Show VES DAWES LOOMS AS NOMINEE OF HIS PARTY WISE MEN SA SAY Y Yi i sot Not Much Enthusiasm Behind Movement fo I for Hughes HOOVER IS STRONG Believe Lowden Boom BoomI I Will Vill Peter Out Before I Convention By ny WILLIAM II RD Copyright right 1927 Consolidated Press Association WASHINGTON Oct 1 l.- l. Many Many of oX the best political gamblers gambler of the na na- national national na- na national capital are at it tills this week-end week putting a new fresh lot of their verbal money on Charles Gates es Dacs for lor the Republican presidential nom nom- nomination They arc are doing doln this partly because they continue to thin that Frank O O. Low Lowden den is a II lame horse hoise who will not be able to make a clean Jump over the Big Bill DIll Thompson hazards in his own state But Dut they thc are especially doing it be because be- be because cause they have come to the conclusion conclusion conclusion sion that Charles Evans Hughes as asa asa asa a candidate is not alive all at all They see him now only as a wooden horse who eis is being il pushed d across eCe the es land land- landscape I C for f purposes r merely of solemnity solem and and who at nt 1 the appropriate moment will burst open and reveal a swarm of 01 conven conven- convention convention convention tion delegates really for Mr Coolidge or failing falling him lum for Mr Dawes FORCE u nIm-u HUGHES The vital force behind the Hughes spectacle is In the banking element in New York Vork City Inquiries in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York City however reveal the fact that the men who constitute this force are arc singularly lacking in conn- conn confidence confidence dence that Mr Hughes will ever be acceptable to the mass of or the conven conven- convention tion nd delegates d from the t region r be between bet I f tween n and San n Francisco Is IsIt It Is recognized and admitted that these th e western delegates will have haye an almost insuperable prejudice against the nomination of any ny easterner ex except ex- ex except except J Mr fr Coolidge for next years year's presidential honors It is further recognized that this prejudice will lie I particularly against any New Yorker in view of the fact that all New York York- Yorkers Yorkers ers era are suspected of wanting to dig the proposed new ship canal from the lakes to the Atlantic Atlantic NeW state instead of down the St St. Law Law- Lawrence rence It is further and finally rec rec- recognized recognized and admitted that the west west- western western ern em delegates will have a lively rec rec- recollection recollection of the gross groa political errors by Mr Hughes Hughes' advisers in 1911 when he was the Republican nominee for the presidency These errors caused him to lose Jose 16 out of the 24 central western and far western states NO ENThUSIASM 1 With these considerations in hi mind the easterners who are propelling Mr Hughes In the presidential st steeple steeple- steeplechase steeplechase chase while he himself loudly and sincerely proclaims his preference for living U out the rest of his life in the pasture are lire filled with no real en en- en enthusiasm enthusiasm at all for their prospects of being able to get him over the high fences fenc of western suspicion and an an- an What That they really talk about with zeal is the painfulness of losing Mr Coolidge and the possible antidote that might be found to that painful- painful painfulness painfulness ness In the nominating of their fel fel- fellow fel- fel fellow low banker er and fellow participant in the financing and stabilizing of Eu Eu- Europe Europe rope Mr Dares es Because of the Dawes plan in Ger Ger- many they have great confidence in Mr Dawes' Dawes interest in the fate of all the Immense loans which have been made out of New York to European countries Because of Mr career as a banker in Chicago they have great confidence in his economic soundness In spite of the support he is said sald to have ha given to the legislative measure which they regard as the sum of all economic folly namely folly namely Continued on or Page Pace Two THO DAWES LOOMS AS CANDIDATE J Continued from rage Pate a e One the McNary-Haugen McNary dc de dc- lief bill DARES DANES D. ES SITS WELL ELL They Thy simply refuse to believe that Mr bIr Dawes took that bill seriously Mr Dawes Daves Is accordingly In the fol fol- following following lowing Ing wonderful position His eastern financial friends are arc for him because they think he be did not mean the McNary McNary-Haugen bill and his western farmer friends are for far jim lr m because they think he did Mr Dawes Va ts is 13 thus able to smoke his pipe politically as well as es per per- per personally r- r tonally either cither way up He Hc nowadays dees nothing but smoke it In contented and wise sl- sl alence Jince l nce ence except for saying to all In Inquirers In- In inquirers I I am for Lowden If U you arc ask ask- asking asking ing me because cause you ou want to go along with my advice I will tell you that I hope you jou ou will be for Lowden too too This IbIS is the statement that Mr Dawes Is making not only to stran stran- strangers strangers gers Gen but also to his closest personal onal intimates His Ills behavior beha is beyond re re- re Ills His loyally to his friend Mr Lowden Is absolute LOUDEN LOWDEN SUFFERS Mr Lowden Lo Lod d however begins to suf sur- suffer suffer surfer fer from having hating rested his appeal al almost al- al almost most exclusively cly on the grievances of one geographical section of one eco ceo economic class He lie begins to suffer from having seemed to pit the corn com belt farmers against the whole of the rest of the nation Mr Dawes D equally popular with the corn belt farmers is not thus handicapped He Tic is thought of as lIS being much more lore than only a acom acom acorn com corn pelt It spokesman ills His II candidacy is one largely of personal acquaint acquaintanceships and friendships extending over o the whole whale country They Ibey are operating for him today in the most powerful manner in his hI own own and and Mr Lowden's state Lowden's state of Illinois BILL DILL A Big Bill Thompson Chicago's dom dom- dominating mayor is Ss playing politics in intimately In- In nowadays with William Lor- Lor Lorimer imer United ex-United States senator from Illinois Mr Lorimer is under the greatest possible obligations to Mr Dawes es Mr Dawes at one time pro pro- provided vided the resources which saved sa a bank hank of or Lorimers Lorimer's from Immediate ruin Mr Mt Lorimers Lorimer's Influence with Mr Thompson is all against Mr Low- Low Lowden Lowden den whom wham Mr Thompson dislikes anyway ana and all In favor of ot Mr Dawes Da cs The Thompson Illinois del del- delegates delegates delegates to the next Republican con con- convention may vote for Mr as asa a n passing courtesy but they arc like like- likely likely likely ly to be in the very ery forefront of the shouting when hen the bands begin to play and the banners T Begin gln n to scream We Want Dawes HOOVER AND WES DANES At that moment If 1 certain of the wisest bettors here at this week end arc are correct there will be Just two great contending names naIDes really and seriously before fore the the- convention Mr Ir Dawes and Mr Hoover The Ibe panto- panto mine of ot running an nn eastern candi candi- candidate date date Mr Hughes Hughe will Hughes will have hate col- col they think amid humiliation for Mr Hughes The effort to run runa a western candidate on a purely western or northwestern issue Issue Mr Lowden Lo wen Lowden-wen will also they think have nave collapsed The two westerners whose appeal i is general and wide nation Mr Dares Dawes and Mr Hoover will Hoover will be left lert They Ibey will fight then till one of them wins or until with the dusk the dark horses like Mr Longworth or Mr Curtin or General are slipped sUpped out onto the track So think some of or our political politiCo guessers gu rs whose guess guess- guessing log ing records arc are excellent t. t |