Evening star., 1930-06-17
HOOVER NOW HELD
REGULAR BY PARTY
Leaders Believe Tariff Stand
Indicates 1882 Race for
Second Term.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Platform promises must not be empty
gestures"
With that aphorism in the forefront
OF his statement that he would approve
the tariff bill" Herbert Hoover returns
full panoplied to the bosom Of the Re-
publican party. He puts on again the
garb Of regularity. He demonstrates
that he still believes in the principles OF
party responsibility. He accepts the
ment rests on the party system, that
the party system implies policies, and
he acknowledges himself in the true
sense of the term a politician.
This, from the standpoint OF Repub-
lican leaders, is the overwhelmingly
outstanding aspect of the Presidents
advance notice that his signature would
not be withheld from the Hawley-Smoot
bill. G. o. P. organizations are CORE
spondingly elated. Hoover has not de-
serted them He rededicates himself
on the contrary, as one of theA. Some
day the inside of the story may be told
of what finally swung the allegedly
non politically minded" Chief Engineer
to make the supreme decision OF his ad-
ministration thus far. Senator'S Wat
son of Indiana, Reed of Pennsylvania
and Moses of New Hampshire should be
in position to unfold the tale.
Throughout his Is months IN the
White House Mr.. Hoover has been sys-
Remarkably accused of not taking enough
purely political advice" His reputed
disinclination to do so Is named as one
of the contributory causes of the hard
Shedding he has had with Congress. The
Presidents Rapidan week end parties
have not often included Republican
leaders or organization politicians, ex-
cept those like Postmaster General
Brown or White House Secretary New.
ton. G.. o. P. stalwsrts on Capitol Hill
ever and anon would vepA their dis
appointment and sometimes their dis
gust that there was no regular liaisor
between them and the President. They
| lamented that things would go lo'
better for him If he stopped to conquer
| this intimacy.
The advice Of these Republican ole
hands has, at any rate, now been FOL
| lowed by Herbert Hoover with respec'
to the tariff bill Consistently for 9
year and more they have urged presi'
! Dental approval of whatever bill Con
gress might eventually adopt. Theil
argument was % that to do anything
else would be tantamount to Reputation
of both the Kansas City platform anC
of the protective tariff principle, anc
| CD that it would directly and deflnitel!
| jeopardiZe Mr.. Hoover'S chances of re-
nomination IN 1882. he WoulQ De
renegade" the machinists said, if III
vetoeS the Hawley-Smoot bill; the Re-
publicans could not consistently pro-
pose for reelection President carrying
such stigma.
Mr.. Hoover has, in the opinion o.
most authorities in Washington, nov
signaled that he is candidate to sue
ceed himself. There was up to the timt
the tariff dilemma confronted hin
little doubt that he would be. Had HI
cared or dared to veto the Hawley-Smoo
bill politicians would have been read,
to assert that the Californian had de-
| termined to rest his fame on one
term presidency.
1t goes without saying that men botf
within and without the Republican
party today declare that in signing th'
tariff bill Hoover has made certain o
being one-term President. These men
particularly Democrats, contend tina
Mr.. Hoover has thrown away his on
great chance for political Immortality
He had the opportunity, they argue, Il
give an example of courageous states
manship, such as is not likely to conn
to him again. The result, the prophet
of Hooverian woe insist, is that at tn
price of good Republican" Herber
Hoover has now doomed himself to leav
office on March 4, 1881.
| (Copyright, 1930)