Movemeai for Hoover ! Explained by Gerard NEW YORK, April 10. Tho recent movement in favor of Herbert Hoover for president was "a .protest against party control not a declaration that in i all tho broad Uniteil Slates, Herbert) Hoover was the only man fit to be our president," declared James W. Gerard, In an address here tonight at the Jefferson Jef-ferson Day dinner of the national Democratic club. "At the Jackson Day dinner in Washington, I advocated the nomination nomina-tion of Hoover by the Democratic party," Mr. Gerard said. "That was when I and other admirers of Hoover saw in him a man who had done good service, who seemed independent and I who could afford to await the offer of a nomination. "But Herbert Hoover, a partisan, seeking only the Republican nomination, nomina-tion, standing hat in hand before the I house when the forces of reaction are In council, is quite another Hoover. It I In a Mahomet going a suppliant to the mountain, not a mountain offering the nomination to an Independent And IH because the Republican party is the B9 party of reaction, there lies danger in jHl its success." iflBiil