Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-15 | Page 1 | Hoover Starts West Trip; Smith Turns on Old Foe

Hoover Starts Starts- West Trip Smith Turns on Old Foe 9 Commerce Secretary Is Cheered on Departure Seems Tired BY PAUL R. R MALLOW MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON July 14 United Secretary Press of Commerce Hoover started his western trip promptly at p. p m. m tonight with the th cheers of a large crowd of well wishers In his ears I Fellow cabinet who are still In Washington were at the train to bId him farewell Secretary or of the Interior Work Secretary or of State Kellogg Postmaster Postmaster Post Post- master General New Secretary or of orthe the Navy Y Wilbur and Secretary nf Ir Agriculture JardIni were ere among mong them LOOKS HAGGARD Hoover looked worn and haggar but appeared d to be In high spIrits and glad Slad to be off ote on his first campaign cam cam- tour lIe He posed good on the back platform of oC the train for the benefit or of a battery of news and motion picture cameras Officials of oC the Republican national national na- na committee and their headquarters head head- quarters assistants were among the crowd at the station I I Casual spectators who gathered In inthe the concourse at the Union n swelled the farewell crowd d to several sev- sev eral cral hundred WASHINGTON July 14 AP- AP having lIa said farewell to the men with whom ho he has bas labored In the the- commerce department for seven years Herbert Hoover tonight turned westward The first preal candIdate from the Pacific coast was going home to receive the formal notification ot of his selection as the standard bearer be Of the R Re publiCAn party parti closing up ot of his affairs as commerce corn com merce secretary occupied his final hours In Washington and his l t tact act of the day was to express to the heads of divisions In tIme the department department de- de his hie appreciation clation of their cooperation In turning the arm of commerce commer away from the tho narrow v channel ot of business Into the great service of oC public welfare The heads or of the divisions met Mr Hoover by appointment at a 11 brief farewell Canwell reception Dr George Georg K Burgess Burges director ot of the bureau of standards spokesman for th tIme lieutenants voiced th the r regret et of all at even the temporary severance erance ot of our ties and wished for the candidate God speed through aU all the future years HOOVER ARRIVES More than a. a hundred commerce commer e. e officers were gathered in the confErence conference con con- fErence room when the secretary appeared Mr Hoover walked briskly down an aisle to a place be- be Continued on tt page Z 2 Hoover Starts Vilest V est Trip AI i Turns on Old Foe Commerce Secretary Is Cheered on Departure Seems Tired Cots COh sued from page 1 hind n. n table where he stood until the an e subsided and Dr nu But gess spoke briefly declaring that the secretary's untirIng your our wise counsel and your bra vision Islon have made your our an Inspiration to us all aIL Standing his fingers pressing down on the table top Mr l hoover r replied with a a. show of emotion ina In Ina I a husky voice that barely carried to those standing In the rear of oC the tho room He Ha said he WaS l u I 1 laxly touched by the demonstration that had been given him and added that he the expressions of Dr Burgess Bur ess J Just one word of for the cooperation I 1 have received from you ou lie he continued over all this long period In the t effo-t to build up a a. new policy turning th the arm of commerCe away from the narrow channels of business Into the great leat service of public welfare Behind all QUI our work Is the tho fact that this department Is and has been In the public Interest I thank I you OU on behalf behal of the people and for myself personally personal With a a. bow the secretary walked briskly from the om amid a a. der of applause sc closing his desk at atthe atthe the department Mr Hoover conferred con with several political leaders Ruth Anna McCormick including Mrs Irs mick candidate for tor congress congress wom wom at an from Illinois an anu supporter sup sup- porter of Governor Frank O. O Lowden Lowden Low Low- den In the campaign and Claudius H. H Houston of Tennessee Tennes- Tennes see and andew Nets Nets- York a former as as- secretary of commerce andone and andone one of the HOover campaign lieu tenants THOSE IN PARTY In the Hoover p party for the western west west- wes ern trip were Mrs Hoover Representative e and Mrs John Q Tilson of Connecticut George Geo ge Akerson secretary to the presidential dat data and a a. number r correspondents and photographers The party's first top stop on the journey to Palo Alto Is at Chicago where for three hours tomorrow the Secretary and Mrs Hoover will willbe willbe be the guests ot of the Vice President Md and Mrs Dawes Leaving L tomorrow V evening the candidate will proceed to Superior to spend two days and a night as the guest of President Coolidge with whom he will both fish and talk politics Leaving Superior Tuesday evening eve eve- ning by way va of Duluth the candidates candidate's candi- candi dates date's next stop will be at Omaha Neb wh where re he he will spend three thre hours awaiting train connections Soon after lets his train enters Nebraska ka governor Adam McMullen another another an an- other Lowden supporter In the pre pre- convention days will board his train at Fremont and ride across the e state wits with him GOVERNORS ALSO The Th governors ot of Wisconsin and ani J also are expected to travel With it Hoover Hoer Ho er f fir l' l a a. time as he crosses t th l lr states The jump from Omaha to San Francisco via Ogden Reno and Sacramento will be made In forty eight hours hoUlson on the regular train schedule After the reception n by Governor Young and Mayor Rolph at the city hall In San Francisco Mr Hoover will motor to his pfd pIc lionie h me meat at Lel nd Stanford university where on August 11 he will be formally formally for for- mally notified of the action of the Kansas City ent convention n Leaving Lea Palo halo Alt round the middle ot of August Hoover Ir Ho ver will go to Los Ios el Ang-el s. s thence to Ai- Ai r ew Mexico and Kansas lan lan- sas City From the recent convention convention conven tion city he will go to W West st Branch Iowa to spend a night In the house hou where he was born four fifty years ago The Republican nominee will return return re- re turn to Washington Immediately aft afterwards af- af t under i plans and probably will spend practicallY all ail of the remainder of the campaign period here herc From Washington itis It ItIs Is likely that lie he will make malte a a. few fe I speaking trips but these plans have havo rot root t been definitely formulated