Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-19
'OHIO FACTIONS REACH PARTING
|OF WAYS ON WILLIS AND HOOVER
Secretary's Move Strains Organization
Behind Senator-Maschke and
Legislator Break.

ana tllS NSNti Nv AoI ~, 'sf"'N
inf Il in all. leaving 80 delegates to
Willis. They hasten to explain that
they expect their movement to grow
and enable them to capture other dis
trictS. II is significant that while no
district committee has declared for Mr..
Hoover two county Republican COM
nittecs have done So--tlloSe OF Lucas
County and Muskingum County. The
value Of tho Endorsement in Lucas
County is reduced somewhat by the
fact that Mayor Jackson. who was
elected in spite Of the opposition OF
Walter F. Browns Republican organi2a :
ton last November. is out for Wills
and will throw his organization for him.
The district might slip from Mr.:
Browns control. but it Is not expected
to do so.
In reply to the claim of the Hoover
leaders that they will carry the nine
tenth district. Col. Carmi A. Thomp-
son said that while there was Hoover
sentiment in the iron-mill district about
Youngstown. he had assurance from
Willis workers there that Willis would
control the district and have indorse-
rent of the district committee. He evil
IDENTIFY, however. did not feel so well
assured about it but that he thought
1t best TO spend the week end at
Youngstown looking over the situation.
Canton Held for Willis.
Canton was reported as another CEN
ter Of Hoover sentiment, but former
Congressman Roscoe McCulloCh Of that
city came down to the Willis headquar-
terS this week with assurances that the
district would select Willis delegates.
The district Republican committee has
since Endorsed Senator Willis.
Ii is evident that the Anti-Saloon
League intends to indorse Senator Will
lis. no matter what may be the answer
of Secretary Hoover 10 Senator Boral's
oueStionnairc They admit that Secre-
tary Hoover is on record in his official
reports as in favor OF prohibition. but
based on merely economic grounds,
while Senator Willis approaches the
subject more nearly from the leagues
standpoint--morality They are further
led 10 the Willis side Of the contest >
the fact of the association Of Walter E.
Brown and Col. Thad Brown with Sec
rotary Hoover's movement hereinafter
F. Brown. they explain. having been at
to-ney for liquor interests before prohi-
bition and Col Brown the secretary OF
a liberal organization In his younger
days.
Col Thompson says delegate candi-
dates Will be placed in nomination in
every district in the State-in the Cleve-
land and Cincinnati districts included
and the fight will be made just as hard
there as in districts where the Willis
chances are better.
Here in the capital city district. rep
resented BY Gen John c. Speaks. who
opposed the entrance Of Mr.. Hoover
into the Ohio primary. there is pro-
nounced Hoover sentiment, but Chair
man Harry c. Arnold has called upon
Senator Willis and assured him OF lis
firm personal support. but said that 1t
was thought best by his committee not
TO indorse either candidate. Senator
Willis and Mr. Hoover's representatives
will be permitted TO select their own
local delegate candidates and fight 1t
out in the primaries. Unless the
Hoover sentiment is much stronger
than 1t appears to be on the surface,
the Willis delegate candidates will win.
Warner Hits Browns.
The hot words that are passing be-
tween Senator Willis at Washington
and Maschke at Cleveland are fully
ecualed here in criticism passed upon
Walter F. Brown and Col. Brown py
Chairman Fred Warner Of the Ohio
Republican State committee. In an
interview Wednesday, Warner charged
that Walter r Brown had had himself
attached 10 the Federal payroll In his
present position for the purpose OF
promoting the Hoover movement and
that Col Brown after failing TO secure
the nomination for governor and being
turned down as an applicant for APP
pointment TO the Federal Radio COM
.fe1k t-nr hi
for hinlself-attached himself 10 the
payroll Of the Hoover organization here,
II looks as though for the present
Secretary Hoover would not answer the
questions put 10 him by Senator Willis.
intended, as he said, to enliahten the
Republicans of Ohio as TO where Mr..
Hoover stands on public issues for
Col. Brown issued statement from
Hoover headquarters Thursday that
Secretary Hoover made himself clear
on these points in speech he made
at Springfield. Ohio. In Senator Willis
last campaign for reelection. in sup
port OF the Senator's candidacy and at
his request.
James r. Garfield. who had not iden-
tilted himself with the Hoover move
ment in public way, Is now discussed
by Hoover leaders as a candidate for
viSed that he IS in sympathy.
Mrs. Wilma Sinclair Levan OF Steu-
benv!l!e vas here this week in confer
encc With Col. Thompson and other
Willis leaders. She is the woman mem
Der OF the national committee for Ohio
and 50 IL seems probable that she and
MaSchke are 70 be on opposite sides
III the Willis-HoOver controversy
The suggestion of former Secretary
Meredith OF Iowa that Newton D. Bnk-
or be ccntered on as a candidate with
whom 10 defeat Gov. Smith. now in
the lead for the Democratic nomina-
ton, received little attention here Mr..
Baker is understood 10 be lined up
with the Endorsement OF former Senator
Atlee pomerene for the support Of the
Ohio delegation.
Paper Against Hoover.
Week end developments IN the
Hoover Willis contest are the outSpoken
opposition to Secretary Hoover of the
Toledo Blade, Republican organ al
Toledo, home Of Walter Brown. owned
by Paul Block Of New York The dec
lara,ion Of former Republican Paul
Rowland. now president OF the Cleve-
land Bar Association. for Senator Willis.
and his assertion that Walter r.
Brown as Ohio's national committee
man, In 1912. split the Republican
party in Ohio, and seems TO be In 10
DO 1t again"
Tn" selection Of James r. Garfield.
who had been listed with the Hoover
organization. As one Gf the powers
Of Charles L.. Knight of Akron who is
an enthusiastic supporter Of Senator
Willis Ia be candidate for delegate
an his ticket for the reason that he
deems both the eighteenth amendment
and ,he Volstead law unwise. and as
nsiegate, he might embaTass the 6ena-
tor. j. II, GAI.HHAITH.