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NEW JERSEY PICKS HOOVER AND EDGE . 0. P. State Committee De- clares Choice—Lowden | Boom Fades. 1 Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. TRENTON. N. J., January 7.—The ! Republican State committee yester-| the Republican presidential nomina- tion and Senator Walter E. Edge for Vice President. This action puts New Jersey definitely behind Hoover, for there is no force in the State influ- ential enough to do battle with the Republican organization for conven- tion delegates. The committee previously had in- New Jersey Republicans want him | @orsed President Coolidge for another | term and yesterday expressed re | Juctance at having to abandon hope | that he would run again. | State leaders are hopeful that the! Edge boom will lead to something. | for it offers opportunity to dispose of controversy over the senatorial nomi- nation that is threatening the Re. publican chances of unseating Sena- tor Edwards, Democrat. If Edge is given the vice presidential nomina- tion Hamilton F. Kean, retiring na- tional committee member, may get | the former's support in the primary ' fight for right to contest with Fd. | Wards, and Edward C. Stokes, Kean's | leading opponent, may be assured Edge’s seat upon his retirement from the Senate. Survey of Sentiment. A survey this week of business and | professional men, agriculturists and men on the streets, made in all of | the 21 counties of the State to ascertain Republican sentiment, con- | vinced Republican leaders that they | bad not acted too quickly when they | declared for Hoover 10 days ago. ‘Without prompting from outside, the Republican voters of New Jersey | forced their leaders to the Hoover standard suddenly within the fort-| night. The party heads had talked g! a delegation pledged to President oolidge. even though he wouldn't The possibilities in trading New 31 votes at Kansas City were tempting. Some time ago an unimportant in. surgent group organized a local wden movement. Apparently it failed to impress the Lowden man- agers with its substance. No more has been heard of it. The New York commuter element. a powerful voting Anfluence in New Jersey only in presi- idential years, talked Charles FE. {Hughes until he took himself out of the race. Representative Bachrach ©of the second New Jersey district, a member of important House commit- tees, kept Longworth in the limelight. ‘The organization, headed by United States Senator Edge, has always spoken well of Dawes. = Rush to Bandwagon. All this pleased those who wanted an unpledged delegation. Then some- body unexpectedly revealed that the most influential Jeaders had already selected tentatively the seven dele- gates at large from New Jersey. Ar- thur Whitney, one of them, announced himself pleased to run, but not un. pledged. He was for Hoover. he said. That started the rush to the band- wagon. New Jersey Democrats lined up with Gov, Alfred E. Smith of New York four years ago and are still with him. There will he no favorite. son, even though the State has a Demo- cratic governor, A. Harry Moore, and 2 Democratic Uni.ed States Senator, Edward 1. Edwards. If Gov. Smith can’t have the nomination, New Jer- ublicans nominate. Only fmith has | : chance to :.'l::! the State Democratic | ina 1 year. Ck\‘v:;“n?l' born here, was the last 1o do it, in 1892, Woodrow Wilson got the State’s: electoral vote in 1912 bes! cause of the thrc.cornered fight. Roosevelt and Taft, together, polled $0.000 votes more thap Wilson. He lost the State in 1918. SENATOR WALTER E. EDGE, on_ticket with _Herbert Heaver, LOWDENVS. HOOVER MINNESOTA' [SSUE Spirited Contest in Prospect for Control of Republican Delegation. Special Dispatch to The Star. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., January 7. —Indications point to ‘a battle be- tween Lowden and Hoover forces in the Minnesota Republican convention, and probably in several of the dis. tricts. Some party leaders, including members of the congressional dele- gation, have bheen urging a harmony program and uninstructed delegates, but this has not found any response amang the friends of the two candi- dates. i While most of the State has been figured as Lowden territory, the*Hoov- er supporters believe there is a senti- ment for the Commerce Secretary that can be converted into delegates in a majority of the districts. They have not formed any organization yet, but will do o soon, and then will de: | cide how far to go with their cam- paign. The Lowden committee, form- od nearly a vear ago, has not heen active but is to be called together soon to mest Clarence F. Buck of Chicago, Lowden manager, who is coming to look the field over. The Republican St te committee been called to meet January 8t. Paul. for State and district conventions, which probably will take place in March. Under the law. all county conventions are to meet on the same day. fixed by the State committee. ational Committeeman Brooks has avorded taking sides on presidential caadidates. State Senator C. H. Mac- Kenzie, chnirman of the Lowden col miitee, is a friend of the committee- man, and o0 ‘are other n sup- porters, but Mr. Brooks' Minneapolis friends are mostly Hoover men. Mr, Rahn has sent personal assurances to Mr. Brooks that he will not oppose him for ~ommitteeman. There was a strong draft-Coolidge sentiment in the State., That has not found expression since the President's second declaration. Some of the Cool- idge enthusiasts are supporting the movement for uninsiructed delegates, While others are actively for Hoover. The Commerce Secretary is strong with both the lumber and the grain Interests, whose leaders have co.oper- ated with him in rellef enterprises and in standardization campaigns. He bas a strong following among Re. publican women. On the other hand, leaders of farm organizations insist that he is impossible hecause of his opposition to the McNary-Haugen bill, which ix the shibboleth of the farm has | 14 in| It then will issue the call | | NENTUCKINS TURN TORERBERTHOOVER |Republican Leaders Expect- ed to Follow. Congressmen in Pledges. cial Dispateh to The Star, LOUISVILLE, K While Republican Hoover, have delayed IR mmitting themselvex pub- [licly, their emissaries in Washington have obviously decided Mr. Hoover's chances are such that now is the time to strike. Word came this nfternoan that Representative John M. Robi. son of Barbourville, and Representa- tive Maurice H. Thatcher of this city have entered early applications in he half of their State for prominent places on what they believe in the band wagon. The announcements Conzressmen R necessary weight, Mr. Robison's particularl since he managed the recent success- ful campaizn of Gov. Flem D. Samp- son and is authorized to speak for the governor. Representative Kath- erine G. Langley, also came out for Mr. Hoover in Washington today, and the other leaders of the party may be | expected to follow xuit, it is suid here {United States Senator Frederick M. | Sackett will be among these, it is de. |clared, and both factions into which the party was divided at the time of the gubernatorial primary last mer will be tound in the Hoover camp. The unanimity of the leaders, in re. | Rards My. Hoover, presages peaceahle |adjustment of what had promised to be a contest for the post of national | committeeman. | Hoover Delegation Seen, Rank and file Republicans have n content to leave presidential politics to the leaders and scant in. terest has been manifest here, jocal matters assuming far greater import- ance. Although Frank O, Lowden of | Nlinois enjoyed a large and enthusi. jastic foliowing in Kentueky in 1920, under the sponsorship of the mte | Alvin T. Hert, Mr. Lowden's friends [have mude apparently no effort to recapture this strength. A delegation instructed for Mr. Hoover is expected to be the outcome of the Repub'ican State and district conventions this Spring. Aside from the fact that apparent. Iy he is considered the most likely winner, than which, of course, no more impressive recommendation could be offered ghe Kentucky organi- zation, Mr. Hoover is popular among Kentucky Republicans in his own right, he ‘and Mr. Sackett are per- sonal friends, and any number of other Kentuckians enjoy the Secre- tary's acquaintance. He has visited the State several times, and some months ago, in the company of Mr. Sackett, made an inspection tour of the Kentucky mountain country that had been devastated by floods. The news that Messrs, Robison and Thatcher had spoken out occasioned no surprise back home, where it isx expected that the former, fresh from the intensive canvass in behalf of Gov. Bampson, will proceed to organ. ize the State for the cabinet member. . Democratic Sitaation, 8o far, no discoverable movement worthy of the name has developed among Kentucky Democrats either in behalt of any candidate for the presidential nomination or against any. Of course, no one denies that | there is a large, in fact a preponder. ant, element in the party in this State, which to date has been mark- edly unenthusiastic as 1o Gov, Smith, ut the fact remains the opposition to him seems to be neither vocal nor as yet able to.organize behind a cun- didate of its own. | That he {s regarded as possessing a certain amount of strength in Ken. tucky, or at least in its cities, was in. dicated, many observers thought, dur. ing :he recent gubernatorial campaign. A dispatch was printed in Kentucky papers in which Col. P, H. Callahan of Louisville, a Catholic opponent of of the two THE WEEK IN POLITICS Summary of National Developmenu- Based on Reports From The Star's Special Correspondents and Staff Writers. ISPATCHES to The Star from its special political correspondents throughout the country, inaugurating its weekly survey for the 1928 presidential campaign, dis- closa an activity and iInterest in politics which are unusual for the first week in January. Only from A few points do the correspondents report that there is anything like apathy. It ig true that the cam- palgn’ 8o far s notable for the searcity of organized effort in be- half of candidates. but the people ng and talking politics, The Star's dispatches also dis. | thut Hecbert Hoover, lican, and Alfred K. Smith, Democrat, are the two men about whom the people are thinking and talking most. They seem 1o he favored hy more enthusiastic sup- port and more earnest opposition than any of the others who are he. ing urged as candidates. Both, ap. v have a long lead over ible rivals, but it is equally apparent that both have long ways to go hefore being in position to nail down a nomination, * ok Two notable events of the week gave Mr. Heover a big push for. ward. One was the action of the New Jersey Republican State com. mittee, which adopted a resolution pledging the delegation to the Secretary of Commerce. This is re. garded as settling the matte far as New Jersey Is concerned, The other event was ins of Hoover's candidacy by velt Club of Massachusetts. The regular party leaders in Massa- chusetts ‘are’ not supposed to be very friendly to Hoover's cause and have been striving for an un. instructed delegation to Kansas City, a delegation which could he swung to Coolidge in the event of a deadlock. Rut the Roosevelt Club_is a° powerful organization with more than a thousand in. fluential members, and it seems likely now that Hoover will have at least a share of the Bay State delegates. ilsewhere in the East neither Hoover nor any other Republican aspirant seemed to make any spe- cial progress, In Maryland, in fact, Hoover's chances do not ap- pear as bright as they did several weeks ago. There ix a bitter fac- tional fight for party control and one faction is putting .forward for- mer Gov. Lowden as an offset to the other's support of Hoover. Hope of Hoover's friends that he would have a solid Maryland dele- Ration now seems less likely to he realized. It is reported that some work in behalf of Hoover is being done in Pennaylvania, but so far without any very striking results. The prospects seem to be that the Pennsylvania delegation will be instructed for Secretary Mellon; or, it not. that It will be uninstructed and at Mr. Mellon's disposal. Ex. cepf for his early and mild indorse- ment of Charlex E. Hughes, the Secretary of the Treasury has kept & closed mouth politically, and while Hoover's friends hope that eventually he will he with them, they are without any very strong encouragement. They do’ claim that Hoover will have friends in the Pennsylvania delegation, whether it is instructed for Mellon or goes uninstructed, e the Roose. Switching to the Middle West, Hlinols presents a_situation that is full of interest, The Legislature convenes next Tuesday and an ef. fort will be made to pass a primary law In place of the one which was declared unconstitutional. If the effort succeeds the prediction {8 made ghat Lowden will get a ma- fority of the State's 61 delegates X ansas City. 1f it fails, the field will be wide open and a pretty row in prospect. Mayor Thomp- %on of Chicago will not support Lowden, but is reported to be very friendly to Vice President Dawes. 8o it may fall out that in spite of Dawes' avowed support of Lowden the 1llinoix delegation may be loyal to him, so far as the early ballots are|concerned, but the Low- den managets there are reported as wondering {how long the delegation can be held together for him. ‘There is a lot of Hoover sentiment throughout the State, and the dan- ger i3 recognized that should Hoover loom formidable in the con- vention theé band-wagon may ap- pear more attractive to lowans than Lowden's particular brand of farm relief. In South Dakota also the party leaders ave lined up for Lowden, but with the proviso that if his nomination seems impossible they will be for any candidate who fa- vors the kind of farm_legislation they are demanding. That would leave the way open for either Dawes or Curtis, Minnesota is another State where Lowden sentiment is strong, he- cause of his support of the Me- Nary-Haugen bill. But Hoover sentiment also is strong there, and the prediction is made that there will be a firstclass fight, with the prospect of a divided delegation. * ok % Indiana is to present favorite sons for both nominations, and is a closed preserve to other candi- dates. The Republicans will in- struct for Senator James E. Wat- son and the Democrats for Evans Woollen. As neither is regarded as a real contender, what will be done with the delegations after the com- plimentary votes remains to be seen. Ohio also started out to compli- ment favorite sons in hoth parties, but Renator Frank B. Willis is showing a disposition to upset the apple cart. He insists he is a sure- enough candidate and doesn’t want lican delegates from Ohio ‘e even a second cholce. The Hoover following, which is strong in Ohio, is ip In arms against this program and is threatening, unless Hoover in designated second choice, to contest with Willis for fir choice delegates. They claim they can at least prevent Willis from Retting a solld delegation. Former Senator Pomerene is content to play the favorite son role accord. ing to Hoyle and is willing, after A complimentary vote, that the - Democratic delegation shall go to Gov. Smith or elsewhere, Per. sonally he favors Smith. * %o The situation in the Democratic South is as interesting as it Is un. usual. There is little enthusiasm for Gov. Smith, but an apparent willingness to accept him. From no Southern State does there come any suggestion that he would fail to win the electoral vote. The sit- uation in Virginia is specially pe- culiar. The party leaders gener. ally are for Smith, becnuse they belieye he would be the strongest candidate, and a majority of the rank and file of Democrats are said to ba content that he should be the nominee, the opposition to Smith is so insistent and so vin- dictive that it is regarded as more than possible that the State con. vention will instruct the Virginia delegation not to vote for nomina- tion of the New York governor. All across the country, north of the Mason and Dixon line, enti- ment for Smith seems to be grow. ing. Maryland will send a delega. tior: that will vote for Gov. Ritchie A% long as he wants its votes, hut will be glad to vote for Smith the minute Ritchie says the word. Mis. sourl will xend.n delegation pledged to Senator “Jim" Reed. but there is no hostility t6 Smith in the Reed following. In Montana there {s activity for bath Smith and Reed, byl Senntor Walsh can have the delegation it he wants it. Arkansas may in. struct for Senator Robinson, but regards Smith as the party's best Dot Texas reports that Lone Star SHOWDOWN LOONS INMASSACHUSETTS ,Repfiblicans Seek Disclosure‘ of Plans on Candidacy of Hoover. | | | Special Dispatch to The Star, BOSTON, January 7.—Despite the known desires of the friends of Presi. | dent Coolidge to bring about the elec tion of an unpledged delegation to"the Republican national convention in | | Kansasz City next June, a movement | has been startéd with the opening of the year among *‘assachusetts Re publicans looking toward a show down on Herber indications that candidates for delegate pledged to Hoover will oppose any unpledged | group which the party leaders may | decide to put Into the field. Roosevelt Club_Acts. | Robert M. Washburn. president of the Roosevelt Club of Massachusetts, which numbers about 1,000 active members, has made public a letter to Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire in reply to an inquiry an-| nouncing that the elub has declared | itself for Hoover and that it proposes | to work solely for candidates who | pledge themselves to vote for Hoover | in_the convention, | Party leaders are not pleased with the Hoover movement and it is known that a group of candidates for election | [); 18 delegates at large, numbering seven. | will be selected as unpledged to any | candidate, Under the Massachusetis law, a candidate for delegate cannot be pledged unless the written approval of the candidate for whom he intends to vote is filed in the office of the secretary of lmfi' This fact makes imposaible the sefding of a delegation | pledged to attempt to renominate | President Coolidge, although a number | of candidates would prefer to be | pledged. Seeks State Office. ev po public office to announce himself in | Massachusetts in 1928 has been | g former Congressman Robert M. Leach | g of Taunton, who will run for the R publican nomination for leutenant governor. The present occupant of | that office, Frank G. Allen of Norwood, | will be nominated by the Republicans, without a contest, to suceeed Gov Alvgh T. Fuller, who probably will retire from political lite, although he | is being mentioned as a possible can- | didate for Vice President. Efforts to induce the governor to run for the United States Senate against Senator David I. Walsh have been unsuccessful, although consider- able pressure is being brought to bear. He is the strongest candidate the Re- publicans could nominate to run against Senator Walsh.eand if he finally refuses to consider the plan, | it may be that former Senator William | M. Butler may be prevailed upon to | reconsider his decision not to run this | year. WENDELL D. HOWIE. | SENATORIAL PRIMARY IS MISSOURI ISSUE| | Choice of Reed Successor in &nlei | May Set State's Course in Vote Next November. H H ni K! Special Dispatch to The Star. s KANSAS CITY, Mo.. January 7.— Democratic = presidential politics in Missourt now is revolving largely around the 1928 senatorial prima in which Senator James A. Reed the. principal figure. In the choosing of a Democratic senatorial candidate to succeed Reed, it may he determined whether Mis- sourf will be in the Democratic or Republican fold next November. Mis- col State. having gone Republican Illur two successive presidential elec- i tions, were quick the porter, even though does not go with positive tions to go down the line for Hoover. ‘While Gov. Lowden sist_he would carcy l;l\hrldu .-mm!n - Ao - KB sou classed Hoover might fail, the Hoover cohorts | Jackson. natienal committeeman, ko, Ranimmred: now a4 doubitit | o the fact that Farmer.Labor | W. Bladen Lowndes to defeat Mr in the |point t . . e Colorado organization already | Weller in a primary fight with former GOV. ALBERT C. RITCHIE. kely to be a real contender elegation Held “In the Bag at PFesent—Smith Leads on Democratic Side. Special Dispatch to The Star. DENVER, vents of the ensuing six January -Althoug! months ma; completely change the aspsct of thing: olitical, it mppears, at this writin | that Herbert Hoover has the Colorado The first candidate for election to | f,'_'n'\“:‘,::',‘,:‘"'f?.,:""h:‘;‘-’:fl'."'" e oy The same may be said for Gov. Al! mith, on the Democratic side, save or the circumstance that, in his case, | there is more chance for a slip be- twixt cup and li p than is, the case wit oover. Clarence C. Hamlin of Colorado Springs, Republican national chair- man for Colorado, returning from the recent confab in Washington, put the official stamp of approval oover candidacy. al State Republ prinmary tux Klan. Backed by Work. Gov. Smith_cannot_make the grade. | COLORADD IS SEEN ALL FOR HOOVER 99 | Gov. on the %0 far as Centen- | ans are concerned, and most of the big guns of the party to jump on the band wagon. The outstanding exception is former Gov. Oliver H. Shoup, who is pro-Lowden, but Shou ing a minor role in since his defeat four years a gubernatorial MARYLAND VOTES - CALLED RITCHS QDeleoation Seen Certain for Smith, However, if Oc- casion Arises. Special Dispatch to The Star BALTIMORE, January 7.—As the |curtain lifts on the 1923 political stage tin Maryland there is only one fea- ture of the situation that has any de- gree of certainte about ir. That is the fact that when the Democratie national convention com- 16 votes will be ov. Albert Cabell Ritchie r President. How long the vote will be east that way, however. is as uncertain as the congressional and ! senatorial nominations in the Ztate are at this tin, With the exc | counties, pilon of ahout three Ritchie controls the | Democratic organization of this State. | Consequently the delegation to the | convention will do as he wishes. If | he desires it to vote for him 109 times, as it did in the 1924 convention, his wish will be granted. Smith Second Choice. The second choice, not only of the Democratic politicians of Maryland, | but also of the people, seems to be {Gov. Alfred E. Smith. When the | Maryland delegation stops voting for Ritchie, it will start voting for | Gov. Smith. In fact. those closest to | the Governor of Maryland frankly ad- { mit that the vote will be delivered, if {and when, the New Yorker wants it. | _In this connection it may be inter- | esting to outline the attitude of Gov. | Ritchie’s supporters toward his presi- dentlal candidacy. They view It as closely linked with the candidacy of 1 | Gov. Smith. Both men are wets and both make |about the same appeal to Democrata. ‘Fhose against Gov. Emith (except- ling opposition based on religious |grounds) also are against Gov. Ritchie for about precisely the same reasons. The Marylander has said. both privately and publicly. that he | believes Gov. Smith in entitled to Gov. Smith’s references to prol h { pition in_his message to the New York Legislature, however, were mot received with much enthusiasm in Maryland. This was particularly true in Baltimore city, where an over- whelming majority of the Democratic party is against prohibition. - Large Following. | Maryland leaders in speaking of presidential possibilities adways em- phasize the statement that Gow. | Ritchie is more than a favorite son L wi D has been plav- | from an unimpertant State. They party councils | contend that he h: go in the | strength in every part of the country by Clarence | among Moreley, standard bearer of the Ku ! direct the voting of delegations. Even a large potential the Democratic leaders who though this strength is virt all | pledged now to Gov. Smith, tml: considered significant because Hoover may count among his Colo- | Marylander has second call on it. rado supporters Secretary Hubert | Work, Senator Lawrence C. Phipps, Senator Charles W. » fonal Chairman Hamlin and State | name to be placed in nomination. the *hairman John R. Coen. Secretary Work spent the holidays | that strength. and would go into the with his sons in Denver and took ad-!convention a favorite, these supporters antage of his visit to attend several | contend. conferences of party leaders. Sena- | tor Phipps, who came home also for | extent that if Gov. Smith seeks the likewise participated. | nomination and fails again. tke honor While Phipps did not openly espouse the cause of any candidate, he let it be known that he is for Hoover and the burden of all the interviews given that “Herbert Hoover. is the logical man” to lead | will be Ritchie's year. the Republican cause. holidays, Secretary Work wa With this lneup, it is almost nvention will be a Hoover su Waterman, Na- the delegation instruc- | supporters in- 1f something should happen between now and next June that would cause | Gov. Smith 1o decline to alfow his inherit Maryland executive would It 15 aiso believed here 1o some will be an empty one from the very beginning for the min selected. Gov. Ritchie's riends privately admit that this will be Smith's year. it he wams |0 make it so ¢ hint that 1332 nostications as to Marvland's { a|choive in the Republican econvention certainty every member of the Colo- | are more dificult. This difficulty s rado delegation to the Kansas City | due to the unsettied leadership of the party in this State. Until the Fall of 1926, former Senator O. E. Weller was regarded as the State leuder. Efforts Fail. That Fall. the afforts of William P. p- With rare excepti to |has espouxed the cause of Senator | Representative John Philip Hill faiied | reliet workers, Gov. Smith, was quoted as predicting | divided in the main between- those Xceptions prior to 916 JOHN J. FARRELL, Jr. ARKANSAS FAVORS SMITH AND HOOVER| Demoerats Expected to Be In-| ‘structed for Robinson and Later Swing to Governor. Special Dispatch to The Star. | LITTLE ROCK. Ark., January 7.— Beveral months must elapse Mm‘ the Kansas City convention is call- o4 15 order and the whirligig of Illn!i may bring changes in the political sspect, but to the impartial observer, Hoover and Bmith are favored in Arkansas for the nominations by the Republicans and the Democrats, re- apertively, “The statement needs to be quall-| fled and expanded, It is believed here that the Republicans will go 16 the convention uninstructed, and if the Democrats go instructed for any one, §1 will be for Senator Joe T, Vobinem, minority leader of the sen- #te, wiho 1% a favorite won. In a gen- | eral wav, the Democrats are opposed | t0 Emith ax the nominee, hut they realize he ix the only strong cand)- | Aste the party can muster and they | are expecied to surrender reluctantly | &t the convention to majority senti- | ment. If the Arkanwas delegation declines | 10 wccept Emith under any circum. | stances, very likely it will trail slong with senutor Kobinson, who % num. bered among the dark horses A Hoover houm hus heen lsunch: o4 in Arkanwan by Republicen leaders, mowt of whom seein Lo favor the cab- inet oficial hecause of his 1remendous popularity in the flood district. It Hoover und Bmith become the nom inees, Hoover will insert o ppegr bead in the Mississippi Valley reglon that iy bead to u break in the “Solid Bouth,” Obvinusly w5, &ad for (wo ressons Hoover hux endeared himself 1o Ar Lansas people by hix sympathy and Jeadership during the 1rylug dayw of e flood. On the other hund, be vause of the higntr weciully in the Yural sections, Bmith 1 detested even by meny old dyedinthe-wool Demnsy ety My Lowden very Jikely will e vepresented by a wesk minority et the Kansux City convention, 1t would be no diMcult malter, however, for the uninstructed Hoover Adelegntes o witch over o the fowden cump If Lowden whould dieplay unususl eirength. Dawes has no following in his section, The Hoover strength umong the Demociats will have no effect on the electoral vote, I value Jiew on tirely bn the mentiment atiached t # pomsible future disintegyation of the pobitical “Holid soulh,” and fhe only Smmedbate vewuli will be 1o wive Ar kansas Republicans u greater then petioul popular vots than they hive ever mustered dn history. . FLETCHER CHENAULY 'CHARLES B. CHENEY. MONTANA DEMOCRATS OPEN DELEGATE DRIVE Smith Adherents First in Field. | Lowden Only Republican to Be Mentioned, Spectal Dispatch to The Star., | HELENA, Mont., January 7.—While Montana has had due discussion as the new year ope;- of candidates, presidential and otherwise, byt two formal ‘movements 1o mecure the Btate's delegates to nitional political conventions have heen launched und both of these are within the Demo- cratic party, The adherents of Gov, Smith of New York were first In the field. Indced, it may be waid they have heen in the field wince the gavel of United States Benator T. J, Walsh, permanent chafr. man of the convention of 1924, hrought that historic session 10 a close, The other candidate In the field fs Benator James A. Reed of Miswon Missourlans for xome time have been asking lenve to whow Montana about Reed. 10 i wald the boom will be launched early In the year, AL present the oniy Democratle leader avowedly inclined 1o the xena. tor Is former Congressman Tom Btout, publisher of the Lewistown Demorrat. News, one of the in : dullies of the Hiate g S ey Which brings us to Montaha's prob. uble cholce for the Democratie nom|. natdon. It will be Bmith or Ritehle or Heed or Walsh, says common talk, Benutor Walsh hay rmf decluved nim. welf w candidate, but he has nof sought an injunc@on uguinet thowe who are presenting his name, It he Wil permit such wetion, the Maon: Democrutle convention' will fnuisy lh;lllfilrkulrl for him he BRepublicans are keeping 1o Bomething han been done 1 1.:,'{ -',"..‘: Lowden hefore \he poople, A fapm Yoy O 1W0 s indorasd him {10 'r'L“ “:;"1" ‘r'u‘n‘ m'n-r Hepublican haw o e far Kowslp, of which o m" % "”,”'H;"n never free, fy Diwes | Drobably will get the ‘Montuna daje teation, unies It whould e reseryed for yrading and wen Diawes 14 tremendously . | Mlate and no only mnan, bt a goodly portion of Can ress weem to logk LM Hughes bn not :-..h wusly. The Hoover hoom iular n this WY politiciune the Repub|- In wny nnldered vor. 18 fuint, The ke woemingly 1 1O M THA Vl!‘;‘lt | Belgian Training Ship Ploated, WEBT PALM BEACH, Wi, ) Iury 7 M), Alter nine hours of Iu‘l:::ll ing, the Key West tug Warbler floate | the Fsergian maval vaining I/ Avenir Jate yosterday afternom after the foreign hoat had Deen wiang ed on & xand bar vest of Neway for 4 howrs, ' Uiinetructed, | el in New York that J. C. W. Beckham, then the Democratic eandidate for governor, “will prove a significunt fig. ure in the 1928 convention, aligned with the anti-Smith group.” Called Incorrect. Thomas 8. Rhea, Mr. Beckham's maunager, thought it advisable to lose no time in branding this statement as “wholly unauthorized and incor. rect.” Mr, Rhea was at pains to make clear that Mr. Beckham was tak. ing no part “In a fight against Gov, 8mith or for or against any one of the aspirants in the Democratic presiden. tial race,” Col. Callahan insisted that he had been grievously misquoted in the dispatch. It s obvious it would require no mean feat of galesmanship for Gov, 8mith to sell himself to the party in Kentucky between now and the time delegates are selected. Stil}, it must constantly he borne in mind that i wouid not be accurate to describe hix fellow partisans in this State ns unan. imously recofling from him in_ hor: The Loulsville Courler-Journal, which led the fight for Mr, Beckham, carriod an nporoving editorial paragraph Thursday, which called Gov, Smith's mesgnge to the New York Awsembly “frank and manly in dealing with sue Iumites as most pollticlans dodge.” RUSSELL BRINEY KANSAS PRIMARY FIGHT Eleven Candida n Possible on G.,0. F. Ticket—Parties Joln to Boom Curtls, Special Dispatch 10 The Star, TOPEKA, Kans., Junuary 7.—The governorship and probably three con. gremsjonul wents now promise the most lkelthood of hurd fghts in the com. ing Kunwan primury. The, fowwible entrins for nomination for goy certaln and nine the Republiean ernor, | Clyde M. Reed of Parsons, vong with the farm orguntvations which he | hax represented In w number of freluht rate cones; Lient. Gov, Dun Chase 1 Pleasanton and John 1. M. Hamiton of Topekn, Wpeaker of the commitied candidates. on the outeome of effort: (o get n eandidate, preferably Joe M, Mercer, secretary of the GOVERNORSHIP PROMISES | ure three Hinte Houwe of Representatives in 41927, nre How wmiuny of the others enter probahly «(1f depend Kansas Hiate Live Btock Awsocintion, into the vonning to brenk nto Tteed's farm {xation support, 16 thit happens, prob: ly will be 7 or 8,y nn:{l [ Aldates for the gubernatoridl nomina: thon, 1a 7. Hackney of Wellington, for: mer chalviman of the Public Nervice Commisslon, Is the only avowed can: Aidate for the Democratic nomination to dute, Vriends of Chauncey B, Lit: e, former Hepresentutive from the nd ainteiet, wre Weging him Lo von I Little in fehting shy of ostion Tepublicans and Deme e hoosting for Henator he Republican nominat dent Curtis be Immensaly out here, CLIF BTRA two political friends and bedfellows, with a chance for Hoover and other candidates to pick up a delegate here and there. The Lowden boom continues to make progress in the territory where 1t innted and has had Ita chief strength. lowa remains Democrats do not want Smith, but . regard him as the party's sole hope. Yet neither Smith nor Hoover Ia an avowed candidate for th presidency. It looks now as if 1928 might present something new politics. (Conyrisht, 1074, hy The Was '28 CHOICES DELAYED IN WEST VIRGINIA Sentiment on Presidential Cud‘i-‘ dates Held Not Sufficiently Crystallized. Special Dispatch to The Star CHARLESTON, W. Va., January 7. ~Political signs In West Vieginia point to one of the Btate's Lveliest primary campalgns, and with a ple- thora niw for m of the ofMces, 1. The wingle exception to cer-abundance ot material n for the Damocrutic nomi- natlon for nator, Nen. ator M. M, Neely In quite certafn to he venominated without opposition Bentiment hus not crystallized suf. clently to determine with any degree of exactness the presidential chol in West Virginin heyond the Republican preference for Ntates Nenator Guy D, Goff. should he approve of the strong movement started to have hix te presented 1o the Kanwias Clty convention, On the other side of the politieal tence, Democratic Nutlonal Commit. W. Oxenten |s an outspoken for Gov, Hmith and his nding enthusiasmn In shared by many other party leaders and jour: Th In evident, he y wtrong undercurtent in the Hiate against Nmith and bis strength may be overrated by Owenten and the others, The "deyw’ and the Ku Kiux Klan alrendy ave attacking Hmith, the Intter viclously on the rellgious ground 1t in Mikely Newton D, Huker, a na: tive Wost Vicgintan, and possibly Henat: Heed of Missouri i he hetter wupported In this Rtate thin Gov, Bmith 1t 1 noteworthy, though that Hmith haws gained mightily in srentige in West Vicginka sl the flll Demncratie conventlo Went Vi ilidge strong hold and hope 1s lingering that he will reconsider his determinati ot to vun again, Leaving the Presi dent and Henutor Goff out of the aquation, the wrlter belleves Vice Prestdent Dawes would hold the upper hund in the Ktate If he should chinke his attitude toward his nomination My, Dawes Is very popular in West Virginka and tn u lesser degree wo is Lowden, who has for one of power- ful supporters Hiate Menator Walter M. Hallanan, & former Biate tax com misstoner and o millionul Hecretary Hoover also has moeh steength In the Miate und his well wishers hive multintied us o vesuit of he wppaintinent of o populing 0y nor, phratn 1 Morgan, as seliclioy the Commercs Depiytment, LYNN RUTLAND, n ! TEXAS FACING BITTER FIGHT ON DELEGATES Personality of Smith Called Domi- nant Factor in Issue Through- out State. Special Dispatch ta The Star. AUSTIN, Tex., January 7.—Texus In preparing for the most nggressive fight over welection of Its 40 Demo- cratie delogntes to the national con- vention slnce the memorable days the “Immertal 40, who played so big u part in the nomination of Wouod. row Wilson, Alvendy an Insty the field cinet groups to prevent the pledging of the delegates to any individual, Texan Democrats realize the impor: tance of the way the 40 delggatos &0, and the personality of Al Smith will dominate the Issue throughout the Htate, Friends of Smith claim the success of the Uninatructed Delegate Assne clation will contribute to hix caupe, while others insist the move to keep the delegates “untied” will be u blow tu_hix hopes, Texan Democrats are In the situa. f disiiking very keenly Smith purported anthprohibition tendencles, and at the same time vecogniging that ha dn victunlly the only hope the Demoeratio party has of leaderwhip o victory next November, 1t appears from n fongange and casial ohwervi. ton, that they will et thelr dele. waten I favor of full State and Ve eral dry enforcement, hut (hat the, Will wllow the delegatos freedom In the chuloe ot the individual to be s ported, and that In the final show. down, the Texan voten would o Lo Hmith hefore nominating s nonenity Republican politieal affalvs wie ox. tremely quiet in Texas, niter the party 1WO years ago cast only about 20,000 votes for governor. Thin wan in ex. treme vontrast to the J00,000 votes wiven Dr, George €. Rutte, Repub: Hean naninee for governor in the 1934 rvace, when Demo aEninat Myw Demooratio nomines Gov, Dan Momly Wil he vivtually unoppossd for governor, and the e publican party has no one - stght Who will seviously endanker hin ve wloction, thouh a Republican ean vention this veap, Instead of the py mary an held two years aRo, Wil nominate & eandidate for govern # RAYMOJND BRoo orgunization, the Un Fevguwon, 1904, Missouri had been a rock-ribbed | Democratic State. The Missourl Democracy today 1s | u'Imv\!l unanimous for Reed for Presi- | dent have a solid State delegation hehind | him at the convention. Rut in se- lecting a successor comes a wide di- vergence in party leadership. For Both Offces. Some leaders conceived the idea of ' running Reed both for President and for renomination to succeed hinrself {n the Senate. {f he were nominated for President, the plan was to permit him fo withdraw and have the State com. mittea Al the place on the ticket Assured of Reed. the Demoerats be- Heved they could swing enough “wet" Republican votes n St. Louis to bring | certaln victory. The Democratic State committes | last Fall indorsed Reed both for lhci presidential nomination and for Sena. tor, At this point entered Charles M Hay of St. Louls, Democratic “dry" leader, and for the last seven years, leader of the faction which waged bitter warfare In th. name of Wood- W Wilson against the Missouri senfor Senator, A few weeks ago Hay announced himselfl as a candi date for Senator to succeed Reod. That the anti-Reed leader should | aspire to Reed's seal aroused the ire of the Senator's followers. Out of Senate Race, ! Following Hay's announcement, a AMixsouri Democratie leader in Wash. INKton gave out @ wtatement that Reed again would become a candidate for Benator Ry many party leaders this was taken as the first authentie | information and theve was much re. Jolelng. Then storles began to appear In| Bustern newspapers that Reed would not be a presidential candidate but bad decided to run for the Senute again, This was belleved to ba dam. aging to the Reed-for-President hoom. On returning to Kansas Clty at C may, Read fmnued a statement definit Iy ellminating himselt ffom the sen torial race, The Reed leaders now are search Ing for w senatorial candidate to o | pose Hay In the primavies, hut ax yeou have found no one ol Hennert < Clark of 8t Lonls, san of the late Speakor Champ Clark, has heen sug- wented by avdent Reed supporters. | Hay, meanwhile, hax heen attempting | to placate Read supportors by ixawing | statementa he favored giving the M Hourt delegation to the convention to | Reod | THEODORE ¢ ALFORD. PARIS POLICE LAUDED. Patrolmen Yound Able to Locate “@Good Fremeh Cooking." Ourrsspaiiience of (he Assaclated Pross, PARIE. ~"Taking one constderation WIth unother ™ the Pavis palyglot pe Hooman's 1ife tx devidedly "o hapiy Gilhertlan volleawue ‘The qu ol he ix wost frequentiy waked b whers veal Frenoh chaking vt he sanipled at moderate vost, 1enlies wve genernlly wo sabisfactory | M that he Inguirer atien comes Waok it and nvites hiw (o dinner, P ol would not have the united support of even the farm element in this State. To which the Lowden men make answer: The farmerdabor vote l and does not by means represent ment. any manner of the farmer senti- | Smith Rackers Lead. In the Democratic organization, Smith _supporters have the upper hand at present, although supporters ' of Senator Jim Reed can muster a better following than can the i ponents of the “second runner™ the Republican side. | The victory of S. Harrison White, Democrat, M the recent election to o w on IHam N. decided hoost for the Smith hereabonts. Democratic Stale Gov. expected 10 pro-Smith despite the | fact his candidacy in the guberna- torial cAmpAlEn two years ago | hist | defeat. 0ose a sucvessor in Congress to work of reduilding Vaile. Republican. who ! party in Maryland. M [died suddenly last Summer, was a|Zained control of Federal patronsge cause | When M. White, who is decidedly | Senae, “wet." now shares leadership of the | the in this 1920 and the Roosevelt campaign of | Brookhart as evidence that Lowden But what could vot be done in 1he primary election wis done when M- rd Tydings was elected to succeed Mr. Weller in the genersl election, blus the election last Spring of Wil There ix little doubt he will lis a negligible quantity in Colorado ' Ham F. Broening as mayor of Ralti- maore, The Republicar X party prodably reac! the lowest ebbh during fts in Maryland with the Weller When Mayor Broening be- came a candidate last Spring. his chances were looked on as hopeless. N_o Won, however hv a majority of 13000 in a city which the previous Fall gave Democratic Gov. Ritchie & majority of over 48.000. Much of the success of the Broeni due 1o Rolnd R Marchanr &0 ™ hant. twWo men have started the the Republican v. Jackson, who Weller retirved from the has formed an alliance with Broening-Marchant faction. Te organization with | gether, it is believed. they cam contral Willlam H. Adams, who is of [the State. but {more or less Jiberal tendencies and is | demonstrated this fact is yet to be It was hecuse control of the pary State was at stake that Mr, d | Marchant launched 2 boom for the can A the. ADBrovAl of the Cotarado brafich | didae o Secrotary Herbort Hoover of the AntiSaloon League, | Tt is presumed Ben Hillard, former Congressman, and Willam K. sm:.‘ former governor, both radical deys. Wil lead the fight wgainst Smith i€ it | comes to & AghL. JUR. DAY, MAINEBOKUNG FORWARD | TO STIFF POLITICAL TILTS | Gov. Brewster Smashes Procedents | in Declaring Candidacy for Senate Seat. Special Diapated 1o The Suar. AUGUSTA. Me., January T.—Maine thix year, from a Republican stand- | PO Wil vou more polities than it § hua oxperiondil fur many vears, ovi 1 Wil witness move livel awitions tn ARt party Gov, Ralph O, Reowster, who s NOW serving his second tevm of twe | Years, amashed all procedents when he announeadt that he woull be & CAnidate tor the' United States Senate ARast Fradevick Hale of Portland, Who wax fivst elocted 13 yeavs ane and whose socond o0 the primaries inttely stepped aside. i o underatood, campaign in his behalf. Both My Hoover and Mv conding along the same lines alvo | heen M Charles Curtis, {presidentia Wmust slgn theie cortiioates of candh d | Sderetary s Lost he provided on the haliet fer {thase vaters wha e WL expive | o | MAYCN & next. Never in the hstory | Shaive | the day after President Coolidge made his second statement withdrawing a candidate. This w I Marehant gro supporting first the Republican whe | APRATently has the largest tallowing ® zave the Rroer- the advantage of Maryland, once Mr. Coolidge def. The next dav Galen L. Tait, chairmmn of the Repud. lican Stais central {chief Weller Heutenant, alse indorsed the Hoover candidac: committes and Lawden In Racked ‘Thomas Parran, Southern Marviing ader. favors the candifacy of Frank Lowden and is peepariag, & 10 make an aggressive Lowden are expectéd o Ale certificates of o ¥ Maryland and inquiries abowt 't Na of Senater made hy friends Under Marviands peimary hw, 1 candidates pevsonalty eV, WRICh may b st with the Of State up to within a hatore the nrimary slection, May 16 any candidate fles, space albe Brafer an “unin tod delogation™ 1o indicate thetr The delegations 1o the na 'm- Hlate has 4 governor announced Nis Intention of Aghting for & sepatoris! seat while governor, although gover: nors have occupled seats 1n the wpper all ot Consress after they had e linguishad ¢ afttve. Politivians prediet Taome ' contest hetween Senater and Qov, Brewster, There i Hitle interost on the Do catio side of the fenve, 1L in assum. ol that Fulien l-l. N«lumn \\l.::!:‘ W 4 e Warth, Whe wie Deweratio cand one i which he differs from hs Y e yobes of thelr \hat it will mbwy when Avthur . R Ferwakl. may hav he ¥o desive > T MURPHY. be Naw Nenator st Ne L e tale wan slbted (o A1l the \.:‘.":\ caused by the death of Ber the Waninal lon, topal canvemilnns are hound te vore for the candidtes rocelving the high- st numr‘-n of \\unnln l:: Sate an o A8 I apears (that the preferved candidate has & chance of being aominated Onty ane candideey has bheen M Marviand so far That M‘ WS Oy, whe s wased i (he weimary slootion, it he e ine 2 candidate FRANKLYN B WALTMAN, v sl A CAior Wean was A& Darwmer Hving near Man & ving bnaerioad, CLide, Neked ap Wy AR s ] w3 Fraaeat