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: THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 15 19?8—PART 1.’ > N HOOVER AND SMITH HOLD WIDE T CANPAGNDRAGS iODER A ST KOLD Wk WILISAIHERENTS | RAvFmATN'S IN PENNSYLVANIAiLess Than Half of Instructed Members sme "] DAWES Republican Ballots Carry No Have Been Named by Two Vice President Is Presented Contests of Real Pro- Major Parties. as Candidate in Two portions. | e Ohio Districts. o i | Br the Aseociated Press (83)—Arkansas, 1; Tllinois, 39: Towa, 10; With the Republican national con- | Minnesota, 2¢ Missourl, 17: North 7415 H STREET N. W. Attractive Values in Suites from our New and Complete Stock of @vecial Dispatch to The Star HARRISBURG. Pa. April 14.—With | Pennsylvania’s presidential primary | only 10 days distant, the campaiga is | in its most apathetic stage. The Republican ballots contain no contests of genuine proportions to keep | interest buoved. Only In several dis- triets where there are hard-fought con- tests for Congress. State Senate or Leg- islature has political interest remained | high. Pennsvivania, after experienc- | ing several spirited primaries in re- cent vears, when campeign funds were | plentiful. is not excited. Senator David A. Reed, although he has two oppo- nents on th: ballot. has only a tech- | Nical contest and has been making very | few speeches | Last - ¢k campaign developments, | however, are expected to overcome nm‘ passive attitude during the next seven | days. Some attention will be directed | to the 13 congressional districts in which there are Republican contests for | convention delegates. At Melon’s Disposal. While the Pennsylvania delegation will be uninstructed, there will prob- | ably be several members who have definitely pledged to voters to be for Hoover. The remainder of the 79 nsylvania convention votes will be at the disposal of Secretary of the | Treasury Mellon. If Hoover appears | | the inevitable choice of the convention i | the votes will go to Hoover. If. as re- | | ported in New York. Coolidge will agree to accept nomination to break a dead- lock. there is little doubt here that vention less than two months away, 486 of the 1080 delegates had bee selected up to today. A majority— 545—is necessary for nomination. Of the 1,100 delegate votes in_ the | Democratic convention, 404 had been designated. Two-thirds—733'.—is need« ed to nominate. The line-ups: ¢ Republicans. | Preference in doubt (79)—Illinois, | 11: Missouri, 6; Nebraska New York, | 43: Oklahoma. 10: Wisconsin, 6. Hoover (198) —Instructed, 60; Geor- gin, 15; Kentucky, 20: Louisiana, 10; Minnesota, 4. Hawaii, 2. Claimed (138)—Iowa, 2: Louislana, 2: Maine, 15: Michigan, 4; Missouri, 8: | Minnesota, 2; Nebraska, 5; New Hamp- | shire, 11: New York, 47; North Caro-| lina, 7; Rhode Island, 12 Tennessee, | 5: Virginia, 15; Wisconsin, 1; Philip- | pines, 2. Lowden (146)—Instructed, 63; Iowa, 17: Missouri, 8: Minnesota, 19; North | | Dakota, 13: North Carolina, 6. Claimed publican convention in Michigan.) { BORAH MADE SOLE Carolina, 1; South Carolina, 11; Wis- [ Special Dispatch to The Star. consin, 2. Norris _ (28)—Instructed, 1 consin, 17: pledged, 11: Nebra: Curtis (24) —Instructed, 23; 23 claimed. 1; Rhode Island, 1. Borah (11)—Instructed, Idaho, 11. * Democrats. Preference in doubt (80)—Arkansas, 18: Illinots, 1; Louisiana, 20; Oklahoma, 20: Utah, 1. Smith (264)—Instructed, 100; Idaho, 8: Maine, 12: Minnesota, 24: North Dakota, 10; Washington, 14; Wisconsin, 26; Philippines, 6. Ciaimed (164)— Arizona, 6; Illinois, 57: New Hampshire, 8; New York, 86: Utah, 7. Reed (36)—Instructed, Missourl, 36. George (28)—Instructed, Georgia, 28. Hitchcock (16)—Pledged, Nebraska, 16. (Note.—This computation does not include the action of yesterday's Re- publican State convention in New Mexico, today’s Democratic convention in Porto Rico or yesterday's district Re- HOOVER'S MACHINE Convention Fails to Consider' Mrs. Vaile Says Attempt Is COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 14.—Vice President. Dawes was definitely pre- sented in the Ohio primary campaign this week as a candidate for the Re- publican nomination for President in two congressional districts in this State —the fifteenth and seventeenth. In the fifteenth district this was done in an editorial printed in the Zanesville Times-Recorder, a Republican news- paper owned and edited by William O. Littick, Willis candidate for delegate to he Kansas City convention. The edi- torial makes the frank statement that the candidates in thet district who were pledged to Senator Willis will now go to Vice President Charles G. Dawes, A native son of the district. whose fitness for the office of President is presented at length, All the more significant is this ex- ression because of the fact that Mr. ittick's colleague’ on the Willis ticket in this district is Willlam M. Mills of Marietta, who is an uncle of the Vice President, though he is not represented 48 joining in the statement. Support for Dawes. In the seventeenth district the two Willis candidates joined in a statement to the Republican voters of the dis- trict which they inserted as paid mat- ter in & number of Republican news- papers of the district. 1In it they de- clare their intention of voting on the first ballot for Senator Curtis, their original second choice, now that Sen- ator Willis is dead. and thsy will not fail to support the Kansas Senator Character Furniture A Charming Bedroom Suite of 4 Pieces Four elegant pieces . . . hardwood and gumwood construction . . . veneered with "American walnut. Sketched, a dresser, French vanity, with six drawers, bow-end bed and an artistic chest of drawers with mahogany drawer bottoms. Panels are decorated in two-toned walnut. 18 Months to Pay Mellon will hold out for Coolidge, al- Wwhen there seems promise of his nomi- though who would get the votes on nation. But “in other circumstances,” earlier baliots does not seem soclear. | Hogver—Instruction Made to Force Her to |ibcpotics Teacs jit i our avowed ins Colonial 4-Poster F5s The Republican primary is being | taken so much as a matter of course | that arrangements for post-primary de- | veiopments are already holding public Attention. May 12 has tentatively been fixed for the reorganization conven- tion delegation. This date may have | o be changed if court contests, which | have been common after primaries, | vent certification of official votes | time to compile official records of | committeemen and delegates by May 12. | W. L. Mellon, nephew of the Secre- fary of the Treasury, and at present Republican State chairman, is being | mentioned as a probable choice of the State committee for Pennsylvania’s Re- mn national committeeman. Mrs. y H. Warburton, Pennsylvania's | Woman member of the national com- | mittee, is said to be eager to relinquish her position. Policy May Be Revealed. | ‘The meeting. however, is expected to | be politically interesting, chiefly because | ©of the probability that the first inkling of the Mellon attitude on Pennsyl- vania's convention policy may be 19‘:-1 tes. The | and scheduled to leave Phila- | deiphia early on Sunday, June 10. | In the ratic contest for dele-| tes, the only development of the week | . been the disclosure that three votes | viously classed as probable for Gov. ith are now certain to be for the Unqualified. Special Dispatch 10 The Star BOISE, Idaho, April 14 —Idaho's 11 delegates to the Republican national convention at Kansas City were last Tuesday delivered to Senator Borah for the presidential nomination. This was the unqualified instruction of the con- vention. There is no second choice, re- ports to the contrary that such a choice | was expressed for Secretary Hoover, not- withstanding. The name of Mr. Hoover never came before the convention. It was not con- sidered by that . It is not men- tioned in the resolutions. It was not considered by the resolutions committee. The instructions of the convention are in the following forms. as contained in the resolution unanimously adopted: “Because of our appreciation for Sen- ator Borah for the services he has ren- dered the State of Idaho and the United States, we deem it fitting and proper that the Republican y of this State exert every effort and use all honorable | means to secure his nomination as the Republican candidate for President in the election of 1928, and we so instruct the 11 delegates and 11 alternates we have this day elected to the Republican national convention to be held at Kan- sas City June 12. We further instruct our delegates and alternates to the na- tional convention to vote as determined New York governor. The change, how- | by a majority of our delegates.” ever, does not increase Smith’s min- imum above the previous estimate of 45 Pennsylvania votes. It is virtually certain that among the | votes which will be for Smith will be | Press dispatches stated that the con- vention formally indorsed Senator Borah but named Hoover as its second choice, which is incorrect. John Thomas of Gooding was re- all i4 from Philadelphia County, all| elected national committeeman and Miss 10 from Allegheny County, which in-| Gladys Terhue of Twin Falls, national cludes Pittsburgh; two each from Lack- | awanna, Luzerne and Schuylkill, -the | principal anthracite counties: two (mm‘r Cembria County in the bituminous | B hot T b o s “NEW CONSTITUTION” | ANOTHER TERM SEEN several other with anti-Smith delegates for 14 other the Smith lLre‘nfiLh 59 votes. - directing the Smith campaign sylvania, predicts 60 Smith votes in the ! delegation. | Anti-Smithites Active. | The anti-Smith cempaign, which has | been somewhat guiet in the past few | weeks, is expected to show renewed vigor during the last weck of the cam-| . The snti-Smith men feel con- it of winning 17 votes. Among the 14 doubtful votes, they hope to corral | to reach the McAdoo minimum of 23%; in the 1024 convention. The anti-Smith strength this year is not| similar to the McAdoo votes of four| years ago, however, in that it will con- | tain some wet votes. Some will support | Benator Reed. Missouri. ¢ The . combined opponents of Smith | have taken up a different line of cam- | paign recently. They have insisted that | enough anti-Smith dclcznuz! a‘:’ nssulrbeld | ther tes to make I possible | e - be nominated under the | two-thir ds rule. Prior to that, opposi- | tion to the prohibition issue and later | s demand that Teapot Dome be the| formed the backbone of their | WALTER D. . | T0 SHARE DELEGATION North Carolina Count Stands 8 for Illinoisan, 7 for Secretary, ! 1 Doubtful. | Soe sl Dispate RALEIGH, N. C., April 14.--With 16 of 1he 20 delegates from North Cerolina 1o the Kansss City convention airesdy chosen, 1t 15 now certsin that the dele- gation Wil go into the convention ai- evenly divided between Hoover with the Jatter expected bt edge )t the delegates chosen have been instructed, all of them for *Lowden, but only 1 of the 16 has Dot commitued himself. Including the legates, the count now stands 7 for Hoover and doubt- ful, with both sides claiming the 1o delegates yei 1o be chmen at distric conventions which have been called for next week While they have not fared s well in the gistricts the organization headed by David H of Ipternal revenue entirely its own way i tate convention. A “hig four ing of Mr. Bisir patione) comm Charles A Jonss. Blate chairmen: Brownlow Jack- oon and W. G Bramham, wae over- whelmingly chosen w)though ,?,,,,m; with the charge ther Commissioner Blair voted 15 1920 1o sent & negro dele- gale over & white woman f1om Mem- phis, Tenn . being hurled on the floor of the conyention On ' Democretic side of the fence every development of the week pointed 0 Al Bmith, who wirived in Asheville Priday for 8 three-weck vecaton, on which politics Js seld 5 be tabos but which will furnish the occesion for bim | 15 be eagerly sought-after all the while he i o the Blate E WULIAMS, | {on e of & bresk party for | The Democratic congressional situa- Praises Harverd Men B L R the' other | tion on the astern Shors cleared up & any. wecording 1o Ernest B, SBmith, city | bit when J. H. O, Degg withdrew, leav« Corvespondence of Toe S ON. W H. Nelson, Newion m,',?fllm for 20 yerrs was 8 Boston piiorney and who becume en assistant Cean 8i Hervard College lust ¥all, Loiq o gethering of 000 students at the wn. nusi sophomore emoker i Hervard Union thet his outstending smpression of Harverd students is r truthfules nesa, pUreightiorweraness and honesty. committeewoman. IS ISSUE IN VIRGINIA Contest Over Proposed Amend- ments Is Spirited—Presidential Campaign Obscured. Special Dispatch 1o The Star. s week of Gov. Byrd's speak week of Gov. 's 8 paign in favor of the laaptlv:‘%y the people of constitutional amendments, known as Virginia's “New Constitution,’ has somewhat obscured the presidential campaign. The major part of the con- stitution revision is unoj but there are certain additional amendments which are being challenged and which are likely to lead to a warm it before the date chosen for the people to vote on them. The date is June 19, two days before the State Democratic convention meets at Norfolk to select delegates to the Houston convention The main danger to the governor's program concerns what are known as the ehort ballot amendments. These provide that for their next term the Btate treasurer, State superintendent of public instruction and State commis- sioner of agriculture and immigration shall be appointed by the governor, and that after that time the Legislature may prescribe the manner of their selection. These three officials are now elected by the people, and a great cry has gone up that the plan for appointment by the executive is a departure from the prin- eiples of democracy Assembly Would Act. 1t is pointed out in reply that un- der the proposed amendments, the ap- pointees would have to be confirmed by the General Assembly, the representa- tives of th epeople, and that the Legis- lature, representing the people, would have the right to prescribe a return to popular vote if the experiment of ap- pointment proved unwise, Another amendment which is dear to | the heart of the governor, but which is meeting with no Ilittle opposition, s | that which proposes to write into the organic law of the State the present statutory policy of segregation. It pro- vides in brief that no Btate property tax for State purposes shall be levied on real estate or tangible personal property, except the rolling stock of public service corporations, In other words, these sources of taxation would be segregated 1o the counties and cities for local uses. Most of the daily papers of the Btate #re opposing the segregation amend- ment. The outiook is ghat the segre- gation amendment will be adopted, but ths short ballot amendment is doubt- ful Virginians will have thelr first op- portunity of the year 1o hear & candi- date for the presidential nomination when, on Mondsy, Benator Reed of Missour! speaks st Bluefield, Demo- crate of ninth congressional dis- triet, without regard to personal prefer: ences ae 1 the nomination, are pre paring o give Benator Reed s rousing reception, particularly in view of the recent, statement of C. Bascom Blemp, former Republican Representative from the nintn, that Virginia volers will re- pudiste any “wet” nominee R L C. BARRET, ONE EGG FEEDS STAFF. Carresponenca of The $tar OKLAHOMA CITY —fcrambled os- trich egg was the principsl atiraction | employes of Lineoln park superiniendent, 1da, the ostrich, laid the egg Certainly we ent ostrich eggs,” sald | Beck FRANKLIN WALTMAN, Jr, Bmith, "and they're good, too. 'They tesie ahoul Jike the eggs of the ordl- nery barnyard hen " | Btate by a 61,000 majority, the Back Secretary. Special Dispatch to The Star. | DENVER, April 14.—A tactical blun- der which may upset the Hoover apple- cart in Colorado or at least toss some grit into the smoothly oiled Hoover ma- chine came to light during the week, with announcement by Mrs. Anna Wol- | cott Valle, Republican national commit- teewoman for Colorado since 1923, that | an attempt has been made to coerce her into openly espousing the Hoover | cause. |~ Lowden adherents have seized upon it and are doing their level best to make capital out of it before the convening of the Republican State convention at | Colorado Springs Monday. Since Mrs. Vaile is a sister of Edward O. Wolcott, who was a power in the Republican Rnny. both national and local, during | his lifetime. and since the memory of | Wolcott still carries much weight with the rank and file of the party in Colo- rado, it is possible the fight on Mrs. Valle, if carried on, may have an im- portant bearing on the “color” of the Colorado delegation to Kansas City. Mrs. Vaile up to now has maintained & neutral position as between the avowed presidential candidates, because she has not abandoned the hope that President Coolidge will be drafted. She | was given to understand, she announced, | that unless she came out openly for | Hoover, her post as national committee- | woman would be given to another and | she would be denled a place on the dele- | gation to the national convention. With the trend in Colorado so strongly ?ro-Hnover. the Commerce Secretary’s riends in the ranks cannot see the wis- dom of the leaders in going out of their | way to “pick a fight” that may have an | adverse denouncement. J. B. DAY. | GOV. RITCHIE'S GOAL jHil Refusal to Consider Vice Presi- { dency Gives Support | to Reports. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, April 14—Politics has buzzed all around Maryland this week, but on the whole little has happened which would change the situation, either from a purely local or a Nation- wide vie t. In brief the occur- rences of week were: Gov. Ritchie asserted that the Dem- for 5 Edwin T. Meredith, regarded as the McAdoo “dry” candidate for the Democratic nomination, visiting in Baltimore, declined to concede the dele- gation of Iowa, his State, to Gov. Smith, charging “unfairness and politi- cal trickery on part of the New Yorker in getting control. Votes Smith Support. | Baltimore Federation of Labor votes | to support Gov. Smith for the presiden- tial nomination. Willlam P. Jackson, Republican na- tional committeeman, predicts that his friends will control the Maryland Re- | publican convention with 100 out of the | 147 votes. | “Al" Bmith passes through Baltimore wearing a campaign green derby, which is regarded by his supporters as an | omen of success. Gov. Ritchie's declaration that he preferred to remain as Governor of Maryland rather than succeed Charles G. Dawes as Vice President caused gossip in both parties here. The man- ner in which the governor made the statement could be Interpreted to indi- cate that he belleved he could have eithes hat is, re-election for a fourth | term as governor or the vice presidency. It 18 no secret that the governor and his friends are thoroughly convinced that the present is a Smith year, and that if Bmith does not get the nomina- tion it would be worth 1o any one (else, Also it 15 no secret that the { Ritchie people have their eyes set on 1932, when they expect the governor to be the favorite Democratic candidate. { Fourth Term Seen. | Because of the possibility that 1932 | may be a Ritchie year, plus the fact that the Marylander's present term ex- !rlu» in January 1931, many persons here belleve that a fourth term as gov- ernor is essential to the plan, If the | governor does seek a fourth term, com- | plieation may arise, since there are at | least five Democratis who wish to suce ceed him ! The vote of organized labor in se- | lecting Gov. Bmith In preference 1o | Gov Ritehie Is not surprising and means | Wttle politically, Gov. Ritchie had lahor, { because of the Conowingo policy, fight. |ing him In 1026, when he .we{u the n i | & Blate-wide candidate ever recelved in Maryland. The Jackson-Weller fight over Repub- lican Btate control goes merrily along | with the Weller faction preparing to | Nle an u&pu-mnn ticket of delegates for the Biate convention in Baltimore, | which promises to be a bloody battles round In this fight. Both sides luiming 100 votes In the Btate meeting | Tmpartial observation is 4o the- effest | that the result of the fight wil be close, ing the field to Representative Golda- borough and Biate Senator 8, Boott . Kenan was recently killed abiy will lay 2 or 30 more, according 1o | by an auto truck st Pl Town, Ire. Bmith, | et s b et of the onulng & clgaretie blown by the | dal Between now and Autumn she prob- | wind, John Dawes and to do all in our power to procure for this outstanding son of Ohio the nomination for the Presi- | denc: Inasmuch as Senator Curtis' chances || are rated low, the statement is tanta- mount to a declaration of these dele- te candidates for Vice President wes. This statement is signed by Charles R. Frederickson and Charles W. Montgomery. and is significant because of the fact that Frederickson is now the chairman of the Republican State cen- tral committee and Montgomery held || that position two years ago. The declaration of O, E Bradfute of || Xenia, president of the National Feder- ation of Farm Bureaus, for Secretary || Hoover, was followed this week by a similar declaration by C. R. Wagner of || Arlington, who has been a lecturer and || writer connected with agricultural ex- tension work in the State for a quarter of a century. The position of these men is important because of the fact that the Willis, now the anti-Hoover strength, in Ohio has been generally re- garded as centered in the rural portions of the State. Seek Preference. The Willis candidates for delegates and alternates in the eighteenth district have joined in a published request from the blican voters of the district to express to them their preferences as to the candidate to be supported by them at Kansas City, now that Sena- or Willis is dead. They say that it is their desire to support the candidate that the majority of the Republican workers of the district prefer. The County central commit- tee by a unanimous vote this week gmodoned uel.ha un&ldaty l:deoover. m{; close leveland, center. of enthusiastic sentiment for Secretary Hoover and its influence has no doubt been felt in Portage. The committee had previously indorsed Senator Willis. Former Representative Cole, who is a brother of Ralph %& Cole, now the campaign the Willis-for-President organ 3 has taken the stump in an effort to tial preteren """‘&m'.ry"" motwishanding ference . NOLW! n the death of the Senator, but his worl has attracted attention particularly for the reason that he is stressing Dawes et 3 2 o ielegates elected on the Wm ticket. ri“,’!‘l!h but An'o‘t:tr ;:elk of the Olilln ary camj o ought, activity chiefly noticeable now in the coun- ties and smaller cities. The two head- quarters here are less active and few statements are being given out. local o:flunl.uuann are holding Hoover and Willis meetings, but they have for the most part 0 secure their own speakers, oy ition, embership himself in favor of the anti-Hoover candidates, giving no ex- plicit reason for the clnna:'.“ A month ago a fair estimate of the preuflmzu.’l situation gave A mi result might 8 It does not seem probable that the situation in the districts has been srel\uy changed by Senator Willis' death, By some it has been felt that sympathy engendered by his death || would draw strength to his cause, and it may have some effect that way, but on the other hand, the anti-Hoover movement will lose by chuaen of voters who regard supporting ization now as & vain thing. It seems certain, however, that in the selection of delegates at large the chnnnd situation s the death of the Senator will tly hclr Hoover una"uu : mfl .v.“ melgt '(1“1 mififlr 50 strongly in the presidential prefer- ence vote that the result will be ;l)ver- much 80, for Hoover, If it throws the seven del- cgates at Jarge to Hoover, seven more votes for Hoover from Ohlo may be counted, making the total delegation stand, assuming that no change has taken place in the distriots, Hoover, 27; anti-| ver, 24. ‘The defeat of Senator Smith for re- ction to the Senate in Illinois has laced a further obstacle in the way of mator Fess' return to the Benate next November. His vote In favor of seat- ing Smif nd considering the election charges inst him later, made many opponents for SBenator Fess in the State, J. H. GALBRAITH, GARLAND TO OFFICIATE. 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