Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
HOOVER TO ATTEND
HARDING CEREMONY
EARLY IN NEW YEAR
Continued From First Page.)

emn duty Of giving the Harding me-
mortal a suitable dedication.
Shortly after election the memorial
association, at its annual meeting in
Marion, took similar action. 1t ensued
upon the motion of Harry M. Daugh-
erty, trustee of the association, form
er Attorney General of the United
States and President Hardings closest
friend. The resolution was Of con-
siderably more vigorous tone than that
passed by the Republican State con-
vention. 1t contained some very d.
rect criticism of persons in high posi-
ton, who had been holding back about
participating in any dedicatory cere-
monies.
President Hoover, his friends say, has
never been disinclined to take part in
appropriate exercises at Marion, but
when the question of his participation
was plunged into the Ohio political
arena and made an issue, he deter
mined that he ought not to go there
under the circumstances. Another ex-
PLANTATION of the Presidents delay in
coming to a decision on the subject
was feeling on his part that while
the Federal litigation growing out of
the oil reserve affairs was still pend
ing it might seem somewhat inappro-
PIRATE for the Chief Executive to speak
at the memorial All of these inhibi-
tons have now vanished. Mr.. Hoover
early in the new year, the exact date
depending on various conditions.
Expect Coolidge There.
One Of these conditions is the con-
venience of Calvin Coolidge. President
Hoover is Of opinion that the former
Vice President and President, who took
office with Mr.. Harding in 1921, should
join him at the memorial ceremony.
Apparently it Is not yet definitely known
at the White House whether Mr.. Cool
idge is in full accord with this pro-
poSal, but there is no reason to doubt
that he will be.
Confidence on this score is all the
greater because, a year or so ago, it was
Hoover, not himself, was the proper one
to go to Marion for the purpose in ques-
ton. Mr.. Coolidge's first reaction" in
the matter Is understood to date from
1928, when his position was that, in the
midst Of the presidential campaign of
that year, it might be thought "po-
litical move" to rivet the country'S at
tention on Ohio at such a moment.
President Hoover conveys to his aSso-
ciateS the impression that he will speak
at Marion unhesitatingly and in a
who gave the Californian the latter's
real chance to distinguish himself as a
Federal executive-in the Secretaryship
of Commerce in the Harding cabinet.
Hoover Was Opposed.
It Is an established piece Of political
history that Herbert Hoover was ap-
pointed to that cabinet by Harding in
the teeth of good deal of stalwart
Republican opposition. One man now
very high in the party'S councils Is on
record in writing against the deSirabil1ty
of giving portfolio In the 1921 admin
istration to a Republican who, only a
year and half previous, was under
consideration by the Democrats as their
presidential candidate.
Mr.. Harding ignored these remon-
strances. He yielded instead not only
to his own high regard for Mr.. Hoover's
capacity, but to what Harding knew to
be Nationwide demand for HooVer'S
inclusion in the cabinet. On countless
occasions, both during President Hard
ing's life and following his demise, the
man now in the White House paid trib-
ute to the Ohioan's worth and services
to the country. The Marion ceremonies
will be broadcast by the Columbia
Broadcasting System.
Copyright, 193o.)