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Show IT'S WARMING UP. 1 he campaign for the Republican presidential nomination i warmir.g up to ihe po.i.t where attacks are being made on the se eral candidates. Vice 1 resident Dawes is criticized because of h testimony before thi: (Jon0rs3io.ial committee engaged in inves'. g-tii.g the co..du..t of L.a .var ft ,i the war was over. i I2 u r.ou..ced practically ti.e ei.tire leadership of his party as demagog, c 1 '- c -.. 0. . :.. wi . lica vv ile a..d iti-fficiency in 1.1 ...-.inc. 1. i .x . cr. ci Lowclo.. is cr.ticlz .d because of a.i 1 i . 1-.. i. ...w w 1 v. .i.u lj Lla io t..e 0 of Natio.is. becietary Hoover is altackud because of his letter 1 Frederick Coudcrt in 1918 expressing the opinion that Presid Wilson should be supported by the country without regard to pal. lines in peace and postwar negotiations, interpreted as in support 1 President Wilson's demand for a Democratic Congress. In behalf of Vice President Dawes the reply is made that s part of the Wilson administration's war activities, loyalty to his ch. recjuired defense of the conduct of the war. Governor Lowde friends state that he was more stior.gly quoted in his interview t.. his words warranted. In behalf of Secretary Hoover it is stated that when appoint as a part of the war administration he was known to be a Re, u can, and that one crossing of the party lines during a war period led for another; that at the time the statement was made Secrel..' Hoover was abroad and face to face with the necessity of empii sizing the theory that the United States was united in support of tV war and that while Americans were able to differentiate bet.c loyalty to President Wilson and loyalty to the government's w cause, Europeans were not; that in October, 1918, the question v. up as to whether the Germans would give in and the war be end. or whether peace negotiations wrould fail and many thousands c American lives be lost with additional billions of dollars. It is s ' that Secretary Hoover has never contemplated giving up his res dence in the United States, that he has been continuously a memb; of the National Republican Club of New York for twenty years, ar. that in 1920 he "squashed" a movement to make him the Dem: cratic presidential nominee and permitted his friends to make hopeless fight for the Republican presidential nomination chiefly ti permanently establish his identity as a member of the party o:' whose two last national administrations he has .been an importan part. It is also argued by Secretary Hoover's friends that th charges made against his party zeal will only strengthen him as ar election vote-getter among independent and luke-warm Democratii voters and among many of those who have heretofore been numbered number-ed with that fifty per cent of the electorate which has not been go ing to the polls. These charges and counter charges are interesting as evidence that as 1928 opens there is a revival in political interest. Js tht Democratic and Republican national conventions approach ther will doubtless be an increase in the political fireworks. Our nation al campaigns are good shows, well staged and have been entire! too tame in recent years to suit those whose memories run back tc more stirring days politically. |