The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-11-08
WE HAVE ELECTED A
PRESIDENT!
Cumberland Daily News)

Herbert Hoover was elected Presi-
dent of the United States yesterday
in such decisive manner that it leaves
no doubt that he is The Peoples
Choice" Nominated by the Republi-
can party without dissenting voice,
held in high esteem by Republicans
and Democrats alike, The Daily News
forecast when he came here last week
and when we greeted him in these col
umns as "The next President of the
United States" was not amiss.
But the particular point is that
Hoover was elected, TIE country will!
now settle down to business as never
before-under Hoover, His election
re-estahlishes that business esaHdence
> which has maintained the prosperity
of the country under Coolidge and
which, we most firmly assert, will con-
tinue under President Hoover.
"A man of vast experience in the eX-
ecutive field of Big Business, with
eight years of cabinet service-and
this latter did more to lay the founda-
ton for the political career of Herbert
Hoover than was done in his romanti-
cally successful business performance,
or by the enduring fame of his war
exploits,
We have elected a President of the
United States--the orphaned Iowa
farmer boy who rose before 1914 to
lead perhaps the greatest single COM
bination of mine engineering and mine
management by outstanding profess
sional skill which soon attached in
formation Importance to his person
ality.
An early story about Hoover comes
from Portland Ore, real estate man
there who employed him in early life,
being quoted as saying:
Bert Hoover was darn good office
boy"
1t was back in 1888 when Hoover
got this job as office boy. And the
man who gave Bert" his start in life,
says this of him:
B. S. Cook, Portland real estate
man: Bert was the best office boy
any firm ever had. He never fused
around and he stayed home nights and
he knew where everything was in the
office. And he knew, too, just when
anybody would want anything in the
office. Yes, Bert was a smart lad
and how he could talk when he got
started. &. Bert was always in
dustrious and l was among those who
recommended Bert Hoover for his
first employment as a mining engi-
neer. He went to Australia with an
English company. I think he got
$4,000 year, an awful lot of money
in those days. They say at Stanford
University, from which he graduated
and began his career as a mining en-
gineer, that Bert was the highest paid
of any student just stepping out Of
the University"
Merely phase of the career of the
newly elected President of the United
States, but rather remarkable.
Herbert Hoover elected President
of the United States, will be President
of the whole people. The strife is
over-the scars of battle will quickly
heal-the American people are good
sports, to put it that way, and the
elected President of the United States
is President of all the people and es-
teemed and regarded as such by ALL
the people.
The nomination of Herbert Hoover
made the result foreseen. There never
was a doubt as to his election, only
as to the majority he would carry to
success. This does not mean that his
opponent, Governor Alfred E. Smith,
of New York, did not wage good
fight. He did-he was a remarkably
energetic campaigner, undoubtedly
the strongest nominee the Democrats
had at their command
The fight Smith waged-and lost
was that of man of great combative
ability. He represented his party IN
the campaign field in a manner that
may give comfort to the Democrats
because of the fact that Gov. Smith
started out to win-fought to win
and that he did not win calls for a
sportsmanlike recognition from all
quarters. 1t was the Governor of a
great State, backed by his party, ver-
sus great man practically invincible,
on his record.
And so, we have elected Herbert
Hoover President of the United States
We-all the people, may rest easy and
assured that tn government of the
country is in good hands. We can