The Washington times., 1935-04-16
c. D. P. APPEARS
To Be WITHOUT
CANDIDATE
BY EARL GOODWIN

10 1nQOrSe HERBERT hoover Tor
the presidential nomination next
year, which makes situation
without a precedent.
Here is a former President, tit
ular leader of the party, coming
out Of the silence of two years, at
lacking the New Deal and trying
to rally young Republicans to
action-and yet no Republican
leader has mentioned Mr.. Hoover
for the nomination, which must
be made little more than year
hence.
This fact is brought forcibly to
mind by Senator w. Warren Bar
bour, of New Jersey, who put out
a statement yesterday correcting
a misunderstanding which had
arisen from some of his remarks.
He wanted it distinctly under
stood that he does not indorse
Mr. Hoover for the nomination.
Wants Post, Belief
There are some here who be-
heve Mr.. Hoover wants to be
renominated, although he is gen.
orally taken at his own word
that he has no such personal am
bition. However, he is going
about the country planting a few
seeds here and there, and it Is
not unlikely that his close friends
and supporters would be glad to
join in an effort to crystalline a
Hoover-for-PreSident boom.
The Republicans really have no
candidate, and in the opinion of
many observers there is no out.
standing man who appears as a
likelihood. Here it is a little more
than a year before the nominating
convention of 1886 and there is not
a man who is making any head
way in that direction.
Just after the elections of last
November, Senator Vandenburg, of
Michigan, was given furry of
publicity as the strong man in
the G.. o. P. Michigan had re-
elected him and had returned
from the New Deal to the Republi-
can column. Senator Vandenburg
campaigned on liberal platform;
he came close to the New Deal in
many Of his talks. But lately there
has been little heard of him as a
possible presidential candidate.
Other Possibilities
Representative James Wads-
worth, of New York, outstanding
G. o. P. opponent of the New Deal
in New York State, was spoken of:
also Ogden Mills, late Secretary of
the Treasury; but there seems to
be no chance that either of these
could rally nominating strength.
One vigorous opponent of the
New Deal Is Col. Frank Knox, pub
Usher of a Chicago newspaper,
who is one of the few Republicans
who has set out q program for the
Republican party, is spoken of,
but he insists he is not a candi-
date. There seems to be no or.
ganiZation building for him.
The old standby, George Norris,
as well as the dean of the Senate,
liberal Senator Borah, now are
presumed to be entirely out Of the
running. The field is vacant and
the chances are that the next Re-
publican nominee will be someone
not now discussed, a man chosen
entirely by the, convention.
Meantime the New Deal is going
straight down the line laid out by
President Roosevelt. While the
Republican opposition is attack
ing the Democrats on the ground
that the Administration has
failed to keep it's campaign prom
Uses Of economy, the President
himself is taking personal charge
of the largest appropriation ever
granted the head of a country in
history. President Roosevelt's an
swer to questions as to when he
will balance the budget is that he
first will feed the hungry. Fur
thermore, there is no compromise
in President RooSevelt's insistence
that his entire legislative pro-
gram be enacted at this ses-
sion. This insistence appears to
strengthen in the face of political
attacks.
Cite Depression
Republican leaders, including
Mr.. Hoover, have been making
capital Of the continuance of the
depression, and if this economic
condition continues they undoubt-
eddy will have the same strong
talking point that poor business
and unemployment always affords
a party on the outside trying to
get in. But Democrats point to
recent indications of a coming
business improvement. In fact,
some Of them declare that a bust
ness boom is on the way and that
1t will be here this year. If that
is true. the Democrats undoubted-
~ will assume that the work.
relief and pump printing policies
of the New Deal are responsible.
Just what the basis of the Re-
publican campaign would be in