Evening star., 1928-05-06
PEACE PACT LOOMS
FOR OHIO FACTIONS
Willis and Hoover Sponsors
Believed on Way to Rec
onCiIiation.
no,ia, n,sratch to The star,

special nlsratch to The Star
COLUMBUS. Ohio, May S.-~rrogress
toward reconciliation following the
bitterly fought Republican presidential
primary campaign has been a feature
Of the Ohio political news of the week,
On the whole, the strife within the Re-
publican ranks has quieted down per-
rcpttbly. No other Willis leader has
followed State Executive Chairman
Fred w. Warner in his denunciation of
those responsible for Secretary Hoovers
candidacy in Ohio and the prediction
that il will result in the loss of the
electoral votes of Ohio 10 the Republic
ans. but several of them, including Col
Carmi A. Thompson. have expressed
regret at the rash statements of the
State chairman and the wish that there
may be nothing more of this.
The twenty anti-Hoover delegates
will not accompany the thirty-one
Hoover delegates in their special train
to Kansas City convention. In con-
ference here with Col. Thompson they
decided 10 travel individually each one
taking the route and train he prefers.
These delegates. with the Hoover dele
gates. will be scattered some being
quartered In the Baltimore Hotel at
Kansas City some in the President
and the rest in the St. Regis No at
tempt 10 unit IN support Of a single
anti-Hoover candidate IVES attempted.
MaSchke Is Out.
Another development in the Republic
an eet-together movement was the an
nouncement of Maurice Maschke Of
Cleveland that he would not ask TO be
reelected to the Republican national
committee, This, of course. opens the
way for the use of this honor as a good
will offering to a Republican on the
other side. Mr.. Masohke. however.
made 1t clear that if there was 10 be
contest along the lines of the primary
contest he will stand for election If the
majority asks it.
Committeeman Maschke who has
earned quite reputation for accurately
forecasting political results and whose
prediction of the recent presidential
primary result came uncannily near TO
the actual mark. has predicted that
Secretary Hoover will be nominated on
the first ballot at Kansas City, and that
former Gov. F. O. Lowden will be the
runner-up. II. however, the conven-
ton should not nominate by such quick
action. he looks TO see Vice President
with all the strength that the anti
Hoover forces can muster behind him.
The best assurance the Ohio Repub-
licans have been given of harmonious
action in the coming 1923 campaign was
given by Col. Thompson in his state
ment that he would not Use his infiu-
enoe TO rally the Willis delegates from
this State around any single opponent
of Secretary Hoover at Kansas City,
and that II Mr. Hoover should be norni-
mated il would afford him great pleasure
70 give him earnest and hearty support
in the election. and he hoped that all
the friends of the late Senator Willis
would do the same
Smith Seen Victor.
But one Republican newspaper in the
State has given out discordant note
II was the Akron Beacon Journal.
owned and edited by former Repre-
sentative Knight. who was an ardent
supporters OF the late Senator Willis,
but refused TO be a candidate for dele
gate for the reason that. unlike the Sem
ator, he was vet. In an editorial In his
newspaper. under the caption How
About November" assuming that Gov.
Smith will be the Democratic nominee,
he gave Ii as his opinion that, with
Secretary Hoover as the Republican
candidate. the Republicans would lose
the electoral vote of Ohio.
Because Gov. Smith Is vet and Secre-
tary Hoover dry. he said the three large
Ohio cities that gave Secretary Hoover
his big majority In the primary elee-
ton would give Smith plurality Of
l25.000 at the lowest estimate. Could
Mr.. Hoover look 10 the rural portions
Of the State which refused TO vote for
him April -. for Republican pluralities
10 wipe that out2
In spite o. his repeated and explicit
statements that he intended TO retire 70
private life and would not be a candi-
date for any office. political writers here
continue to regard Gov. Donahey as a
possibility at the Houston convention,
Early this week the governor with Mrs.
Donahey and their son. left Columbus
for an automobile trip. their destination
not stated, but the object explained as
needed rest and recreation. II Is now
learned that they drove into the South
ern States. and putting this with the
fact that before leaving the governor
inquired about Southern delegations, a
report has been sent out that he is in
quest OF support as candidate for the
vice presidency. This Is bolstered up.
as il certainly needed 10 be- by the fact
that j. A. Meckstroth. the governor s
secretary and one of the governor S