Show I HOOVER AW AWAITS COOLIDGE 0 Ao WORD I C Commerce Chief to Stay Out of Race i If President Rims Many V Votes tes Loom fo Coolidge Unless He Takes Definite Stand j MELLON HOLDS KE KEY t Rivals Dispute Claims on Delegates By BYRON PRICE Associated Press Staff Writer KANSAS CITY June 9 51 i AP-i Tha delegated spokesmen of a divided and somewhat bewildered Re Republican constituency are assembling as assembling as- as in Kans Kansas s City for a national national national na na- convention that may be se seene se- se ene and peaceful after all or may ma turn up one of the oddest paradoxes is is the history of American politics As matters stand tonight some sixty hours before Tuesdays Tuesday's opening opening opening open open- ing convention session Hoover la ja laso so near so-near near to being nominated that th the alliance against him Is giving a avery avery very good Imitation of a a. beleaguered beleaguered beleaguered but desperately determined battalion of stalwarts trying to rally at the last ditch But there is one element of the tha battle that makes definite predictions untenable That Is the of Coolidge Coolidge- TO GET MANY VOTES Despite all he lie has said a considerable considerable con- con block of ot vot votes s will wUl b c cast st for the president on the first ballot unless in the meantime he or he-or or orsome t some trusted spokesman says something Furthermore if a areal areal real prospect of ot his develops the Hoover managers will wiH be the last to stand In his way vay Their whole strategic plan has hag rested on the primary understanding understand understand- ing jug that under no circumstances must Hoover be pitted against Coolidge Whether Mr Ir Coolidge will speak the word that can dispel this no one In Kansas City seems to know Some Some- of his best friends believe he will Some think he will send the long awaited message message message mes mes- sage to his secretary Everett Sanders who arrives Monday Some bell believe eve he already has given his Ills final counsel to Secretary Mellon Mel Mel- Ion lon who likewise Is to reach Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas City on the eve of ot the convention convention conven conven- tion with the Pennsyl- Pennsyl Pennsylvania vanIa anIa delegation of seventy nine which can either give Hoover the tha boost his managers hope will put him over or can swell the Coolidge movement to real proportions MELLON HOLDS KEY There Is no dispute anywhere that the delegation of the Keystone State the second largest in the tha convention has become in fact tact the keystone of ot the nomination The quiet almost bashful treasury secretary sec- sec thus has become In but eight years jean of national political prominence nence a patriarch among the patrIarchs patriarchs patriarchs patri patrI- archs for whose choice the con convention convention convention hesitates ates For correctly cr not pro Hoover and Hoover anti-Hoover leaders have come corne to believe that Mellons Mellon's word will be Coolidge's word of counse counsel to his party No one is more alive to the possible possible possible pos pos- sible consequences of ot Mr Mellons Mellon's course than the captains of the Lowden Lowden Goff Watson Watson-Goff alliance alliance alliance alli alli- ance whose almost hourly councils of ot war are being exhorted by some of the opposition candidates them- them s se silves ves to submerge every ever rivalry to- to the end that Hoover may be stopped Already plans are In the making to get the ear of the PennsylVanian Penn- Penn as soon as he comes to town and Impress upon him the argument of the allies that Hoover cannot command In November the normal Republican vote In those normally Republican states states' that want the McNary-Haugen McNary bill QUIET DISCUSSION Thus the fight tight on Hoover al although although al- al though linked directly with the disagreement disagreement disagreement dis dis- dis- dis agreement over a farm relief plank has almost completely overshadowed overshadowed owed It As the arriving delegations delegations detrained and put their Jazz bands and marching clubs into action action ac ac- tion today and tonight along Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas City's flag lag hung streets there was only a quiet monotone of ot discussion discussion discussion dis dis- dis- dis of ot the party platform Only a small and rather vanguard of the much heralded bet march of the McNary McNary-Haugen farmers has thus far materialized Some of the farm leaders are hero here and at work and In good time they the promise plenty plent of oC action but for forthe forthe forthe the moment the de debate debate debate de- de bate Is distinctly a debate over men rather than platform declarations A warning of ot serious trouble if It anyone tries to straddle on the Continued on page 4 Jo I I i i i COMMERCE CHIEF TO 1 STAY OUT OF RACE IF PRESIDENT RUNS I Continued from page 1 farm Issue emanated today from no less a leader than former Governor GovernOr Governor Gov Gov- Lowden Within an hour after his arrival in the the- convention city and in the middle of ot a continuing continuing continuing con con- series of conferences with party leaders Mr Lowden told n men that ho was Insisting Insisting insisting insist Insist- ing that the only solution of ot th the I farm problem lay in tho the equalization I tion fee twice rejected by President President Prest- Prest dent Coolidge CANDIDATES BUSY With the arrival anival of 01 Lowden three ec of at the tIle presidential candidates are in I ansas City busy with their lieutenants in the allied campaign to forestall a Hoover victory Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Watson Vatson has been on the ground for several days talking with farm leaders and putting the whole weight of 01 his lila persuasive powers into the battle against the secretary of 01 commerce Senator Goff who will have at least a part of ot the West Virginia delegation supporting him was one ono of ot the speakers who exhorted a a. rally of the allies aUles today to hold their lines against the Hoover onslaught Senator Sen sea ator atol Curtis also is expected in Kansas City before the balloting starts probably next Thursday but Secretary Hoover plans to re remain remain re- re main in Washington re-I re Even with tho Coolidge enigma left out of the picture there is Iii a difference of o opinion among the rival managers as to th the t exar-t complexion the first roll roU call would woul assume if it were taken now The Hoo Hoover l' l men after recheckIng their I information from the doubtful states computed today that they will have at least on the opening opening opening open open- ing ballot billIot or within exactly thirty votes of 01 the needed to nominate This computation claimed no votes from Pennsylvania whose seventy- seventy nine say the would certainly assure a a. nomination cf of their m man n before the first roll roU call caU of ot the states was concluded It does include however seven forty-seven of 01 New few Yorks York's unInstructed ninety and there is a dispute whether Hoover will get more than twenty- twenty seven CLAIMS CONTESTED The ahe Lowden managers insisted that the total claimed for Hoover was out of line by at le least st seventy-five seventy or eighty votes For Por Lowden himself they claimed d a first ballot strength of ot around but many of ot these delegates are in turn claimed by others Into the Coolidge column column- barring some decisive development the the convention mathematicians are putting Connecticut's seventeen seven seven- teen een Delaware's nine fifteen from Georgia six from New Jersey Jercy probably eleven from Vermont and perhaps the te whole of Pennsylvania's Pennsylvania's Pennsyl Pennsyl- Pennsylvania's vania's seventy-nine seventy and sixty five of the ninety from New York Yori Here is a a. total of ot votes barring any others that might be swung ov ovas l 01 r ras as the psychological result of ot the appear appearance nce on the convention floor of 01 so formidable a movement for fora a If all of 01 the these e I ifs should pan out argue tho the among all aU factions who could tell where the trail might end As to the answer to this question question ques ques- tion lion pending something further from the White House it Is a cas case of ot paying your money and taking your choice Every kind of ot answer can be heard among the delegates delegate who within lees than a a. week mu must 5 vote ote either with or without th the benefit of presidential counsel fo foa for fora a Republican nominee for th the presidency COMMERCE CHIEF TO STAY OUT OF RACE IF PRESIDENT RUNS I Continued from page 4 4 took ook on an aspect of ot cross lon tion at t the outset with question after question being fired from the standing group as th the portly 1111 Illi- sat smiling In their midst He cheerfully expounded on the equalization fee tee principle with Incidental in incidental incidental in- in references to the history of ot the Republican party regarding agriculture agriculture ag ag- ag- ag and his administration as asa asa asa a governor S So far as all aU else was concerned It TV was as a a. case of ot verbal sparring and the laurels went to Low Lowden The Republican farm re re- re lief plank in 1924 1324 was mentioned leading the Illinoisan to say that it was broad enough and demand demanded ed so some e legislation which should restore equality to agriculture ASKS QUESTION As between agriculture and in industry In- In he was asked has that obligation been filled 1 You ought not to ask me that replied Lowden What sort of plank do you ou think there should be on prohibition 1 In Inquired Inquired In- In another I dont don't understand your our Question question ques Ques- tion returned Lowden instantly adding that he was not discussing prohibition When the topic was vas brought up later however he said he was standing standing- on his record as governor of at Illinois In reference to tion Pressed about what his record roe rec ord was Lowden recalled that the tho law enforcement act passed rigid before the federal government had acted and added There was waa a good deal of ot controversy over the I measure and anda a good deal of ot opposition opposition to It It and I signed It |