G. O. P. Vice-Presidency

Republican vice-presidential racers spurted gently last week. Governor Theodore Roosevelt, flying back to his post in Porto Rico, stopped in Raleigh, N. C. long enough to confide to newsmen: "I expect Secretary of War Hurley to be the next Republican vice-presidential nominee."

In Washington, Secretary Hurley, pleased as Punch with Rooseveltian support, declared: "This thing is getting to be a good joke but really, you know, I'm not a candidate. Besides I was for Charlie Curtis in 1924. I was for him in 1928. I'm still for him."

Vice President Curtis still did not know whether he was for himself for another term or not. Kansas conditions for Republican candidates were last week reported "very bad"--so bad, in fact, that Mr. Curtis canceled an inspection trip about the State. Unless they improved, the Vice President's friends predicted he would give up the idea of a Senate seat, seek national renomination.

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