Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1923, Page 4

HARDINGIN ENVER Colorado Will Demand Demo- cratic Candidate Match His Policy, Says Wile. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. DENVER, Col, +July 12.—East 1s east. and west is west. in Amerfcan polities today just as truly as when Kipling immortalized the sentiment fn connection with the mysterious orient. The further one penetrates into the heart of the country, where “men are men,” the more deeply one is impressed with the conviction that the thingh that interest the people east of the Mississippl only mod- erately appeal to the folks out here. They ¥y the east is looking too >ward the Atlantic. while they in these parts are concerned almost exclusiv Wwith the trials and tribu- lations that are at hand and at their own doorstep: Hence, while there is a certain academic interest in cuch issues as the league of nations, the world court, reparations, the Ruhr and other international affairs, they mean in fact hardly anything to the average man and woman In midcon- tinental United States. Chose Topic Wisely. President Harding. therefore, was wige in confining hix Denver keynote address to a topic that does engage the thought of the Rocky Mountain region. Prohibition and its corelated ue of law enforcement are solidly sntrenched in the virile west. Col- orado passed a state prohibition law n 1914 It became effective in 1916, and ever since has been a funda- mental factor in the life of the cen- tennial commonwealth. Immediately an inquirer seeks to the impression the ‘Presi- t ated denver, assurance forthcoming that he undoubtedly htened his personal prestige and that of the republican party by his advocacy of the dry cause. Mr. Harding Is a_shrewd politican. He could not possibly have hit upon A platform upon which to stand for Te-election in Colorao more secure or his purpc 2 one-dry - s, pury than bone-dry pro Finds State Bone Dry. This is. politically, one of the most urial states in ‘the country. It anges its party colors with chame- on-like rapidity. It gave Woodrow Ison a majority of 64,000 in 1916, carried Ly Harding by 70,000 in I clected ‘a democratic gov- 00 odd in 1922. If the Colorado In 1924, ing the safest and rd that goal by sthead. ticket has zed in the siat. prohibition scandal Colo- rado has vet developed is just now in the news. The former federal pro- hibition director of the state, a re- publican named McClenahan. is under indictment on a charge conniving at violations of the Volstead act. In the mining counties and in the farm re- s moonshine and moonshiners are nown. and, as elsewhere, plenty of illicit drinking ong the so-called better class of citizens. But_prohibition is believed in by the people of the Rocky mount- ains with religious fervor. State Alxo for McAdoo. Thus. the President tilled fertile s0il when he plowed through Colorado on prohibition Nnes. 1f that were to be the only national political issue next vear Mr. Harding by his Denver spacch would have assured himself a probably invincible lead over any rival a whit less dry than himself. Mr. McAdoo will have the democratic delegation at his party's convention in 1924, and. being a dry. too, would give Mr. Harding a spirited race on the drink proposition in this state. Meantime. to accomplish such a r > McAdoo would have to pledge Colo- radans, to their face Mr. Harding did, that he hibition heart and soul manner of doubt that the President left the state at the end of June a prime favorite on the one political principle to which the mountain peo- ple are irrevocably wedded. Prohibition, unfortunately for the President, is not the oply thing about which this western region holds strong views. As in Missourl and Kansas, the personal economic aspect of life is the all-dominating thought and is likely to bé the all- compelling motive when voting time comes around in 1924. Externally Colorado, as evidenced by its me- tropolis of Denver. is basking in the ®ood times manifest all over the automobile universe known as the United States. But prosperity is said to be more apparent than real Farming Now Dominant. The state no longer depends upon its mining industry. Cripple Creek and Leadville and the other camps of song and story are mere shadows of their former glory. The silver indus- try is in dec There are only three and is or four first-class ‘smelters at work in all Colorado. Agriculture has be- come the foremost business, thanks to a sagacious irrigation policy and the influx of a hardy farming stock from the miGale west. The Colorado rural- it 18 in the dumps, as he is every- where eclse. He -blames the same causes—high freight rates, low prices for his produce and stiff costs for everything he has to buy. Sugar beet 13 one of Colorado’s chlef agricultural producta. if not the big- . Even though the new republ can tariff gives sugar liberal trei ment, the ralser of beets laments that the great refining companies are in fact the only ones who owe thanks to Messrs, ¥ordney and McCumber. As for the farming housewife, who is now putting up her annual supply: of canned frult and paying $10 and up- ward per hundredwelght for sugar— what she has to say about the tarlit Is reproducible only in expletives. Even tungsten, a Colorado product, is 80 poorly protected In the new tariff that Chinese tungsten can undersell t. Want Prosperity Back. Such prospects as President Hardl has for winning Colorado a secon time are going to depend very largely on whether he can put the times in joint again. There is manifest disap- Dointment that his edministration has not done so. His landslide majority in 1920 was rolled up in these parts, as In others, on the confident belief that campaign pledges would be aten into performances reasonably soon. On the question of better times there 13 a deep-seated conviction that promises have not been kept. . The administration's feat In reor- ganizing the government on econom- fcal lines merits wide commendation. The western folk are impressed by the spectacle of a $300,000,000 surplus for the past fiscal it a triumph for the Harding budget system that entitles the President to great credit. The western people like to think this showing means the possibility of reduced taxation, de- spite Senator Smoot's lugubrious forccast that no relief in that direc- tion may be expected for a gemer- aticn My, Hardirg and his political ad- visers are aware that the election of a demccratic governor, Willlam E. Sweet, last November was handwrit- ing on the wall of _no unmistakable portent. Mr. Sweef® catered deliber- ately to the disaffected labor element and the digcontented farming com- munity. Though he is a banker of occupation, he has long been identi- fled with rroletarian longings and does not object to being labeled a radical demccrat. Ron on Locnl Issue. It proved easy for him to overturn the huge republican majority of two years previous. Sweet ran on sev- eral appealing local issues, likc aboli- tion of the rangers, the state police force, abhorred of organized labor. But Whut he capitalized the most suc- cessfully was the amalgamated “grouch” of the producing classcs in town and country. He oused with special vigor the co-operative market- Ing idea and as one of the earliest acty of his administration secured the enactment by a republican legis- lature of a co-operative marketing law. If it works out satisfactorily it is bound to boom Gov. Sweet's political stock and materially advance his ambitions to enter the United States Senate from Colorado. The Sweet marketing bill was drawn by Aaron Sapire. the recognized foremost co- operative authority and the organizer of the California citrus fruits co- operative selling Thompson of the Federal Trad mission, who was Woodrow W cardidate for the vacant Colorado senatorshi is now i ing operative 3 Sweet is going to have him tell Colo- rado about them in a series of speeches during the-coming autumn and winter. The western farmer is pinning his faith to the co-operatives as the sure: guarantee of economic salvation now in sight Tied Up With Phipps. It is impossible to explore the after- math of President Harding’'s expedi- tion Into Colorado without being told that his fate in 1924 is intimately wrapped up with the political for: tun of Lawrence C. i s, ates senator. Mr. Phipps aspire -election next year. He had charge eof Mr. Harding in Colorado. Mr. Phipps has accumulated a host of enemies within the republican part; and some say he will have trouble in securing renomination Predictions are numerous that he faces certain defeat for election if he is victorious in the rimaries, u that he will drag the e president his name is on the same ballot. Mr. Phipps is accounted the richest man in Congre: Now and then his name is unpleasantly bracketed with that of Truman H. Newberry. us to the manner in_ w! h his elec Vi achieved. Whila the President was in “Only the Best” As Low as $5 Cash, $7.50 Per Month Phone Main 7984 WASHINGTON GARAGE CONSTRUCTION CO. 701 Continental Trust Bidg. vear and regard | republican ticket down with him if | Denver there were reports that a con- ference of republican leaders discuss- ed 'the desirability of sidetracking Senator Phipps and appointing him American ambassader to Great Brit- ain in “the second Harding term,” as & reward for permitting a less vul- nerable republican to run for senator next year. Mr. Phipps Informs the writer that he has no intention of abandoning the race. He will have his new demo- cratic colleague,” Senator Alva B. Adams, or Gov. Sweet as an opponent. Colorado will eleet two United States senators in 1924, . Colorado liked the Hardings. Even partisan democrats found the Presi- to be—a counle of exceptlonally’ courteous, simplb, unaffected Ameri- cans, playing dificult parts with dig- nity and effectiveness. Men and women saw in Mr. Harding & man of transparent slncerity of purpose, fil ed with more than the usual quantity and_quality of human kindliness, an attractive if not a dynamic personali- ty, and altogether a presidential per- son, They are used out here to the “Chau- tauqua” type of public speaker, who can orate feelingly on the “heaven, home and mother” theme, Many of the Coloradans whom the President { faced in the Denver auditorium or on [his rear-platform appearances found {him just the kind of fellow they've seen on the Chautauqua circults and league of natlons sentiment in the giate, and corresponding regret that Mr. Harding aid mot dwell on his World COUrt Program except In the most casual manner at Denver. Gov. Sweet, when introducing him, expressed the hope. that the Presl- dent would talk world court, but he made merely a passing reference to it. The presidential reception in Colorado was cordial, but not color- ful, or demonstrative, democrats say Coloradans are luke-warm on the subject of raliroad consolidations. As In_Kansas, they fear the creatlon of ja Frankensteln monster in the shape of a ruthless monopoly mangged in the distrusted cast. The heart 67 De: ver in particular is as it has been for years, on becoming an important Hnk on a great transcontinentml trunk line, un advantage the city now does not ‘share elther with Pueblo on the south or Cheyenno on the north. Horing Great Tunuel. Only recently Denver has taken steps to bore a great tunnel through the mountain range, which is the natural barrler to a trunk line through this city. There is to Le a municipal bond issue to finance & great engineering project which will carry out the long-cherished dream of the Denver pioneer, David H. Moffat, whose ancient plans to put Denver on transcontinental rail map were baflled, so they say here, Ly_hostile eastern capital When Denver thinks of Moffat and conjures up visions of the new birth of | prosperity the tunnel through the James peak is going to bring, itis not deeply enamored of any schemes designed to centralize more power in the hands of “alien capital.” Denver dominates polit- teally in Colorado. There s any amount of Henry Ford and the labor communities he woul command undoubted strength on an in dependent ticket. There are no visible signs of an organized movement in his behalf, but if he contrives to get his iname on any presidential ticket in 1924 he will cut heavily into the normal vote of both the republican and democratic parties. The Denver Post. one of whose proprietors was invited to go ‘to Alaska by the President, publishes {a weekly edition called The Great Divide' ‘which has a big circulation in the rural regions. Recently, this writer is informed, it polled the farm vote in Colorado and some adjacent gdistricts and found that Ford ran aheaa of every other presidential contender in the ratio of about ten for himse to four for Harding and two for McAdoo. Foliticians are un- certain whether Ford would do more mage to the republican or to the democratic ticket. All they are sure about is that he will play K with both, though there is no fear, apparently, that he could carry the state. He will not have the demo- cratic delegation to the national convention. McAdoo seems to be as- fured of that, at least for carly bal- (Copsright. | dent and the first lady all they ought, like. There 1s & not inconsiderablle | " GINGERALE, 2 CALL 3-DAY STRIKE OVER CONVICTIONS I. W. W.’s in California Act in Protest Against Sentencing of 27 Members. By the Assoclated Press, LOS ANGELES, Calif, July 12—A five-day general strike by members of the marine transport workers' branch of the Industrlal Workers of the World was called to begin at Los An- geles harbor at 10 o'clock this morn- ing by a meeting of longshoremen, sald to number 1,200, The strike is designed as a Drotest agalinst the conviction in the Los An- geles superior court yesterday of twenty-seven 1. W, W.'s on charges of | criminal syndicalism and the sentence of from one to fourteen years in San Quentin peniteptiary passed on each of them. Predict Strike'Spread. Predictlons were volced by speakers at last night's meeting that loggers in_the northwest would join the strike, and declarations made that a similar movement was planned along the Atlantle coast. Police attended the made no attempt to Interfere. owners said they fill the places of possible strikers as |svon. as they left work also tated they belicved 4 jmore than marine transport kers here. { The tuwe meeting, but Ship | | | were prepared to | there no | yesterday were to be started for Ssn Quentin in a special car today with seventeen others previously convicted and given penitentiary sentences. Some vessels which reached the harbor yesterday reported trouble from the actions >f 1. W. W.'s in their crews. It way stuted efforts to pe suade the crews of three British steamers to Joln In the strike met with some success. The steamer Steel Traveler, which arrived from New York on’ the way ‘around the world, turned over to the police two men sald to be orguntzers for the L W, W, Capt. R, Pillette of the Steei Traveler stated the mer, A. Lorrerier, a fireman, and C. Dessalenoss, & sea- man, had attempted to organize the crew while at sea. He said resolu- tions were adopted by the crew, re- , fusing to work while the vessel was here. He put the men under guard, ‘charging them with mutiny. The police took charge of them and booked them as violators of the criminal syndicalism law. —_— RITES FOR P. J. HART. Gas Light Company Employe Buried in Baltimore. Funeral services for P, J. Hart, fifty-three years old, employed by the Washtington Gas Light Company of this city for the past thirty-five years, were held in Baltimore Wednes- dny. at the St. Phillp and St James Chlicen of “that city.” Ho was buried in the Bonnie Brae cemetery. Mr. Hart dled at_his residence, 3040 Bar- day street, Baltimore, last Monday. He had commuted between that city and Washington for a number of years, He was the son of the late John J. and Catherine C. Hart. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. P. J. Vacuum Sweepers Fully Guaranteed Complete with attachme, Keveral “‘West ern Electric” and e Univ *Run Un either enrrent John J. Odenwald 1965 H NW. Pu. 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