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HODVER FOREEEN BAY STATEVITO Big Margin in Tuesday Vote Predicted—Smith Is Cer- tain Winner. Gpecial Dispat : BOSTON, April 21.—Herbert Hoover will carry the preference vote at the Massachusetts presidential primaries T by a substantial majority over the combined vote of all other candi- dates, according to indications almost on eve of the balloting. The Hoov- er organization, which has been work- er cover for weeks, came out open & few days ago and is Tt to roll up a for the man his followers to The Star ence will go %o | by one of the | IEing ever given to any can- a pomary in the Bay State. stic get-together ts from all of the s in Boston Thurs- | ty ced imous thes would a T m ev of one Appeal Is Broadcast. | the Smith . situation assured. | { interest in the primaries is the size of the vote Mr. Hoover will get end in hope that a last-minute appeal | might help. his Massachusetts manager, | John Richardson of the law firm o!i Ropes, Gray. Boyden & Perkins, has sent the foliowing announcement broad- “I believe that a very large number of our citizens prefer Herbert Hoover among the active candidates for the | Presidency. They have faith in his| igtegrity and y. They believe | that his experience qualifies him for | the responsibilities of the office. They know that he has been loval and help- | ful to President Coolidge. They be- litve he will carry on the Coolidge policies. . held a Her er stronger than to-| Y ur citizens can render a service | 10 their party, they can render a serv- | fce to their Natien, by going to the | ils April 24 and writing in on the lot on the space provided therefor | their preference for President. | “They eyes of the country are on | Massa~husetts. The people of the oguntry await an expression of opinion from the Republicans of the President’s State. 1f that expression is for Her- bert Hoover, it will go a very long 2.\' to insure his nomination and elec- | n." | has always Big Vote Predicted. Wolunteer Hoover workers will be out | fn scores using their automobiles to | take the voters to the polls Tuesday. apd in this way it is expected that record vote will be turned out. The | larges total presidential primary vote | eyer cast in the State was in 1912, when the figure was only 170,000. Last year, it was only 132000. It is ex- ted that the total will be between .000 and 400,000 this year, out of a total registration of 1.377.932. Both parties have a number of im- | rtant delegate contests to be settled. Republicans have 51 candidates for 39 delegate places, while the Democrats have 110 candidates for 72 places—each of the Democratic delegates to have half a vote. Both parties have at- tempts being made to break the official at Jarge slates as prepared by the re- spective party organizations. the State, especially to the women, and may get one of the places on the big | seven group. Quigley Is Candidate. On the Democratic side Mayor Law- rence F. Quigley ‘helsea is opposing | the big eight slate headed by United Btates Senator Waish. All of the can- | didates on the Walsh slate have the | words “Pledged to Gov. Smith of New | York” after their names on the ballot. 9 who was & conspicuous Smith | adherent a1 the Madison Square Garden | convention four years ago, was denied the rignt 10 use Smith’s name by the local Democratic committee chairman, who had power of attorney from the New York Governor 1o handle the using of his name by candidates. Quigley has mede an active campaign, but it is if be can wins e 39 Republican delegates, s now certain of 30, with pos- or two more as a result of | erence vote.. In only one dis-| | setts manager for McAdoo four years ago, has a slate of candidates in the field against the | B@ith men, but Heslin no longer has 1g he formerly enjoyed § Butler hat, regardless ize of Hoover's victory, it can- d that either had any hand in | States, however, are apt to| t the vote shows that Coolidge's | have gone the limit for NDELL D. HOWIE, ARKANSAS REPUBLICANS | SILENT ON PREFERENCES Beticence Bure W id to Desire to Pick a er—Democrats in Bimilar Bit ] LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 21 W‘m‘t their national less than two months « future, Arkansas Repub- | leaders are | matter of | ey hove ie when the mve & unced in | eterence tor Hoover, | e not felt constrained o iis preference wpd commil selves 1o Ue Moover candidacy. Slrange 6s it may seemn U those fa- with Demociatic politics in the th, practically the same situstion evadls among Demitrats. The Demo- | the leaders favor Bmith hecause he | s the earmarks of & probable winner, | 4 by the bitter | fiown by the pres | 4nd the “api- | Smith. | happen rr Bng car Ioyelty. Among Jocrats &nd Fepubiicans alice u woat | D'I:“: band WegoL secins o be the first i nsigeration. 11 either of these can e beging 1 sbp betore conyention j6 will be no dificult matter for | pdherents in Arkansas 1 pretend g were O STCIER CHENAULE, THE WEEK THE 'SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Primaries Tuesday in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts IN POLITICS ‘Summary of National Developments Based on Reports From The Star's Special Correspondents and Staff Writers. vania and Massachusetts, where primary elections of delegates to the Republican national conventions are to be held Tuesday. ‘The results in these States are likely to have important bearing on the Republican presi- dential nomination. i1 Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, runs well .in Ohio and Massa- chusetts presidential preferential voting. and delegates pledged to him in some of the Pennsylvania dis- tricts are elected. his boom will re- ceive a big boost Massachusetts is expected to go overwhelmingly for Gov. Al Smith of New York. in the preference vote, and to pick practically a solid dele- gation for the New Yorker. In Ohio. the delegation will be for a {avorite son. former Senator Atlee Pomerene, but there may be many Smith men in the delegation. The anti-Smith forces are battling in Pennsylvania, under the leadership of Vance McCormick, in the hope of winning 17 to 23 of the district delegates. HE political spotlight plays I brightly on Ohio, Penns i e Mr. Hoover, according to the spe- cial political correspondent of The will receive a large vote in Massachusetts. His supporters there are active and doing everything they can to get the voters to the polls. He is certain of the backing of 30 of the 39 delegates there to be elected, it is reported, aithough the delegation will uninstructed, except so far as the preference vote may be considered an instruc- tion. Massachusetts is the Presi- dent’s own State and what it does may be considered significant. Both the President and Chairman Wil- liam M. Butler of the Republican national committee have kept hands off in the campaign up to date. F. L. Anderson, professor at & theological school, is running as a pledged Hoover candidate for dele- gate at large against the organiza- tion slate. In only one congressional district in Massachusetts are anti-Smith candidates running for delegate election, in the Lowell district, and they may be defeated. Otherwise, Smith has the whole of Massa- chusetts. President Coolidge's letter to Chair- man Prescott of the Massachusetts Republican State committee, re- questing that his name be not used 1in the presidential preference primary there Tuesday, has put another damper on the “Draft Coolidge” movement in several States, includ- ing New York and Connecticut. * x ok x ‘The Ohio primary will hold even more significance than that in Massachusetts. Mr. Hoover is run- ning against the late Senator Willis for the presidential preference. The ‘death of Willis slowed down the campaign in Ohio. The fear of the Hoover supporters is that the vote may be light. With the anti- Hoover group in control of the or- ganization except in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and one or two other cities. the chances are in favor of the Hoover opposition, unless the voters flock to the polls as the consequence of a real demand for Mr. Hoover. Hoover supporters claim that their canaidate will re- ceive the State-wide preference vote, and that a majority of the delegates elected will be Hoover delegates. The “field” is lined up solidly against Mr. Hoover in Ohio, with the Lowden, Dawes, Curtis, Watson followers doing their utmost to halt the progress of the Secre- tary. A victory in Onio, while not having the same effect as had Senator Willis lived, will be a great assistance to the Hoover-for-Presi- dent campaign at this time. s ] Indeed, there are signs, according to the dispatches received by The Star, that in a number of States the Hoover band wagon is traveling with less speed. This is due to a number of causes. The likelihood of the nomination of Gov. Smith by the Democrats has redoubled the demand of certain organization Republicans in New York, Connecti- cul and other States, including some Southern States, for the draft- ing of President Coolidge for the party nomination, on the theory that he can defeat Smith, even in New York. The supporters of Prank O. Lowden and Vice President Dawes, both of whom have favored the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, are shouting that with Al Smith running, it is necessary to nominate a man who can be sure of carrying all the agricultural States of the West. This, they say, Mr. Hoover cannot do. In Arkansas and Alabama, the re- ports say, the band wagon Repub- licans are beginning to soft-pedal the Hoover talk, though they may swing back strongly for the Becre- tary if he shows well in the coming primaries. In Tennessee a row has arisen between Representative J. Will Taylor, the Republican boss, and Claudius Huston, former Assis- tant Becretary of Commerce, a Hoover man, and Taylor asks the udiation by Hoover of Huston, with a velled threat as to the atui- tude of the Tennessee delegation at the national convention. In Vir- ginia, too, it is reported the Hoover talk 15 lessening. But C. Bascom Slemp, the leader, will deliver the delegation nevertheless oo Connecticut has picked a strong Collidge delegation, headed by J. Henry Roraback, the Republican na- tional committeeman. Other dele- gates at large include Gov. Trumbull and Senator Hiram Bingham. There is some talk of Dawes as second choice, although Mr. Hoover seems 10 have the edge in this matter, The Watson Republican organiza- tion in Indiana is confident of elec ing & Watson deiegation over t| Hoover slate, it is reported. What is worrying the organization, however, is the selection of a Btate ticket and the senatorial nomination. Present indications are that the sceretary of sate, ¥, E. Schortemeter, will win the gubernatorial nomination and Bena- tor Robinson the senatorial, This does not ook like a “new deal” for which the voters in Indiana have been clamoring since the develop- ment of political scandals in the Btate. The Republican organization is praying, it 1s sald, for the nomi- nation of Gov. Al Bmith by the Demograts, feeling that the State ticket can surely be elected in that event, The Democrats are putt up & strong Btate Licket, which migh! win under ordinary circumstances, but which may lose in the presi- dentisl year ‘The Indisna primary, however, may be affected not s little by the Ohlo und Massachuseits re- s this week, and the Hoover peo- ple ure continuing their work nator “Jim” Reed of Missour) hins come oul In open antagonism the nomination of Gov. Al Smith and in campsdgning vigorously for feed delegates 1o the national con vention st Houston, He is reported W have had a warm reception in West Virginia end other Slates he has recently vieited, Heed, so far, represents the real SBmith opposition, although Reed, mith, is & wet, In West Virgh tor Goft alons has filed for the presidenttial pri- mary May 29. Two prominent Re- publican delegate candidates, how- ever, have announced they will vote for Hoover if elected. Gov, Al Smith has continued to make friends in North Carolina dur- ing his stay at Asheville, but Senator Simmons, boss of the Democratic organization, still msists that the State will be against the nomination of the New Yorker and that he can- not be nominated. The Lowden claim of 23 delegates in Minnesota is disputed. The dele- gates chosen in the tenth district have announced they will vote for Hoover, and this would cut the Low- den strength to 21 at most. Another check for Lowden came in Arizona, where former Gov. Campbell, lead- ing Republican, has recently an- nounced himself for Hoover. xR w N The Pennsylvania primary - will bind the delegates of neither the Republican nor the Democratic arties, for no candidate has filed for the presidential preference. However, on the Democratic side, the candidates for district delegates to the national convention have an- nounced themselves either for Smith or against him. and a good line on the situation will be given by the primary results. The Republicans will send an uninstructed delegation to the Kansas City convention. al- though a half dozen of the candi- dates have announced for Hoover and there is much sentiment in the State for him. Smith is reported to be reasonably sure of 45 of the 76 delegates from Pennsylvania and may have as many as 60. ‘The Republican State convention in Colorado was virtually a Hoover affair all down the line, it is report- ed, with the re-election of Clarence C. Hamlin as national committe man, a Hoover leader. The delega- tion will be at least 11 to 4 in favor of Hoover. Efforts have been made to make it appear a check for Hoover. but this report is now de- nied. Hoover will have the Oregon delegation solidly. Mrs. Nelile Ross, former Governor of Wyoming, is in- vading Oregon in the interest of Al Smith. The fight there is between Smith and Senator Walsh of Mon- tant for the Democratic delegation. ‘The Nevada Republican State con- vention is to be held Tuesday. An uninstructed delegation with lean- ings to Hoover is predicted. The Democrats there seem strong for Smith. From Illinois comes reports that Smith will have 58 of the State’s delegates. Lowden received another boost for the Republican nomination when the Republican State convention of his State, Illinois, instructed the entire delegation, 61 strong, to vote for him at the national convention. (Copyright, 1628, by The Washincton Star.) 'HALE AN D BREWSTER | Senator Faces Stern Struggle to Land Renomination—Gov- ernorship Is Feught. Special Dispatch to The Star, AUGUSTA, Me., April 21.—Maine's | pre-primary scramble, so {ar as the Re- | publicans are concerned, is the most | pronounced since 1916. There are four | candidates for the gubernatorial nom!- |nation and two for that of United |States Senator. Col. Willlam Tudor Gardiner, World War veteran and ex- | Speaker of the State House of Repre- | sentatives: ex-State Senator Frederick W. Hinckley and ex-mayor of South Portland; State Bank Examiner John |G. Smith and ex-mayor of Saco, and Prof. Herbert C. Libby of Colby Col- {lue. also an ex-mayor of Waterville, ‘:mtnm the governor niche on the | Senator Hale has the fight of his | political Iife on for a renomination, | being opposed by Gov. Ralph O. Brew- | ster, acknowledged one of the cleverest and most energetic politiclans this State has known in many years | . With the exception of Representative | Hersey of the fourth district, the Maine Congressmen have no opposition for re- nomination. Most Republicans in the | fourth district say that Mr. Hersey has |no real opposition; that while Donald ir. Snow, young lawyer of Bangor, is |opposing him, after the votes are count- ed, Uncle Ira, as everybody in the dis- {trict calls him, will find the opposition more imaginary than real. | The senatorial battle is overshadow- ing all else. Sepator Hale ought to {win. He is in office and has the pa- {tronage. But the Hale machine which | put him over in the tri-cornered scrap jof 1916, when he beat Bert M. Fernald {and Mr. Hersey, is more or less |scrapped. Men who are doing things today in Maine hadn't been heard of |12 years ago. Senator Hale is not in |close touch with them, | Brewster is. At this time betting odds favor Gard!- ner o win the gubernatorial nomina- tion, with Libby second, Hinckley third and Smith fourth Practically speaking the Democrats |of Maine have no problems so far as the primary is concerned. Here and there there is a contest for nomina- s tion to the Legislature or for some coun- ty office, but that is all. So far as the | Important nominations, governor, Sena- {tor and Representative, the primary is ‘- Joke. All such candidates are hand- picked. J. C. MURPHY. |WEST VIRGINIA TENDERS WELCOME TO REED Btate Democrats File for Delegates, Naming Smith as Cholce. b 1o The Star TON, W. Va, April 21— | Benator Reed of Missour), first of the | presidential candidates to come into the Blate, addressed large audiences thiy {week at Bluefield, Beckley, Charleston |and Parkersburg. Senator Reed will ireturn April 25 for a mpeech at the Greenbrier Valley Fair Grounds near | Lewishurg | The splendid reception tendered the | Missourian was inspired in part by his stand against the Interstate Commerce [Cummlnnlml in the lake conl cargo rate controversy, The southern counties traversed on the motoring trip are de- {u—nnfinl upon the coal industry for helr (flm&erllyv While Senator Reed was being lon- ized, weveral more Democrats filed for delegates and named Gov. Smith as their chiolce. Nineteen of some forty- odd delegate candidates are now pledged by thefr certificates to Bmith. All of these, however, will bg provided with primsry compelition on behalf of Bena- tlor Reed wnd pursusnt to a decision {reached by supporters during the lat- [ter's visit, Mayor W. ¥, Btout of Park- ershurg. who filed this week for distriet delegnte, expressed w preference for | Newlon 1. Baker Talk persists that Hoover's name, and possibly Lowden's will be tered for the primary May 20, in op ition to Benator Goft, but there is nothigg aus thoritative in this Y’;mlp " LYNN KIW 2 | | | | More | CONTEST IN MAINE| while Gov. ‘ MINNESOTA CLAINS OF LOWDEN DENIED One of Tenth District Dele- gates Says He Is for Hoover. Special Dispatch to The Star. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, April 21.— Claims of 23 Lowden delegates from Minnesota to the Republican convention | do not seem to be well grounded. They are based on the assertion that the two delegates from the tenth district, unin- structed, will vote for Lowden, though they have been claimed for Hoover. This is denied by Lowell E. Jepson of | Minneapolis. one of the delegates. “I am for Hoover,” he says, “and was elected as a Hoover man. So was | my_colleague, John A. Berg of Buffalo, and when we met recently he assured me that he would vote with me for Mr. Hoover.” In a statement last week, Clarence | F. Buck, Lowden campaign manager, listed 23 Lowden delegates from Minne- sota and mentioned specifically the | tenth district men. They are not in- | structed, but were elected by Hoover delegates to the district convention. A resolution to mstruct them for Hoover lost by a tie vote. To Draft Candidates. ticket into the fleld. including a candi- date for United States Senator, were taken this week. appointed a committee of 20 Democrats to draft candidates and get them to | file. He was authorized to do this by the convention. of candidacy for the primary election expires May 9. Senator Shipstead has falled all attempts to learn his inten- | tions. He has three courses n. He | may file again as a Farmer-! | one of the three courses | | | Though the time for filing affidavits = activities. | PR CLARENCE C. HAML: Republican national from Colorado and leader C, APRIL 27, 1928-PART Y. HOOVER ACHIEVES | COLORADO VIGTORY Secretary Virtually Certain of 11 of State’s 15 Votes. [ | Special Dispatch to The Star. | DENVER, Colo., April 21.— Demo- | cratic politics and politicians stepped | |aside in Colorado during the week to | permit the Republicans to occupy the | ull glare of the spotlight, by reason of their Denver County convention and | their State and congressional district | assemblies at Colorado Springs. Hoover | forces achieved victory practically all | the way down the line—the Secretary being virtually certain of 11 of the 15 | Colorado votes at Kansas City—but the | | week’s developments left a sour taste in | rommnl?en;:ln | the mouths of some Republicans, which | of the | does not augur well for party harmony | | Hoover forces in that State, has been | in November unless some “harmonizing” named again to the organization office. ~ | Clarence C. Hamlin, is expected to pay a visit to Minnesota to look things over before giving his final decision. Has Not Acknowledged Indorsement. He was indorsed for re-election by the Farmer-Labor State convention, but has not acknowledged the indorsement Still. Parmer-Labor leaders insist they Steps to bring a full Democratic State | 8¢ sure he will not desert the third party. Gov. Theodore Christianson. who Andrew Nelson of | filed for a third term early in January, luth, chairman of the Democratic | NOW has an opponent. George T. Simp- State convention which met March 15, | Son of Minneapolis, former attorney | general, has filed for the Republican nomination and will make a campaign against the Christlanson policies of central financial control over all State CHARLES B. CHENEY. Salvador Officials Named. SAN SALVADOR, Salvador, April 21 r can- | (#.—Dr. Francisco Martinez Suarez has | didate, he may file as a Republican, or | been appointed minister of foreign af- | he may walt until after the primaries | fairs, replacing Dr. Gustavo Guerrero, and flle petitions as an independent. | resigned | There are partisans urging him to each | been appointed subsecretary of foreign ‘The Senator | affairs. Dr. Lisandro Villalobos has |1s effected. national com- | mitteeman and leader of the Hoover | forces, was re-elected by a comfortable margin over Fred O. Roof, who sought [to unseat him. Hamlin also brought | |about the defeat of Mrs. Anna Wolcott | Vaile by Mrs. John E. Hillman for the | post of national committeewoman. but |in doing so—according to consensus of | opinion—he sacrificed the chance to |send a Hoover instructed delegation to Kansas City. The motion to instruct | for Hoover was lost by only 48 votes, | which could have been mustered but | for the ill feeling stirred up by the fight on Mrs. Vaile, who is a sister of |late Senator E. O. Wolcott and car- ‘ried the prestige of the Wolcott mem- |ory, which still is strong among the |0ld Guard. Named on Delegation. The only acknowledged Lowden sup- rter on the delegation—Murray Ben- | | nett of Delta—received but 243 votes out of a total of 934. 'Senator, Phipps, Senator Waterman, Secretary Hubert Work and National Republican Treas- | |urer Will V. Hodges “made” the dele- | gation at large, despite various rumors | |of what would happen to them if they | did not do thus and so at the dictates of this or that faction. For the first time in many years the convention failed to include a woman in the national delegation, and the howl set up by women members of the party over the State still is reverber- ating. John P. Stephen, chairman of the Denver County central committee, be- came so wrought up over developments at the Denver County convention that he declined to attend the State assembly. A resolution to instruct the Denver delegation for Hoover which was adopted over his vehement protest | was responsible for his ire. He declared Hoover supporters, in presenting the resolution, openly flouted a pre-conven- tion promise that no attempt would be made to instruct for any candidate. Lowden supporters are carrying on in the face of their defeat in the State conventian in the hope of converting some of the delegates to Kansas City | between now and convention time. Meanwhile Al Smith's popularity in Colorado was emphasized when 309 Democrats, representative of the rank and file of the party in the southern part of the State, gathered at a banquet and cheered lustily at every mention of the New Yorker's name. J. B. DAY. GOVERIGORSHI.P CONTEST ABSORBS GRANITE STATE Republicans Have Two Announced Candidates in Field—Demo- crats Delay Choice. Special Dispatch to The Star. CONCORD. N. H.. April 21—With the New Hampshire primary over, political circles in the Granite State have quiet- ed down the past few weeks and at- tention now is centered on the cam- paign being waged for the Republican nomination for governor. Ora W. Brown of Ashland and Charles W. Tobey of Temple and Man- chester are the two announced candi- dates and both have been doing con- siderable work about the State speaking before various organizations. The Democrats have no announced |candidate for governor, but it is ex- pected that former Mayor Fred Small of Rochester, who was Demo- cratic leader in the New Hampshire House, will be the logical candidate, although friends of Capt. Maurice I Devine of Manchester There seems to be a feeling in New Hampshire that U. 8. Seator George Moses may be the Republican candidate for Vice President or may be named to | | . | | old Spotlight HOOVER SEEN LOSER IN TENNESEE ROW Taylor and Huston Reported in Skirmisk —State’'s 19 Votes Used as Weapen. Special Dispatch to The Star. MEMPIHS. Tenn., April 21.—Rumors of a political row between esenta- tive Taylor, national committeeman, and Claudius Huston, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, may seriously endanger Secretary Hoover's chance to pocket Tennessee’s 19 votes in the Kansas City convention. It appears that Mr. Taylor is not | pleased with Mr. Huston's activities in the third district last week. The dis- trict convention held in Chaftanooga wound up in a determined fight on ‘Taylor by Mr. Huston, aided by Paul Kreusi, prominent Chattanooga manu- facturer. Mr. Huxtonhls flt.l)e“‘.l'w 15:001"" The report goes that tl aylor forces are demanding that Hoover repudiate the Huston-Kreusi delegation and declar- ing that if this is not done Tennessee's 19 votes may not respond so easily to tn!;e Hoover nomination. The fact that r. 1 of the Republican - party machiners throughout the State makes such a | threat more than ominous. Tennessee is not commitied to Hoover. It is expected that the Ten- nessee delegation will go to Kansas City uninstructed. but prepared to swing to Hoover if it is found to be expedient. The State _convention comes off next month. Taylor probably will receive the unanimous indorsement for national committeeman Calm peryades the Democratic ranks. There is an occasional sputtering be- tween those that favor Gov. 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