The Convention for nominating a Republican candidate for the American
Presidency has gathered in Kansas City, and when we write on Thursday it seems probable that Mr. Hoover will get the nomination. Mr. Hoover has been so strong a candidate for many months past that paradoxically he seemed too strong. In the party Conventions a man who has powerful enemies, no matter how many his friends may be, is often forced to take second place to a relatively less talented and less offending person. When the Convention opened on Monday the situation was that the Western States, strongholds of agriculture, were in the main opposed to Mr. Hoover. They look upon him as the creature of the business world. In saying this, however, one must make the qualification that many New York financiers by no means approve of Mr. Hoover. Naturally the Western farmers mistrust him because he has always been opposed to the scheme of relieving the farmers out of Federal funds. He is credited with having advised Mr. Coolidge to veto the Bill, as Mr. Coolidge did twice after it had been passed by Congress.
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