Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-29
HOOVER SPONSORS
ARE Baked IN OHIO
Hit by Secretary'S Failure to
Announce His Candidacy.
Willis Boomers Busy.

Special Dispatch 10 The star.
T. OIUMBUS. Ohio. January %
There arc still indications of substantial
Hoover sentiment among Ohio Repub'
LcsnS. but with nothing done toward
expressing it, il might as well not be
In the meantime Senator Willis organ
iyation is making good use OF the llimf
to sew the State delegation up tight.
II Is understood that Secretary
Hoover is unwilling TO so on record IL
Ohio as a candidate, even StanonG
against his own accepted advisers J.
this matter II he maintains that po'
Sltlon. there can be no way under th'
Ohio primary laws By which preference
for him can be expressed, Secretary o.
State Clarence Brown Is 10 affirm thI
railing of his predecessor, Thad Brown
70 the effect that a candidate Tor ma
tional delegate must have the consent
Of the person whom he proposes 10 sup
port for the presidential nomination.
Take Waiting Attitude.
+ Republican congressman from Ohio
Rll candidates for reelection. seem in
cllned 10 take the same position as Sec
re;ary Eoover-waIting. n the belief
that a satisfactory compromise agree
ment Will work itself out. In the mean
time. the Willis management is arrang-
ing for meeting OF the Republican
State central committee. II will be held
next week and their plan is 10 put
through a resolution pledging the Ohio
delegation 10 Senator Willis. They Will
p-oba bly, BE- able 10 do this, though
hardly by unanimous vote.
Willis friends IL the seventh district,
where Hoover sentiment is notably
strong. called a meeting Of the Repub-
hcaa county chairmen las. week and
selected two outstanding Willis men for
national delegates. pledged them 10 the
Senator. and for second choice named
Col! c. r. Fisher OF Wilmington. who
Is, OF course. not a candidate at all.
One OF the national delegates is Forest
Upton Q: Washington Court House.
who when Mr.. Willis was governor
served him as private secretary. This
= merely Endorsement. and the program
will have 10 be carried out at the pri-
mar election IN April. The district
meeting Endorsed Senator Fess for re-
election. l. IS the district he formerly
rep-s in Congress.
49, Friends Disheartcned.
=, The news that Secretary Hoover wishes
20 avoid a fight for delegates in Ohio
N fact. wherever there is a favorite-
son movement on-rather disheart-
ems his followers in Ohio. Besides Civ
ing them no hope Of expression of their
preference for him, IL causes them 10
fear that their candidate is not the
fighter they had expected. And, Of
course. with the successes that the
Willis organization IS meeting with.
those Hoover Republicans who have po-
Etical aspirations hesitate 10 jeopardize
them by openly expressing themselves
for Mr.. Hoover Undoubtedly the situa-
ton as il IS drifting is favoring the
willis movement
On the Democratic side the feeling
grows. even among the opponents OF
Gov. Smith, that his nomination is In
creasingly probable: and. feeling so.
those who viii not support him are fire.
ruently heard 20 express the hope that
II Gov. Smith Is their party candidate,
Secretary Hoover viii be the candidate
Of the Republicans. as they could more
easily support him than any other Re-
publican mentioned
A persistent run1or has been heard in
Ohio this week 10 the effect that IL Is
the intention 10 throw the Willis sup
port. IL It is ultimately found that he
cannot be nominated, TO a movement
for Vice President Dawes.
J. II. GALBRAITH.