Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1924, Page 4

Dark Horse Regarded Virtually Assured Walsh Latest to h As Eventual Choice of Party BLOW Montana Senator, L Come to Fore ikely to Fall Heir to . Smith Strength, Seen Particularly Strong, Even BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. One month from yesterday the Democratic national convention will be engaged In its tug-of-war. It is still anybody’s fight. Only one thing is mccountsd almost certain on all lands—that mneither of the three aspirants now out in front—McAdoo, Smith and Underwood—will ever flash vast the winning post. The race Is <onsidered to belong to a dark horse. ‘The dark-horse fleld was never So overcrowded. There's an entry from every corner of the land. Becauss the situation is so thoroughly unde- tarmined in advance and so entirely problematical, the slenderest hope of today cherishes fond confidence that the time the balloting is over it may be triumphantly realized. The situation at the outset of the final month before the New York convention is thag the McAdoo, Smith d Underwood camps refuse to acknowledge the possibility of de- feat. That is the expected, the cus- tumary and the strategic thing. They k about dying in the last ditches They say they are not out to deliver their votes to any body. but will fight till their hero is nominated. That is uleo the traditional thing. All Plan Detours. insiders In all three not publicly claiming victory and quietly working will go when they expect sooner or ater to have to that the roadway to the magic two-thirds ary to nominate is barred. Tn words, where the McAdoo, But en privately t where they alize, as they camps, e, Smi tour is now the all-absorbing problem with them. McAdoo's supporters are outwardly, and probably actually, still the most optimistic as to their own candidate’s <hances. But Roper, Rockwell, Cum- n Woolley, Shouse, _Meredith, weet, Thompson, Baker and all the rest of the McAdoo high com- mand are known,to Le casting a dis creet anchor to windward. They are i0t_going to be caught in a squall at Madison Square Garden and scat- tered indis ‘oil bespattered the Mca ause, ®ven since Mr. McAdoo's whdoubtedly his friends deposit “McAdoo strength” no longer effective for the n’s own purposes. alsh Latest Suggestion. The newest suggestion in the dark- horse realm concerns plans attributed To Gov. Smith and his fri volves around the name of Senator POLLS SHOW DAVIS STRONGER IN RACE McAdoo Drops Back in West Vir- ginia Straw Votes—State Race Hot—Primary Tuesday. B¥ace it when | Califor Special Dispateh to The Star. CHARLESTON, W. Va, May 24— The primary election is now only three davs away and prognosticators as much at variance as ever. This is especially true in the vernorship contests, Three of the Republican entrants—Attorney General E. T. England, C. W. Swisher nd Howard M. Gore, assistant United secret of agriculture—are professedly equally confident, and the same may be sald of the four Democratic aspirants—Circuit Judge Jake Fisher, A. J. Wilkinson, J. Z. Terrell and Dr. G. A. MacQueen. In the senatorial contests most of the observers are picking Col. Guy 1. Goff, Republican, and former Sen- ator W, E. Chilton, Democrat. Sena- tor Chilton's only opponent, Mr Izetta Jewell-Brown, has been sho: ing greater strength this week than at uny time in the campaign and sup- are claiming that she has an xeellent chance. Wayne B. Wheeler of Washington, meneral counsel for the Anti-Saloon League, is taking a hand in the cam- ign in opposition to Representative Rosenbloom, an avowed light wines and beer advocate, and Wightman D. Roberts, Republican primary candi- date for Congress from the sixth dis- trict. Mr. Wheelor addressed a large meeting in Charleston last Sunday. The straw vote being taken by sev- of the leading newspapers in the te shows a substantial majority in favor of modifying the Volstead law. John W. Davis passed McAdoo in these polls during the week and Gov. Al Smith developed surprising strenzth in the Wheeling district. President Coolidge continues to be an rverwhelming favorite. Other lead- ers in the polls are Goff and Chilton, England and Fisher. LYNN KIRTLAND. G. 0. P. IN SOUTH DAKOTA .TO ASK FARM AID PLANK Johnson Manager's Statement Creates Amusement Among Political Observers. Special Dispatch 1o The Stas SIOUX FALLS, §. D., May 24 —The second chapter in the United States senatorship fight which recently was pened .in South Dakota when U. S. Cherry of Sioux Falls, the Demo- ratic candidate, eharged Gov. W. H. McMaster, Republican nominee 'for TUnited States senator, with having two years ago suppressed a consid- arable part of a report of efficiency oxperts, was written u few days ago when Gov. McMaster issued & public «@tement denying the charges of Mr. Cherry. The announcement that Senator Hiram Johnson had released the South Dakota delegation from sup- porting him attracted some interest among South Dakota politicians. Amusement has been created by the announcement of Senator Johnson's manager in South Dakota that the delegation will demand a farm relief plank in the Republican natlonal platform in return for the delega- tion’s support of President Coolidge. Coolldge supporters in South Da- kota think the South Dakota delega- tion to the Cleveland convention will fail in its effort to “bulldoze” the other delegates in the convention, and, naturally, it is expected they will cut but little figure in a con- vention which, outside of themselves, will be made up entirely of delegates who are supporting President Cool- tdge. ALFRED BURKHOLDER. about States Files Suit for Divorce. Hattic M. Stansfield has filed suit in the District Supreme Court for an abgolute divorce from Harry Stans- fleld, who = now resides ‘in - San Francisco, Callf. They were married August 6, 1917, and have one child. The wife charges misconduct with an unknown woman. Attorney- H. P. A «Long appeary for the wife. 1 and Underwood people will de- | If a Catholic. Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. It is associated particularly with the theory of many Democrats, ngt Ro- man Catholics themselves, that the “religious issue” In American politics may as well be fought out in 1924 us any time. Democrats who hold that view belleve it would be fatal to fight the issue at this time with a Catholic who is wet besides. They are convinced the {ssue could be taken to the people with a great deal Dbetter hope of success with a Catho- lic Democrat who is not only dry. like Senator Walsh, but different from Smith In another respect, name- Iy, that he is western and progressive. ‘s the Democrats will make “clean government” and oil_scandals _their paramount issues, Senator Walsh strikes many of them as “loglcal” beyond any aspirants now in the fleld. no longer voung. He will be sixty-five on June 12. 'But he {s im- mensely more energetic, for example, than Senator Ralston of Indiana, who will be sixty-seven next December. There is much talk in Washington now of glving Senator Walsh one of the two places on the Democraite Yicket, If an eastern conservative like Davis or Glass is named for President, there will be & strong movement to nominate Walsh for Vice President. Four in “First Stri " Democrats nowadays speak of “first-string” and “second-string dark horses, when they've eliminated the big three. In the first string are John W. Davis, Samuel M. Ralston, Homer Cummings and Carter Glass. In the second string are Gov. Sweet of Colorado, Senator Copeland of New York, Gov. Silzer of New Jersey, Gov. Ritchie of Maryland, Senator Robin- <on of Arkaneas, Chairman Cordell | Full of Tennessee, Huston Thompson, chairman of the federal trade com- mission, and former Gov. Gardner of Missourl, Gardners name has just entered the field. He will have con- t{rol, when the Missour! delegation has shot its McAdoo Dbolt, of the strength that it Tepresents. Te will enjoy lvely backing from other southwestern - states. Gardner Was @ successful WAr governor of Missouri and 18 considered, 88 & “bor- der state” man, to measure up to the Westarn and progressive requirements the Democrats will call for at New York. Somebody observed that Gard- ner is In an unattractive business He's a large-scale manufacturer of coftin; “Just the man," was the re- tort, “to lay away Republican hopes this year.” The country is in for four weeks of vigorous Democratic dark-horsing. The entries herein tabulated probab! do not exhaust the list. The country is wide and the Democratic party I3 numerous. i (Copyright | McADOO FORCES SCORE. Win Indorsement for Candidate in Idaho Convention. Special Dispateh to The Star. BOISE, ldaho, May 24—Robert El- der of Coeurdalene was re-elected Democratic national committeeman by the Democratic state convention. | McAdoo Democrats won half a vi | tory in the closing hours of the con- ventlon, when the convention in- dorsed him for the nomination. This resolution caused a long fight, in which it was clearly pointed out that the resolution did not provide for an fnstruction. JEROME BARTEL. SMITH FORCES DENY M’ADOO VOTE CLAIM Declare Majority of Connecticut Delegates Assured to New York Executive. 1024.) Special Dispateh to The Star. HARTFORD, Conn.,, May 24.—Sup- porters of Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York for the democratic noml- nation for the presidency claim thir- teen of Connectlcut’s twenty dele- gates, giving McAdoo and all others a maximum of seven. The thirteen Smith delegates would, under the division of Connecticut's fourteen votes among twenty delegates, glv- ing seven-tenths of a vote to each delegate, cast nine and one-tenth votes for their favorite, leaving four and nine-tenths votes for the oppo- sition candidates. From the McAdoo national headquarters has come a claim of elght Connecticut delegates. Frank P, Fenton of Willimantic, mi- nority leader of the last state House of Representatives, one of the n tional convention delegates and a su porter of Smith, gives McAdoo's max- imum Connecticut strength as six delegates, or four and one-fifth votes. Several delegates have sald that they were for Cummings, and, of course, if it appears that this “favor- ite son” has even an outside chance, he will have the vote of his home state, but Smith is far in the lead among the candidates considered as having « real chance of securing the nomination. The votes of United States Senators Frank B. Brandegee and George P. McLean to override the bonus-bill Veto of President Coolidge have caused the talk which might be expected to retiring them from bublic life when thelr terms expire, but the feeling will have a long time to die out, neither Connecticut senator coming up for renomination this year. H. I. HORTON. — McADOO AND COOLIDGE TO GET TEXAS DELEGATES Instructed Slates Assured at Both State Conventions to Be Held Tuesday. Special Dispatch to The Star. AUSTIN, Tex., May 24.—Outcome of both Republican and Democratic state conventions, to be held In Texas next Tuesday, has already been settled by instruction of delegates from precinct and county conventions. The Repub- lican meeting i3 scheduied to instruct its_delegates for President Coolldge and for the nomination of R. B. Creager of Texas for Vice President. A majority of counties have chosen delegates committed to vote in the Democratic state convention at Waco for instruction of the Texas forty votes in the New York convention for McAdoo. A scattering of Texas coun- ties have Instruct for Alvin M. Owsley of Denton, Tex., former na- tional” commander of the American Legion, for Vice President. 8. RAYMOND BROOKS. D. C. GIRLS TO GRADUATE. Five Washington students at Wellesley College are among those who will graduate from the institu- tion on June 17. They are Katherine H. Fenning, 2134 LeRoy place; Mary W. Fox, 1709 S street; Katherine W, Knaebel, 3707 Morrison -street; .ar“v Miliholland, 3306 _ California nd M. Elizabeth West, 934 M street. THE SUNDAY :STAR, - WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY 25,. SEE VETO REVERSAL T0 PRESIDENT New Jersey Editors Regret In- ability of Coolidge to Win Backing of Congress. LODGE GENERALLY SCORED Defection From Ranks on Ques- tion Is Deplored. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEWARK, N. J, May 24.—The prestige of President Coolidge has suffered in New Jersey by passage of the bonus bill over his veto. Not & newspaper in the state had favored the bonus, not a civic organization had espoused it, labor unions were cool to it, many war veterans were frankly against it, and thousands of other veterans were totally Indiffer- ent to it. In fact, the New Jersey public had come to regard the bonus satirically, and, as (ime passed, senti- ment agalnst it grew daily stronger. New Jersey was among the first to grant & state bonus \ Tod: it is different. The high cost of iving has changed the public mind. Newspaper comment on the loss of a battle by American soldiers in the great war, if such a thing had occurred, could not have had a deeper note of chagrin than the editorial expressions of today on the over- riding of the bonus veto. Sees One Way Out Loat. The Newark Evening News sees in the passage of tha bonus over the presidential veto the price the public is paying for the transfer of the olitical leadership from the White ouse to the Senate in 1920. “There has been a growing belief,” says this ublication, “in the personality and eadership of Coolidge as & way out. With his major economic program & wreck because of his own party, it {s difficult to appraise the value of that way out now. “It," says the Elizabeth Journal, a newspaper which is always Republi- can, “Calvin_Coolldge fails of re- election in November, as now seems possible, Republicans in Congress will be_responsible for ft." These comments are fairly typical. They are a contrast to the almost general approbation of President Coolldge in the recent primary cam- paign.” To say, however, that there is an emphatic’ reversal of the hith- erto favorabie opinion of President Coolldge is extravagant. The over- riding of his bonus veto, with its consequent effect on tax reductlon, {loes mark a turning point, neverthe- s. Among business organizations and practically everywhere else where the bonus enactment over the veto is deplored Senator Lodge s blamed. As a commentary on human natufe, rather than on politics, it may be in- teresting to record that four years ago this same public was extolling Mr. Lodge for having seized leader- ship from another President, as they 8ay he has now seized leadership from Coolidge, extolling him just as much as they are now condemning him. JOHN J. McGOWAN. DEFEAT OF DISLOYAL G. 0. P. CONGRESS MEMBERS LOOMS (Continued from First Page.) ing a lone Land for themselves or special factions and political ele- ments, the meantime trying to tag onto President Coolidge’s prestige with the voters for their own sal- vation at the polls. * ok % % It is held that there is substan- tiation of the bellef that the peo- ple are backing the President in the overwhelming victories he has won in every state but South Da- kota in primary contests. * ¥ x % The issue of greatest moment in natfonal politics s the question as to what course the President will follow in dealing with the tax-re- duction bill. Will he veto it, sign it or allow it to become a law au- tomatically? Politiclans of national promi- nence say that his action will largely shape the campalgn for election after he has been nomi- nated and the fortunes of the Re- publican party in November. Thelr best judgment is that should he veto it the Democrats would use it to their own vast advantage and to the detriment of the interests of the Republicans. Recognizing that if President Coolldge s convinced that if the bill as passed by Congress will work actual harm to the business interests of the country some leaders believe he is likely to veto it, depend- ing upon the effort to convince the country that the bill is a menace to general prosperity. But some of them are asking Wwill it be possible to elucidate to the lay mind the technical and in- tricate problems essayed in such an explanation, whether they can be grasped to sufficlently out- welgh the disappointment at hav- ing no reductions? * * ¥ X In the presidential nomination fleld the contest is warming up dally between Willlam G. McAdoo and Gov. Alfred E. Smith, with the element of the democracy op- posed to the nomination of either one showing activity on the side lines. No eme in responsible Democratic leadership, outside of the backers of the candidates themselves, belleve that either of these two can get the two-thirds majority necessary to nominaticn; that they will stop each other. It is led as_highly improbable, 1t impoesible, that either one could throw hi strength to the other, 8o as to “fll) his hand.” The McAdoo and Smith follow- ings are irreconcilable to each. The religlous question and the wet and dry issues are too sharp- 1y drawn to be possible of recon- clllation, it 1s the belief of many leading Democratic politicians, * Kk ok Mr. McAdoo might possibly throw his delegates to a compro- mise candidate and put him acro and Gov. Smith could turn his over to some one other than Mr. McAdoo and nominate him, but only at the expense of his own elimination. The possibllities for a dark horse and compromise nomines are rated as limitless. * k % % The two most marked features of the Democratic nomination situation of the hour are Mr. Mc- Adoo’'s aggressive attitude and action and Gov. Smith's preven- tion of a threatened row the - Tammany orgsnisation oWy the fi THE WEEK IN POLITICS Summary of National Developments Based on Reports From The Star's Special Correspondents and Staff Writers. BOUT all there is left now of the pre-convention cam- paign is the question as to how many votes McAdoo will have at New York. He con- tinues to gather them in, much to the surprise of some of his appo- nents, but it is conceded that he Wwill not have the necessary two- thirds on the early balloting. So the expectation of a deadlocked convention now {s ‘assured, and it becomes a subject for speculation as to what will happen when the break comes. As state after state lines up for McAdoo there Is noticeably less confidence in the claim of the anti- McAdoo combination that a third of the delegates can be held to the very end against him. If the con- vention at New York is to be judged by the history of past con- ventions, after the first few bal- lots delegates will begin to mani- fest a desire to get aboard the bandwagon, and the band aboard the McAdoo wagon will be playing most enticing alrs. It may not fall out that way—it didn't at Bal- timore twelve years ago—but & betting man today would be justi- fled In taking McAdoo against the fleld Of course, should the balloting be prolonged, the break might be the other way. Undoubtedly there are a good many delegates in- structed for or pledged to McAdoo who would prefer some other man as the party's standurd bearer, and if the anti-McAdoo floor managers are able to hold thelr lines intact and start a rally around some pop- ular figure, thers might be repeat- ed the story of Baltimore, when Champ Clark saw his majority vote slowly disintegrate. . x ok x * Dispatches to The Star from its special political correspondents at the week end disclose no devel- opment In the Democratic situa- tion of special significance. The formal indorsement in Maryland of Gov. Ritchle for the presidential nomination is not to be taken seri- ously at this stage of the contest. There may come a time In the con- vention when Gov. Ritchie will be given serlous consideration, but the same may be as truthfully sald of any other prominent Democrat. The action of the Maryland De- mocracy s accepted for exactly what it was Intended to be—a compliment to the able and popu- lar governor. side from McAdoo, Gov. Smith of New York seems to be about the only candidate in whose behalf there is any considerable activity. He gets favorable mention from widely scattered states and seems certain to be the runner-up in the early balloting. It probably will be the strategy to let Gov. Smith - lead the first assault on the Mc- Adoo ranks. If he fails to make a breach, some other man will be brought out and given a ‘“run,” but who that other man will be it would be futile at this time to guess. * ok ok ok Release by Senator Johnson of the South Dakota and a few other scattering delegates practically “cleans up” the Republican situa- tion and leaves the Cleveland con- vention nothing to do but pick a vice presidential candidate and adopt a platform. 1In both these matters the convention will do no more than register the wishes of President Coolidge, when, at the proper time and in'a proper man- ner, those wishes are made known. President Coolidge may not be able to control his party in Con- gress, but his control of it at_the Cleveland convention will be abso- lute. * ook % Republican political minds are chiefly concerned just now as to what effect will be gelt in Novem- ber as a result of the differences between the President and Con- gress. Veto of the bonus dill and overriding of the veto by Congress are discussed by a number of cor- respondents, but they are not agreed as to how the people are goIng to feel about it. The New Jersey correspondent says the President has lost prestige because he could not make his veto stick, while {n Connecticut the President is represented as having enhanced his popularity, criticlsm being di- rected at Senators Brandegee and McLean because they did not vote to sustain him. x & * ok Third party talk continues to at- tract a good deal of attention, but the apparent split In Wisconsin is proving somewhat disconcerting to the admirers of Senator La Folletts In fact, they are at a loss to know Jjust what is implied In the action of the delegates representing the railroad brotherhoods in_walking out of the convention. That the brotherhoods are friendly to Me- Adoo is known, but they deny that had anything 'to do with their course at Madison. The Wisconsin situation as a whole fs calculated to give en- couragement to the regular Re- publicans. The Wisconsin radicals are using up go much energy fght- ing among themselves that the promise to have little left with which to fight the Republican nominees, and it is reasoned also that if they cannot present a solid front for Senator La Follette in his home state, there is little likeli- hood that he would prove danger- ous elsewhere as a possible third- party nominee. (Copyright, 1924, by The Washington Star) —_————— ——— McADOO VICTORY SEEN. Is Expected to Win Six New Mex- ico Delegates. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., May 24— The Democratic state comvention at Lascruces is expected to instruct New Mexico's six delegates to the na- tional convention for McAdoo al though some opposition is predicted. A tilt {s looked for in the convention between so-called “progressive” and “reactionary” wings, covering the support of Arthur Sellgman, national committeeman, for re-election, and jeorge Hunker, state .~‘nm;!n-;|6n;:r election, the “progressives POS- ing both men. DAN BURROWS. DEMOCRATS IN UTAH UNITED FOR'W’ADOO Question of Instructing Delegation, However, Is Undecided by Party Chieftains. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 24— Utah fs in the McAdoo column. At least that is the assertion of leading Democrats of the state and most of the evidence seems to bear out the a: sertion. In fact, it has never been dis- puted that practically all of the Demo- crats of Utah favor him. The only question being as to whether or not the delegates to the national convention shall be Instructed. Indlcstions are that they will be. James H. Waters, chairman of the state committee, seems opposed to an inetructed delegation. In the face of this, however, Utah County. which furnishes about one-tenth of the dele- gates to the state convention, has pledged her delegates for McAdoo; delegates have not been selected from most_of the counties, but it s held that McAdoo forces will easily be far in _the lead. Utah Democrats, in the past, have not instructed the delegates. The idea of precedent {s mot considered bind- ing, however, it being pointed out that the’ majority of the Democrats of this state want McAdoo and a few should not be allowed to vote against him in national convention. FRANK. P. STEWART. Declare for McAdoo. the Associated Press. LAS CRUCES, N. Mex., May 24. —Declaring for Willlam G. McAdoo for the presidency, indorsing the ad- ministrations of Senator A. A. Jones, Representative John Morrow and Gov. James F. Hinkle, and ve-electing Ar- thur Seligman of Santa Fe as natlonal committeeman, the New Mexico state Democratic convention complet- ed its labors here tonight. SyEEST 2 Delegates Uninstructed. COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, May 24. —Colorado Democrats will send an uninstructed delegation of sixteen, with a voting power of twelve, to the national convention in New York City next month, it was decided to- night when the delegates to the state convention here voted to adjourn without bringing the question of in- struction before the assembly. —_— election ‘of a leader to succeed Charles F. Murphy. Mr. McAdoo in the course of his reécent trip east showed that he had taken the active leadership of his campaign for the nomination. He succeeded in instilling in his followers a re- markable spirit of confidence and aggressiveness, He s belleved to have made additional friends for his cause and to have built up his Zences generally. * ok ok ¥ Gov. Smith, finding the friction in Tammany over the selection of a leader becoming so intense as to ‘threaten a family disturbance which would impinge upon his nomination campaign, took the tiger by the collar, shook it vigor- ously, and bade it to lie down un- til after the Democratic conven- o= which the tiger obediently OHIO G. 0. P. AVOIDS BITTER STATE FIGHT Leaders Fail to Indorse State Ticket in Face of “Political Suicide” Threat. Special Dispatch to The Sta) COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 24—The Republican organization of Ohio avolded the “political sulcide” which Senator Willls declared confronted it in its pre-primary convention here this week, by refusing to indorse a state ticket, but the peril that the organization leaders sought to avold when they called this convention lul still to be faced. With an admittedly hard man to defeat, certain to be nominated by the Democrats, Gov. Vie Donahey, Re- publican leaders realize should a weak man get their nomination for governor they would be beaten before the start. Unable to induce the entire fleld to agree to withdraw in favor of Rep- resentative T. E. Burton, Representa- tive James T. Begg off Sandusky was brought out last week, with the idea that it might be possible to have him indorsed in without offending any of the other members of the fleld. But in the pres- entation of their views on the matter to the convention, Mr. Begg was the only one who approved the indorse- ment proposition. Committee Divided. The committee on rules and order of business divided equally on the in- dorsement proposition—11 to 11, and when their disagreement report was made to the convention it broke into a pandemonlum. With the indorse- ment plan now, was linked a proposi- tion to resort to a pre-primary con- vention every year for indorsement in advance of the primary election. and another to take the initiative in amending the constitution so as to abolish the primary system and re- turn wholly to the old convention plan. The convention voted for a pre- primary convention in 1926 and each alternate year thereafter, and to urge a modification of the primary elec- tion law 80 as to damit of more thor- ough party control and responsibility. But it would have no “slate” making this year. Neither Senator Willis nor Senator Fess, nor any of the speakers at the convention made any reference to the bonus, the pension or the taxation bills in Congress, or the vetoes by the Prseldent and the overriding of them by Congress. Many of the delegates, however, censured the senators for not supporting the President, and re- ported widespread sentiment hostile to the senators and Republican repre- :;nuuveu who did not sustain the ent. Mention of President Coolidge’s name in the convention was greeted with enthusiastic applause, which in- dicated that he has lost mone of his prestige in Ohio by his attitude toward the pension and bonus bills. J. H. GALBRAITH. LOUISIANA RACE LIVELY. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. BATON ROUGE, la., May 24—An appeal from former Gov. Henry Clay Warmoth to the “Republicans of Louisiana” to rise in protest againat the domination of “Walter L. Cohen and his federal office holders,” and expressing the bellef that Louisiana could be carried for Coolidge with the proper Republican organisation, and the assembling of the Democratio chiefs from all part of the state at Baton Rouge to witness the inaugu- ration of Henry L. Fuqua as governor and a new state administration on Tuesday, and the laying of lines for the Democratic state convention, June §, featured a lively week po- litically in Louisiana. Democrats, it developed upon the arrival of leaders, are much’ divided on' a presidential candidate. Some want an instructed delegation, others not. It is_believed the latter will: dominate when the convention meets. ‘There is a strong McAdoo sentiment w of north Léulsiana. In Louistans there is &n ‘unex- pressed sentiment, but it i» not for this state convention | 1924—PART 1. 16 MARYLAND VOTES PLEDGED TO RITCHIE Governor Is Made Full-Fledged Candidate by Action of Demo- cratic Convention. PARTY SPLIT IS HEALED Executive’s Stand on States’ Rights Is Lauded. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, May 24.—Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland became a full- fledged candidate for the Democratic nomination for President this week when the state convention unani- mously indorsed his stand on states’ rights as the outstanding question before the voters of the country to- day, and the state delegation to the national convention was instructed to cast its sixteen votes for him. Two other important developments of the convention were the recogni- tion of Gov. Ritchie as the unques- tioned Democratic political boss of Maryland and adoption of the unit rule of voting for the state delega- tion in the national convention. The convention, contrary to expec- tatlons, passed off without a fight except ' for a break between Gov. Ritchie and Mayor Jackson of Bal more, who opposed the selection o “olegates by the convention as a whole instead of by districts. Jack- €on left the meeting when he was voted down, and the slate as agrecd upon by the governor and his follow- ers went through without a hitch. Harmony Restored. Harmony was brought about, how- ever, only by hard work on the part of the governor's adherents, headed by Secretary of State E. Brooke Lee of Montgomery County, and after long conferences before the conven- tion between the governor and some of the city leaders over the selection of delegates and the unit rule. Gov. Ritchie had let it be known from the start that he wanted no complimentary “favorite son’” vote, and preferred the Maryland delega. tion to go uninstructed and his in- dorsement as a presidential candidate and subsequent pledging of the dele- gation to him was the result of be- ing “double-crossed” by his friends at_the last moment. Former Congressman Carville D. Benson of Baltimore County was elected chairman of the convention and sounded the keynote of the party in Maryland. After calling attention to the ofl scandals and extravagance of the Republican administration in Washington he praised Gov. Ritchie as the most conspleuous advocate in the country of halting federal en- croachment on states' rights and- of cutting down federal extravagance and high taxes, having reduced the tax In Maryland for the first time in many years: as the man with the highest qualificatisns for leading the democratic gzrty nationally. Delegates Selected. The convention named the follow- ing as delegates to the national con- vention: Delegates at large—Gov. Ritchle, United States Senator Willlam C. Bruce, Attorney General Thomas H Robinson, Mayor Howard W. Jackson, J. Enos Ray of Prince Georges County, Robert Crain of Charles County, Ho ard Bruce of Howard County and Mrs. Mortimer West of Baltimore_ Cit. District delegates—Joshua Mile. Harry Turner, Omar L. Crothers, Ca ville D. Benson, Senator David G. MeIntosh, jr.; E. O. Keant, John J. Mahon, John 8. Kelly, Robert Padgett, Robert B. Ennis, Willlam Curran, Gilbert Daily, Congressman J. Charles Linthicum, Willlam M. Maloy, Charles H. Knapp, Pr. Hugh H. Yo ator Stephén W. Gambrill, Frank S. Revell, Senator L G. Sasscer, William C. Walsh, E. Brooke Les, Emory Coblentz, Senator J. W. McCollough and Former Gov. Emerson C. Har- rington. Deponal. COOLIDGE LEADERS ON VERGE OF ROW Dispute in California, However, Offers No Menace to Presi- dent’s Control. Special Dispatch to The Star. LOS ANGELES, May 24—A strug- gle that will in no wise menace the solidarity of the Coolidge strength in California, but one, nevertheless, that promises to develop strong personal differences among Coolldge leaders, has arisen in connection with a con- test for Republican national commit- teeman from this state. The situation has become so acute as between contenders in various parts of the state and the present committeemnan, Willlam H. Crocker of San Francisco, a candidate for re- election, that the national committee itself has been informally urged to take a hand. And the committee, it is said, has diplomatically sidestepped by assuming that the matter is pure- Iy a local one. Principal opposition to Mr. Crock- er's continued membership in the Re- publican national organization has developed in southern California, where two or three aspirants for the place are in the field, and where, in the recent presidential preference pri- mary President Coolidge received such a preponderance of the vote as to maintain a lead of more than 50,- 000 in the state, despite a majority for Senator Hiram Johnson of ap- priximately 25,000 in the northern countles. Although having no direct part in the controversy, the Johnson element i extremely hostile to Crocker, and this fatt may weigh heavily against him, in view of the necessity for placating this group in so far as pos- sible before the November election. 1t is probable that the question will be taken to Cleveland for settlement. Isidore Dockweller, Democratic na- {ionsl committeemds for Californis, thus far not openly oppose: 'or re- election. KYLE D, PALMER. Bonus Causes Rift. Special Dispatch to The Star. MANCHESTER, N. H,, May 24—The bonus seems to have sidetracked all other political discussion in New Hampshire the past week, former service men approving the Senate's act. But there are several of the President’s own party in the Granite state who believe that he should have been upheld. The Democrats regard the events of the past week as £00d campaign material The New Hampshire delegation to the Republican national convention meets in Nashua next Saturday. J. J. McCARTHY. May Oppose Stanley. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. LOUISVILLE, Ky. May 24.—There is still no word from former Senator J. C. W. Beockham as to whether he will enter the race for the Demo- oratioc nomination for United States senator against ‘Augustus Owsley Btanley, the incumbent. Every sort of pressure is reported to have been brought to bear on him, a8 his friends and those who are in sympathy with the policies for which he standa feel that he is the ostensible candidate mmmbl. to cope with the intrenched o = - m W. BAYLBY. &, Sen- | - Third Party Rail Brotherhood R Special Dispatch to The Star. MADISON, Wis., May 24 —Wiscon- sin politiclans are concerned over the break in third party ranks which oc- curred here last week. Madlson is the home of Senator Robert M. La Fol- letts, the most frequently mentioned leader of a new national independent political movement. That the sena- tor's followers should have assembled in Mr. La Follette's home town and fallen out over the control of the or- ganization projected to pave the way for other states, is disquieting. The rift created by the cut of twenty-five delegates representing the four great rail brotherhoods has not been repaired. The bolting rail workers are still at odds with the con- ference leaders. The most disturbing rumors from the standpoint of orthodox La Fol- lette adherents are those based on the circulation of a letter written by a brotherhood official & few days prior to the conference urging the indorse- ment of William G. McAdoo, Demo- cratic candidate for President. The rail men deny emphatically that Mc- Adoo sentiment caused them to quit the conference. They say the resolu- tions they adopted on the occaslon tell all there is to tell—they simply ohjected to being “steam rolied” a la old party fashion by the chairman, and so they picked up their hats and departed. Thelr resolutions declared devotion to La Follette, and that's the way they feel, they say—but they couldn’t stand for it when Chairman Harley Nickerson so allotted creden- tials as to deprive them of their prop- er representation, and then refused to permit them to explain on the floor. Story Embarrassing. But the McAdoo story fis embar-| rassing, in Mr. La Follette's home state, where the rank and file of the brotherhoods are supposed to be for La Follette to & man. McAdoo sentiment may have weak= ened the attachment of some individ- uals to the objects of the conference, but the more likely explanation of the split is the keen fight waged by Lieut. Gov. George F. Comings, cane POLITICAL RACE DULL. North Carolina Leaders Have Nothing to Do. RALEIGH, N. C., May 24—Demo- cratic politics in North Carolina has become as dull and stale as Republi- can politics in the natlon. With twenty-four votes safely pledged to McAdoo, the voters are not bothering themselves about it. They are not enthusiastic for McAdoo, but they see nobody in sight to beat him with. They would like to see Josephus Daniels nominated, but see little pros- pect of getting enough votes to do it. The gubernatorial race between Anugs W. McLean and Joslah W. Bailey is the dullest and tamest con- test that has been staged In this state in a decade. JOHN A. LIVINGSTONE. 76 KEYSTONE STATE VOTES TO BE DIVIDED Five Democratic Candidates Have Support—Coolidge to Get All G. 0. P. Delegates. i | Special Dispatch to The Star. | HARRISBURG, Pa. May | Democratic presidential aspirants were not even mentloned at the reor- ganization meeting of the Pennsyl- vania Democratic state committee lere this week when National Com- mitteeman Joseph F. Guffey won a | double victory in electing his candi- date for state chairman and in an- other re-election to the Keystone state seat on the highest party com- mittee. The struggle for control of the state organization was so intense most of the people elected as dele- gates stayed away from Harrisburg and there will be no caucus meeting until the clans reach New York. Guffey succeeded in electing John H. Bigelow of Hazleton, as state chairman_in an alliance with Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell of Philadelphia over the candidate backed by former Democratic National Chairman Vance C. McCormick and his allies. The delegation will be much split up, Me- Adoo, Smith, Underwood, Davis and Ralston gll having supporters in the | seventy-six. Palmer Not Present. The Democratic meeting was of in- terest in that A. Mitchell Palmer, Roland S. Morris and other men for- merly figuring large in party affairs were absent. The organization passes into new hands and a plan for much activity to elect Democratic con- gressmen lg already under way. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew ‘W. Mellon was accorded unusual hon- ors when the Republican state com- mittee reorganized at Philadelphia on the same day as the Democrats gath- ered here. He was elected chalrman of the delegation, praised by speak- ers, given an ovation when he spoke and his course indorsed by unani- mous adoption of a resolution. The name of Gov. Gifford Pinchot, who was defeated for delegate at Iarge and who has attacked the Secretary, did not figure in the day's proceed- ings. Senator George Wharton Pep- per was re-elected unanimously to the seat held for vears by Boles Penrose as national committeeman. The Republican delegation will be for Coolldge. Gov. Pinchot does not plan to go to Cleveland, but is studying the legis- lative nomination fleid, which will probably afford him a stamping ground late in the summer. .He means to contest for control and will have plenty of opportunity to exercise his abilities. A. BOYD HAMILTO Mentioned for Ball’s Seat. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. WILMINGTON, Del, May 24.—If Gen. T. Coleman du Pont is not a can- didate for the United States senator- ship, and he has said he did not want the position—it is generally conceded that he will name the man to be nom- inated at the state convention in Au- gust. Odds are offered that former Gov. John G. Townsend of Sussex County, who has always b & warm admirer and supoprter of Gen. du Pont will be nominated. C. E. GRAY, Indorses Underwood. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md, May 24—In- dorsement of the candidacy of Sen- ator Oscar Underwood as the Démo- cratic nominee for President by Frank A. Furst, Maryland’s Demo- cratic leader, today,. following close on the heels of the indorsement of Gov. Ritchie by the state conventlon, has caused a sensation hers. Mr. Furst Is opposition- to th Bomination SEWiliah Gibbs MeAd0S, of Democratic Nomination by Party Break Troubles La Follette-Wisconsin Forces epresentatives Walk Out of Session in Senator’s Home Town; Cause Is Speculative. didate of the radicals for go. Gov. John J. Blaine, now thizd term. The friendly to Blaine, w groups—Non-Partisan Leaguers, So clalists and others—who particips in the conference, are attached Comings. It was apparent t Comings men were going to the conference. The brother did not want their powerfu zations to be uncoupled from Blaine candidacy under cov progressive state mecting pulled away from it. So. bi possible McAdoo motive. i split on state issues, ot national ones affecting the in ent candidacy of Senator La Fu La Follette Bucks Biaine. The complexity of the si illustrated by the fact that La Follette is backing Blaine for g« ernor and affording no comfort & 50 far to Lieut. Gov. Coming yet on the surface it appears th Blaine men smashed the move in the senator's behal? of the aspirations, if he has this subject no one speak authoritatively The third party promoters ever, are proceeding on the tion ' that their movement despite the revolt of the rail state committee, composed of tr widely known radicals, many of t members of the Sociallst party. been created. It is headed by Hari- Nickerson. against whose conferer rulings the brotherhoods rebel .. Glenn P. Turner, formerly promir.« in the Non-Partisan League, is its se Ting ow senator's pre members of the conference wi remained after the rail de . =d elected three di conference for progre action at Cleveland had intended to do a delegate to the St convention June the St. Paul 3 went & step farther th 4 soned La Follette leaders desired being claimed here that Mr. La I lette will await the resu Cleveland meeting. July They 2 J. C. RALSTON WATSON INDORSED FOR VICE PRESIDENT Indiane G. 0. P. and Klan Leaders Enter Senator as Running Mate for Coolidge. Special Dispatch to The Star. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., diana Republican leade: the militant Ku Kilux Klan, whict brought about the nomination of F Jackson as a candidate for governo have tarown Senator James E. Wat son's hat into the vice pres ring. Through a combination strang« in the annals of political history 1 this state the Republican state co: vention this week indorsed Senatc Watson as a fit running mate f President Coolidge. The actual resolution was writte by Walter Bossort, grand dragon o the Klu Klux Klan in Indiana, and | was maneuvered through conventio under the watchful eyes of H. W Evans, imperial wizard of the Kial High Klan offictals make no secret of their belief that Watson would add strength to the Republican natlon ticket because his ringing indors ment of Jackson is said to have t Rim to klandom Forty in Delegation. Indiana will turn up at Clevela with forty delegates, but the fourt delegates-at-large will only have Ba!f a vote each. The “big seven” dele ation at large was turned into “double seven” delegation in order make room for all the aspiring L s and to avert a threatened fl the floor between the adhere of Postmaster General New and Ser ator Watson. ° The Watson people, who, in com Dbination with the Kian, were in trol of the convention machiner; not placed ¢ on their slaté. Postmaster General defied his poli foes and prepared 1o carry fight to the convention. He gaine support from the friends of Albert J Beveridge, who likewise was not 0 the Watson slate, and at the las minute the delegation was Increas Even James P, Goodrich, whose n was hissed in the convention, made & member of the “big fou teen.’ With the exception of two can dates, all of the nominations ma by the state convention were slate by the Klan. The slate was broken by the nominee for attorney gener and a nominee for judge of the s preme court in warm contests. 1 Stephenson, grand dragon of the Surgent wing of the Klan, acted floor marshall for the Klan dele HAROLD C. FEIGHTNL NESTOS TO OPPOSE LADD. North Dakota Senate Race in 1026 Brewing. Special Dispatch to The Star. BISMARCK, N. D., May 24—T undertow of a fight reaching to ! 1926 United States Senate race Ias begun in North Dakota. It i volved in the state fight. F0V. Nestos, anti-Nonpartisan Leaguo didate’ for governor and gen looked upon as the logical oppo to Senator E. F. Ladd in 1926, I taken a new policy in his fight renomination for governor, Wh opened this week. In his keynote speech the gove took & definite stand against excursions into the field of sta dustrialism or socialism. He T himself in juxtaposition to the atfi- tude of Senator Ladd, who has beli a constant supporter of the league program. The attitude of the gov- ernor is regarded as especially nificant and far reaching, both in state fight and the state's Tepre- sentatfon in the national legislatur Styling himself a Progressive publican, Gov. Nestos is support President Coolidge but taking a ¢ nite stand against the radical The North Dakota primary of June 25 may have a definite ing upon the Coolidge fortunocs November. It is to be more nearls test of strength between radicals ultra-progressives and mors servative Republicans than any tle in the state for years. W. S. NE — Delegation Unpledged. Special Dispatch to The Star. JACKSON, Miss., May 24.—Indica- tlons from the county Democratic conventions this week are that ator Pat Harrlson won a decisive vic tory in supporting an uninstructed delegation from Mississippi to the na- tional convention. The delegates from most counties have been elected free of instructicii. for the state convention to be held: i Jackson on May 30. The county con ventions also point toward a Harrison victory for renomination f this Tl R MATERY