Evening star., 1932-04-11
HURLEY DENIES RACE
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
OR G. O.P. CHAIRMAN
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good soldier not to accept the position
and co the best he can to bring a Re-
publican victory. And that appears to
be about the situation in which the
matter stands today.
With reference to the vice presidential
nomination, Secretary Hurley said
today:
Il am not a candidate for the vice
presidential nomination and I will not
be a candidate for that nomination. l
am for Vice President Curtis for re-
nomination"
Writes to Supporters.
The Secretary has written to his most
intimate friends and supporters in Okla
hona urging them to see that his name
is not brought before the Republican
State convention in Oklahoma on April
25. He has coupled with this request
that the State convention instruct its
delegates to the national convention to
vote for Vice President Curtis for re-
nomination. Mr.. Hurley himself plans
to attend the State convention and II 1t
becomes necessary, he will see to it that
there is no instruction of delegates for
himself for Vice President
Another member of President Hoo
ver's cabinet who has been persistently
mentioned for the Craftsmanship OF the
Republican National Committee is
Postmaster General Walter F.. Brown.
Mr.. Brown, like Secretary Hurley, is
not hankering for this Job, and has said
as much many times But if the Presi-
dent should urge him to take it the
Postmaster General undoubtedly would
permit himself to be drafted. There are
Republican leaders in Ohio who seem
to be convinced Mr.. Brown Is to be
called upon to manage the Hoover cam
paign. In support of this contention
they point to the fact that Mr.. Brown
has been placed in charge of the pre-
convention campaign in Ohio and that
his leadership in that campaign ex-
tends far beyond the boundaries of the
Buckeye State.
Some Opposition Possible.
Furthermore, it is now understood
that Mr.. Brown is to be selected as
Ohio's member Of the Republican Ma
tional Committee in place of Maurice
Maeschke. Mr.. Maeschke, veteran
leader in Ohio, has fallen in with this
plan. When it is carried out Mr..
Brown will become full-f1edged men,
Der of the National Committee, and
while it is not necessary for the chair
man to be chosen from the ranks of
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the committee will, it is believed,
strengthen his position.
Some opposition may be found In the
National Committee to Mr.. Brown or
the ground that he is opposed to ma
tional prohibition as it now stands and
believes the Republican party should
stand for a change. But thiSe opposi-
ton, it is said, is not so serious it will
prevent his selection for the chairman
ship; certainly not if the President in
dicates his desire that Mr.. Brown be
elected chairman. Secretary Hurley
has, by the way, been included in the
so-called wet" group of the Presidents
cabinet, group which has advised that
the G. o. P. take at least a stand for
resubmission of the eighteenth amend
ment. Opposition to Mr.. Brown as
chairman on the prohibition issue might
also range itself against Secretary
Hurley for the job.
What President Hoover will finally
determine in regard to the chairman
ship must become known before very
long He may have already reached a
conclusion. Today there were those who
strongly insisted Secretary Hurley was
to be the man. But other Republican
leaders we're just as convinced the Sc
lection would be Postmaster General
Brown.
w. M. Butler Mentioned.
1t is possible the President may desire
to draw some outsider into the picture
as leader of the National Committee
Secretary Hurley and Postmaster Brown
are both already very much in it, not
only as members of the cabinet, but
also as campaigners for his reelection.
Former Senator William M Butler of
Massachusetts, who handled the Coolidge
campaign in 1924. has been mentioned
along with many others
Hurley and Brown are well satisfied
with places in the cabinet. 1t has been
much more the custom for chairman
of a national committee to become a
member of a Presidents cabinet than
| for a member of the cabinet to step
out to become chairman of national
committee. An exception to this rule
was former Secretary Of the Interior
Work. who gave up his Office in 1923
I to run the Hoover campaign.
Although Work could have re-entered
! the cabinet after the election, he said
he did not desire to do so, since he had
served both as Postmaster General and
as Secretary of the Interior and had
! had all the experience along those lines
he desired.
, The report today which couples Mr.
Hurley's name with the chairmanship
includes his resignation from the cab
met now, but with the understanding
( that il the President is reelected he is