Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-07
HOOVER IS READY
FOR FOES IN SOUTH
MAINS Revolt" Is Held of
Little Convention Weight,
but interesting.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

President Hoover is ready to do bat
de with those Republican leaders in
the South who are threatening him
: with q loss of delegates in 1882 because
he failed to recognize them in the mat
ter of appointments and patronage
generally.
The statement issued by Col. Horace
A. Mann, one Of the Hoover campaign
managers in the South, that he would
favor "uninstructed" delegations from
the South in 1892 obviously was hostile
to the Hoover administration and was
one of the effects Of the Presidents
refusal to recognize the various Mann
organizations as well as his insis.ence
on the resignation Of Huston rs chair
man Of the Republican National Com
rnittee.
Patched Up Huston Fight.
Col Mann and Mr.. Huston had some
differences of a political nature, but
they were patched up and the colonel
was one of those who. did not think 1t
was necessary for Mr.. Huston to retire.
The public announcement of Col.
Mann's attitude Is perhaps one of the
most interesting events in national
politics since the Hoover campaign, be-
cause It reavels the smoldering feeling
between some of the men who or
: eani1ed the South in the pre-conven-
ton campaign and some OF those VINO
carried on the battle which in 1928
broke the solid South and gave the
electoral votes to the Republicans In
States they never before mad carried.
Mr. Hoover did not realize until he
got into Office just what some OF these
Southern political organizations meant
in respect to the demands for appoint
ments. Such proceedings as those IN
the Perry Howard case and other in
stances in which charges OF selling APP
pointrnents 10 Federal of1ces have dis
furbed Mr.. Hoover very much, and he
determined that whether it cost him his
reelection or not, he would have no
more to do with Republican organiza-
tions of that sort in the South or any
where else.
Ku KIux Khan Enters.
There have been intimations also that
some of these Republican organizations
In the South have been on rather init
mate terms with the Ku Klux Khan ac-
tivities. and that some OF the disagree
able episodes in the anti-Smith cam
paign in 1929 we're traced TO them.
Practical politics of the situation is
that the Southern delegates, 50 many of
whom passed from one allegiance to an
other at the slightest persuasion, will
Republican national convention in 1892
They are always more important in
O free-for-all, as in 1916 or 1890 or 1928,
when q Republican President himself
was not candidate. In those instances.
where the Northern wing of the Re-
publicans Is united and q Republican
President is up for denomination, the
Southern delegates never hold the bal
ance of power.
In other words, If the Northern dele
gates want President Hoover renomi-
mated, they can bring 1t about very
easily without regard to the Southern
delegates. From all appearances the ad-
ministration viii have very little din
Guilty IN selecting delegates from the
Northern States who are favorable to
the Hoover cause. That's why the revolt
on the part of the Mann forces makes
an interesting drama on the eve Of
reorganization OF the Republican Ma
tioria1 Committee, but 1t viii not be Of
permanent character, especially when
the Hoover regime gets IT'S new national
chairman into action in the South.
Copyright. 1901