The customary speculation regaré- Ing the negative given by Mr. Herbert Hoover to the question whether he is candidate for the Republican presidential nomination is the latest [preoccupation of American political observers. He made this statement at Chicago but as messages point out there is ample ground for speculation because while he stated he was not a candidate at present he did not Indicate whether he would run for President if he were nominated at the Republican National Convention at Cleveland next month. Whatever be national sentiment in regard Mr, Hoover, it cannot be denied that {in recent months he has been one of the country's most prolific speakers and his views on the subject are enlightening. He remarked recently:
Time was when you could around the country making the same Speech at each town. But now, with the radio, speech-making is hard. speech is food "only once, because the public fs quick to detect repetltion. "T'eo a of of research and spend two or three weeks on each of my, speeches.
This is a tribute to radio and a distinct rebuke to those who claimed {that radio speeches tend to standardize utterances and Kill originality. One wonders "what some of the. great British statesmen during the war, and especially Mr. Lloyd George, would have done if every one of their barnstorming speeches, applied directly. to local sentiment, had been nationally broadcast.
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