Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-30
Presidents denomination
Now Seen as "AlI Over
but the Shouting"
MISSOURI DEMOCRATIC
VICTORY NO SURPRISE
shouse Again Claims Minority
Party Will Take Over 0rganiza-
ton When Congress Convenes.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Republican leaders, encouraged by the
raIlying call of Calvin Coolidge, urging
the party to present a solid front In
support of President Hoover, today were
going forward with their plans for the
denomination and reelection OF the
President. AS they viewed the matter,
Mr.. Coolidge had effectually stepped on
the incipient boom for his own nomina-
ton and had presented, in his article
in the Saturday Evening Post, strong
argument for Mr.. Hoovers reelection
While there was no comment forth
coming from the White House in re-
gard to the Coolidge article, the I'M
preston gained was that the statement
of the former President, pledging his
allegiance to Mr.. Hoover, was not un-
expected. Those leaders of the Repub-
Ncan party, including Senator Fess OF
Ohio, national chairman, made it clear
they had expected Mr.. Coolidge to take
such q stand ever since the possiolllty
uf a Coolidge candidacy was broached.
missouri OEkuOCAdS NAS'
while Mr.. Coolidge was calling for
united support for the President the
seventh congressional district OF MIS-
souri, was taking a shot at the admin
Iteration In the special election held
Yesterday. Admittedly this is Demo-
cratic district, and Republicans before
the election yesterday confessed tney
did not really believe they had a cnance
to carry it. even though a wet Demo-
crat, running independently, rad mace
it a three-cornered race. But the Den-
ocratic candidate, Robert d. Jonnson on
rolled up a lead OF more than S,OVO
votes over his Republican opponent,
.Tolln w. Palmer, who IN 1928 carried
the district by 6,485.
Jouett Shouse, the chairman OF tne
Executive Committee Of the Democratlc
National Committee, took as o text the
result in the Missouri election to pre-
dict again that 1.-The Democrats VIII
organize the House Of the Seventy
second Congress" However. the Mis-
souri, election merely places IN the House
a Democrat to succeed the late Sam
Major. also Democrat, who had been
elected last year. The Republicans
elected 213 members of the new House
in 1880, a majority Of /. Many yacan-
cies have occurred, but the filling OF
these vacancies has not yet brought an
upset in the party alignment.
More than ever now the eyes OF the
politicians will center upon what nap
isans in the first Ohio congressional dis
trset in the November election, when
euccessor to the late Speaker Longworth
is To be elected. That district Is rated
a Republican district. And the Re"
publicans are claiming a victory al
ready.
Coolidge Definitely Out.
The Coolidge announcement that he
would support President Hoover in the
presidential race next year and that
ne has no intention Of becoming a
candidate himself is regarded here as
taking the former President definitely
out Of the picture as potential dark
horse of the next Republican National
Convention.
While the great majority Of the Re-
publican leaders were confident Presl-
dent Hoover would be renorninated in
any event, whether Coolidge had been
a receptive candidate or not some S9f
them today were declaring that the
nomination of Mr. Hoover at the 1882
convention is assured, AL over but the
shouting" as one of them put it.
There is not the slightest doubt that
considerable satisfaction exists in adj
announcement. The statement from
the former President demanding that
the Republicans Join soliely for the
coming fray is regarded as most OPP
perfume and really helpful, despite the
sneers of some of the Progressive Re-
publicans who hold that Mr. Coolidge'S
recommendations win carry no weight
in their part Of the country-the West.
Await Smith Stand.
The treasurer Of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, Joseph r. Mutt Of
Cleveland, Ohio, who was at the White
House today, was apparently much
pleased with the Coolidge statement.
Not a little OF the agitation for the
drafting Of former President Coolidge
for the 1882 race had centered in Ohio
where a Toledo editor used his news
paper for repeated demands for Cool
idge. 1t was even planned to form a
huge caravan Of Coolidge-for- President
boosters to visit Mr.. Coolidge at his
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