Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08

President Hoover's Thanksgiving proc
lamation was probably written before
he'd heard the election returns from
Virginia and points North and West, or
his recommendation that the Nation
voice its gratitude for blessings bestowed
might not have been so cordial. Be that
as it may, the G.. o. p. has small cause
to overeat itself on November % in any
spirit of political thanksgiving. Crow
rather than turkey is de rigueur for Re-
publ'cans this year. There's hardly an
authority in Washington who doesn't
believe that events in Virginia, Ken
lucky, Massachusetts, Connecticut, IL
linois and Indiana last Tuesday are
symbolical of what is going to happen
in 1880. Jimmy" Walkers landslide in
New York is essentially of local Signifi-
canoe, yet it reveals Tammany'S vote
getting power when fully modified.
Such display in 1928 might have de-
prived Hoover of New York States
outstanding feature of this weeks cleo
tons was the dead Virginia has now
given to North Carolina, Florida and
Texas in the direction of a return to
their first Democratic love. Bluntly in
terpreted, it means that whenever it is
asked to vote for a Democratic presi-
Dental candidate, who is Protestant and
dry, Dixie is extremely likely to do SO.
The Republican South" in other words,
is a delusion and a snare.
Democratic soothsayers and medicine
men are, of course, claiming that Hoover
administration fortunes are in such a
slump all over the country that voters
everywhere took their first opportunity
to register their disapproval. To the ex-
tent that the De Priest-White House
episode affected the gubernatorial cam
paign in Virginia, that may $50. To
the acknowledged extent, too, that cur
rent tariff disclosures in the Senate
have damaged the Republican party as
a whole, voters undoubtedly were in
mood to punish it. AS the titular leader
of the G.. o. p, Herbert Hoover cannot
miny which overtakes his political organ
iZation. If the Republicans had swept
the board on November S, instead of
being swept off it, 1t would have been
natural for National Chairman Huston
QnStead of Executive Committee Chair
man Jouett Shouse) to burst forth in
a paean of exultation over approval of
Hoover policies" A common guess on
Capitol Hill, in light of all that's hap
in the next House will be heavily
slashed and its majority" in the
Senate substantially reduced.
X X X
The Hiram Johnson White House
dinner invitation affair is one of the
tough breaks" which now and then
any and every President suffers, through
no real cause of his own. All the world
knows that Hoover and johnson don't
lie awake nights singing hymns OF
praise and affection to each other. But
their feud, vintage of 1920, has lost its
primitive savagery. Senator and Mrs.
johnson have already been at the
Executive Mansion table with the PreSi-
| dent and Mrs. Hoover. The occasion
was the dinner to the California dele
CATION in Congress last Spring-one of
the first of the many hospitalitles ex-
| tended by this food administration"
| AS 1928 was dawning, couple Of years
ago, Hoover and johnson entered into
something resembling truce. It was
agreed for them, If not between them,
| that Hoover would throw no barriers
across Johnson's aspiration to be re-
nominated and reelected United States
Senator. The temperamental Hiram, on
his part, was to lift no hostile nnger
It was SO ordered. Both got what they
wanted Their relations at Washington
were not destined to become exactly
| affectionate, but they have remained
espectful-including as far as johnson
is concerned, the inalienable right to
differ and defy.
| X 4
Who is the one plutocratic person in
the District. of Columbia just reported
by the Treasury Department to be
among the Nations 900 taxpayers who
confess to an income OF $l,000,000 and
ever? The rules forbid the disclosure
nf the name Many have thought it Is
Andrew w. Mellon, but the Secretary OF