New Britain herald., 1928-09-27
REPUBLICAN PARTY
 ALWAYS HAS BEEN
 ONE FOR PROGRESS
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applauded the nominee as he took his place on the dais at one end to make his brief talk. After the ex- change between Proctor and the nominee there was another round of applause and then the crowd be- gan to break up.
 shakes Hands
 "I would like to shake hands with you an." MT. Hoover said. as his visitors began to move slowly to- ward the stairway. They came for ward eagerly. The nominee noted several gray heads among the younger ones
 T guess you are not a first timer" he said with a smile as he greeted Stanley r. Ford of Rich mond.
 No. sir. but I've brought along couple of sons who are." Ford replied, introducing the two boys.
 He made a mighty favorable inn pression on all of us." Ford said later. Hes gentler than I expected. The women who came with us were especially impressed"
 Political Conference
 Before greeting the first voters, MT. Hoover conferred individually with a number of party leaders. in cluding Chairman Work and Repre- sentative Franklin D. Fort. of New Jersey, of the National committee: :: Senator George H. Moses. of New Hampshire. vice chairman of the eastern advisory committee, and Horace A. Mann. director of the southern division campaign.
 Senator Moses said he had dis cussedr several matters with the candidate; received from him some words of wisdom and am now on my way"
 Asked about the situation in the east generally the senator said it had improved but he described that fin Massachusetts as extremely diff cult to analyze.
 No accurate analysis of the regis tration there can be made until after the end of the supplemental regis tration period" MT. Moses said. Al ready 115.000 new names have been put on the list in the state and while some republican wards in the city of Boston have shown a larger in- crease than democratic wards in that city. this is not fair basis of com- parison because of the overwhelm- ing democratic vote in Boston.
 Mass. Is Difficult
 'The issues? We'll, you must un- derstand that 53 per cent of the population in Massachusetts is Catholic. It is difficult to determine to what extent the state will be in- f1uenced by the wet issue. They are having poll in the state on the prohibition question and I am hop ing that the republicans will stand by their party in the national elec- ton and express their prohibition preferences in the state poll" MT. Fort said he regarded the Massa chu- setts situation as much more favor- ooAV tlldu u W dS dSO. All analysis of increased registration in Boston, he said. had shown that a larger increase had taken place in republican wards than in democratic wardA
 The situation in New Hampshire was a particular subject of discus sion between MT. Hoover and MT. Fort.
 We have just finished a hard primary fight there," Mir. Fort said, but the good sportsmanship of the defeated candidate for governor has gone far toward bringing the party back together for the campaign ahead"
 Chairman Work declined to go into details about his conference other than to say it was about con- ditions generally. Mir. Mann saw Hoover about the candidates forth coming trip to Elizabethton, Tenn.