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MARYLAND CAUCUS PICTURE MAP OF REPUBLI(IAN CONVENTION 'CITY 15 DUE TOMORROW Mayor Broening Arranges for State Delegation, Which Arrives Today. BY FRANK H. FULLER. B the A KANSAS CIT The Mary- land delegation to the Repuolican na- tional_convention will arrive in a body Sunday alternoon on A special train coming by way of St. Louis, and will immediately establisa_headquariers in the President Hotcl. The Siate cau will be held on Monday morning abot tion headquarters ning of Baltimore n asked to an of th> Maryland del- ng_ here Friday with former Solicitor Roland R. Marchant of Baltimore. The mayor has spent two days making arrangements for the dele- g2tion and pronounced everything in teadiness tonight. Zihlman Arrives. Representative Frederick N. Zihiman of Cumberland accompanied Mayor Broening to Mooscheart, 111, where they attended th> commencement exercis of the school maintained by the Lova Order of Moose. but returned to Chi- cag> bejore coming on to Kansas City. He was the only other member of the Gelgation expected before Sunday eve- | ning. Zihlman and Mayor Broening are members of the Moose and ihe mayor was a former head of the na- tional organization hough not a delegate, former United | ates Senator Willam P. Jackson of | a national committeeman land. is one of the busiest men in the city and is taking part in | pre-convention activities. He is fre- quently sought in the numerous con- ferences—every time two or three men get together here it is called a confer- ence—and is well known among the hundreds of delagates and party chiefs Maryland for Hoover. as the nomination of national eewoman and national commit- | concernzd. the State caucus ne procecure. Mayor Broen Senator Jackson and M W. Biaden Lowndes of Baltimore are ) unopposed. The principal work of the caucus will be the selection of the mem- bers of the resolutions and credentials | committees, the committee on rules, | committae to notify the President, com- mittee on organization and commiitee to notify the Vice President “1 believe that Mr. Hoover will win the nomination early in the convention #nd that he will carry Maryland in the general election,” Mayor Broening said in discussing the political situation in his State. He pointed out that his own city of Baltimore -votes Democgatic in | one election and Republican in another, | varying in different years and different | types of elections, but expressed the opinion that the city would give Hoover & majority | ‘The State's 19 votes in the convention Wwill be for Hoover from the first to the last, he said, | ing has be serve as cha egation. " teeman i a taid todav CONVENTION SIDELIGHTS B7 & Staff Correspondent of The Star. | KANBAS CITY, Mo., June 9.—There| are 147 out of 230 “Reguler” Repub- | Jicans in the National House of Repre- sentatives, coming from 31 of the 37, States having Republican representa- tives. who will be at the convention as o boosters for Hoover. In fact, | most of them have already arrived and | are spesking day and night at pre-con- vention pep meetings. | Representative John M. Robsion of | Kentucky, an ofiginal Hoover man, is | leader of this powerful cohort, and has established “Hoover congressional head- | quarters” on the floor of the Muchibach Hotel, tly between the | two entrances, so that it attracts atten- | tion from every person entering the hotel, which is the center of pre-con- vention activity. | Beveral months ago five members of tne House staried this organization at & dinner in the Capitol—Representa- tives Robsion. Franklin Port of New Jersey, Cyrenus Cole, Iowa; Arthur M. Free. Calitornia, and Walter L. Newton, Minnesota. A5 the organization grew. they decided that % would be & good thing to have headguart*s, 2 place of contact and of genczal injormation of members of Con- gress, where they could gathier and plan | strategy at the convention in | Cuy<-0 ©° TR DY e itepubiican | members of the House who are for | hoover, }ir. Robsion has been an inde-' fatigadie worker, makinz arrangements | ol &l soris lor mempe of Congress and getting them cards at all of the Kansas City clubs, providing them with literature, windshield stickers and all soris of Hoover souvenirs. The big poster pictures of Hoover with the slogen. “Who But Hoover?” have com- manded the attention of all persons passing the hotel Word th wite of t at Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Bpeaker, will arrive here tomorrow '2d the omen boosters for Moover was the cause of an im- | promptu celebration at the Hoover na- tional headquartess on the fifth fsor of the Baltimore Hotel this (Satur.! azy) afternoo: Edward P. Coilad mitteeman from the # & marked m: some of 10 1L up & bror rate tne fact ¢ person 1 p eonyention war Louisvi dsy. November 1 dent was | speech at th Memoria My, Colladay was engaged In a quite Important jaw case and when a reporter sought bim out snd hed him pose for # photograph he thought It was because of loeal interesr | . tr But in the course he ex- next Je convention should He was g Presidgent snd national politics printed November national com- tional Capita) in Kansas C and husiasts are proposing | tahlet to commemo- he the first that the Republican be held pere, He Ky. on Armistice 6, and the Presi- Kanws Ci'y making a unvelling of the Eoldlers of thet intervi n that the national s C ” 45 City noowter Mr Colladey is ey eounty, for he used b son, ¥eans., a0 F %i'h many old ¢ thely sehiebarh secietary of the e, the mo publican politics the st scoomparied of Repub of the DAstrict, wre aiso in the seme porty Mre rharg #1ate commitien greet many | 'mu aarters b 4 exicent Houel Mary of 1k secretury i of the Republiean the District, will # Distriet fihe will be 8L the D om for This view of the section of Kansas City surroundin tivities of delegates and v timore: No. 6, Robert F. No. 12, Board of Trade. L.ee Hotel; ) THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Convent! LbWDEN WILL INSIST ON FARM AID PLANK IN G. O. P. PLATFORM Former lilinois Governor De- fends Equalization Fee as Relief Plan. Says It Should Be Champion- ed “Unless Some Betler Way Be Found.” BY EDWARD J. DUFFY, Associated Press Staft Writer KANSAS CITY, June 9.—Farm relief and farmers kept Frank O. Lowden busy today from the moment he ar- rived on the pre-convention scene, While keeping apart from the gossip and bustle, the former Illinois governor was closeted hour after hour in his hotel room with leaders of the coalition against Hoover and militant advocates of legislation to relieve agriculture. His door was guarded while hurried con- ferences took place, but one interim in this program was allowed for a meeting with newspaper men. This found the white-haired aspirsnt | ., for the Republican nomination vigor- ously defending the equalization fee of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. whils avoiding other topics relative to the party platform. He said he would insist that the controversial fee pro- vision be incorporated into the plat- form “uniess some better way be found" of distributing the burdens of farm re- lief among all producers. Expounds Fee Principle. Thirty-eight men crowded into the small room for the conierence, and Lowden shook hends with each one upon entrance, calling many by their first names. The conference took on an aspect of cross-examination at the outset, with question after question be- ing fired from the standing group as the portly Illinolsan sat lfl’lflrnl in their midst, He cheerfully expounded on the equalization fee principle, with inci- dental references to the -history of the Republican party regarding agriculture | and his administration as a governor. | B0 far as all else was concerned, it was a case of verbal sparring, and the laurels went to Lowden, The Republican farm telief plank in 1924 was mentioned, leading the Iliinoisan to say that “ft was broad enough, and demanded some | legislation which would restore equality o _agriculture.” “As between agriculture and indus try,” he was asked, “has that obliga- | tion been filled?” "You ought not to ask me that,” re- plied Lowden “What sort of plank do vou think there should be on prohibition?” in- quired another. [ Kigned Dry Measure, “I don't understand your question,” returned Lowden instantly, adding that | he was “not discussing prohibition " | When the topic was brought up later, | however, he sald he was standing on | his record as Governor of Ilinois in reference to prohibition, Pressed about | what his record wes, Lowden recalled | that “the law enforcement was passed rigid, before the Pederal Government had acted,” and added, “There wss a #ood deal of controversy over the meas- lire and & good desl of opposition to it and I signed it." Asked “what sort of missionary work you going 1o do to bring the con- | ention 1o your point of view.” Lowden | sald he had not “the slightest ides He lifted a leg over the arm of his cha! and continued slowly: "I am here, anybody has any doubt about what I Believe, 1 suppose he will look me urx' Won't have to take the in tre- itintive?” I am mendously the Republican party meeting issue and meeting it squarely replied. "I am a thou- sand times more inte 12 in my nomination nominated, my troubles are over ir you of in iy course, interested and 1 ¢an see & happy Bummer and a bappy | Autumn shead; but if 1 am nominated I know there is & ot of grief ahead | n eertain respects Many Neek Audien Both before and after the press con- ference he corridor to Lowden's room found numerous convention Lypes treaming in and out, with seversl wWio meked Lhe Decessury appointments waiting for # chance to get him Fhese sded rome lowans who hed been his classmates the University of lows Vong ago, several members of e tom-uniformed Kansas City polic e, wnd occasionslly B group of gh-hiewn, sun-tenned farmers who alked shoul the tortheoming com cyop One triumvirate standing agatnst Honver emerged Just me Lhe news- paper men entered, Gov. Adam Mc- A of Nebrasks, Mars Woods of Nebraska and Oeorge N, Peek, chalt wan of the sgricuitursl committee of 22 “There's just one issue i convention * sald Peek upon leaving e Diinois cendidate, “and [ whether the East 15 going Lo cxvend the protective syslem Lo sgniculture That theme recurred time and time agaity in Lowden's talk, and he ssld he Aaia not consider 1t important 0 the nominstion of & candidate I think thet there s such & thing frequently st m politicsl convention ” he snig, “es nominating e cendidaie who 15 his own platform on & pailicu v question.” Contidge In Mentioned Pt eularly the iidge. who hue 1wice Nt he wes arkend more alan 1 b case with Mr eined thie 5 ed in that than | If 1 am not | the [ the preferentisl primary FRANK 0. LOWDE in bill “Oh, yes," said Lowden “Suppose Mr. Hoove; is nominated?” = a query. ‘Well,” replied the Illilnoisan, “I can’t answer that question. I am not ¢iscussing the other candidates before this convention. I am not discussing myself.” ‘Among the meny who garnered some of Lowden’s time today were Senator Goff of West Virginia, a candidate himself, and Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCor- mick, nominee for Representative at large from Illinois. Both have been working overtime to defeat Hoover. Wit this fight in mind, one in- quirer brought up the “coalition move- ment among candidates which seems to be going to the question of agricultural relief and meking the presidential nomination secondary.” He asked Lowden whether he desired to “say anything in connection with that.’ “I don't know anything about that,” the former governor replied. "I just got in this morning. I haven't chosen to read the newspapers.” “But you are delighted to see the newspaper men?" volunteered one vis- itor as the group started to file from the room, to make way for those wait- ing_outside. “Yes, they are all right.” said Low- den, laughing. “If the newspaper men wouldn't write up any of their damn stuff,” he continued, “they would be the most agreeable lot of men I know of reference to th: McNary-Haugen NEW ENGLANDERS STILL WAVERING Delegates Await Last Word as to Coolidge Before Turning to Hoover. By the Asociated Press KANBAS CITY, June 9--New Eng- land delegates are looking questioningly towsrd Washingion, with “draft Cool- Republican convention, and some last- minute meetings are in pros delegates from the home terrilory Mr. Coolidge Connecticut leaders have Indicated & desire 1o vote for the President imme- diately, but both Vermont and Massa chusetis, the native and adopted Stalex respectively, of the Chief Executive, 10 day seemed llkely 1o cast thelr firet voles for Herbert Hoover Howe the sllence of the President in the face of the talk of some dele- gatex in his behalf, has left both Stales uncertain. Massachusetts delegates probably will get together an hour be- fore the convention opens on Tuesday of | Vermont delegates will talk things over on Mond Vermont Ktatement Farl Kinsley, natlonal commifter for Vermont. snnounced today his Blate would vote for Fnover, “unless Coolidge 18 prevcnted to the conven ton.” He n ane of those who helleve President Intended 1o eliminate himwell campletely from the race, when hie said he didn't choose 1o 1un Certeinly the Prestdent has glven na indication ” Kinsle that h wants ug 1o vote for him; of course, we wre for him but mist weeept hiy word. Nor do wish 1o block Mr Hoover " Massachusetis we voled for Moover fn bt the dele necording o chiirman of the and & Magsnchi getlon s not_instructed William M. Butler {national commitiee, wils delegale Bay Ntate Chulce | M Butler has not indicated his por {sonal chobee. but 1t 15 the optnion (het e Massorh ety fol 10w the vore of " tiew Homprhive ds o the Maover {eolumn, &nd, Wke Vermaont and Messa chugetts, wionds resdy 19 vatn for | oar ot at nny (i roovement I his Bl stronger, wil) ine up with 1 the Commerce Weryetary hecome for | Hall, where the Republicans itors. No. 1 is Convention Ha'; No. 2, Kansas City Club: No. 3 1f ' idge” talk In the air, on the eve of the Presiaent | bl inless It;‘1 ie fgrees of l D. C., JUNE 10, 1928 PART 1. 3, Kansas City Athletic Cly G. 0. P. “BIG SHOW” BALLYHOO BEGINS AS OPENING NEARS (Continued from First Page.) the crowds pinning their labels on any who would wear them. And about this time Gov. Lowden ar- rived. There were a number of friends with him and his entry attracted a commotion. But the band was silent Gov. Lowden walked through the crowds and your correspondent sug- gested to the piccollo player in the band that it wouldn't be inappropriate to give the governor a little tune. Hired for Hoover. But the piccollo player budge. “We was for Hoover.” S0 Gov. Lowder and his cohorts passed on to the photographers, who walted outside the station, and a little later the California delegation arrived They came through the wrong gate, at . but a_level-headed member of the welcoming Florida delsgation steered the arrivals around so they would pass by the band. and the band struck up “Cal- ifornia, Here We Come”; with a lot of_enthusiasm wouldn't hired,” he sald, “to play Many of the Californians earriad little | baskets of California fruit. These em- blems were eved with extreme distast: by the welcoming Floridians, who looked somewhat hurt, Put politics makes strange bed-fellows, and the Californians and the Floridians passed through an aisle of gheering onlookers arm in arm Outside the station the Californians were lined up for their pictures, and the photographers, acting as cheer leaders, managed to stir up a lot of Hoover enthusiasm in order (o get some action in their photographs. Then the Californians were put in automobiles, decorntsd with Hoover straamars, and proceeding slowly behind the cow- bov band, moved uptown. As the auto- =chile ¢vivers n the nracessien kept their horns going ful tilt the efforts of the cowboy band were more or Jess in vain. But there was plenty of noise. The parade stopped at the Baltimore Hotel, where the Hoover headouarters are located The Lowden headquarters are in the same hotel, and the tumult drew manv Lowden workers to the win- dows, their faces expressing decp dis- gust. Noise All Day Long. The same welcome extended the Call- fornia del~qation was repeated. with varying enthusiasm, as other delegations arrived. and all day long there has been the noise and the tumult of shrieking automobile horns and playing bands But there are other shows worth looking at. One of the most interesting I found in the lobby of the Muehlebach Hotel. That place seems to have been unanimously chosen as the center of all gossip and the starting point of all rumors. In the center of a big square rug In the lobby there are al s Senators and Representatives and polit- ieal leaders in deep and thoughtful con- ference, and these are fringed about by a great hest of newspaver men anxious. Iv interviewing each other. date s not chosen In Kansas City's convention hall. he will probably be named in the lobby of the Muehlebach. ar possibly in one of the many smoke- Al'ed rooms abnve The Hoover and Lowden headaunrters are In the Baltimore Hotel, which is Alagnnally across the corner from the Muehlebach, Both these places arc humming bechives of industry, though what the Industry is all about no ene fs auite sure. In the Hoover head- quarters former Gov. Allen of Kansas Ie nresiding over the press room and encoursging the wandering newspaper men with promises of stalements and ‘mporiant utterances. while rumors fly “hout that “so-and-s0" has been in long distance telephone coversation with Hoover at Washington, All They Need I Voles. Lowden headquarters are similarly active, and at all of them there are great ptores of ribbons, buttons, pie- turss, flags snd banners proclalming BALLOTING XPE( KANSAS CIY for the Republican’ presidential nomir will atart on Thursday, the third day of the convention, If the assembly 1 lows precedent and the tentative pro wiam outlined todey by s officers Chalrman Willlam M. Butler of the Iepublican national committee will rap the g formally opening the quad- vennfal mecting at 11 o'clock, cent tandard tme, on Tuesday morni Tuesdey and Wednesday will be given over 1o the time-honored progedure of elting up tentative and then permanent organizations Thurrday should the fireworks Members of the national committee for the next four years will he formally ral- ified and then the roll will be called for nominating speeches ‘There will be plenty of them bacause there are plenty of candidates, After the nominating peechos will come (he aeconds. No Net ‘Tim: No aet time 1x in the mind for (1 tart of balloting, but it s the beli-i that it may come Ia Wraday. ‘Tht bere Ui propared program ends. fte leve n reputation for quick Only six thimes Mo I8 cone he party v ired more b tlol Lo anlect n nomines HBencdor Slimeon D, Fess of Ohio, will fold the spotlight on the opening day which mf he devoled largely (o his wynote addiens. Only the appoiniment ol temporary officers by Ohalyman Bul- Jer will oeeupy the Arst day, aiter Ben- ator Fews eoncludes, ‘The Ohlo Benator If & condi- | FOR NOMINEE | appointed today at a meeting of farmers | and FARM RELIEF BIG CONVENTION ISSUE Seven-Year Fight Comes to! Focus Next Week in Defining Stand. BY RAYMOND Z. HENLE. | Associated Piess Staff Writer. 1 KANSAS CITY, June 9.—Seven years | of controversy over a_question which | has stirred the Republican party as few lssues have will come to a focus | next week when the national conven- tion undertakes to decide its position on farm rellef ! A determined group of Middle Western | farm leaders are here to press their | demands for & declaration in the party | platform for relief along lines of that | bugaboo of politics—the McNary-Hau- | gen bill. On the other side is the ad- | ministration with its more moderate | proposal for solution of the problem. | Two special committees to work for the equality of agriculture in the Re- publican _platform declarations were thelr _representatives called by | George N. Peek, a suporter of the Mc- | Barrett, meet Tuesday, shows the landmarks that will figure in ac- Ni No. 7, State Hotel; No. 8, Hotel Aladdin; No. 9, Federal Reserve Bank; No. 10, Commonwealth Hote!; No. 11, Hotel President; 0. 4, Hotel Muehlbach: No. 5, Hotel Bal- the merits of this and that distinguish- ed personage. * Gov. Lowden, however, spent little time at his headquarters, but occupies quarters on the tenth | floor of the Muehlebach, where there was a steady ebb and flow of custom- ers throughout the day. The Goff | headquarters are sumptuously equipped, a fe wdoors away, but lack the crowds, though plentifully adorned with in- spiring pictures of Senator Goff. As | one of the Senators’ spokesmen put it: | We've got about -the best headquar- | ters in town, All we need now are the delegates.” A few blocks away from the group of candidates’ headquarters is located, | according to a large banner, “Farm | Headquarters-—-Equality for Agricul- | ture.” This s a big room on the first floor of an office building and it is presided over by Elmer E._ Builis Chicago advertising man. Elmer s depressed looking gentleman. and rather wearily explains that he is not ! a farmer, but believes in a square deal for the farmer. He is making “physical preparations" | for the farmers' march on Kansas City but is somewhat vague on what the physical preparations are. Replying to vour correspondent’s demand for in- formation on the plans for the farmers march, he sald that he expecied there would b2 s al thourand of them in here Lomorrow. “Thousands Coming.” By Monday, he stated, but enthuzlasm, there would be fifty thousand.” He said coming by automobile vour correzpondent as were coming from, he answered sweep- ingly: “Everywhers” nadding that 5,000 were on their way from the Da- kotas and Minnesota. Others. hé admitted reluctantly, were coming from Indiana, Iowa, “and such places."” “When the farmers get here,” Elmer | ald, “there would be a big demonstra- tion,” and a narsde Monday night But Kansas City as a whole doesn't eem worked up over the prospect of 40,000 farmers coming by automobile, | and Elmer was the only one found who seemed to be so optimistic, and maybe E'mer was only fooling your corre- pondent And, while without “forty or they were Pressed by to where they Senator Goff tells the newspapermen that he belleves “in farm rellef.” and while Gov. Lowden says he wishes somebody would suggest something that is better than the equalization fee or else keep quiet, and while Gov. Allen presides over the press department in the Hoover headquarters which turns out “statements for the press” by the bushel, and while the newspapermen buttonhole each other and give each other extended views of the situation, Kansas City s windin; up what have been months of busy preparation for the main event, which opens Tuesday morning The streets of the city and every window are decoraied with the P. elephant in varlous attractive I flags and bunting are s..ung everywhere, and there are large and | small pictures of the various candicates though, 1n spite of all the draft talk, | there is none of President Coolidge. shop G. 0. Hall Nearly Finished. | Work is nearing completion at con-| vention hall, where the carpenters are hammering and sawing on platforms | |una wnere electriclans are stringing miles of telegraph and telephone wires and getting the microphones placed and the radio apparatus in working order The two telegraph companies Installed scores of Instruments n a section reserved for them under the speakers' platform, and are counting on sending some 60,000,000 words dur- ing the convention (o tell the world what 1t's all ebout. Sixty million | words, stretched end to end, will make | a long story. ‘The convention hall will be able to | accommodate about 12,000 persons, and | there are thousands of residents of | Kansas City, who are nervously await- ing the allocation of the tickets, to be | made on Monday applications, naturally, than there are | seats, and the opinion seems to be that the good residents of Kansas City are koIng to be mostly out of luck have | TED BY THURSDAY that right delivers the keynote, The firat day's 10 am to 11 1 wm Butler. Prayer, | Binging _of “America.” | by Mme. Schumann-Heink | Temporary voll eall Reading of convention call by Roy O | West, secretary of the natlonal com- mittee Address by Chalrman Butler, propos- | Ilnu the tentative chalrman, Senator e Keynole address, 1 | Appointment of temporary offcers | and committees by Chalrman Butler | Moses Slated for Chalr | menator Fess will eall the convention to order on the second day, when the permanent organization will be set up, Benator Moxes of New Hampshire, Is in {line tor the office of permanant chall man, With the reception of reports of the committees, including the presentn laine of & platform by the resolutions ammitiee, headed by Benator Bmoot of Ulah, the convention will be ready for buskness pliticlan program usie Cull to order serves ns temporary chalrman and 1.\! . | by Chalrman probably led wikely sny that “anything can_happen 1n w convention” and be- |yond the first two days leaders em- phasize that the program s “tentative Fven after a presidentinl nomines Ia ses Ieated, the convention must choose o Viee Presldent and the most optimistic don't expect an ending of the show hes ‘ fore Friday, { with the failure of the | 0. ‘There are far more } 1 Nary-Haugen bill, and Mark Wood of Nebraska. | Committees Named. The executive committee, of which | Wood is chairman, is officially called | the committee for agricultural equality, and will sesk to organize the farmers from all over ‘he country who, Wood says, are “on their way.” | Th: committee consists of Jesse A former assistant attorney gen- eral of Missouri; J. F. Reed, Minnesota: 8. X. Way, South Dakota: Frank M Hoyt, Wisconsin. and Mrs. C. H. Tye, an alternate-at-large from Towa and a member of the Iowa State central commiltee, The program committee, which fs headed by George A. Barr of Ohio, will formulate a working program for the farmers. The members are: F. J. Gra- ham, North Dakota: C. L. Stealy, Ok- lahoma: Clyde L. Deeds, Ohio, and L. . Dickinson, Iowa. Beginning . In_the post-war days in the rural sections of the corn belt, when | land values tumbled and the cost of living soared, the question how the farmer could be aided in producing and | marketing his crops with profit found | a natural expression in politics and there it has remained until this day to play a dominant part in selection of a nominee for the Presidency Support Coolidge Views. The problem presented by two presi- | dential vetoes of a bill designed by farm | organizations and pushed through Con- | gress twice by their influence, along ministration | to produce any relief acceptable to! 0se interests, thus is handed down to this convention in which the forces | pporting the position of President | Coolidge still are determined to oppose | | what they regard as radical and un-! constitutional demands. | ‘The presidential candidacy of at| least one man is directly concerned | with the farm disturbance. He is Frank Lowden, who several months be- fore President Coolidgs issued his “do | not choose” statement received Middle Western delegations who were incensed | over the first veto of the McNa Haugen bill and who asked him to lead | their cause. o Of all the candidates in the conven- | tion, Herbert Hoover has come to mean the leader of administration farm views, | although one other candidate, Goff of West Virginia, voted against the Mc- | Nary-Haugen bill. Watson of Indiana | and Curtls of Kan: voted for the bill, | but’ Cyrtis supported the President on ! the tion to override the veto. Stand by Coolidge. ‘To meet the impasse between the ad- ministration and the Middle Wesiern farm leaders, the latter group have capitulated in the form although not in the substance of their demands. The administration strength on the farm question, represented to a degree by those who will vote for Hoover, are standing on the ground plotted out in the views of Mr. Coolidge. The decision of the corn belt wing of farm leaders not to uncompromis- ingly demand a farm plank mentioning the fll-fated McNary-Haugen bill, nor tn even whisper the words “equaliza- tion fee” is expected to be their first big concession. but the essential pro- visions of that measure the convention will be asked to Indorse. Their views will be hitched up with the tariff and what they consider the right of the farmer to participate in whatever bene- fits can be given to him under it “The benefits of the protective tariff must be extended to agriculture.” will in substance read the heart of the corn | belt plank. “and by national legislation a device provided In order that the farmer may secure the benefits of the protactive tariff system.” H The administration plank. on the other hand, will emphatically support | the veto and annual messages of the | President. It has been drawn to de- | clare for “equality for agriculture by reasonable means.” and it includes the | frequently stated position of the Presi- dent for relief through the strengthen- ing of co-operative marketing asso- clations. | Fed Up on Promises. Although the administration forces might be expected to go for a farm plank declaring for equal benefits in {he tariff system, both sides expect the old trouble to arise from the leaders' demand for an exposition in the plank of their views on the most practical | way to bring those benefits about. That exposition will so closely approximate the McNary-Haugen bill that only its name will be Iacking to Identity it. | Farm leaders declare they are “fed up | on promises” and will demand a plan much stronger than was written in ‘Thus the old fight of whether the farmer shall have a price representing the amount of the tariff above world orices, and himself pay for the cost of | oringing this abount-—as the view of the farm leaders s set forth—or | whether he should be permitted to im- lines Asish- prove his position alon; with_educational _and natural wancial i It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank to Borrow, E;ny to Pay Month! epost §45.00 §1,200 $100.00 §6,000 $500,00 THE_MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Buporvision U, 8, Trew 1408 H STRER | Mellon hi ance from the Government—which is the administration view—seems des- tined to again produce a division in Republican ranks. The administration views aw under- to be agreeable to Hoover and Secretary Jardine. The farm leaders’ position has been placed under the care of a group headed by George N. Peek, long an advocate of the McNary-Haugen hllil";:d 'Chzllrrgn of the executive com- m! of it nator Watsor v McMullen of Nebraska ki As the time approaches for camps to place their position before the resolutions committee, there still is con- siderable speculation on whether a host of dirt farmers will be on hand to back up the corn belt leaders, The word has been given out that “thousands” will be here if the weather is good. but some farm leaders have expressed the opin- ion that reports from a number of Mid- | dle Western centers of a pilgrimage numbering 70.000 to 100,000 have been greatly exaggerated PRESIDENT ALONE CAN STOP HOOVER, POLITICIANS BELIEVE (Continued from First Page.) appear that the nomination of any one of them would be anything but a re- pudiation of the President and his ad- ministration. New York to Vote for Coolidge: The most significant statement made by any of the incoming delegates so far was that of George K. Morris, Re- publican State chairman of New York, when he arrived here today. Mr. Morris said that the New York delega- tion would cast 60 of its 80 votes for | the President on the first ballot. unless word came that the President would decline the nomination. It the President declines, Morris sald, New Yor would vote far Mr. Hoove ignificant of all, he added: “We can not repudiate the adminis- tration of Coolidge and win this Fall The nomination of Lowden, of Vice President Dawes, or any of the farm bloc crowd would be regarded as a re- pudiation of Coolidge and his stand on the McNary-Haugen bill. If Coolidge will not e the nomination there is only one thing Ieft for us to do—nomi- nate Herbert Hoover. There is no doubt_Hoover would carry on the Cool- then Mr. delegation And most !1dge policies next November.” Mr. Morris, however. is prepared to go through with ‘he effort to draft Mr. Coolidge. “I am in favor of the move- ment that is under way to go right ahead with his nomination,” he ex- plained. So the situation comes around to the original proposition, that there is to be a_real effort to draft the President | which he alone csn halt if he does not desire to be nominated. Connecticut’s delegation will be cast solidly for the President, Henry J. Roroback, Repub- lican boss of that State, says. The Vermont delegation, from the Presi- dent’s nati the same way and there are scattering delegates from a number of other States who will also vete for a Coolidge nomination on the first ballot. Melion Due in Few Hours. When the President will give a defi- nite manifestation of his purpose in this matter Is still locked in obscurity. Sec- retary Andrew Mellon, head of the Pennsylvania delegation, is expected here within a few hours. There are those who believe he will bring the latest word from the White House. ‘The Pennsylvania delegation will caucus here Monday night to determine what they shall do on the first ballot. Mr. it in his power to turn the tide absolutely for Hoover. if he de- termines to cast the whole 79 votes of the State for the Secretary of Com- merce on the first ballot. The President’s Sanders of Indiana, is to ecome to the convention, and there have been rumeor- he may bear the President’s final word regarding the nomination. Senator Fess of Ohlo who has been | | an original Coolidge drafter and who is to deliver the “keynote” speech s temporary chairman of the Republi- can national convention, may be the man vhe wilt give the definiis st~er of the President's position. Or the President may do as he did in the Black Hills of South Dakota last Sum- mer—call in the correspondents at this last moment and give statement. There is the possibility that the President will say nothing at all at any time before or during the con- vention. In that event it is a conun- these | State, Is prepared to vote | secretary, Everett | out his final | | drum as to' What will haj , & conun- drum to whicl none yet found the answen silence after a Hun- dred and ffty or iwo hundred votes | have been cast for him on.the first bal- lot might be construed as tonsent that ' the conventioi should nemithate him | Under thesé: circumstances it would be 'dlfllcull to hold the delegates in line | for any other candidate. Mr. Hoover and his managers have insisted from the first that if the President was to | be a candidate for the nomination they would support him. Goft Comes to Town. With the advent of Mr. Lowden the { allied opposition to Hoover took on additional activity. Senator Goff of West Virginia. a favorite son candidate came to town also, and gave out a statement immediately insisting he was not a “stalking horse” for any other candidate, but a candidate in his own right. He admitted, however. he was ready to join any alliance to defea’ Hoover. The failure of the American Farm | Bureau Federation to declars for the McNary-Haugen bill or the equalization fee by name “in the plank whieh it will ask the convention to place in the platform has caused a flock of state- ments, both from Mr. Lowden and ih~ allies and from supporters of Mr. | Hoover including Secretary Jardine of the Department of Agriculture, who has joined his colleague, Secretary Work, in boosting Mr. Hoover for the nomination. Mr. Lowden insisted that the Parm Bureau plank contain the principies of the bill and of the equalization fee. He insisted that he would continue to stand for those principles, and that the equalization fee plan was the only one that hed heen suggested which would properly solve the farmers’ surplus crop problem. “If any one has another plan equal- ly good. for God's sake let him present. it.” said Mr. Lowden with ferver. Secretary Jardine, on the other hand. took the view that the Parm Bu had abandoned the equalization fee, saying. “No one in this country eould nossibly be more pleased than T by the action which was taken Friday b this great farm organization — the American Farm Bureau Federation—in adopting a resolution in its Chicagn session that diseards the equalization fee and the price-fixing principle of the MecNary-Haugen bill. T can accept the bureau’s recommendation that leg- islation immediately b> enacted which will place agriculture permanently on an equal basis with other industries.™ Shows His Irritation. Mr. Lowden plainly showed irritation when he was questioned by newspaper men today regarding the action of the Farm Burcau. He apparently resented. too, questions regarding his stand on the prohibition question. He has de- clined for months to answer Senator Borah's wet and dry questionnaire put to Republican candidates for the e was asked what his views were on a pronibition plank, the for- mer Governor of Illinois replied I do not understand your question.” But pressed later for a plain s ment on the issue, aince it as well as the farm problem are involved in the coming campaign, Mr. Lowden said: “I stand on my record.” “What was your record, Governor?" “The State dry enforcement law was enacted while I was governor, and I signed " he answered. He added that the law was enforced while he was_governor. The Hooverites were further encour aged today by reports that the entire Idaho delegation would vote for Mr. Hoover on the first ballot, with the sanction of Senator Borah, who fa- vors Hoover over any of the other ean- didates. 1t is expected that Senator Borah, himself the choice df his own State for the nomination, will deliver a speech seconding the nomination of Hoover. This has not yet been finally decided. it was said Mrs. Nicholas Lingworth, wife of the Speaker of the Houss. is expected (o arrive in Kansas City tomorrow or Monday. and she is coming. it is re- liably revorted. to boost for ths nomi- nation of Mr. Hoover, Brittany Bridge Under Way. Construction of what is declared to be the largest bridge in the worid has been started in Brittany to connect Brest with Plougastel, on the opposite side of the bay. 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