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Show . HOOVER FOR HARDING Herbert II. Hoover, former United Unit-ed State food administrator, and a candidate for the Republican nomination nomin-ation for President, is for Senator Harding without reservation. Mr. Hoover has made public a letter call i :g upon all groups to support whole 1 eartedly the Republican ticket. The letter follows: "I beg to acknowledge the receipt c f your letter. I have received many hundreds of other communications ".om friends, advising various courses cour-ses with respect to the situation that eventuated in Chicago, for undoubtedly un-doubtedly many of the independent and progressive Republicans, like myself, are disappointed greatly over ov-er tendencies that were apparent at Chicago. "The Chicago platform is not radical; rad-ical; the greater part of it is constructive con-structive and progressive; nothing prevents the compromise planks on labor, the league, etc. from being given a forward-looking interpretation; interpreta-tion; something including a reorganization reorga-nization of our election expenditures expenditu-res and the primaries, are not adequately ade-quately dealt with. "In these times when the great problems and issues created by the war are new and are complex, we must expect a wide diversion of views among the members of the party as to the methods by which they are to be met. It follows, there fore, that if there was to have been unity In the convention, there had to be a large measure of compromises. compromis-es. The compromises on the platform plat-form and the candidate are proof that we have not arrived at an era of new political and social tendencies tenden-cies and for this same reason the same divergent groups and the same attitude of compromise will be found In the Democratic convention. "Nothing could be more disastrous disas-trous than the development of several sever-al party organizations representing the complexion of every group In he country. With the legislative and executive functions more widely wide-ly separated than In any other democracy de-mocracy the whole process of constructive con-structive government will come to an end if we have more than two dominant parties. "If we should come to 'this position posi-tion there will he no possibility ot the American people obtaining an expression of the will of the majority major-ity and we shall he ruled entirely by log-rolling minorities or sterile political po-litical coalitions. "I am convinced that those of us and I believe that they are the majority of the party who hold more definite views, could not. even were we so Inclined, successfully ef-fact ef-fact the consummation of such views outside tthe party, and that our duty 's to endeavor to bring them to realization real-ization within the party organization organiza-tion itself as the issues on which they bear arize. The tendencies of the party will gain their meaning only from actual administration. "I am convinced that unitv of nc-tion nc-tion among the liberal thinkers of narty, especially if they exert themselves them-selves In the current of congressional congression-al elections, will insure the country against legislative reaction. If the Republican party is not to lie snlit irrevocably. I cannot conceive con-ceive that Senator Harding will for one moment submit the administra live side of the government to the domination of any group of coterie Furthermore, we have the possibil-itv possibil-itv of having administrative measures meas-ures nml policies determined by full cabinet responsiliilitv and of having cooperation restored with the Ifci--lativp side of the government. "I need ncit reiterate mv conviction convic-tion that the constructive ahilltv so eri'i-Tllv r-'Crtn, for the vigorous i business reorganization of the federal fed-eral government and to meet the manr economic issues before us lies ' in the Republican party. "For all these rmsnn, j ,..,,r that those of us who look noon par'v j oreanlzaVon not from the point r,f ; v'ev.- of partisan-bin hn' snl.-dv fr, -ii : 'he point of view of its u e f ii 1 n r s s aa an aeencv of maximum cr--,-Vc -vr. cotmtrv. should sur-nov . ;,..,.:,) can party at the pole." |