Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-02

.Throngs Lining Streets Cheer
President on Long Ride
.l .. to His Headquarters. :
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG,
Stan Correspondent of The Star.


important speeches he is scheduled to
make in three different States within
the brief space of 10 days.
This is his first visit to Cleveland
since becoming President, and he was
welcomed in a fashion which indicated
that this busting lake metropolis is
quite conscious of the honor and dis
tinction of having the Nations Chief
Executive for its guest, even If for only
q day.
Mr.. Hoover came here aboard spe-
cial train from Philadelphia, where he
witnessed the opening. game of the
world series ball game. Mrs. Hoover,
who went to Indianapolis Monday to
attend the annual meeting of the Ma
tional Council of the Girl Scout, board
ed the Presidents train at Bedford,
about 80 miles from here.
City Declares Holiday.
At the platform to formally welcome
the President upon arrival here were
Head, president of the Foreman State
National Bank of Chicago, repre-
senting Col. John G. Lonsdale,
president of the American Bank
ers' Association, which organization
the President made the journey to adj
dress tonight, and j. r. Mutt, treasurer
of the Republican National Committee.
There were a dozen or so members of
the Presidents Reception Committee on
hand also.
After a few moments of handshak-
ing and exchange of greetings and pic
ture taking the President and the men,
bers of his party and the ofhcial greet
ers took their places in the long line
of automobiles and drove slowly over a
route of several miles, principally on
Euclid avenue, before arriving at the
Hotel Cleveland, which will be the Pres
ident's headquarters during his stay.
Schools and many places of business
had declared holiday for the occasion,
and the sidewalks along the way were
well lined. This motor procession must
have reminded the President of his
campaign days. He was kept busy re-
spending to the friendly greetings along
the way.
Color was added to this procession
In the form of two troops of the LIST
Cleveland Cavalry in their brilliant uni
forms. OF course, the customary num-
Der Of motor cycle police was at the
head of the line.
Mrs. Hoover HonOred.
The hotel was finally reached and
very soon afterward the President went
to the luncheon given in his honor by
the officers and committee members of
the American Bankers Association. Mrs.
Z Hoover was the honor guest at lunch
con in another part of the hotel given
by the Women's City Club Of Cleveland.
and Mrs. Hoover will spend the greater
part of the remainder of the afternoon
In their suite, except for an automo-
bile ride of an unofficial nature. They
will have dinner in private at the hotel
and at o'clock tonight will go to the
public auditorium, the scene of the Re-
publican National Convention in 1924,
where he will enter upon his address
half an hour later.
It has been obvious, both in Phila-
delphia for the ball game and here,
that Mr.. Hoover is being called upon
to exert every bit of art at his COM
mand to avoid political pitfalls. He
has taken great pains to dodge any
such entanglements. Mr.. Hoover has
made it plain that he does not believe
a President should take any part in a
biennial election, and there is every
reason TO believe he Is not going to be
swayed in this determination.
OF course, he realizes that the speech
he will make tonight and those which
are closely to follow in Boston and
Kings Mountain, N. c., will be Of con-
siderable political significance, but, at
the same time, his contention is that
his purpose in making them at this
time was not the result of any political
promptings.
Dry Issue Is PftfaII.
Aside from Mr.. Hoover's determine
ton to side-step injecting politics into
this trip away from the White House,
because he considers 1t beneath the
dignity of the presidential office, he is
very mindful of the fact that the wet
and dry issue, which is becoming so
troublesome to his party in the East, is
the outstanding pitfall In each Of the
States in which he has planned to
speak, with the sole exception Of North
Carolina.
One striking evidence of Mr.. Hoover's
wish to remove the faint of politics
from his trip was the freeing himself
Of the company of the little group Of
party chieftains who were on hand in
Philadelphia for the ball game In this
group were Secretaries Hurley, Wilbur
man of the Republican National Com
mittee: Robert H. Lucas, executive
director of the committee, and James
Francis Burke, general counsel of the
committee. Postmaster General Brown
and David ingalls,. Assistant Secretary
Of the Navy in Charge of Aeronautics
both Of whom are native sons of Ohio,
were the only members of the Presi-
dents base ball party. with the excep-
ton Of Secretary Akerson and the
White House military and naval aides
and DR.. joel T Boone, White House
physician. who came to Cleveland with
the President.
At the ball game in Philadelphia the
President was the guest Of Mayor
Mackey Of that city. The President
had hardly become settled in his seat
when Clifford Pinchot, the Republican
nominee for Governor another of Mayor
Mackey's guests. presented himself. He
and the President shook hands warmly
but there was no conversation between
them.
futile Is Presented.
Mr.. Pinchot, because of his intensely
dry platform is being bitterly opposed
by many Republican leaders in Phila-
delphia The President had hardly dis
posed of him with nicely before
Charles @. Hilles, Republican national
committeeman from New York came to
his box IN present Charles II. Tuttle
the Republican nominee for Governor
in New York and an avowed wet. Only
the words of greeting, such as go with
a handshake, was all there was to the
Presidents meeting with Candidate
Tuttle.
Keeps Neutral Attitude.
After disposing Of these situations tt
his own satisfaction the President Their
gave his attention 10 the ball game
and. although. he INDUCED in no yelling
or waving of his hat, 1t is known thai
he enjoyed himself as much as did any
Of the many thousands of others or
hand for the game. He succeeded we'll
too, in maintaining a neutral attitude
The only two members of the Presi-