Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1928, Page 13

HODVER INVASIN BALKED N INDIA Lake County Leaders Line| Up Solidly Behind Sena- tor Watson. Special Dispateh to The Si7 COLUMBUS, Ohijo. February 18 The Republican leaders of Ohio who. counscling against the entrance of e Hoover into the Sta 8proal Diepatch 1o The Star INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. February 18— ! ¢ Hoover | An atten to bring Herbe s B, o the R?;\::bhmn; sidential pri- | Primary. predicted that it wo ige mary_race in Indiar ough 'the | Confusion in the party. if nothinz more Measily popiiated in eirict fn | Scrious. have not had to wait lons i hie weelt ‘ailed When or. | have their prediction come true. H : i I be. | Words are baing exchanged between can- solidly didates and organization leaders follow- {ing breaks in long-standing affillations, {and bad faith mtimated if not directly { charged. Pressure is being used to the | limit on both the Willis and Hoover sides to bring men across the line—not with pronounced success on either side so far, but reports keep coming in that this {line or that is weakening and may | break That the announc Hoover that he wou flering ovement was started by State C. Oliver Holmes of Gary of the Indiana State Bani on. and had a measure of sup- | m Gary Post Tribune. led a meeting of Lake Coun- licans at East Chicago. after ames P. Good- regarded as | losest political advisers, g turned from the Sec- cc. and made it plain will i‘\a“d solidly back e e Afr Hoover my T Was Mot | parore s o that have g for it was Lake County. with | poiore, s0me of he 9 that 000 majori ight have lined up on from defeat in the Since the H | tion, has been repeatedly Tey { here that the Republican organization meeting. Holmes | of the d district «Davton). which ropped the | declared for Senator Willls two week the pri- ) ago, was wavering and would probabl he my 7 evident. that had SO! ion known 1926 campaign. Sought as Second Choice. he nake Hoov na delegat e over to the Hoo Willis Men Firm. e C y Chicago. This attempt verified the bel has persisted here for sometis underneath the Wi campaign Quite but determ: ied on in beha sident Dawes second-choice del Se; hat their organ for the senator. is a strong Hoover movement at Day- ton. however. and it is weil officered terested politicians here anticipate a defection for the Dillis organization @istrict, will be at_that place. Watson has been indorsed - Former Gov. Harry L. Davis of Cleve- der congressi and mo:und who has been u Republican S 1l take ! ganization leader at Cleveland by Na- similar acti is g ce Maschke. ed a_personal al Committeeman Mau but has always maint. erect an or- .lnlle e e wili keep Hoover | araanizat of his own. w which he out of the State. has been able to keep the Maschke or . | zanization sing.” has come into | | and, Ed Jackson on a charge of having conspired to offer a|jc bribe io former Got. Warren T. Me- | of ray. has presented Republicans of In- |2t November the r 0 freed because the statute of Limitations | that the Maschke organization vigor- had run, testimony damaging to the|qiqe opposed, came very close ta carry B RN T e A v e e Iinphenpnt I claims that he an almost general newspaper d Acquittal of Gov. ie open in the present situatio surface indica e unreliable. t0 use his organization in the interest Senator Willis. In the city election conference of Senator W | held here during the holidays for p rations for his candidacy, but his name was not given out among the others who were present, probably for the rea- | son that the Davis administration was not very popular and Gov. Donahev de- feated him bv a tremendous majo; |at the end of his first term. But | Davis organization can be of very great :n)d to Senator Willis in the Clevelan districts now. and it is intimated that in_consideration the former governor to convene to attempt his im- arty leaders studving 2ly and are weighting | flects the demands will have on the ing presidential campaign HAROLD C. FEIGHTNER. LOWDEN AND SMITH S. DAKOTA CHOICE Adherents of New York Governor 2§ his district in Cuyahoga County . v Renewed Alliance Seen. Launch Drive in Other North- Looking beyond the presidential pri- west States. | maries. political observers Te see & {renewal of the old alliance between Walter P. Brown of Toledo 2nd Mr. Maschke, now that they are as in | the support of Secretary Hoover's can- didacy. and they expect to sce Maschke ‘ss‘h;.g mis nrnnm&an's support in the n T N South|State primary to Representative James Dakota at the caucuses Tuesday. sub- | T. Begg of Bandusky for the momine: 78 of the New York governor ¥ill|tion for governor on the Republican naugurate 8 new and mcre energelic|ticket. Brown has been promoting the drive in ?lh'.’ states in the Northwest.| Begg candidacy for some time, but it kishont e UIGrthiwe it Ghn" Weat would follow Hamilton County in the 1t expected by them that other Specizl Dapate EJOUX FALLS. £ D.. Feb. 13 —En- u ¥ the sweeping victory for the for-Fresident forces in South 1 The ner for the gubernatorial nomination e of of th b states of the central ihe cant | because he isextremely liberal on_the g | or question. while Begg is mild!. a per- | & If this alliance stands, it m: et the political dope bucket, which Turner's nomination was practically assured Inquiry among men 1 gefest for W. W. Howes, member | 15 of the Democratic national committee | - from South Dakota. who directed the| fight 2zainst the Smith group. although on the street be never has come out openiy in oppo- | Made wilh a view to ascertaining in a Rition 1o the nomination of Emith. Just | §e0eral way how the rank and file of e tnould have atte 0 pre- | (B¢ Republicans are regarding the . Willis-Hoover fight for delegates, tends the Etate is something of a mystery |12 Tefute the claims of the rival candi- Mr. Howes won out in his|Jales’ supporters that sentiment for me eity of Huron, having been elected | this side or that is widespread and in- 2 delegate 1o the county tense: the average member of the party his party. the organizations expresses him Bouth Dakota n 3 t the Emith forces carrying 15 up = far as the Democ: n politicians, and as not be- about con Of publican parties are concerned, erned Bmith for President on Democratic | ©047S il be incr for nomi. | Prima paign warms the Re.| anything like this apathy con' o the | 11 Aprii 24 the Willis supporter 1 support the b national eonvent two candidates ALFRER BURKHOLDER. ALABAMA DRYS ALIGN ANTI-SMITH DELEGATES Hoover Leader Sought. v alsn lav great st wi Bent OQut by Bibb Le Mills Co: remLotter Organization ers 15 10 The Star MONTGOMERY. Ala Witn less than two weeks organization sestion desire here and outsiders or Willis v y 10 eome planred o pre‘ty thorough ected that Repr vould take 1he jead H outside b elected | City 1 represent Ohio tonal commitiee 1o flare 1p we one secondsry only, 1o that of the cortrol of the been n- eenth dis- is candidat Wil b heid May 8w stsnding thst he would have the Wiliis v officers wi aeleguies elcd Y the Houson | Entries in tnie contest b 1 ICUE MULLIN which tme only commites 88 considerstion that s ull thrown o the winds 30 Delegates to Willis Secretary’'s Move Strains Organization Behind Senator—Maschke and Legislator Break. ¢ | leaders that they will carry the nine- | 9| teenth district, Col. Carmi A. Thomp- se indi- | twill be on the Willis list of delegate | | suppert of Attorney General E. C. Tur- | be nominuted | support for re-election 1o the national But now THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, IOHIO FACTIONS REACH PARTING MONTANA SENTIMENT OF WAYS ON WILLIS AND HOOVER 1and the seven delegates at large, mak- infi 21 in all, leaving 30 delegates to | willis. They hasten to explain that they expect thelr movement to grow and enable them to capture other dis- tricts. It is significant that while no district committee has declared for Mr. Hoover, fwo county Republican com- mittees have done so—those of Lucas The ¢ and Muskingum County. | of the indorsement in Lucas | County is reduced somewhat by the fact that Mayor Jackson, who was| elected in_spite of the opposition of Walter F. Brown's Republican organiza- tion last November, is out for Willis and will throw his organization for him. The district might slip from Mr. Brown's control, but it is not cxpected | to do so. In reply to the claim of the Hoover son said that while there was Hoover sentiment in the iron-mill district about i Youngstown, he had assurance from Willis_workers there that Willis would control the district and have indorse- ment of the district committec. He evi- dently, however, did not feel so well assured about it but that he thought it best to spend the weck end At Youngstown looking over the situation. Canton Held for Wiilis. Canton was reported as another cen- ter of Hoover sentiment. but former Congressman Roscoe McCrlloch of that came down to the Willis headquar- tius week with assurances that the district would select Willis dolegates The district Republican committee has since indorsed Senator Willis. 1t is evident that the Anti-Saloon League intends to indorse Senator Wil- Is, no matter what may be the answer of Seeretary Hoover 1o Senator Boral's questionnaire. They admit that Secre- tary Hoover is on record in his official Teports as in favor of prohibition, but bascd on merely cconomic grounds, while Scnator Willis approaches the | cubject more nearly from the league’s standpoint—morality. They are further led to the Willis side of the contest | the fact of the association of Walter E Brown and Col. Thad Brown with Sec- retary Hoover's mov F. Brown, they expl torney for liquor. I bition and Col. Brown the socr: | liberal organization in his younger . Thompson says delegate candi- ates will be placed in nomination in | very district in the State—in the Cleve- | land and Cincinnati districts included— | and the fight vill be made just as hard | there as in districts where the Willis chances are better. Here in the capital city district, rep- | ! resented by Gen. John C. Speaks. who | opposed the entrance of Mr. Hoover | nto the Ohio primary, there is pro-| nounced Hoover sentiment, but Chair- man Harry C. Arnold has called upon Senator Willis and assured him of ks firm personal suport, but said that it was thought best by his committee not to indorse either candidate. Senator Willis and Mr. Hoover's representatives | will be permitted to select their own | local delegate candidates and fight it out in the primaries. Unless the Hoover sentiment is much stronger | than it appears to be on the surface the Willis delegate candidates will win Warner Hits Browns. | The hot words that are passing be- | tween Senator Willis at Washington jand Maschke at Cleveland are fully equaled here in criticism passed upon Walter F. Brown and Col. Brown oy Chairman Fred Warner of the Republican State committee. In an interview Wednesday, Warner chargac that Walter F. Brown had had himself attached to the Federal payroil in his present position for the purpose of promoting_tbe Hoover movement and | that Col. Brown, after failing to secure | the nomination for governor and being | turned down as an applicant for ap- | pointment to the Federal Radio Com- !mission. had done the next best thing | for himself—attached himself to the payroll of the Hoover organization here | It looks as though for the present | Secretary Hoover would not answer the | questions put to him by Senator Willis, | !intended, as he said, to enlighten the | Republicans of Ohio as to where Mr | Hoover stands on public issues, for Col. Brown issurd a statement from Hoover headquarters Thursday that Secretary Hoover made himself clear {on these points in a speech he made | at Springfield, Ohio, in Senator Willis' !last campaign for re-election, {port of the Senator's candidacy | his request | James R. Garfleld, who had not iden- {tified himself with the Hoover move- ment in a public way, is now discussed I by Hoover leaders as a candidate for delegate-at-large, so th>y must be ad- ised that he is in sympathy Wilma Sinclair Levan of Steu- le was here this week in confer- with Col. Thompson and other Willts leaders. She is the woman mem- ber of the national committee for Ohio 50 it scems probable that she and | Maschke are to be on opposite sides | in the Willis-Hoover controversy The suggestion of former Secretary Meredith of Iowa that Newton D. Bak er be centered on as a candidate with om to defeat Smith, now In the lead for the Demoeratic nomina- tion, received little attention here. Mr Baker 1s understood to be lined up with the fndorsement of former Sena Atlee Pomcrene for the support of t Ohio delegation Paper Against Hoover. | Week end developments in the | Hoover-Wilils contest are the outspoken | opposition to Beeretary Hoover of the Toleds Blade, Republican organ et Toledo, home of Walter Brown. owned by Paul Block of New York. The dec- ration of former Republican Paul Howland, now president of the Cleve- 14 Bar Assoctation, for Senator Willis und his assertion that “Walter F. Brown as Ohfo's national committee- in 2 1912, split the Republican Ohio, and seems to be in Lo | in" The selection of James R Garfield sho had been lsted with the Hoover | lon. as one of the powers| Knlght of Akron, who s | lastic supporter of Senator to be & ecandidate for delegate ticket, for the reason that he b the elghteenth smendment | Volstead law unwise, and might embarrass the & J. M. GALBRAITH. on his aeems b the GAIN OF 547 ARRESTS | MADE IN JANUARY | | Police Report, However, 8hows De | crease of 114 in Accldents | | mitteeman st Kanras | Under December Maushike seemed o be luing up with | Senzvor Willis two weeks ago it was| The Metropolitan police made 8,004 Le Alabeine LemocrsUe primary | b that there was an under {arvests in January, an increase of 647 | over the preceding month, according | s & monthly statistical report sub- | mitted today to Maj). Edwin B, Hesse by luspector Willlam 8, Shelby. Vidlatiolns of the traffic regulations Kian to Unmask Februsry 22 Meschike ban the 1eputation of being were gesponstble for 3,358 of the ar- a wise politican and s shrewd ob- |iests Arrests for felontes totaled 340 HALEIGH N C ¥ R ver of potitical conditions, and bk tor uisdemennors, 1864, violations of oonesday, Fenrusry been U switeh U the Hoover side has been the Volstewd lnw, 337 and violation of Le de i tuken by oany o mesn What be bee e Sheppard law, 1,002 or er the Hoover organizstion s g0l | The report also shows that there were s conrol the delegution wnd have | 304 wceidents during the month, de- 1 wer b dictate whin shiall be ted Lerease of 114 under December. Prop- & lLas been lesrned pere el committesman However sl erty damage was done In 202 cases J ¢ $iun will not Giesrd b o Aclegutes 1hat ik Moover support- | Betzures during Janury ineluded 4 s na yegaiis i entiety, but Wil ers are claiming sure now are the tour lniils, 400 gallons of mash, 795 """I"l @ he isor COmmonly nown 88 W0e Lin Cincinnatl. six in Cleveland, two inlof beer ana 2,526 whirh nides ‘he fece ’ Toledo, two Wi the nineteenth district brandy, slcohol an J;.nmu of gin, sum, whisky, SWINGS TO HOOVER Lowden Only Candidate Actively Backed in State—Dawes Wins Favor. Special Dispatch to The Star. HELENA, Mont.,, February 18.—Two events in political circles—both arising from Republican sources week in Montana. mark the The first is a decided swing, as the KAUFMANN'’S D. 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