The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-21
Washington
Merry-Go-
Round
NOV. 81, 1885
BY DREW PEARSON snd
ROBERT :. ALLEN.

XXTASHINGTON, Nov. 81. -
W Among the inner hierarchy
of the Republican National Com
mittee, two conclusions have been
reached regarding Herbert Hoover:
That he is definitely candidate
for the 1886 nomination.
That he has a secret organization,
amply supplied with funds and
energetically pushing his campaign.
The G. o. P. moguls-privately
hostile to the ex-President-credit
Ogden Mills, Secretary of the Treas
ury in the Hoover Cabinet, with
being master-mind and chief finan-
cial angel" of Hoover's drive to
stage comeback.
According to Republican National
Committee reports, Hoover is pur-
suing two lines of strategy in his
push for the nomination.
One is to encourage rival candi-
dates, such as Col. Frank Knox and
Gov. ALI Landon, to believe that If
Hoover can not get the nomination
he will throw last-minute support
to them.
In confirmation of this it is re-
ported that several hours before
Landon made his recent Cleveland
speech, he conferred over the long
distance phone with Mills.
Second, in states where Hoover
himself would not stand a chance
Of getting delegates. straw men" in
the guiSe of "favorite sons" are be-
ing put into the field.
This strategy is behind the re-
Gently developed presidential bee OF
Walter Kohler. bathroom fixtures
manufacturer and Ex-Governor of
Wisconsin.
About year ago Kohler was on
the front pages as result of a
bloody strike in his plant. When
Hoover was i'll the White House
Kohler was one of his close friends.
G.. o. P. foes of the former Presi-
dent are now saying that Kohler has
no hope of getting the nomination
and that once he gets control of the
Badger state delegation he can be
swung to Hoover at the last mo-
ment.
lob SEEKERS still crowd into
y the waiting room of the Demo-
cratic National Committee in WASH
ington. In an unbroken stream,
from 9 to they come, sitting pa
tiently, staring at a sign which
reads:
please approach desk of re-
ceptionist one at time
Conspicuous in the crowd recently
was an oldSter with nervous man.
ner. Across his knees he held a
leather case. Protruding from the
case was the butt of a double-bar-
relied shotgun. /;
The hopeful who sat next to him
stared hard. After time he said:
Pardon me-but will shotgun
help me get a job?"
The armed gentleman whispered
back:
Il understand it takes more than
this"
NNE of the clergy's letters that
" brought smile when it
reached the White House was from
an x-preacher in Charlotte, N. C.
He had not been invited to express
his opinions, but he wrote anyhow {:
Recently there has crope into our
mongSt the notion that the party
of our fathers, the one which stood
for the ideals for which they fought.
bled and died, has sorter diSinte-
grated, that it has back-Slidden,
fallen from grace, and has become
sort of hybrid, or political mule.
Therefore, the brethren are not
as rambunctious for it as once they
were. And, Brother President, a
whole passel of 'em blame you with
it. They say that you have merged
with the Socialists, the Communists.
and whole heap of political mug
Wumps of one sort and another.
They don't like it airy bit, and
they are beginning to be what these
newspaper fellers call articulate,
meaning that they are mounting
about it right plumb out loud. The
thing is right distressing.
'Iffen you want my advice, it is
this: Make haste slowly from now
on"
The signature was that of Tom
P. Unison, miSchievouS religious
editor of The Charlotte News. "
n
TN the Senate Office Building, the
l. door of Senator Sheppard OF
Texas displays sign reading, This
office continues to abide by NRA."
The capitol's famous subway
car. normally used by Senate dig
nitaries, is now idle most of the day.
But at 3 school children rush down
in whooping mob for a ride on
''the little train"
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