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"You have manifested a deep concern in the problems of agriculture. . . . We will and must find a sound solution that will bring security and contentment to this great section of our people.
"But the problems of the next four years are more than economic. In a profound sense, they are moral and spiritual. This convention has sounded a note of moral leadership. . . .
"The government is more than administration; it is power for leadership and co-operation with the forces of business and cultural life in city, town and countryside. The presidency is more than executive responsibility. It is the inspiring symbol of all that is highest in America's purposes and ideals.
"It is vital to the welfare of the United States that the Republican party should continue to administer the government.
"If elected by my fellow countrymen, I shall give the best within me to advance the moral and material welfare of all our people and uphold the traditions of the Republican party so effectively exemplified by Calvin Coolidge."
There was no pretense of work next day at the Department of Commerce. Telegrams rained in from President Coolidge, Vice President Dawes, Charles Evans Hughes, Andrew William Mellon and all the obvious people also from Dr. Frank Crane, sermonizer, who said "tickled to death," and Morris Gest, theatrical producer, who said: "My father and mother have been praying for you in Berlin."
"I wish you to know how greatly I welcome your nomination," wired Nominee Hoover to Nominee Curtis.
Mrs. Emma C. Barker, who serves "the chief's" 60-cent luncheons at the Department of Commerce, told the New York World that "the chief" relishes peanuts.
The Secretary's secretary said that the Secretary would continue being the Secretary of Commerce probably until a few days after he had received the notification committee headed by Senator Moses in Palo Alto, Calif., early next month.
Gentlemen with important seats on the Hoover bandwagon flocked towards Washington to discuss ways and means of bandwagon locomotion this summer and autumn (see p. 15).
A prompt caller was Senator Charles Linza McNary of Oregon, co-author of the late McNary-Haugen bill. He wanted to let bygones be bygones, including the famed equalization fee. Not so Representative Gilbert N. Haugen of Iowa, the other half of the team. He sulked in his tent.
On Sunday the Hoovers went to the Friends meeting house on I Street where the nominee has been an occasional but not regular attendant.
After 15 minutes of silent meditation, one man and three women in the congregation were moved-by-the-Spirit. Each stood up and talked briefly. The man, a civil engineer, named Robert Brown talked about religious pioneering as compared to scientific pioneering. Nominee Hoover wore a double-breasted dark grey suit, white canvas shoes. In the afternoon, Nominee and Mrs. Hoover motored.
* These are the only Hoover grandchildren. Allan Hoover, 21, Stanford University Senior, is unmarried. He attended the convention as a page. Herbert Clark Hoover Jr., 24, is an instructor in economics at the Business School of Harvard University.