Evening star., 1931-11-30
CURTIS ANNOUNCES
HE is CANDIDATE
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
Decides Not to Seek Kansas
! Senatorial Seat in Ap-
preaching Campaign.
ATMOSPHERE CLEARED
BY FORMAL Statement
Action Seen as Indication of His
Confidence in Party's Success
Next Year.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY g. GOULD LINCOLN.
vice President Charles Curtis today
announced that he chose to run for
Vice President next year instead of
Tor his old Senate seat from Kansas.
Republican leaders in Washington
declared immediately that in their
opinion the @. o. P. national ticket
in 1892 would be Hoover and Curtis,
rs it was in 1928.
The announcement was made by the
Vice President soon after he returned
TO his ONCE in the Senate Once Build
ing today from Chicago.
Statement Is Issued.
The vice President said:
There has been presented for my
decision the question whether ! shall
BE- a candidate for United States Sena-
tor from Kansas in 1882, and II not,
whether / shall accept another nomi-
nation for Vice President in the event
of its being rendered to me.
Many reasons have been assigned
by my friends to support either course
AFTER careful consideration have
decided not to be a candidate Tor the
United States Senate from Kansas in
1882, and further that IL the next Re-
publican National Convention nomi-
mates me for Vice President shall ac-
cept"
Has withheld Decision.
Nearly year ago, or soon after the
Democrats had succeeded in wrestling
from the Republicans the Senate seat
held by Mr.. Curtis before he became
Vice President. q report was started
that Mr.. Curtis would not be candi-
date to succeed himself as Vice Presi-
dent, but that he would stand for the
senatorial nomination.
In all that time the Vice President
has declined to state his decision in the
matter to any one until today. Guesses
have been made on both sides Of the
question. Close Republican associates
Of the Vice President in the Senate this
morning, when informed Of hts decision,
declared 1t was their first actual knowl-
edge Of his plans. One OF the Republic
m leaders. indeed. expressed surprise.
that Mr.. curtis would run for the Sem
The vice President declined to am
niify his statement in any way. laugh
Ing. he referred to his call upon former
President Coolidge at the White House
after Mr. Coolidge had made his fa-
NOUS 'I do not choose to run" state
eient
Cites Coolidge View.
'I asked the President II he would
Say anything more specific about the
matter" said Mr.. Curtis. He replied
that he would not add to or take away
from his original statement. That's
oust where stand In regard to my
statement"
At the time Mr.. Curtis called to learn
from President Coolidge more about his
political plans, Mr.. Curtis announced
his own candidacy for the presidential
nomination in 1928, coming to the con-
clusion that President Coolidge did not
tntend to be a candidate.
The Vice Presidents statement, as
trattef Of fact, needs no amplification.
1t is clear and to the point. He is not
10 be q candidate for the Senate and
he will accept the vice presidential
nomination If it is rendered him.
The statement was pleasing to Re-
buhlicans who have felt that If Mr..
Curtis should announce his intention
not to be candidate for Vice President
next year. but to try for the Senate
hgain, his announcement would be
widely interpreted as indicating belief
On his part that the Republican ma
kional ticket had no chance of success
In 1882.
Clears Party Atmosphere.
The decision of the Vice President
had the immediate effect of dashing
khe hopes of those potential candidates
Tor second place on the national ticket,
who have been wondering if the light
ming would strike them in the event
Mr.. Curtis announced an intention Of
summing for the Senate. Conversely, his
decision has relieved the minds of
several Republicans who were planning
10 make q race for the senatorial seat
IN Kansas.
J During the long period that the Vice
President has kept his own counsel re-
Earding his political plans, many names
have been suggested for the vice pres
Hdentiai nomination, principal among
khem being those of Secretary Patrick
y. Hurley of the War Department; Gov.
Theodore Roosevelt, jr., Of Porto Rico;
Postmaster General Walter F. Brown Of
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