Bandwagon

Aboard the Hoover bandwagon there clambered last week:

1) Governor Fred R. Zimmerman of Wisconsin, who in 1924 was part of his State's "bolt" from the convention that nominated Calvin Coolidge to the skirmishers who later nominated the late La-Follette. Governor Zimmerman, prodigal, visited President Coolidge at Brule, Wis. (see p. 7). Governor Zimmerman, candidate for reelection, began opening Hoover-Zimmerman clubs. Governor Zimmerman said that after the eight-year (1912-1920) Democratic regime in Washington "it is but a miracle that there is anything at all left of America to be corrupt with." This was a rebuttal of current Democratic talk about the Oil Scandals.

2) Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa. His method of transferring from the defunct Farm Revolt to the triumphant Hoover vehicle was to attack one of Lowdenism's loudest promoters, George N. Peek, executive chairman of the Corn Belt Conference. He accused Mr. Peek of plotting to ditch Lowden in favor of Vice President Dawes, whose outer office Peek used while lobbying for the McNary-Haugen Bill. Mr. Peek has lately been advising farmers to go Democratic. Piqued at Peek, Senator Brookhart said the Democratic farm plank was worse than the Republican; that Hoover knows more about the farm problem than Smith.

3) Senator Charles S. Deneen of Illinois. He was a Lowdenite. Lowdenism's fight on Hooverism was featured by frantic assertions that Hooverism could not carry Illinois. Presumably, Nominee Curtis was Senator Deneen's excuse for predicting, last week, for the Hoover-Curtis ticket "a great majority in Illinois."

4) Vice President Charles Gates Dawes. In Chicago, he repeated that he would rather have seen Lowden nominated, but said: "If needed, I am ready to campaign for the ticket. Hoover will be elected."

5) Boyish Senator Gerald Prentice Nye of North Dakota. He swung grudgingly aboard after having abused Hooverism for many weeks. He said that it would require hard work but that North Dakota could and would be Hooverized.