The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-27
Ruth Hanna McC Cornaick s Proposal To Dust HooDer
 Thought To Be UnfeasibLe
Would Be Regarded As C. o. P. Failure to Make Coolidge, Only Alternative, Not Likely
 To Risk Unbroken Record of Success.

washington.-In spite of all that the republican leaders can do to stop it, the proposal to have Presi- dent Hoover step aside and permit some other republican to be the 6. o. D. nominee this year keeps on cropping out. Ruth Hanna Me- Cormick, former congressman-at- large from Illinois. daughtre of Senator Mark Hanna and widow of Senator Medill Mccormack, and the republican nominee for sena- tor in her own right in the l93O election, voiced what Is evidently a very prevalent trend of thought when she published in her news paper at Rockford, III. an editorial bluntly stating the situation.
 'If," runs the editorial. "a con- siderable number of republicans would prefer to have MT Hoover step aside as candidate for re- nomination, why should not the party leaders select somebody else The answer is that precedent is all against such a course.
 "At the present moment, MT Hoover is not a popular leader. We state this as a fact, apart from any criticism of his record as chief ex- ecutive."
 There does not seem any prob ability that the expedient offered by Mrs Mccormick will be adopted. however general may be the echo of the sentiment throughout the republican party. The titular lead CTS of that organization have reg istered their thought that to deny their president a renomination would only be stepping from the frying pan into the fire. Such an action, they reason, would be a confession that their administration had failed, that the issues on which they must depend-such as the Hoover program or lack of pro- gram for lifting us out of the busi- ness depression, the Hoover farm relief measure, which has cost the country couple of hundred mil lion dollars and left the farmers in worse case than ever, and the sacred Smoot-Haw1ey tariff, which a republican congress steam rolled through and which MT Hoover signed-were all blunders. More over. with the administration in control of the delegations to the convention, particularly from the south, they realize that only MT Hoover's voluntary action could de- prive him of the candidacy and so far there Is no indication that the president has even considered the possibility of such decision
 Another conundrum involved in the project is: where would the re- publicans get a substitute? The first name mentioned by any of them is naturally Calvin Coolidge. But the Sage of Northampton has indicated very clearly that the can didacy in 1892 does not appeal to him at all. It is not surprising that a man who has been so successful in politics as the eX-presidcht should not care to risk spelling a perfect record by subjecting it to the unpromising ordeal of trying to rehabilitate his party in the midst of a business panic and plainly demonstrated revulsion against that party all over the country. Even those dreamers who think along Mrs McCormick's lines realize that under no circumstances would Coolidge be candidate be- fore the convention against Hoover. The only possible chance would be
  be eliminated and that the conven- tion would tender him the nomina- tion by exclamation.
 Such sequence of events has never transpired in our political history, and it is no more likely this year than it was in 1912 when, as the Register Republic editorial phrases it: "Another republican convention in Chicago hitched it's precedent to steamroller and forced the nomination of man whom a majority of republicans did not want to see nominated.' And that gloomy editorial con- cludes:
 'The people vetoed the action when they went to the polls in No- vember of that year and gave the nominee of that convention the electoral votes of only two states Utah and Vermont"