Show Hoover I Named as Outstanding Choice of Dull DuH and Uninspired Convention EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE Th This s Is the tho second ot of articles rounding the tho political situation to dat data Tomorrow Tomor- Tomor row Tile The Smith By RODNEY DUTCHER W A NEA The main mUn factors which forced the nomInation nom fern or of Herbert Hoover were these I. I Ho He was the tho only man ot of oti i presidential stature stat stat- ure in tile tho lI lian an party who went after atter It Ho was a g giant I ant amon among mies e 2 His popularity popularity larity with the tho voters dent to encourage age large numbers Jf bf f hard boiled often self seeking politicians to go when aboard Oe they with t looked oo about and and saw nO isO other seaworthy ra raft Ct 3 It was also sufficient to cause large numbers ot of politicians out or of pow power r to grab onto Ills his coattails for fora a tree free ride back into control The party In power has hils In every state two the factions the ins who are I getting tile the gravy or of federal patronage patronage patron patron- age and the outs who want to take It away from frons them In nearlY all states Hoover was bound to get the support ot of one faction or the other 4 The party got to Kansas City and saw sav what a a. a flimsy and leaderless group the opposition to really was The Tue Kansas City convention was wa dull and uninspired As tar far as' as correspondent could observe no majority ot of delegates was hot for tOr Hoover Some ot of those who swung to him still believe a stronger candidate can can- might have been nominated while others feel deeply that Je he Is far from the answer to a politicians politician's prayer The Hoover Hoo leaders were alwaYs alwaY's worried about the unstable character or of their delegates and knew that If the nomination didn't In ballot two tso It come a or would be all up But Dut what a a. There had to be an administration candIdate candidate candI- candI date and he was bound to hao the edge Who but Hoover It If this this this' had been a strong ad I ministration It might have io InO another leader But there wasn't a single other possibility in inthe inthe the cabinet I In the senate the party Is led by such uch presidential s as Smoot Fess Fes and BIngham Not Nota a a. single ot of a a. large state was av available Small wonder It S nat J Borah knowing the politicians politician's dislike for tor Hoover many tunny months ago felt the party might turn to him for a leader But he that he wasn't yet et considered safe In the east they tried to recur recur- Charles Evans Hughes the defeated defeated de- de candidate ot of 1915 Hushes Huhes had sense enough to decline the chance to be usEd to block Hoover So the Mellons and Butlers But But- lers lera clung to the hope or of drafting Coolidge How remarkable that Coolidge never ne told them that the they couldn't have ha him How close they inus must have hae been to him But it was wag obvious ion lonz before convention tIme that the only possibility possibility pos pos- ot of stopping Hoover Hoo depended depend depend- ed on the ability ot of the tue anU antl to tie up or votes otes In Coolidge's name until they could begIn to rob Hoover ot of his delegates There was 1111 the he Dawes hope tha hope tha H Hoover ver could be derailed In such sueh II a and be unable to regain the track that Coolidge would definitelY say No and that Dawes would be the only man In sight There was much Dawes strength at Nan Nan- sas City he was a a. politicians politicians' can can- But It never had a chance to jell The favo favorite te son candidacies candidacies- Watson Goff and Curtis Curtla- were all so funny u as merely to accentuate accentuate ac- ac the Hoover prestige They served to hold a few away and began th the contests between the Ins and outs OUta which raged everywhere except In Instances when each side Ide broke Its neck to get under the Hoover banner I first Borah told this Ya some sOm time before the conventions that the farm state opposition wouldn't get anywhEre because Its leaders were so cheap That's about the tIte way It turned out They could not prove to tile the party that they rep rep- any large body or of voters likely to bolt boIt the party and some ot of them at least certainly wore were cheap Tile The opposition coalesced Into what W were de called the tho allies and Ruth Hanna McCormick led them the only admirable figure If Ifan an any that Hoover opposition pro pro- It was all allory very ory or 01 orall all very sad as one considers It OJ Lowden became the sorriest spectacle ot of the year No one ever eer supposed for tor a moment that he could win vin but Dawes an Infinitely infinitely In- In finitely candidate sayed out of the race for the sake ot of othis his friendship for Lowden and so 0 gave up iii his list last earthly chance for forthe tile the presidency AU All Lowden did In the campaign campaign cam cam- was as to sit still and let It be known that he was for tor the farmers a a. far less Inspiring figure than the tho phlegmatic Hoover All the time he he blocked the path for tor Dawes who might have won where Lowden The manner ot of othis his arrival and stay In Kansas City and his eventual dismal left a bad taste with all concerned Your correspondent predicted some some time before the tho convention that old Em Bill Yare Vare of Pennsylvania might be credited with being the president maker malter ot of 19 1925 S Some such legend of course couise has lately been taking root L Legend end It is 18 Yare Vas forced Mellon to give Ho ver his first halt half hearted indorsement In- In In Pennsylvania taking him by surprise but buthen when hen Mellon Mel Mel- lon ion reached Kansas City ho he knew that he was going to be for Cool Cool- l ge or Hoover It was not Yare's Vares convention eve declaration for Hoover but the midnight conversation conver- conver cation between Everett Sanders and tile the White House and the assurances assurances as- as given that Mel Mel- Ion and Butler and Hilles had been kidding themselves all along that I led Mellon lellon and the rest to give i up the idea ot of drafting Coolidge e. e Yare are does not and will not domInate dom dom- mate nil aU Pennsylvania It Is true he Is a thorn In the Cank of the Mellon lion boys bos but monEY will run politics In Pennsylvania and tile the Mellons have It One ot of these days clays tile the l are likely to bu buy Vats's Vares Philadelphia machine right out from under r him |