Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01

| Well. II the Republicans do renomi-
nate Charley Curtis for Vice President
in 1892, they'll turn their backs on a
| 7O-year precedent Of giving a Tenoml-
mated President new running-m
There has been just enc exception to
that rule--in 1912, when Sunny Jun
Sherman was renominated with Taft,
but only because the ticket was. fore
doomed to defeat and the vice presi-
Dental nomination lacked its customary
trading value. The precedent Sherman
broke is as old as the O. .. p. itself,
having begun with Abraham Lincoln.
The Great Emancipator'S first vice
presidential partner was Hannibal Ham
lin CT Maine, but Lincoln was reelected
in 1865 with Andrew Johnson Of Ten
nessee in second place. Grant was
elected in 1868 with Schuyler Colfax of
Indiana, as vice presidential nominee,
and reelected in 1872 with Henry Will
son of Massachusetts. Benjamin Harri-
son entered the White House in 1899
with LeviSP. Morton Ct New York, as
Vice President, and was renominated
and defeated with Wh1telaw Reid OF
New York McKinley's campaign for
reelection was fought with new part
ner, Theodore Roosevelt OF New YORK.
Vice President Garret A. Hobart of New
Jersey having died in midterm.
Vice President Curtis says it's too
early to discuss what he's going to do
next year-whether he'll go cunning
for another siege on the Senate roS-
trum or try to redeem Kansas Sena-
torially for the Republican party. The
Cornfiower statesman is torn between
conflicting emotions. He loved his life
on the Senate floor, but the perquisites
of the vice presidency have taken
something resembling a stranglehold
on him. Some of Curtis friends say
dynamite can't pry him loose from
them. Others believe If it's represented
to SO good a Republican Indian that
1892 and after will be the time for
all good men to come to the aid Of
the party, Curtis will rise above per-
sonal predictions and run for the
Senate again in Kansas. That he
would give Democratic young Mr..
McGill a drubbing is commonly be-
lieved. National conventions, barring
stampedes, additionally hand over the
vice presidential nomination to the
region where the bosses think 1t will
do the most good in November. The
presidential nominee generally does the
deciding.
His work as special ambassador to
Japan during the 1880 Naval Confer
ence had much TO do with William R..
Castle jrs appointment as Undersecre
tary of State. There were ticklish times
in Toxic while Secretary Stimson and his
confreres in London were threshing
things out with the japanese delega-
ton "BilP' Castle, as everybody in the
State Department calls him, rendered
yeoman service in presenting our view
point to the japanese government. Next
to diplomacy, Castles grand passion Is
Harvard He got his A. b. there in
1900 was an instructor at the univer-
sity from 1904 to 1908 and assistant
dean for the five ensuing years. For
three years afterward Mr.. Castle edited
the Harvard Graduates Magazine, to
which he continues to contribute. He
was born in Honolulu, where his Vener-
able father still lives. The new Under
secretary Joined the Foreign Service in
1919. At Kansas City, in 1928, "BilP'
was on hand to see that the right kind
OF a foreign plank was put into the
@. o. p. platform.
Canada has succumbed to President
Hoover's passion for commissions Prime
Minister Benefits government has just
appointed a commission to Investigate
the Dominion's grain problem and
named as its head an EngltShman, Sir
Josiah Stamp, one of Ambassador Dawes
cronies in London. Stamp was a MEM
| Der of the German Preparations Com
mission, which formulated the Dawes
plan. He has functioned on many Brit
| ish royal commissions. The trio to sur
yey Canada's grain troubles, which are
not unlike those perturbing American
! agriculture, will consist of Sir Josiah
/ Stamp, a representative Of the Cana
dian grain exchanges and spokesman
! Of Dominion farmers.
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Former Senator Magnus Johnson
F'arTner-Labor, Of Minnesota, has goi