Evening star., 1928-06-08
BORAH IS REPORTED
READY TO SUPPORT
HOOVER CANDIDACY
Convention City Rumor Has
Idaho Senator on List for
Seconding Speech.
MOSES SEES SECRETARY
AS VICTOR IN NOVEMBER
Farm Protest" Is Discounted as
Work of Radical West
ern Leaders.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
staff Correspondent Of The Star.

DI Us OOOLD LINCOLN,
staff Correspondent Of The Star.
KANSAS CITY, NO, June 8.-De-
spite the lull. before the convention
storm in Kansas City, the woods are
full OF rumors. One of the latest re-
ports has to do with Senator William
E. Borah Of Idaho. whose State dele
CATION has been instructed to vote for
MIN for the presidential nomination
In the ordinary course of events.
under such circumstances, Senator
Borah will be put in nomination. But
the report has 1t he will decline such
honors and not have his name placed
formally before the convention. And
further, 1t is rumored, the Idaho Sem
ator viii take the floor as a seconding
speaker for the nomination of Herbert
Hoover.
Interested in Platform.
The Idaho Senator is coming to Kan
saS City as delegate to the national
convention. 1t Is well understood that
ne Is strongly interested in the party
platform. He has declared that he in
tends to put the party on record in
the matter of prohibition enforcement
and in opposition to the nullifcation
of the eighteenth amendment.
He has already undertaken, through
the QUESTIONABLE route, to put the
candidates for the Republican nomiua-
ton on record in this matter. Senator
CnarleS Curtis Of Kansas, the late
Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio and
Secretary Hoover all replied to the
Borah wet and dry QUESTIONABLE, and
all declared themselves friends of the
eighteenth amendment.
But Frank o. Lowden Of Illinois
ignored Senator BoYah's questions Mr..
Lowden has had the Borah question:
natre before him for several months.
Recently, according TO reports from
Washington, Senator Borah has been
IN conference with Mr.. Hoover, and IL
is understood that the conferences have
been regarding the platform.
Regarded as the Senate's greatest
and most forceful orator. Senator
Borah. II he undertakes to second the
nomination Of Mr. Hoover, viii have nc
little effect upon the convention. he
has played lone hand so often and SO
long that there Is skepticism in many
quarters regarding the possibility OF
his making seconding speech for Mr..
Hoover.
Draft Coolidge Movement.
The rumor that he will take the plat
form In support OF the Hoover nomina-
ton does not enanate from any Of the
Hoover managers. and there has been so
far no confirmation of it here. There is
no doubt but that such a decision on
his part would be hailed with great sat
tsfaction in the Hoover camp. Under
such circumstances it might well be ex-
pected that the Idaho delegation would
follow Idaho's favorite son and cast its
votes for Hoover. The draft-Coolidge
TO the very time of balloting in the con-
vention. and afterward, II the President
makes no further move TO discourage it,
Noses are counted by the leaders of the
Coolidge draft campaign. and Il is
inquired that at least 133 votes will be
cast for him on the first ballot And the
number may go as high, il is said, as
200. The Connecticut delegation. headed
by Henry J. Roraback, national COM
is TO vote for Mr.. Coolidge
on the first ballot. unless II is called of.
At least one Of the anti-Hoover dele
gates from Ohio. now here. Is planning
TO vote for the President. and others
may also do so, although most Of them
will support Lowden and several of them
Curtis, who were given in the Ohio
the late Senator Willis as their first
choice.
Pennsylvania Delegation.
Charles d. Hilles. most active In the
draft movement. is to take large slice
OF the New York delegation with him
In vote for Coolidge, too. IL is said.
The drafters are looking anxiouSly
toward the PENNSYLVANIA delegation.
They are hoping that Secretary Mellon.
chairman of that delegation, will throw
the Keystone delegation their way. But
there Is doubt that Mr.. Mellon could
deliver II, owing to the strong Hoover
sentiment prevailing among many Of
the PENNSYLVANIA delegates.
The PennSylvanianS realize the value
or voting as unit in the convention.
and every effort viii be made To keep
them together. 1t Is said the delegation
may give q complimentary vote To Gov
Fisher on the first ballot, lust By way
or holding together and being In q
position perhaps TO decide the nomina-
lion on the second ballot thereby gain
Ing the credit for having nominated a
candidate.
The Hoover camp is as active as pOs-
ihle IN the matter Of diSeounting the
strength OF the So-called farm revolt
against the Secretary Of Commerce
Careful checks ON the drive OF the anti
Hoover leaders for 4 big farmers dem,
,nStration in Kansas City at the time
II the convention have been made In
! number of the MidweSt states. m
received Is to the effect thar
instead OF thousands OF cruSading farm
srS arriving here. there will be hun~
iredS, Probably not more than 1 900
% 1900 farmers viii come 70 the con-
lention who would not have come any
way, IL Is said.
Statement Is Issued.
A statement was issued last night by
he Hoover headquarters, signed by J, II,
he American Farm Bureau Federation;
Thomas j. Campbell Of Montana, one
u the largest wheat farmers In the
Orvtlle Burlington of Wichita
Fails, Tex, and Sherman +. Houston OF
Missouri declaring that the membership
4 farm organizations has diminished
ignitieantly under radical directionN
The statement says;
1.-THE farm organizations IN Illinois,
indiana and towa-StateS which are IN
he center Of the purported farm de-
eetion~ have lost half their member
hip under radical leaderA Tha de-
N indication that the rank and tAle eg
ne farmers Is not constantly aenane-
ng legislative relief and eondemnlng
he administration Of President cuol~
dge,
I'm the three states Of Iowa. mdi-
lcontinusd On rase I cciuna 80