The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-15
By RODNEY BUTCHER Democrat Washington
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Correspondent)
 Washington, Aug. 15-Most re publican leaders are resigned to ar endurance contest which must end before the air can be cleared fol further party plans.
 This contest, they feel, is be- tween
 Ex-Prcsident Herbert Hoover's
 hopes that events and party sen-
 timent will create a chance for
 his renomlnation next year.
 The overwhelming feeling
 among republicans that 1t would
 be had medicine to renominate Mir. Hoover under any comedy. able circumstances.
 MT. Hoover's wistfulness, as ana lyzed by various other leaders, is perfectly understandable and even excites the sympathy of many re- publicans, who agree with him that he had @ raw deal from fate, was vilified by his opponents, and, fl he had been reelected, would have led the country to higher level of recovery than it has reached uuuer hOOSeVelt.
 Believing as he does, it Is only human for Hoover to search the horizon for chance for vindica- ton and his recent public utter ances and private conferences are considered gestures designed to stir things up in his own behalf. Hopeless Herbie
 But hardly anyone believes that the opposition to Mir. Hoover's nomination won't far outlast the ex-president's hopes.
 A feeling that this will take too long and that the sooner Mir. Hoover and the country are set right about 1t, the better 1t will be for the party, Is re- sponsible for the desire of a few senators to persuade Hoover to declare publicly that he isn't acandidate.
 Otherwise, republicans are chief ly discussing the relative merits of Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, Col. Frank Knox of Chicago, Sem ator Dickinson of Iowa and--a re- cent elopment-Senator Steiwer of Oregon.
 Although they assure one an- other and all who will listen that Roosevelt's prestige has been de- clining very rapidly, they're still less than optimistic of the party's chances next year.
 By and large, they're waiting for something to turn up, meanwhile admitting that gradually improv- ing business conditions and the five billion dollar work relief carApaign fund.- are very serious obstacles to c. o. P. victory. SeditiOn Bill Is "Fast One''
 Hawk-eyed progressives in both house and senate were watching for a series of sedition bills which the so-called hundred per centers' had framed to get through at this session.
 But certain conservatives pulled a fast one by skipping the so-called .'incitement to disaffection" bill into the senate's unanimous con- sent calendar. That calendar usual- ly contains only relatively unim- portant and non controversial measures and few senators watch 1t carefully.
 So the bill passed unnoticed, to the subsequent chagrin of such friends of free speech as Norris, LaFollette and Wheeler.
 ntlsA ktlu fno&psu ANhN fsa tho house, but notunlikely to pass there, provides heavy penalties for anyone who "advises, coun. seis, urges, or solicits" anyone i'm army, navy, or national guard to disobey regulations.
 Professors of law from Harvard and Columbia and others have as. serted that the bill could be easily Invoked to prosecute critics of the Administration. military policy, or big navy spokesmen or to jail those opposing use of the national guard In strikes.
 It is asserted that a striker or bystander who begged of national guardsman, Don't shoot!" would be liable to two years in prison. A Boost from Home
 Letter received by the civil serv- ice commission, which investigates characters of applicants for federal jobs. from a small town:
 Referring to the application of - - for third-class postmas- tership here, I just wanted to tell you that I came home yesterday