The Washington times., 1932-10-24
TOUR To COAST
SERIOUSLY
PONDERED
Strategists Of Party See Need
of Personal Appearance II
California Is to Be Saved
BY GEORGE R. HOLMES


A final drive that will put
President Hoover on the stump
in the East and the Middle
West in the last two weeks of
the campaign was being
worked out at the White House
today by Mr.. Hoover and his
chief advisers.
Only one date has been def.
nitely set. He will speak in Madi.
son Square Garden, New York,
next Monday night. And decision
will be made in a few days as to
whether he will appear in Chi"
cago before or after the New York
engagement.
Indiana, Illinois Call
Republican leaders in the Mid
die West are anxious that Mr..
Hoover lose no time in making an
appearance in Indiana and in
Chicago. One plan under consid-
Grafton would have the President
leave here Thursday night, and
speak in Indianapolis Friday night
and in Chicago Saturday night,
An alternative plan woul@ have
him go to Chicago next week,
after his New York engagement,
and then, if it is decided that he
is to make a transcontinental trip
to California, he will be well on
his way. Mr.. Hoover is said per-
sonally to favor this alternative
plan.
May Make 6 Speeches
In any event, four or six
speeches will be made by Mr..
Hoover in the next two weeks. He
plans to make an appearance IN
Newark en- route to New York. ana
in Indianapolis en- route to Cnl'
cago.
Mr.. Hoover is loath to under
take the long trip 10 California.
He feels that it is not necessary.
vet he has been confronted with
a flock of field reports that his
appearance in the West is neceS-
sary to save the situation, IN"
cluding even his own California.
Throughout most of the long
trip back from Detroit, where he
spoke Saturday night, Mr.. Hoover
was in consultation with Henry
Ford, Senator Otis F. Glenn of
Illinois, and Postmaster General
Walter F. Brown.
They we're unanimous in advls.
ing him that visit to the CHI"
cago area is imperative, notwith.
standing party complications in
Illinois due to the gubernatorial
candidacy of Len Small, who ID
backed by eX-Mayor William Hale
Thompson.
Ford had his private car hooked
to the Hoover special and rode
to Washington with the PreSi.
dent. After a few hours in the
Capital, the motor magnate had
his car hooked to a Detroit-bound
train for the return trip.
Both the President and Mrs.
Hoover were visibly agitated by
the hostile demonstration ac-
corded them by the so-called
Young Communists" upon their
arrival in Detroit Saturday night.
For dozens of blocks the air was
filled with raucous "boo-ing" by
large crowds.
Yet by the time Mr.. Hoover's
train arrived in Washington he
was disposed to accept it philo-
sophically, and even to regard it
as political asset.
He told his advisers that he
thought it would help his cause
rather than hurt it to be "booed''
by the type of people who con.
Quoted the demonstration. Po-
lice described them as commun-
lists, bonus expeditionary force
veterans and dissatisfied unen.
ployed generally.
Fear Spread of Outbreaks
The situation was so tense.
however, that the police and Sc.
cret service men switched Mr..
Hoover from an open car to a
closed model on the return trip
from the Olympia arena to the
train.
Veteran secret service opera
tives who have been travelling
with Presidents for nearly quar-
ter of a century said they had
never seen any President sub.
jected to so hostile a demonstra.
ton.
They are fearful that the wide.
spread publicity given the Incl.
dent may incite radical elements
in other cities yet to be visited to
stage similar demonstrations.
Mr.. Hoover told his aides he
considers that the speech he will
make in New York a week from
tonight and just a week before
election day is the most import
ant of the campaign and he
wants full week to work on it.
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