Evening star., 1932-03-18
CURTIS RETAINS
KANSAS BACKING
MuIvane Insists Delegates
Will Go Instructed for
Vice President.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Vice President Charles Curtis will
undoubtedly be renominated as Presi-
dent Hoover's running mate when the
Republican National Convention meets
in Chicago next June, David Mulvane,
veteran member Of the Republican Ma
tional Committee from Kansas, said to-
day. He said the Kansas delegation to
the National Convention would be in
| structed for President Hoover and for
Vice President Curtis.
While Mr.. Mulvane admitted he had
heard a member of the Republican Ma
tional Committee suggest that 1t would
| be well to supplant Mr.. Curtis with a
| point of view-candidate for Vice PreSi-
dent. he said he believed any move
| ment to displace Mr.. Curtis would get
| nowhere He doubted, he said. that
such a movement would be serious or
! would be given serious attention.
1.-The Republican national ticket"
said Mr.. Mulvane, will be Hoover and
Curtis 1t has been taken for granted
that the Vice President would be re-
nominated, think"
While it is not usually the custom
for the Republican State delegations
to national conventions to be instructed
for vice presidential candidates, Mr..
Mulvane said he believed several other
States besides Kansas would instruct
for Mr.. Curtis this year. But whether
they do or not, he was sure that great
majority of the delegates would 60 to
Chicago ready to vote for Mr.. Curtis.
Mr. Mulvane, member of the Com
mittee on Arrangements for the Re-
publican National Convention, has been
in Washington for several days. He
and several other members Of the COM
rnittee will aspend Tomorrow In Chicago,
going over bislz for the convention
there.
One of the jobs of the Committee
on Arrangements Is to pick tempo
rary chairman and a permanent chair
man of the national convention. The
selections, Of course, must later be rati-
fed by the convention itself after it
has been called to order by Chairman
FeSs of the Republican National Com
mittee.
The slate of some members Of the
committee for these offices Is Senator
James E. Watson, Republican leader of
the Senate, for temporary chairman
and keynote speaker, and Representa-
tive Smell Of New York, Republican
leader of the House, for permanent
chairman.
Coolidge Is Suggested.
Senator Watson, it is urged, would
make good keynote speech, and as
leader of the Senate Republicans fills
the picture, particularly If Charles D.
Hilles, national committeeman from
New York, has his way and Representa-
ixo Cr1n DC ahacap fnv- an
| chairman of the convention. Smell will
be from the East and Watson from the
| Middle West. So far, it was said TO-
! day, nothing definite has been decided
about the keynote speaker and the per-
manent chairman.
Members of the National Committee
| in Washington were interested in a
suggestion that former President Calvin
| Coolidge be selected as the keynote
| speaker Of the convention. They said
frankly that they would be delighted to
have Mr.. Coolidge in the roll. But
they also expressed a doubt that the
to accept
But" as one member said, "you
never can tell exactly what Mr.. Cool
idge may decide to do
Gen. Charles G. Dawes was talked
OF at first as keynote speaker in in
| formal conferences among the Repub-
lican committeeman, but Gen. Dawes
let it be known that, in his position as
head of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, he thought it unwise that
he take such a prominent place In the
political picture. In that view members
of the committee have pretty generally
concurred
| Another suggestion for keynoter has
been Secretary Hurley of the War De-
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