Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-14
MORROW SUPPORTS
HOOVER AS BORAH
EFENDS P|NCHOT
New Jersey Candidates
Stand Seen as Eliminating
Him as 1882 Possibility.
PENNSYLVANIA MAY GET
BACKING OF INSURGENTS
Statements of Two G.. o. P. Lead
ers Regarded as Bearing on
Presidential Race.
BY BYRON PRICE,
Associated Press stan writer.

Associated Press STAFF Writer.
Two of the strong men" o. the Re-
publican party. Dwight Morrow of New
Jersey and William E. Borah of Idaho,
have given the country an illuminating
peep behind the scenes Of the big po-
ntical show in 1880.
1t was the wet Morrow who declared
last night he hoped to vote again for
Herbert Hover In 1882. 1t was the dry
Borah who challenged those who are
trying to remove from the picture a
figure already hailed by his friends as
a possible candidate against Hoover
Clifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania.
Morrow Also Possibility.
Morrow himself has been mentioned
often as a presidential possibility two
years hence. His overwhelming nomi-
nation for the Senate on a platform
calling for repeal of prohibition put him
into a position of conceded. leadership
among Republican vets.
His declaration for Hoover, how
ever, in nowise surprised the Presi-
dents circle of political advisers
They had expected such a pronounce
ment at the proper time, and Mrs. Nor
row picked a time when, within few
days, several dry leaders had forecast
his nomination over Hoover in the next
Republican National Convention.
Morrow repeatedly has labeled himself
q regular, although he disagrees with
the Hoover platform of 1928 on prohibi
ton He praised the Presidents eco
nomic policies. BY so much. he has
weakened any threat that serious OPP
position to a denomination for the Pres
ident will come from the wet Eastern
wing of the party.
Borah's statement mentioned neither
President Hoover nor 1892, but it en-
phasized again the rift between the
dry Western insurgents and outStand
ing party leaders Of the East.
Pinehot Defeated Leaders.
Pinchot became the Republican nomi-
nee for Governor of Pennsylvania over
the opposition of several Of these lead
ers, and considerable number have
bolted the ticket. Among them Is W..
w. Atterbury. president OF the Penn
sylvania Railroad, and until recently
Republican national committeeman. A
defeat for the governorship might con-
ceivably remove Pinchot as q presi-
Dental possibility, and victory in the
present circumstances would hearten his
friends to offer him as q leader Of the
insurgents everywhere.
Into this situation Borah fired q
warning shot in the form Of sugges-
ton that Senate committee might
investigate whether the public utilities
of Pennsylvania were spending money
to defeat Pinchot.
Thus he raised an issue often raised
before by such Western leaders as Sen
ator Norris and the La Follettes. He
said he had been ''in communication"
with some of the Pennsylvania Republic
cans. What that communication may
have amounted to he did not disclose,
but he at least put his party on notice
that the West was not letting the Penn
sylvania situation pass unnoticed.
Further developments on the Penn
sylvania front are expected by the poll
ticians, whose attention is turned mo-
mentarily from the possibility Of wet
Eastern Republican revolt to the ac-
tivities of that ever-engaging group Of
which Senator Borah is charter mem
Der.