Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-13
PRESIDENT TO AID
HOOVER. NOMINEE
SAYS AFTER TALK


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reports being circulated that there VA
- be a break between him and Hcrber
| Hoover.
He learned and heard a lot a few
hours after he got back. 1nasmuch al
others in Washington had heard similar
rumblings and grumblings it was not
surprising that his conference with tbs
nominee aroused considerable interest
! Mr.. Hoovers brief statement after thai
conference was highly encouraging
despite its lndefinitencss.
| Mellon Put i'm Center.
| The President may have had some
! of these rumors in mind when n
walked to the front steps of the eXecu-
| tive office with Mr.. Hoover after theiI
| conference and posed. with him ano
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. who
| had Just arrived at the Presidents
Office as the conference was breaking
I'D. There were a score of motor
picture and camera men on hand. The
! President. much to the surprise of those
about him. did not take the central
position of the group. Instead he took
one of the end positions, as did Mr..
| Hoover, thus leaving Mr.. Mellon in the
center.
The President put in busy day yes
| terday. his first one back from his
! vacation He remained at his desk
until after o'clock and then went for
| long walk about the downtown sec
| ton. He seemed to derive much IN
| terest IN the physical changes he noted
on the streets and in the matter of
| buildings
He was up and about earlier than
usual this morning and walked about
the rear and front grounds and for a
rhort distance on Pennsylvania avenue.
He also went on an inspection tour Of
the executive Office.
Slemp Outlines Situation.
During long conference with the
President today. G. BaScom Slemp, who
was his secretary for the first year of
his Office, the Republican national COM
mitteeman for Virginia discussed the
political situation in general and con-
ditions in the Southern States.
Mr.. Slemp is not claiming a Hoover
victory in the South. but he told the
| President that the Republican nominee
| has a splendid chance to win the cleo
toral vote of possibly one or two States
He mentioned Virginia as one of these
possibilities. He stated that the Re
publican ticket has an even break in
| the Old Dominion and from all indi-
cations the tide is likely to go in
| Hoover's favor.
He thinks the prospects in North
| Carolina are very good, and according
TO his own observations and advices he
has received. Hoover should carry that
State. He said there are one or two
other Southern States where the final
vote will be close. but that he will not
make any unfounded claim at this time
Expects Women's Aid.
Mr.. Slemp estimated the political
situation of that section as being in a
| ferment. In his opinion the campaign
is in charge of the people and not the
so-called leaders and the results in No
vember will be directly due to the
voters and not to any political machln-
alton Mr. Slemp expects the women'S
vote of the South to be the LEADING
factor in Mr.. Hoover's success. He sale
that the women were showing unusua
interest in the campaign and that they
are seeing to it that the members o.
their sex are registered and pay the
poll tax and otherwise qualify to cas-
ballot on election day.
He indicated today that during hi
political conference with the Preslden
the matter of the Presidents partlclpa
ton in the campaign was touched upon
but only in an indefinite manner.
Gov. Brewster Confers.
Mrs F. Louis Slade of New York
chairman of the women's national com
mittee for Hoover, composed OF Womer
drawn from independent and morgan
lied groups, told Hoover yesterday tina
there is Nationwide movemen
among women to work for his election
Mrs, Herbert C. Teller of Farming
ton. Mimi, has been designated to or
canize farm women of the country II
behalf of the Hoover-Curtiss ticket. Sh
has been active in the Minnesota Farm
Bureau since its organization IA year
ago.
Gov. Brewster of Maine conferred
Yesterday with Chairman Work regard
ing the Republican victory in his Stat
this week. The governor declared tn
large Republican majority forecasts
big ''stay-at-home Democratic vote II
November" He stated that apparentl'
between IS and 80 per cent Of the Dem
ocratic voters in Maine stayed at hom
during the election.
Radio Program Ready.
The Republican national radio cam
paign will be inaugurated tomorlo
night over a chain of stations. includin
WMAL of this city. Chairman Work
the principal. speaker, will tell of tn
organization work of the campaign
Mrs. Alvin T. Hert. head of women
activities, will discuss her assignment
Secretary Franklin Fort of the naticna
committee. will summarize his secre
tarial work Director Henry J. Allen Q
the publicity bureau will speak on cam
paign publicity. and j. r. Mutt, cam
paign treasurer, will outline the flnan
cial program o. p Gascoigne, radi
director, will direct the program. TIL
broadcasting will take place from Chair
: man Works office, in the Barr Building
: Hoover received yesterday evenln
/ from Senator George Moses of Me-
Hampshire, vice chairman of the East
ern campaign bureau, report on pollt
: ical developments in New England
5 Senator Moses said an analysis c
Maine returns showed that the Demo
Gratis themselves intend to avert tn
menace which now hangs over thel
party by reason of the seizure OF II
organization by group who are Demo
Gratis only in name and for revenu
: only"
$ European youth is for Hoover becaus
S of the candidates stand for prohibition