Evening star., 1936-06-10
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
Staff Correspondent of The Star.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 10
Herbert Hoover came to town today.
In fact. this promises to be Hoover S
day at the Republican National Con-
vention. He is. to address the con-
cention tonight His friends say his
address will be a stem -winder.
The former President was greeted
at the station by crowd of 5000 or
more persons. The crowd swept the
police and the Reception Committee
to the four corners. They cheered and
yelled, Herbert Hoover. Hoover,
Hoover. We want four more years Of
Hoover"
President Hoover's son Allan, who
stepped of the train with the former
President, was lost in the crowd.
Lawrence Richey, his former secre-
tary, alone was able to keep close to
the chief" Ben Allen. who has been
doing research work for Hoover. was
in the party said that the former
President would make no public state
ment today; that he did not propose
to take the edge off his speech to-
night.
May Confer With Borah.
Hoover and Borah. with Walter F
Brown, the recently defeated Re
publican National Committeeman for
Ohio, as a cementing medium. may
get together today for a conference.
If they do. it will bode no good for
Gov. Alfred NJ. Landon of Kansas,
it is said
The anti-Landonites are planning,
It is said, to stall the convention
along until next Monday if possible,
hoping that something may turn up.
They think they have a chance in the
platform, which they say will take
considerable time both in committee
and on the floor.
Every one of the Landon opponents
for the presidential nomination, in
cluding Borah Knox and Vanden-
berg, who have come to Cleveland,
have issued statements they are not
going into an alliance to defeat the
Kansas Governor for the nomination.
However, the campaign managers for
the anti-Landon candidates are very
active and their activities give more
color to the suggested alliance.
Smell Flags New Deal.
Representative Smell of New York
elected permanent chairman by the
convention, assailed the Roosevelt New
Deal in scorching language.
For nearly four years America has
foundered in the grotesque failures of
the New Deal" he said. The insti-
tutions of our Government have been
debauched by partisanship."
Smell four years ago served as per-
manent chairman of the Republican
National Convention.
The chairman did not confine his
attack to the policies of the Roosevelt
administration. He attacked the Presi-
dent himself. He said:
"Overshadowing all these grave
assaults upon the liberties of the people
Is the Presidents personal affection
for q Government-dict collectivist
order.
He runs the true course of the
dictator. Having seduced the legisla-
tive branch by billions in pork barrel
patronage, he now casts a calculating
eye upon the judiciary, and by advice
to Congress and sneer and jibe seeks
to usurp the last bulwark of the citizen
against it."
Report on Credentials.
The report of Credentials Commit
tee was submitted by Walter Hallahan
chairman, national committeeman
from West Virginia. 1t recommended
that the delegates placed on the tenn
porary roll of the convention by the
Republican National Committee be
seated in the permanent roster of the
convention, except in the case of
South Carolina. Without opposition
the report was adopted.
This brings to an end the contest
over the District of Columbia dele
cation. The Rover Prescott Evans
faction gave up the idea. apparently
Of taking the contest to the floor OF
(see CONVENTION, Page g.