Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-29
SUPPORT INVEST
|. CHEERS PRESIDENT
]. F. Burke, G. 0. p. Counsel,
Says Victory Regarded
as Certainty.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

| tional COMMITTEES. who reported to
President Hoover today the results of
| his observations on political survey
trip covering 10 States.
This heartening news was reported
orally to the President A written report
in detail viii come along later. For
nearly an hour during the forenoon
this veteran of many political CAM
paigns, who is looked upon as one of
Mr.. Hoover's closest political advisers.
acquainted him with all he saw and
heard during his trip, which included
talks with numbers of individuals and
groups CT Republican and business
leaders.
Finds Confidence In Hoover.
When asked after his session with the
President for his reasons for regarding
the Presidents political future as bright
ening, MFR. Burke said:
The whole world has been going
through an economic Illness. and the
one old-fashioned physician who has
remained at the bedside and who has
never left the Nations business
throughout 1t all has been Herbert Hoo
yer. The people of the country are now
beginning to realize this and to appre-
ciate Just what Mr.. Hoover has been
keel"
This swing through the West. which
carried Mr.. Burke as far as the Pacific
Coast was made with the knowledge OF
the President. At the national head
quarters here. and at the White House
as well, gloomy reports were being re-
ceived from all over the country, and
I for the purpose of making q careful
survey Of conditions, political as well as
economic. MFR. Burke decided to person.
ally undertake the task of getting first
hand information as to the true state
OF affairs.
Other Surveys Made.
with this object In view it Is known
| that two or three other close friends
OF the President who are more or less
| prominently identified with his political
fortunes are making similar surveys in
other parts Of the country. They, too,
| will soon be coming to Washington to
| acquaint "the chief'' with what they
found. Two or three other friends of
| the President are known to be on ex-
tensiye trips throughout the country,
doing missionary work among local
Republican leaders and heads Of civic
4 aA0 Os1ACk NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. tN1tGU dll Oh
these reports have reached the Presi-
| dent he viii be better able then TO
| measure his political strength.
It goes without saying that Mr..
Burke's report of his survey was very
/ pleasing to those about the White House
today. The feeling generally was that
! Mr.. Burke, because of his close asSo-
citation with the President, did not de-
/ liberately attempt to overcolor his re-
port With a view 10 Frightening the
| hopes Of the President and his friends
/ He was represented aS making this sur
vey to get the trlie facts, and it is
known that he gave the President the
benefit Of his own convictions without
coloring.
Brookhart in Opposition.
| Senator Brookhart of Iowa, Progress
sive Republican, expressing his opinion,
on the Coolidge attitude toward the
presidency next year, said he did not
/ believe that the people in his State
and his part of the country would pay
any attention to anything that Mr..
Coolidge said. The Iowa Senator added
that he did not believe President Hoo
yer should have a second term OF
| ONCE
IF President Hoover had kept his
| pledges" said Mr.. Brookhart, ''he would
have deserved a second term. But
to man like Mellon, one term become
| too much"
Senator Brooknart in 1924 declined -
support the Coolidge-Dawes ticket. Be-
cause of his insurgency the regular Re-
| publican organization IN Iowa threw
support to his Democratic opponen
Steck. and Steck was elected to the Ser
ate over Brookhart.
Senator Copeland, who returned Is
Washington today after visit to De-
troit said when asked whom the Demo-
Gratis would nominate for President next
year, "Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New
York is far out in front in the race fo-
the presidential nomination at this time.
am for Roosevelt He is the popular
choice of the party today. What will
happen, however, between now and next
June 1, of course, do not know. Other
men have been in the lead for preSiden-
tial nominations early IN the game. just
as McAdoo was in 1924 but have failed
to win the nomination for President
when the Democratic Convention as
Sembled''
Senator Copeland. questioned about
the recent boom for legislation legaliz-
ing : or 4 per cent beer, said he hoped
such a law would be put through, but
that he did not believe the incoming
Congress would take such action.
Sees Little Hope for Repeal.
81 do not regard or per cent beer
as an intoxicating beverage" said Sen
| ator Copeland, who is physician and
who has given a good deal of study to
the question of liquor drinking and
prohibition. 81 believe that Congress
would be Justified N amending the Vol
stead act so as to permit light wines
and beer. But do not think this Con-
gress will do anything about 1t. have
seen too MANY men drink wet and vote
dry. However, If light wines and beer
were permitted in this country, believe
that literally millions of men and
women who are opposed to the eight
zenith amendment today would favor 1t
with the understanding that beer and
light wines would continue to be per-
mitsed.
II have just come from Detroit"
said Senator Copeland, land / believe
that the attack made on the American
Legion by DR.. Clarence True Wilson,
who charged the Lsgionnaires with be-
ing drunken lot, Is entirely unJusti-
fed. I took pains to inquire about the
conduct of the Legionnaires in De-
troit and I. was told that they were
orderly and sober. The American
Legion proposed referendum on tne
90 further and propose repeal OF the
eighteenth amendment. But I do not
see how any American can object to .
popular referendum on any pubic
question.
Against Saloons Return.
"The sentiment of the country is
against a return of the old saloon.
admit that II 8 or 4 per cent beer
should be legalized there might be dir
ficulty in enacting o law which WOULD
control the method of selling the beer.