Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-06
Senator Capper's Prediction.

Senator Capper's Prediction.
Senator Arthur Capper Of Kansas.
stanch Republican, has joined with
Senator Royal S. Copeland Of New York
Democrat, In predicting that President
Hoover will be renominated and re-
elected in 1892 and that the depres-
sion which has afflicted the country for
nearly q year will soon pass away.
While the Capper prediction Is not so
surprising as that which was made sew
sral weeks ago by the Democratic Sem
ator from New York. IL comes from one
If the shrewdest and best informed po-
itical leaders of the great Middle West.
As such it will be given consideration
sven by some of those who have re-
Gently been clamoring that the Hoover
star, along with that OF the Republican
party. is already setting. Mr.. Capper
IS himself a candidate for reelection to
he Senate this year. Here is no dodg-
inz on the part of the senior Senator
rom Kansas. He has hitched himself
ARMY to the Hoover band wagon APP
oarently confident that 1t cannot harm
aim politically in the great farm State
whose suffrage he is now asking.
The Senator from Kansas has not
only predicted the reelection OF Presi-
lent Hoover, but he has made strong
Flea for the denomination and re-elec-
ion of Vice President Charles Curtis.
Mr.. Curtis, Senator Capper asserts. has
proved a tower OF strength for the adj
ninistration as he has presided over
he Senate. Hoover and Curtis, the
Republican national ticket, swept the
country in 1928. The same ticket. Mr..
Capper believes, can turn the trick
again. There will, OF course, be plenty
of Democratic testimony to the con-
hrsry.
Senator Capper has predicated his
assertion that President Hoover will be
renominated and reelected on the as
sumption that depression in business
and employment in this country will
pass. There are signs that conditions
are improving. Dispatches today from
Biloxi. Miss, where the Southeast Ship
oers Advisory Board has been meeting,
quote representatives OF the organiza-
Hon as saying that business is on the
rain and that the worst of the economic
crisis has passed. At the same time
c is announced that the Monessen plant
If the American Sheet e. Tin Plate Co.
viii put all its twenty-five mills into OPP
.ration beginning tomorrow night The
plant has been operating during the
Summer at so to rs per cent capacity.
Elisha Lee. vice president OF the Penn
sylvsnia Railroad, also issued statement
saying that the railroads are engaged In
billion-dollar construction program SO
hat they may serve the country the
Better when prosperity returns. The
-ailroad heads are not likely to expend
This huge sum of money without firm
belief that its expenditure is justified.
These are straws which indicate that
Better times are coming.
The Democrats talk slibly about
slecting q President i'll 1882. Anti
Hoover Republicans are mentioning
quite loudly the possibility OF select
ng another man for the q. 0. p.
presidential nomination two years
renee. But in the case of the Demo-
traits they must find a man who can
not only unite all the elements III the
Democratic party behind him, but also
win to his cause millions OF indie
pendent voters and Republicans. The
anti-Hoover Republicans also are con-
tronted with the selection of eandi-
late who will appeal to the voters Of
The party so strongly as - make 1t
possible to set aside the real claims
which Mr.. Hoover has TO continued sup
1ort. The Democrats are stronger to-
lay locally than they have been for
several years, due entirely TO the change
n the economic conditions in the
country rather than to any other cause.
As national party, however, ready
20 support candidate for President
are they any stronger? Is tie dry
South any more squsrely i'll line with
The wet East and North? Will the
Democrats rally strongly 70 Gov.
Roosevelt of New York. for example,
or TO Alfred z. Smith, their standard
bearer two years ago? Or can they be
brought to stand solidly back of a dry
Southerner or WeSterner?