Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-11

East is East, and West is West, and
never the twain shall meet" is prob
ably the Kiplingesaue sentiment that
George II. Moses feels like applying to
the Republican campaign set-up. Chair
man Works final decision to clothe the
brilliant Senator from New Hampshire
with nothing but contact officer" duties.
instead OF those of Eastern Hoover man.
ager, rubs In the Western aspect of the
G. o. p organization with.a vengeance.
Work OF Colorado, national chairman
and generaliSSimo, Good of Iowa, West
ern manager. Newton OF Minnesota,
chairman OF speakers bureau Mutt of
Ohio, treasurer; Allen of Kansas. pub
licity director, and Brown OF Utah,
newspaper liaison officer. complete the
all-Western picture the Republican high
command now hangs upon the wall 1t
is not an inappropriate companion
piece. of course, for a national ticket
headed by Californian and tail-ended
by Kansan. Perhaps the appoint
ment OF Representative Franklin w.
Fort OF New Jersey as secretary of the
national committee is considered all
the Eastern smack the 1928 Republican
machine needs.
Some diverting explanations are cur
rent as to why George Moses Is not to
receive the coveted independent mana
gerial command In the East He Is
acknowledged to be the keeneSt- minded
Republican politician of the day. He
combines unusual intelligence with un~
common energy. But. like many men of
Moses intellectual capacity, his asso-
ciates attribute TO him a prediction
TO indulge In "wiSe-cracks" which are
oftener Whittier than wise. II was sug-
geSted during the recent Eastern
G.. o. p war council at Washington
that this weakness on Moses part had
something to do with his failure TO be-
come COMMUNICATIVE hief along the
pivotal North Atlantic. Men repeated
an observation credited to him which
unpleasantly recalled an aphoriSm that
destroyed Republican candidate for
| President generation ago. Senator
Moses Is far too valuable an asset for
| his party TO be assigned merely dec
orative role He Is also far too good a
Republican soldier TO sulk In his tent
| The prophecy is safe that New Hamp-
shire's favorite son will be effectively
| In the fray before II is very old. Hoover
holds Moses In high respect. Gossip
associates the Senator's name with the
| Secretaryship of State In Hoover cabi-
| net
| What price Charles d. Hilles' national
ommitteemanship from New York
! That seasoned stalWart Is staggering
| from an undoubted uppercut In the de-
| termination to make New York only a
whistling station along the Republican
main line this year. Gotham, In past
| presidential campaigns. has laid claim
| to q. O. r. headquarters as II by right.
| II furnished the lions share of the
sineWs OF war and demanded cor
responding voice in administering them.
| In 1928 Manhattan Island will draw n
| humble speakers bureau and regional
| treasurers office Perhaps Hilles Is reap
| ing the harvest OF his preconvention
activities against the Hoover candidacy.
| Perhaps too the new controllers OF q,
| O. p, deStinies have decided to break
up the alleged unholy alliance between
upstate Repuhlicanism and Tammany
| Hall In the politics OF New York. Will
liam II. Hill millionaire Binghamton
shoe magnate. Is thought TO be In line
| for Hilles' national committee portfolio
some sunny day. Hill was the leader OF
the Hoover pre.Kansas City forces In
the Empire state,
!
Now that Al Smith has winged CONF
| forting words To the corn belt on the
subject Of farm relief, politicians arc
expecting some equally clarion message
from him addressed To big business. II
will be remembered that the governor,
| IN his bombshell message TO the Demo-
cratic convention at Houston, took issue
with Republican monopoly of the me-
chanics OF prosperity" When Smith
talks 10 commerce, industry and finance,
along the lines OF his recent telegram
10 the Indiana Farm Bureau Fedora
ton, his tone will be equally reassur~
ing Al the end Of May, when the gov
efnor was going over the proposed
! Houston platform with Democratic
leaders. Smith emitted an ejaculation