Show OSIlO iER lOOMS IN GRAMS POLITICAL DIGEST ON April 23 Thc 23 The Spotlight ight plays brightly on and Mass Ichu- Ichu re primary elections of delthe del del- the Republican and Demo Demo- are arc to be held In these states tates are ave an important lavean presidential noni- noni nom nom- correspondents of Star report j cr secretary Of or well in Ohio and etts presidential is g. g and gates delegates pledged Some of ot the Penns Pennsylvania his boom will ig boost u is expected to sro go hl ly f fW f Governor Al Nc York In the prefer prefer- and to pick practically a atlon n for the New Yorker OGET GET VOTES h delegation will be for tor son former A At- At tI t- t I ne but there may be cn in the delegation forces are battling fv la under the leader leader- an le e 1 c Jn the I f ng seventeen to l district delegates according according to the ype- ype peal al of the a largo vote in His supporters there ever everything thing they l loters oters to the polls polls- lie e the backing of f thirty t lne delegates that are is reported although Won Ori is lo to be l i arlas the preference vote vole an instruction Is the presidents president's and what i it does may maj- be he significant Both urn Chairman Win am M. M h Republican national li ve kept hands off eff the Ep to da dat e. e F. F L L. Ander- Ander I S I at a th lo running as a pledged Hoo- Hoo raf for delegate at large jare slate i one congressional district are Smith anti IUS for Cor delegate n Ure Lowell district district and and be defeated Otherwise I Khe tl f whole of o will hold even nc nce than that in Mass lass Mr r. r Hoover is running I te Senator Willis illis for preference The Willis slowed down in Ohio The f fear ar of L su J s porters is that the vote votee e anti Hoovel group roup in th except in and one or 1 two 10 lO chances ire su-e in fa- fa Lver opposition unless flock Ck to the polls as the ce li of a real rEial demand for l' l H OvEr claim cahn candidate will receive the renco vote and that a af f t e delegates delegat s elected will l gates The field is against Mr Hoover yi the Lowden Dawes followers doing joing their Hilt halt the progress lo ress of the in Ohio Ollio Ehe lie same effect as had II IS- IS lived will m be a great I I Ithe the Hoover Hoovel for lor Ign at this time h it are signs according patches received by hy the j number ot of states the is traveling with Is due to a number of nomina- nomina Smith oy bY the D m- m the demand demand for Republicans in r and other eluding some southern of Pr President o pie nomination or that tha t ho can defeat 11 ew York 1011 fa of 1 Frank a nl O. O Low Low- ce Dawes both botha a e the McNary- McNary bill are I running it Isto is to i nan vho ho of carrying a all 11 the agri- agri of the v st This li- li they sa say Mr 11 Hoover cannot do In Arkansas and Alabama the report says the bandwagon Republicans are beginning t to soft pedal the Hoover talk though they may swing back strongly for the secretary if it ho shows well in tho coming maries In Tennessee a row has arisen between Representative J. J Will VilI Taylor the Republican boss and Claudius Huston former assistant assist assist- ant secretary of commerce a Hoover er man and Taylor auks the repudIation tion by Hoover of Huston wHir a veiled threat as to the attitude of the tho Tennessee delegation it the national na na- convention cOIl Jn In Virginia too it is reported the Hoover talk is I lessening but C. C Bascom Slemp the leader will deliver the delegation nevertheless Connecticut has picked a strong Coolidge delegation dele hearted by J. J Henry the nep b- b lican national committeeman Other delegates at include Governor and Senator Hiram Bing- Bing h ham m. m TALK OF DAWES i I There is some talk of Dawes as second choice although Mr 11 Hoover seems to have tire eU e in this mat mat- ter The Watson Vatson Republican organization organ organ- in Indiana is confident of electing a Watson Vatson delegation dele over the Hoover Hoo slate it i is reported What is worrying the organization however is the selection of a n. state ticket and the senatorial nomina tion Present Indications are that the tIie secretary of state Ii K E. E will win the gubernatorial nomination and Senator Robinson the senatorial This does docs not look like a new deal for which the voters in Indiana have ha been clamoring clamor clamor- ing since tire development of political cal scandals in the state The Republican Re Re- publican organization Is praying it is said for the nom nomination nation of or Governor Gov Gov- Al Smith by the Demo rits feeling th that t the state can surely be elected Jn that ont event The Democrats arc putting up a Jt strong state ticket which L win under ordinal ordinary circumstances but which may lose in the presidential year e r. r The Indiana primary however may be affected not a little by the tio O-tio and Massachusetts results this week and tho Hoover people are continuing ing their work Senator Jim Reed Heed of or Missouri has come out in open antagonism to the nomination of Governor Al AI Smith and is campaigning vigor for fOI Reed need delegates 10 to the na national na- na convention at Houston He is reported to have had a It warm reception re re- re in West Virginia and other othor states ho he has recently visited Reed need so far represents the real Smith op op- position although Reed like is a wet In West Virginia Senator Senator- Goff Gorr alone has flied filed for the primary May 29 Two nent Republican delegate candi eandi- dates however have haye announced they will vote ote for Hoover Hoo if H elected Governor Al Smith has continued d to make friends in North Carolina during his stay at Ashville but Sen ator atol Simmons boss of the Demo Demo- cratic organization still insists that the state will be the nomination of the New Yorker and d that l Ire e cannot be he nominated CLAIM DISPUTED The Ix Low en claim of or twentythree twenty twenty- three delegates In Minnesota is dis dis- The delegates chosen In n the Tenth district have ve announced te I will vote yote for Hoover and MiJ hI A cut the Lowden strength to V tt twenty twenty- t one at most Another check for v Lo Lowden en came in Arizona forme for for- mer me Governor Go Campbell leading Re ne pu publican has recently anno announced himself for fOI Hoover The PennsYlvania Pennsyl PennsYl- vania primary will bind tire Ure o ele ee- ee gates of neither the Republican nor the Democratic parties for fOI I no candidate can can- has Wed filed for the presidential preference However ever on the Democratic Dem Dem- side the candidates for tor dl delegates to the national con have announced themselves either cither for Smith or against him and a good line on the situation will be by the primary results The Republicans will wUl send an uninstructed delegation to the Kan Kansas as I Cit City convention although a half half- dozen of the candidates lIa have ve announced an an- for or Hoover and there is much sentiment in the state for him Smith Is reported to be reasonably rea son ably sure SUIe of forty live of the six delegates from Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania and may have as many as The Republican state convention in Colora Colorado o was virtually a Hoover affair all down the the- theline line it is reported report ed with the reelection of C C. C Hamlin as national committeeman committee committee- man a Hoover leader The dele delegation ele- ele gati gation n will be at least eleven to tour four tourin in favor of Hoover Efforts have o been made mado to make it appear a check for Hoover but this import is now denied Hoover er will wili Ira have havethe v the Oregon delegation solidly Mrs Nellie Ross Hoss former governor of Wyoming is invading in Oregon n the interest of Al Smith The light fight there is between and Senator Walsh of ot Montana for forthe forthe the Democratic delegation The Nevada Republican state convention is js to bo be held Tuesday An d delegation with leanings to Hoover is predicted The Tho D its there here seem strong for Smith From Illinois come reports that Sn will eight fifty of DC the tho I states state's taLe s f right Slit 1928 by the Washington star |