Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-26
POLITICIANS
BATTLEOVER
Wide FRONTS
Guns Booming Over
Big Sector Bring I'm
portant Develop
ments During Week
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-(P-

Dreaming from scattered sectors,
-shere the guns have been busy for
weeks with a preparatory barrage,
n->he political campaign is developing
the INTO actual combat over a wide front.
sv.. In more than a score of states, as
: well as in the rival camps of most of
Of the presidential candidates, the past
cor week has recorded developments Of
inc more than local import
Among the republicans, Secretary
Hoover has been drawn into expres-
POI sion of his views on prohibition and
sch flood control; Governor Lowden and
cleo Senator Curtis have each captured
venitheir first instructed delegates; Sen
Ir ator Willis has completed formalities
-. for his battle &ith Hoover in Ohio;
~ Senator Watson has opened his cam
: paign with a party jubilee at In
2 eshianapolis; and the battle cry of the
Cha fdraft Coolidge brigade has been
unvisaised once more, this time by Mayor
4 ab: thompson of Chicago.
TT Reed of Missouri has held the
e. - emocratic spotlight with a stump
D,nlg whirl across the continent but
s"au'fcantime George Of Georgia likewise
now as been sounding the democratic
of folarion in two southern states be-
ides his own; Governor Smith has
TIL eceived the pledges Of an initial
the ,ock Of delegates from the far-away
NJ. hilippines; the ONO democrats
p;s-. i've arranyed TO turn over their sup
"s. ,rt to former Senator Pomerene
.or ~ thout a struggle, and William q.
De LEI Adoo has renewed his prohibition
Mr.. ar on Smith. Political forecasts
readi ways are precarious, but it seems
An sfe to say that the political month
inc Il March promises to come in like
ley's ~"
sslie. Ii has been quite apparent that Sec.
Nj ctary Hoover's part in the political
ct disseminating of the past few days
flege as not been performed on his own
trss, initiative. Although he is an avowed
~~- andidate, he has said repeatedly
Gay nat he does not intend to conduct a
' 'ocal campaign. In announcing his
drai, candidacy he declared he would not
peri take the stump, and in replying this
too week 10 Senator Borah's prohibition
&C. QUESTIONABLE he observed that sue
~ a method OF developing political
a views was unsatisfactory. Sometime
ago a questionable on farm relief
7sps was addressed to him by a western
wi farm leader, but there has been no
tn. indication that he would reply to it.
Both Senator Willis and the anti
20 saloon league have indicated that
they would try to induce Mr.. Hoover
~ &AAHAtA1 hAo W NA1N
Borah, IN which he said he did not
: favor repeal of the eighteenth amend
ment, stood for vigorous law enforce
tic ment, and felt that the country had
embarked upon a "noble and far
rs reaching" experiment in adopting
prohibition. He has not disclosed
whether he is willing to say more.
In his western swing, which has
----s-I L. 49,
sc and west and will continue for sew
~eSal days, Senator Reed has men
~ toned prohibition only by infer
ence. He repeatedly has counselled
= his fellow-democrats against a party
' split ever issues on which they can
3 not agree. He has attacked no one
4 personally except the republicans
+ Likewise Senator George of Georgia
In two addresses, one before a demo
, cratic district convention in Virginia
and the other before the South Caro-
: lima legislature, asked for a return
to fundamental democratic tenets
hut mentioned no names. At the Vir'
/; gifia meeting he was hailed as one
who would make a good president.
Some of Senator Georges support
ers in his home state are offering
him as an all-southern, dry candi-
date for the nomination but the &C.
tivity on his behalf mas not been
widespread. The Reed supporters
on the other hand, nave workers in
most of the states between the Mis-
sissippi and the Pacific. During the
past week his managers announced
he would enter Wisconsin, Michigan
and North Dakota.
There already is n great deal of
tall claiming among the rival po-
litisal managers, who will tell in
ouirers that this or that state is "in
the bag" for their particular candi-
date. As n matter of fact, although
various state organizations are
pledged one way or another. the &C.
tual number of delegates who have
been formally instructed how to vote
in the nominating conventions re-
mains almost nil. On the republican
side the score of instructed votes
stands thus:
Senator Curtis 1 (second and
fourth Kansas districts).
Frank o. Lowden = (first North
Carolina district.
And among the democrts:
Senator George 2s Gall of Georgia).
Governor Smith 6 philippine Is
lands).
Nowhere else has the question
bssn formally decided by party Of
ficials except in Florida, where the
democrats have definitely decided to
send an uninstructed delegation.
Mayor Thompson decision to line
M his delegation from Cook county,
Illinois. for the drafting Of President