Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15

Dwight w. Morrow is, of course,
man of his word and nobody suggests
he had his tongue in his cheek when
he withdrew himself from the 1882 pres
idential race this week. But circum-
stances may arise two years hence over
which the wet gentleman from New
Jersey may have no control. Mr.. Nor
row may also change his mind between
now and then. Such things have hap
pened In politics and In the lesser walks
Of life. If the Republican party, under
the lash of great G. o. P. States like
New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Illinois, is stampeded into the
repeal camp, Morrow will become what
the politicians call the logical" candi-
date for the presidency. Unless Herbert
Hoover develops moist tendencies, Of
which to date he has revealed no single
drip, he would be an utter anomaly
on a platform calling for annulment OF
the eighteenth amendment. Politics and
political ambitions are strange animals.
You can hear wiseacres whispering in
Washington that Morrow would never
have come out" for Hoover's renom-
nation unless the Senator expect from
New Jersey had convinced himself that
the President will be satisfactorily damp
by the time 1882 rolls around.
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According to stories drifting into the
Capital from the underwriting West,
furious Senate battle is in the dining
over the proposal to rechristen Boulder
Dam Hoover Dam" When Secretary
Wilbur officially inaugurated the con-
struction of the dam in the desert at
Las Vegas, New, last Summer he Of
flcially named it after the President.
Now. II appears, that action is TO be
States Senator from California can
have his way, 1t will be undone. Hiram
johnson, who burns no incense before
the Hoover throne, insists go the yarns
from the Pacific Slope have it, that
the greatest dam of all time be per-
petuated under its original title-Boul-
der Dam. For years the project, thus
known, was the thing Hiram mainly
lived for, barring an occasional thought
about the presidency. Finally to see
it fructify as Hoover Dam" is said to
be little too much for its congressional
parent in chief To Just what parlia-
mentary recourse Senator johnson can
resort to de Hooverize the dam Is not
at present clear.
Another short-session controversy said
to be scheduled to burst forth when
Congress reassembles has to do with
the appointment of Maj. Gen. Ben H.
| Fuller as commandant general OF the
United States Marine Corps. Named
| during the recess, his name will be up
for senatorial confirmation in Decem-
| ber Friends of Maj. Gen. Smedley ID.
Butler, who aspired for the leatherneck
! high command presumably are behind
the reported fight on Fuller's nomina-,
| ton. The latter's qualifications are not
| cept that he is held not to have the
| active service. to his credit. which other
candidates possessed. Gen. Buffers
consideration of a handsome lecture
offer is attributed in Marine circles
to his undisguised disappointment over
the Presidents failure to remember the
fighting Quaker" when a successor to
| the late Gen. Neville was selected.
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Everett Sanders, who helped Calvin
| Coolidge run the country a couple OF
| years back, is deserving his lucrative
| law practice in Washington to do little
! ''politicking" IN his native Indiana dur
/ ing the closing days of the congress
sional campaign. He expects to deliver
| half dozen speeches, especially in the
| istricts now represented in the House
! ny his old friends and Capitol Hill
ce--lrad5s, Fred Purnell Bert Vestal and
No','e johnson. The 1880 Hoosier cam
! Hsigsi j. of unusual local Importance
I'hc fight FER the right kind of legis-
latufe i5 the bone of contention. The
next one which sits Mk Indianapolis Wal