We feared the subterranean opposition which evidently found itself struggling
against a force stronger than itself. There was also danger from the farmers in the Middle West because Mr. Hoover was said to have had a share in the President's veto upon the McNary-Haugen plan. Lately he incurred some further unpopularity in the South because his technical knowledge of engineer- ing led him to oppose some hasty and expensive plans for the control of the Mississippi, and he was accused of thwarting the future safety of the riparian dwellers, who suffered so grievously in the floods. If there is to be a Republican President, we shall welcome the Convention's nomination, because Mr. Hoover has so much greater knowledge of European and other foreign conditions than have had most Presidents of the United States. He knows the British people in England and in Australia. He has been in China and can realize the difficulties of the Powers there. And we remember gratefully the energy and organizing power which he devoted to Belgian Relief through 1915 and 1916, as well as his help to Europe when relief was so vitally needed after the Armistice.
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