The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-11
DRYS' HOPE OF
HOOVER HELP
IS SHATTERED
President viii Make No
Effort to Halt Wet
Tide in Convention.
NO CHEER FROM TESS
Prohibition Bitter Ender Is
Unable to Give Comfort
to Friends.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press stan Correspondent

Copyright 1892. by United Press
CHICAGO June 11.-OrganizeC
dry leaders were given to under
stand today that they probably viii
obtain no support from Presiden
Hoover in any fight to resist the ris
ing tide sweeping the Republican
part toward adopting a resubmis.
sion plant at its national conven.
tion next week.
Two of the most prominent pro-
fessional dry leaders, DR.. E. c. Din
widdie, head of the allied dry forces
and DR.. E. H. Cherrington, head Of
the World League Against Alcohol.
ISM alarmed by reports that the
Republican convention was in dan.
ger of being stampeded for direct
repeal, anxiously sought counse
from their chief ally within the Re-
publican organization, Chairman
Simeon D. Fess of the Republican
national committee.
They received news discouragine
to their projects.
Tess told them he personally was
rs loyal to prohibition as ever, but
as chairman of the Republican ma
tional committee he would take no
part in attempting to influence the
convention.
No Hope From BOrah
Then the two Leaders asked if
Senator Borah Was coming to the
convention.
Senator Fess explained he did not
think so, because Senator Borah
had attempted recently to obtain
President Hoover's backing for a
dry fight on the convention floor,
but was unsuccessful.
Borah had intended to undertake
to turn the entire tide of the con-
vention with the backing of the
President whose election he cham
pioned as dry in 1928.
When the two dry leaders left
Senator Fess, they still we're uncom-
promisingly opposed to resubmis-
sion, but frankly we're uncertain as
to where they could turn for a
champion in the Republican con-
Vention.
Other explosive possibilities lurked
today beneath the calm surface OF
convention preliminaries.
First, some delegates and con-
vention influences hope an oppor-
tunity will occur to stampede the
convention and upset the vice-preS-
idential end of the ticket with a
substitute for Charles Curtis.
Second, the Republican national
committee, in deciding contests
among factions of southern dele
gates, ignored the administration
appeals by Postmaster General
Walter F.. Brown, Mr.. Hoover'S pc
litical manager and southern pa
tronage dispenser, and reinstated
factions which President Hoover
had elected from party control in
South Carolina and Mississippi in
his campaign to purify southern
Republicanism in 1929.
Consequences May BE Important
To the professional politician
concerned with control of the Re-
publican organization, this situation
holds important possible con-
sequences.
Third, a struggle over the Re-
publican national Craftsmanship j;
going on under the surface. 1t i,
Mr.. Hoover's prerogative to select
his own campaign manager, but {
number of old-timers on the ma
tional committee are set against
any cabinet member or any one elst
too closely associated with the
administration.
Significance of the new turn Of
affairs is that possible future
friction may develop between Mr.
Hoover and regulars who opposed
him in 1923 until he beat them il
the convention.
Thinking of Future
Some of these men-Charles D
Hilles, New York national commit
teeman, is one-are resentful at the
domination of what is called the
Hoover Boy Scout" group in party
affairs.
These men, who were in league t
stop Hoover" at Kansas City foul
years ago, finally bowed to the
inevitable. Now these men who
have made politics a lifetime pro.
fession, are looking far beyond the
next few weeks.
They are thinking of the time not
far distant when, whether Mr.
Hoover is elected for a second tern
or not, the question of who shall
control the party machinery will in