Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-02
HOOVER SEES GAME
|. AFTER BUSY MORN
Goes to Ball Park Following
Conferences With Watson
and Others.
By The Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Herbert Hoover yesterday afternoon
laid aside his task of building up q
political team to battle the Democrats
in the East and journeyed to Griffith
Stadium to watch Washington combat
New York.
After a morning spent in comforting
with some of the figures who will par
ticipate In his effort to win the East,
the Republican presidential candidate
took the afternoon off, resting after a
strenuous week Of work over the Re-
publican party machinery and laying
the molds in which will be cast his own
struggle for the presidency,
Cabinet Members to Aid.
During the forenoon the nominee
went over the Connecticut situation
with j. Henry Roraback of Hartford,
national committeeman for that State
delved into the Massachusetts problem
in conference with Frederick M.
Prince. Boston railroad man and bank
er, and received additional light upon
the New York upstate conditions from
Representative Taber of Auburn. At
the same time 1t was disclosed that
several members of the cabinet we're
preparing to take up their oratorical
cudgels for Hoover and Curtis in the
long fight ahead. Tentative plans we're
revealed for radio addresses by Secre-
taries Mellon and Wilbur, with others
contemplated by Secretaries Kellogg
Dwight F. Davis and James j. Davis
and Postmaster General New. Vice
President Dawes already has signif1ed o
Willingness to come into the battle.
Coincident with his announcement
came news of the plan of Hoover Il
carry the offensive into enemy grounds
in his first Eastern speech which will
be at Newark, ". J., about the midil
of September. Labor probably will bt
the central theme of the speech
Negotiations already are In progress fol
nationwide radio hook-up to carry
his words into all parts of the country
Various other Government officials
and political friends dropped in upor
the general headquarters of the san.
didate before he closed his desk fol
the week end.
Urged to Visit Connecticut.
RorAback urged the nominee to visit
Connecticut during his trip into the
New England States. He brought the
view that the wet element in Connect.
cut was mot as strong as some people
think" and declared that 1.-THE Con-
necticut people are realizing that The
prohibition promises of Gov. Smith are
not very substantial"
Roraback said that the dominant
issue of the campaign in his State
would be the tariff.
THE people of Connecticut will moi
trade prosperity for glass of beer,
he said.
Prince declined to reveal the nature
of his conversation with Mr. Hoover
but ventured the prediction that Massa-
chusetts would be found in the Repub-
lican column in November.
Taber. asserting that the rural dis
tricts of upstate New York we're dry
considered the farm problem the issu
that section of the State. Mr.. Foover'S
declarations upon farm relief were
satisfactorily received there, he said.
Senator Watson of Indiana, whC
called upon the candidate with Leslie
M. Shaw, former Secretary OF thu
Treasury, told the candidate that the
Hoosier State would be safely Republi'
can this year.
Nothing more than political rev.
olution can upset the Overwhelming
margin by which Indiana Is Republic
can" the Senator said land there /:
nothing of that sort in sight"
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