
next President. The time was IA years
ago this month. Hoover was at the out
set of his Belgian relief organization In
London. His right-hand man was Col
| Willard Hunsiker, Pennsylvania,
| who for many years was European rep
resentative of the CarnegieS and later
| of the United States Steel Corporation.
Hunsiker and this observer were old
friends. One day the steel man called
up the London Daily Mail, to whose
staff the present chronicler was at
tached, and asked for an Introduction
of Hoover to Viscount Northcliffe. The
Napoleon of Fleet street made an I'M
mediate appointment, and next day the
American member of his editorial de-
partment was presenting to him a GER
tain American mining engineer named
Hoover. Northcliffe heard HooverS
comprehensive plans for Belgium and
ordered "the whole Daily MALI put at
the Californian's disposal for the pur-
pose of enlisting British support.
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How Hoover win get on" with Con-
gress is one of the liveliest post-elec.
| ton topics. An argument constantly
used against him by the late Demo.
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