The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-24

COP leaders
SPLIT ON VETO
EFFECTS
o. GEORGE Z. HOLSEEs

By GEORGE r. HOLMES
President Coolidge's singing veto.
rebuke Of the McNary. Haugen farm
= relief bill and the political effect
thereof was holly debated in Wash
ington today.
1T turns the Middle West to
al Smith il Herbert Hoover is the
aRepublican nominee at Kansas
fiaCity,' asserted the more radical
Republican spokesman for the Mid.
West grain belt. ).
1T does nothing Of the KIND,
retorted their more conservative
Eastern brethren. The Middle
ssWest II traditionally Republican
and win remain so. And IL any
losses are sustained there they will
too made up by gains in other sec
items where the Presidents action
1a understood and appreciated.
Some Conclusions
There were. however, some broad
rcnclusions upon which there was
reneraI agreement, to wit:
/. President Coolidge has enhanced
HE possibility Of his being drafted at
Kansas City.
9. Herbert Hoover'a path to the
mornination has been rendered IN
ffniteIy more difficult, and his cleo
zion, II nominated, has been made
cOrrespondingly more difficult
3. The anti-Hoover allies have
been given = new toehold from
(which to direct their assault on
Hoover in particular and upon the
agrarian policy of the Administra-
ton in general.
4. Irrespective of who IL noml-
mated at Kansas City. there will be
Republican fight over the farm issue,
comparable in intensity to the ex-
pected prohibition fight among
Democrats.
Netl Coxey's Army
THAT leaders Of the Republican
asgrariaus are sore and that they are
eoang to Kansas City prirned for q
rod-hot fight there il no doubt. Gov
Adam McMuIlen (FI.l Of Nebraska.
FOR example. already Is urging thar
- Coxey's army OF 100000 midwest
Farmers march on the Kansas City
convention and as American free
men demand econoniG justice.
The McNary-F1augen bill has dis
flngufshed sponsors IN the party. not
Eae least Of whom are Vice sPresi
dent Charles 6. Dawes and Frank o.
sLowden. to say nothing Of the Re,
publican staIwarts iii the Senate who
voted for It like Senator James e.
Watson oe indiana, Senator Charles
Curtis Of Kansas. and host Of
others. 1t Il not contemplated that
they will take lying down such a
yerba1 1acing as was handed them
u the Coolidge veto message.
a large part OF the Republican
midwest resentment. as voiced
here, is directed against Hoover
rather than Coolidge. The political
explanation is that he IL more
vulnerable and offers better tar
set.
Leaders Worried
Hoover's admitted weakness in
the farm belt, as shown by his
having only a score Of delegates
between the Ohio-Indiana line and
the Rockies, coupled with AL Smiths
admitted strength In the populous
leaders who are more concerned
about winning in November than
they are about the nominee.
Consequently, realizing the Repuh-
iican revolt in the middle west, they
argue that the Kansas City con-
vention must put up some me
strong enough to challenge Smith
popularity in the east. and who can
still be assured Of getting by IN
the west. That man, they figure.
- Calvin Coolidge.
As for the Lowden and Dawes
candidates., they argue that the
party must so to the country In No
venber on the record Of the Coolidge
Administration The platform, there.
fore, must Endorse Coolidge policies
many Of which both Lowden and
: Dawes have opposed.
The nominee at Kansas City. they
contend, cannot be put in the posi-
ton OF straddling, nor of being anti
Coolidge administration.
Such. ct any rate, il the talk Of
/ Washington today.