Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-13

TINE "inside" story of how Presi-
dent Hoover came to run for the
presidential nomination in 1920
i as Republican instead Of as q
Democrat is SET down in The
Mirrors OF 1882" which is soon to be
published by Brewer, Warren g. Put
nam, New York. The book, like the
earlier Mirrors of Washington" Is
anonymous According to The Mirrors
Of 1892" in the last years of the Wilson
administration, Mr.. Hoover's closest
friends were the late Franklin K. Lane,
then Secretary Of the Interior, and Gov.
Franklin D. Roosevelt. at that time As
Sistant Secretary of the Navy. 1t Is re-
lated that Mr.. Lane persuaded Mr..
Hoover that he should be a candidate
for the Democratic presidential nomina-
ton in 1920, with the idea that he
would then be in strategic position to
make his real entry into the presidential
race in 1924.
There was nothing. says The Mirrors
Of 1892 which the Republicans dread
ed more They did not like Mr.. Hoover,
did not want him as their candidate,
but they wanted him in their camp. So
that the late Henry Cabot Lodge and the
late Boise Penrose set out to lasso him. .
Convinced by Lodge.
Mr.. Hoover, the book continues. was
convinced by the logic Of Senator Lodge.
although 1t is declared Mr.. Hoover con-
sented to announce himself as a Dem
ocrat when he talked to Mr. Lane. 1t
did not work out that way. The specu-
lation regarding Mr.. HooVers plans was
ended according to the book, in the
following manner:
Mr.. Roosevelt and Mrs. Augustus
Gardiner, the daughter of Senator
Lodge, met at a dinner party in the
Spring OF 1920. The two began to dis
cuSs politics.
Mr.. Hoover is to make q very in
teresting statement in few days said
the daughter Of the Senator.
Yes, agreed the friend of Mr..
Hoover, so l understand. 1t ought to
be very interesting
YES, continued Mrs. Gardiner, he
is going to announce himself as q Re-
publican.
NO, replied Mr. Roosevelt, as he
smiled into his soup, he is going to
announce himself as a Democrat
Oh, no. suggested Mrs. Gardiner,
he is going to announce himself as a
Republican. Maybe l said too much al
ready. but he has promised my father
that he will come out as Republican "
President Hoover is reported to have
suggested that Senator Norris of Me-
braska be nominated as his running
mate in 1928, when the Republican Ma
tIonal Convention was on, and that
Senator Borah was urged to go to Nor
ris and put the matter up to him.
The Nebraska maverick" the au-
thor says denounced the fantastic
proposal as soon as it was broa ched
20 him."
Presidential Who's Who.
THE Mirrors of 1882" may be de-
scribed as a Presidential Who's Who
for next year. The author describes not
alone the personal qualifications and
the political abilities and liabilities of
President Hoover. but he also discusses
those of Gov. Franklin d. Roosevelt
OF New York. former Gov. Alfred F.
Smith of New York. former President
Calvin Coolidge. Senator Dwight w.
Morn ow of New Jersey, Senator Joseph
P. Robinson OF Arkansas. Gov. Albert
c. Richie of Maryland Owen D.
Young of New York, Newton D. Baker
Of Ohio. Gov. Clifford Pinchot of Penn
sylvania and winds up with a chapter
about John Barleycorn, whom he de-
ScribeS as follows:
John Barleycorn. although no pres
ioential candidate, will be the boon
companion OF pTeSldenllaI canQlQaJeS
In the 1882 campaign"
1T explains a great deal about Her
bert Hoover" says the Mirrors of 1882"
Ito learn that he was MT swimming
hole kid"
The author describes Mr. Hoover as
IAN imbittered Quaker orphan. silent,
sullen, Secrete," with no playmates, who
finally sought relief from his poor boy
state in worldly success
Tells Of Borah Split.
An effort is made to explain the
breach which came between President
Hoover and Senator William E. Borah
soon after MIR. Hoover entered the
White House. After President Hoover's
Madison Square Garden address. de-
ncuncing State socialism, Senator Borah
is reported to have rushed to Wash
ington to tell the candidate that some
thing must be done for the farmers
The result was a promise to Mr., Borah
to call a special session OF Congress in
1929 to enact legislation designed to aid
agriculture.
But their friendship cooled" says
the author, when the President issued
his call for the special session born Of
Mr.. Borah's persuasion. Over the Sem
ator's protest the President Gsked the
tariff revision on behalf of industry as
well as agriculture"
Taking up Franklin D. Roosevelt. who
has been described frequently as the
leading candidate today for the Demo-
cratic nomination for President next
year. the Mirrors of 1882" says:
Franklin d. Roosevelt has been
pushed into almost everything he has
ever done. He has the heart. he has
the head-with some reservations--but
he lacks CUTS. Having said this about
the Groton- Harvard Columbia Governor
of New York, who Is taken to telling
rough stories in an awkward EFFORT to
be a regular guy, the rest Of this
chapter is unnecessary"
Held Disrupting Influence.
The book, however continues to deal
with Mr.. Roosevelt at considerable
length, pointing out that he is the
fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt and
adding, were he a Smith, Baker or
Robinson, he would have dropped
from sight and sound years ago."
He has made the most Of his man,
the author says. The politicians md
1t difficult to keep up with the New
York Governor from hour TO hour.
although he rarely gives them serious
discomforts, the book says.
He has, like Herbert Hoover, taken
his friends where. and as he found
them" continues the author, Should