National Affairs: Candidates' Row

On Candidates Row last week there were several minor gestures, one major motion.

Mr. Hoover. To Colonel Thad H. Brown of Columbus, Ohio, and anyone else who cared to read it, Candidate Hoover wrote a letter. The language was clumsy here and there but the meaning was clear. Wrote Candidate Hoover:

"My dear Colonel Brown: I have received through you and others requests from very many Republicans of Ohio that I permit my name to be entered in the Presidential primaries of that state. I do so.

"I shall be deeply honored by whatever support...

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