Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-10
T|LSON ASSIGNED
TO DIRECT HOOVER
SPEAKERS BUREAU
Connecticut Representative
Will Conduct Intensive Ora
torical Drive in East.
CURTIS TO BE NOTIFIED
ON EVENING OF AUGUST 18
Senator Fess Will Head Vice Presi.
Dental Committee at Topeka
Ceremonies.

Representative Tilson OF Connecticut,
majority floor leader of the House and
veteran political campaigner today
vas appointed to direct an intensive
oratorical drive designed to clear the
way for a sweeping Hoover-Curtis VIC
tory in the East next November.
Chairman Work of the Republican
national committee announced Tilson's
assignment as chairman of the East
ern speakers bureau, with headquarters
probably in New York city. He will
function under the general supervision
of Chairman Walter Newton of the i,a-
tional speakers committee. The lat
ter's Offices will remain in Chicago.
Curtis Notification Date.
DR.. Work also announced that Sena-
tor Curtis. the Republican vice presi-
Dental nominee. will be notified OF his
nomination on the evening of August
18 at his home in Topeka, Ksns.
Hoover's notification, it was understood.
will take place in the afternoon. so
that it may be broadcast in the East
at an early evening hour The latter
ceremony will be held August IL at
Stanford University.
Senator Moses of New HAMPSHIRE.
director of campaign plans In the East.
will head the notification committee at
Stanford University. and Senator Fess
OF Ohio will lead the vice presidential
committee
1t was stated that j. r. Mutt, treas
urer of the campaign, will open offices
IN Cleveland. his home, and that he
Will appoint vice treaslrers with head
quarters in Chicago and New York.
respectively.
Active in Coolidge Campaign.
| Mr.. Tilson Is not entering upon a
! task new to him. He was Chairman
or the speakers bureau in the East
| during the Coolidge campaign of 1922.
and has long experience in politics. He
was chairman Of the executive commit
tee OF the national Republican con-
ereSsional committee for several years,
in which capacity he played an I'M
| portant part in the national congress
| Sional campaigns.
II Is known the Republican national
committee intends to pay particular At
| tention this Fall to the congressional
races in the Northeastern States. with
view to inSuring q safe Republican
majority in both houses of Congress TO
support the Hoover-Curtis ticket. Sem
ator Moses viii spend a large part OF
his time on this problem. and Chairman
Tilson no doubt will join in the move
ment.
Mentioned for Vice Presidency.
TilSon was one of the pre-conyen-
ton Hoover supporters and he was
prominently mentioned as a posSib'e
candidate for the vice presidential NOM
nation with Secretary Hoover It had
been regarded as certain that he would
have an important role in Hoover's
campaign At one time he was con-
sidered as a likely appointee as East
ern manager Of the campaign. This
post now has been eliminated in lieu
of an advisory board made up Of nation
al committeeman of the New England
and Middle Atlantic States. together
with Senator Moses as contact officer,"
Senator Metcalf Of Rhode Island a.
chairman of the senatorial committee
and Representative Wood OF Indiana
as chairman Of the congressional COM
mittee.
Secretary Hoover was clearing his
desk of departmental business today
preparatory to leaving Saturday for the
West. He will stop over &C the SUM-
nler White House TO discuss with Pres
ident Coolidge the matter of his retire
ment from the cabinet and other Ques-
tions of the campaign. Associated
Press dispatches from the Brule today
said that the President viii grant Hoo
verS request that he be relieved OF his
cabinet duties. although the date the
resignation will become effective was
not made known.
Successor 20 BE Discussed.
The reports diSpelled the impression
obtaining In some quarters that the
President would ask Secretary Hoover
to remain at his post for an indefinite
period. Discussion Of successor 10
Hoover undoubtedly will be included IN
the interview between Hoover and Pres
ident Coolidge. A tentative draft of
the Republican nominees speech OF ac-
ceptance also may be gone over at the
presidential conference.
Secretary Hoover has received tele-
gram from w. II. Settle, president of
the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation.
requesting his personal position" on
farm relief, but he will not reply TO 1t.
He has stated that he will make no
announcement of policies or issues
prior to the speech Of acceptance. The
telegram was similar to one sent 10
Gov. Smith, to which the Democratic
nominee replied at length
Teachers Vote for Hoover.
Chairman Work today received from
Brownlow Jackson, chairman of the
North Carolina State Republican COM
mittee, telegram reporting that out
of 1850 votes cast by teachers attend
Ing the Summer school at the Ashe-
Vile Normal and Industrial School
Hoover received 7S0 votes.
'Twenty-eight Southern states we're
represented" the message said. This
shows the attitude of Southern women"
Secretary Hoover talked today with
w. W, Atterhury, Republican national
from PENNSYLVANIA; Sen
ator Dale Of Vermont and DR., Levi PEN
nington. president OF the Pacific Col
lege, at Salem College.
RESIGNATION TO RE ACCEPTED.
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