The Washington times., 1930-10-14
SAY
RE'SSTNL
IN RACE
Present Liquor Experiment
Failure, He Says; Change
WIN Not Help "lntarsats'''
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES
International News Service

international News Service
dwight w. Morrow's disavowal
( Os any presidential aspirations in
1s32, and his statement that he
locked forward with pleasure" to
voting for President Hoover for re-
election two years hence, caused
no undue surprise, in political
{ quarters here today.
II would have been more sur
pyisins, said the politicians, II the
former ambassador had inaugu.A
rated his. cornpaigri Tor the Sen.
: ate without taking pains to make
1t clear that he Is q loyal sup
porter Of the Hoover Adlnillistra.
tion, and that he 10 running for
the Senate and ilot.the presidency.
Not Eliminated
Any other course, they said,
would have left Morrow In the em.
barrassing position Of seeming to
acquiesce By silence In the wide
spread talk of his PreSide can.
didacy In 1889, This talk first
cropped out IN the New Jersey pri-
mary campaign, With some eTnbar-
xaSsment to the ambassador. His
eIaaslling victory in that primary
orly accentuated the gossip and
the speculation.
At the same time there were few
politicians to be found In Wash.
illgtOn today who would say. they
| considered that Morrow had
wholly and completely eliminated
himself as a Presidential possibil-
ity in 1882,
observed:
"He closed the door TO his
nomination, but he didn't bolt
/ it." -
Others pointed out sshat many
things may happen in the next
two years that may completely
change the political picture Of
October. 1890.
OF course, the expectation
everywhere prevails that President
Hoover win be candidate to
succeed himself two years hence.
The Republicans regard it as a
matter Of course. and the Demo
Gratis are shaping their plans
with that contingency In mind.
CnClidge View
In that connection, the story is
being told around the Capitol
: that q visitor recently asked
Calvin Coolidge at Northamotoh
! whether he could be considered
) as . possibility in l932. AS the
story goes. the former President
is said to have replied with char.
! acteristie tartness:
Ts Mr. HoOver's Admins
tEatiOn ID q success Mr.. Hoover
will succeed himself; II his Ad.
ministrati0n Is not q success
then the Republican nomination
: may not be worth having"
Whether the story is true or
! not, it is going the rounds of
) political circles, and in general
. may be said to fairly represent
the view of the cynical politician
] on Capitol Hill.
The talk Of Morrow for the
. presidency has arisen and spread
] because Of the former Ambassa.
( doris outspoken opposition to the
existing prohibition situation, and
] his equally outspoken advocacy
Of the repeal Of the Eighteenth
Amendment.
Differ ON Liquor
i On the question of prohibition,
, the views OF President Hoover
: and Ambassador Morrow differ
3 with clarifying sharpness, as may
be seen in extracts from their
! formal speeches on the issue.
In his speech. of acceptance IN
1928, and repeated in slightly dlf,
ferent form on several occasions
| since. President Hoover said.
II do not favor repeal Of
the Eighteenth Amendment.
stand for the efficient enforce
Hnsnt Of the law enacted there.
under
In his speech opening his
seaatorisl campaign in Newark
last tlight, Ambassador Morrow
said;
y am in favor Of the repeal
Of the Eighteenth Amendment
and the substitution therefor of
: IN. amendment which will re
Stsre to the States the p0wer tn
determine .t.~i- -" cy fcwasd the
liqucr traffic and will give to
the Federal Government full
power and afford all possible
cooperative assistance and pro
tectien to those States that de-
sire prohibition against INVASION
frcsn the States that do not.
Il do not helieve the funda
aileatal problem can he reached
\ BY On amendment TO the Vol
stead act.o
II as some politicians profess to
belieVc, the prohibition question is
to be paramount issue in 1899.
there may be many Developments |
In the next two years that Nilf up
set the present calculations of this
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