Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; warmer tomorrow; moderate, possibly fresh, north and northwest winds. Tem- perature for 24 hours ended 2 p.m. t day: Highest, 87, at 2:15 p.m. yesterday lowest, 60, at 5:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 20 No. 29,309. * THINKS GODAMYTH, BUT DEATH IS ONLY PROOF TOLEQPOLD Told Questioners Dying Would Be End, With Passing Sole Sure Test. STATEMENTS AT EARLY EXAMINATION REVEALED Crowe and Defense Attorney Help Each Other in Reading Long Transcript. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 29.—Nathan Leo- pold, jr, and Richard Loeb, who pleaded guilty to the kidnaping and murder of 14-year-old Robert Franks, today heard read in open court first their denials and then their confes- sions of the crime. Benjamin Bachrach, one of the at- torneys for the boys, helped get into the record this final stage ‘of the State's presentation of evidence by relieving Robert E. Crowe, State's at- torney, of the task of reading the prosecution’s transcription of the boys' admissipns. Mr. Crowe's voice was worn, but after 30 minutes of wreading Mr. Bachrach sald he was “getting a little hoarse.” The State's atterney, however, declined to take up the vocal burden at that time. Ideas on God. The boys listened with little ehange of expression until Mr. Bach- rach reached a passage in Wwhich l.aopold quoted a protane exclama- tion made to his brother when he | «dearned that his spectacles had been found near the culvert in which he and Loeb had hidden the body of the Franks boy. At one point in the reading Leo- pold's ideas on religion were worked into the record. “There is no God.” he was quoted as saying. “1 do not believe in a fu- ture life. When I die 1 die all over. Of course, that is only an opinion and it can be demonstrated only by dying.” Leopold was busy talking to Mr. Darrow when this occurred and ap- parently did not hear it. Loeb Seems Interested. Loeb, however, leaned far forward to catch it, then turned-to his com- panion’s conference with the at- torney. _ E Mr. Darrow was handed a tele- gram a few moments later. Leo- pold read it. over the attorney shoulder and whispered to Loeb. Accused Each Other. Reading in court today of Nathan Leopold, jr s, confession to the kidnap- ing and murder of Robert Franks showed him accusing Richard Loeb of having struck the boy on the head and of gagging the victim. “I stepped on the gas” said Leo- pold’s confession, in which he depict- ed himself as driver of the car. Neither defendant glanced at each other as thls was read. The court proceedings in the Franks case recessed for the noon interval at 12:30 p.m., with the confession of Leopold unfinished. Room Fills Slowly. The courtroom was slow in filling today for the sixth day of the trial of Nathahn Leopold, jr., and Richard Loeb, kidnapers and slayers of young Bobby Franks. It was intensely hot and the court visitors faced the pros- pects of listening to the routine reading of preliminary statements and confessions of the two youths by a stenographer. Women . as usual predominated in the courtroom, and 15 minutes before Judge John R. Caverly ascended the bench virtually every courtroom seat was taken. Very few stood about the entrance, however, as the sun beam- ed vigorously. Conter With Judge. Attorneys Clarence Darrow and Benjamin Bachrach of the defense and Robert E. Crowe, State's attor- ney, conferred with Judge Caverly when court opened. Samuel Ettleson, the Franks' family lawyer, joined them. A negro accused of murder was brought in and pleaded not gulity. On the way out he brushed shoulders with Leopold and Loeb, who have taken the opposite course. Elbert Allen, expert stenographer from Crowe's office, resumed reading of the questions and answers that passed between the prosecutor and the defendants just before they broke down the night of Decoration day. The reading was resumed with Leopold’s account of the “one week alibl,” which he and Loeb agreed upon to account for their activities on May 21. z As the account reached references b the forebt preserve and the swampy lakes south of the city near where Robert Franks body was found ‘the State introduced a large diagram of the region. Read Notes in Turn. Crowe and Bachrach took turns reading the transcript of Allen's notes, whidh, it was explained, were “cold” after nearly two months. Some of the questions and answers were given in a tone audible only to the court stenographers and Judge Cav- erly. Mr. Crowe read that Leopold had sald that he was acquainted with the culvert in which the bedy of Bobby Franks was found. -~ He said he knew there was a drain there, but sald he “did not notice it par- Entered as second class matter post office Washington, D. C. Bandits Hold Town In Siege as Effort To Blast Bank Fails By the Associated Press. DOVER, Minn., July 29.—Bank bandits held this li‘tle town of 300 in a state of siege and terror for more than an hour early today while they exploded six charges of nitroglyercin and wrecked the in- terior of the First State Bank of Dover in a vain attempt to enter the vault. They finally gave it up and de- parted. Ten thousand dollars in cash was in the vault, officials of the bank said, but the force of the explosion jarred several llarge safety deposit boxes into the nar- row passageway of the vault and thus prevented the bandits from entering even after the heavy vault door had been hurled through the front of the build- ing into the street by the final charge. Officials placed damage to the. interior of the bank at $4,000. BRAZILIAN REBELS FLEETOINTERIOR Capture of Lopez and Men Believed Near After Evacu- ation of Sao Paulo. DAMAGE RUNS HIGH Some of City’s Finest Structures Reduced to Ruins, Hundreds Killed. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, July 29.—While the remnants of the military forces which revolted at Sao Paulo July were being pursued today into the interior of Brazil by federal troops, Gov. Da Campos, once more installed in his state capital, was taking ac- count of the damage it suffered from the three weeks of bombardment, fire and pillage and at Rio Janeiro, Presi- dent Bernardes was faced with the problem of effecting a solid restora- tion of the nation's disturbed unity. “It is up to us to reorganize Bra- {zil in a manner so that it will be able to repress once for all the possibili- ties of such rebellions through revi- sion of our constitution, or confess the failure of our form of govern- ment,” President Bernardes is quoted @s declaring last night in replying to a committee of Brazilian senalors who waited upon him with congratu lations for the governmental victory. Weakness of Laws. The president said he looked upon the Sao Paulo movement, coming aft- er the revolt at Rio a year ago, as evidence of the weakness of the laws of Brazil regarding the repression cf sedition. The thirty millions of free- thinking Braszllians, he declared, could not be left a prey to a hand- ful of discontented adventurers such as had tried to stab the nation in the back, surprising the government while it was intensely bending its ef- forts to the reconstruction of the country. The president has also to consider the question of dealing with foreign governments with reference to the damage suffered by the property of their nationals as well as the killing of foreigners during the revolt. Al- though estimates of the total dam- age are not yet available from officlal quarters, it is belleved it will run into many millions of dollars and that the number of soldiers and civilians killed or owunded will reach many hundreds. According to reports not officfally verified as yet, some of Sao Paulo's finest structures were reduced to ruins, The greatest interest centers in the fate of Gen. Isidoro Lopez, leader of the revolt, who fled to the interior with his troops yesterday morning. For three weeks he ruled Sao Paulo, as head of the “provisional govern- ment of the United States of Brazil,” which, with the assistance, the rebels hoped, of the states of Parana, Santa Catalina, Rio Grande do Sul, Matto Grosso and Minas Gerass, was to have overthrown the Bernardes govern- ment in accordance with a plot con- celved many months ago. The rebel troops fled the city in two small columns, according to of- ficlal reports, and news of théir cap- ture or dispersal by the government troops, which are in front as well as behind them, is expected soon. It is thought Lopez may try to find refuge in his home state of Rio Grande, where in 1893-95 he was one of the ringleaders in the revolt against President Peixoto. @he censorship in Brazil is expected @b WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1924 —TWENTY-EIGHT PAQES. CHAMBER RECEIVES, HERRIOT'S REPORT ONPARLEY GOLDLY| Even Moderate Left, Pre- mier’s Main Support, Unen- thusiastic on Deliberations. TELLS OF IMPASSE; SAYS FRANCE IS FIRM Ruhr Occupation Issue Refuses to Down in London Con- ference. By the Associated Pre: | PARIS, July lence and with marked trigidity Premier Herriot’s report on the prog- ress of the interallied conference in London, in which the head of the_gov- ernment described the failure of the conference to come to an agreement with the British and American bank- ers on the question of security for the Dawes plan loan to Germany. Excepting for favorable comments the Chamber maintained absolute si- lence while Rene Renoult, minister of | justice and acting premier, read the| telesram from the premicr, which described briefly the work of the various committees of the London/ conference. The Soclalists applauded a few pas- sages, but an mmense majority of the deputies listened 1in evident apathy. | Support Fails Herriot. Even the moderate left, M. Herriot's main support in the majority, re- fused to become enthusiastic, while the attitude of the opposition was one of cold aloofness. After/the document had been read the Chamber passed without comment to the order of the day. The failure of the delegates to the interallied conference and the “rep- rosentative of the eventual lenders” of the loan to Germafy provided by the Dawes plan to reach an agree- ment on defaults and, subsequent!| sanctions has prevented the confer- ence from accepting the reports of its committees, Premier Herriot sald in his telegram. “The government” the premier's message declared, “had hoped to ap- pear before Parliament today to bring before it the complete text of an agreement, on the completion of [whleh it has beer working during the last two weeks, but, despite con- stant efforts, the negotiations have not yet been concluded. i Tells of Work. “Various articles of the Paris ac- cords, taken as the basis of discus- sion of the conference, have been re- ferred to committees which are sit- ting permanently. The first commit- tee, entrusted with the task of in- vestigating defaults and subsequent penalties, unanimously reached con- clusions which the representatives of the eventual lenders have deemed in- sufficient to insure the success of the loan of 800,000,000 gold marks proyid- ed for in the Dawes report. Conse- quently, the conclusions of the com- mittees have not yet been accepted by the conference. “The French detegation, seeking to afford the lenders all legitimate security, is taking care that there shail be no impairment of the Versailles treaty and no infringe- ments upon French rights in the event that the rights of France are not safeguarded by collective action. “The second committee, charged with studying the conditions under which the economic and fiscal unity of Germany can be re-established, had the outlines of its conclusions unanimously approved by the plenary session of the conference yesterday. Reservations were made concerning the maintenance of French and Bel- glan railwaymen of the left bank of the Rhine. Deliveries Are Studled. “The third committee is continuing its work on deliveries in kind and transfers. The plenary session yes- terday authorized this committee te study its program, regardless of the limitations of the mandate which heretofore I had imposed upon it. Concerning the admittance of Ger- many to the conference, an agree- ment easily was reached upon the Proposition of a committee composed of one French and one British jurist.” “This committee has determined the questions which must be settled be- tween the reparation commission and Germany, the allied governments and the German government, or be- tween the allied governments them- while " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2 For Son; Gains By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 29.—A| mother from the Tennessee mountains today won a battle that she has fought - single-handed -~ against the powers of the State for the last 16 years, when her plea that her son, a prisoner in the State penitentiary here, be pardoned was granted. , _Mrs. Sam Hatfield, 63, the mother, “appeared before the parole board and addressed Gov. Austin Peay as “son” and the members of the parcle board as “children.” Her son, Lon Hatfleld, was convicted in 1908 for the murder of & minister. The sole tangible evi- dence was a twenty-dollar gold piece, said to have belonged to thé minister, (Continued on Page 4, Colump 3 Mother Wins Sixteen-Year Battle Hatfield’s Freedom that the coin belonged to him, but the Jury rejected this claim and convicted him on circumstantial evidence. Immediately 2fter the sentence was passed on her son the mother began her battle for his freedom. She sold her little farm and during the last 16 years she has made at least 50 trips to the penitentiary to present her plea to the authorities and to see her son. s At last she obtained from both the trial judge and the prosecuting a torney requests that Lon Hatfield be pardoned.: These requests were join- ed by the widow of the slain minister. Teday Mrs. Hatfleld was told by Gov. Peay that-he would make her & Christmas present of her son, 29.—The French Parlia- | ment today received in absolute si- | by about 12 or 15 Socialist deputles, | Screeching through Washington's silent streets at 3 o'clock this'morning, through the smoke of a pistol battle and through the 60 to miles-an- hour speed of the race between a pow- erful liquor-laden motor car and pur- suing motor cycle police, death rode to victory, and, in a smashing wreck against a tree, snatched his victim from the clutches of the law. One broken body lies in the morgue. identified as James A. Worcester, 1223 Vermont avenue northwest; one man, Ms companion - in-- the-—ili-fated ear, miraculously escaped the police, while just beyond the Sixteenth street stone bridge, mear Spring road, lies the splintered remains of the once- powerful automobile, smashed as if struck by an express train. Police this afternoon were looking | for Jack Balley, whose address they do not know and who is said to be about 27 years old. According to the police, Bailey yesterday afternoon called on Worcester in his apartment BEATEN BY POLICE, 2 PRISONERS AVER Complain in Court When Tried, Respectively, for Larceny and Disorder. There were two cases in the Police Court today in which the defendants charged they had been assaulted with- out provocation by poiicemen. Henry Ross, colored, charged with stealing a clock from a drug store, appeared in the United States Branch of Police Court with his head cov- ered with bandages, asserting. that he was taken to the second police precinct station and given the third de- gree because he would not confess the theft. Three young policemen at the station assaulted him with their fists and clubs, he declared. Ross was convicted of the petty larceny charge by Judge John P. Mc- Mahon and sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and in default to serve 15 days. Judge McMahon took judicial no- tice of the alleged assault by making notes of the incident, and it is be- lieved that he will officially call it to the attention of the police authori- ties. The other case was in the District of Columbia branch of Police Court before Judge Gus A. Schuldt. George Oliveri, charged with disorderly con- duct in a restaurant at Ninth and D streets, when tried, charged that when Policeman C. H. Schreyer-of the first precinct arrested him the officer roughly handled him without cause and struck him in the back of the neck and later, while taking him to the patrol box, hit him three times Three witnesses for the defense gave similar testimony. The court took Oliveri’s personal bond. g PLAN FIGHT ON REBELS. Federals Leave Vera Cruz to At- tack Insurgents at Tuxpango. VERA CRUZ July 29.—Federal forces under Gen. Andrew Almazon have left for Cordoba to begin opera- tions against the rebels, Guadalupe Sanchez and Toribio Beltran, who recently wrecked the electric light plant at Tuxpango, plunging this eity and Puebla. into darkness. 5 The general strike at Orisaba con- tinues with only small plants doing business. e Page 15. “BAFFLED” BOB Man in Gun Fight With Police Killed as Liquor Car Crashes Companion Escapes as Tree at 16th and‘ Spring Road Ends Terrific Chase. Victim Is J. A. Worcester. and during their conversation “flashed” a big roll of bills. A little while after they went out ‘together. Police believe he may have been Worcester's companion in their wild ride. The car had been sighted as merely a “speeder” by police on Riggs road, had been chased at breakneck speed through the city and had headed out Sixteenth street in the direction of Maryland and immunity from the pur- suers. “As we came down the hill near the bridge,” said Officer G. C. Devoe, “my speedometer was registering 65 miles an hour, and I know he in- creased his speed going down that hill. I was almost up to him. I had tricd to crowd him to the curb two or three times before, but he had pushed me off to one side. Once he fired into my face when only a few feet away, so the flame of the fire felt hot, but the bullet just missed me. _“Going down that little hill" (Continued on Page 2, Column FLEEING AUTOISTS USE SMOKE SCREEN Colored Men Fire on Police- man—-0fficials Fail to Ban Contrivance. Two colored men in an automobile equipped with a smoke screen ap- paratus fired on a policeman this morning and after a chase through the streets, with the smoke blind- ing their pursuer, escaped. This is the second case of its kind within a week. Although stating thelir in- tention to draft a police regulation which will make it a heavy penalty for an automobile driver to use a “smoke screen” to escape capture, the Commissioners so far have not acted. Motor Cycle Policeman Nicola of the Twelfth precinct, stopped a car on Sargent road northeast, near the District line and asked one of the two occupants for a match. A man de- scended from the car and started to give him a match when the driver of the car evidently recognizing the po- liceman, fire two shots at him_ point blank, stepped on the gas and pull- ing his companion in the car, sped away. Nicola, who was in an auto- mobile returned the fire and took up the chase. Rail Gates Delay Pursuit. The car, supposed to have liquor aboard, crossed the railroad tracks at Michigan avenue and gained a lead when the gates closed on the pursuing policeman to allow a train to go by. Taking up the chase, the car made its way to Sherman ave- nue at a speed of 50 to 60 miles an hour, escaping in a cloud of smoke. Nicola was unable to get the license number of the car. He thinks he hit it once or twice when he was firing. LIQUOR CURB STUDIED. Britain Seeks to End Exports to United States. LONDON, July 29.—The possibility of taking measures to put a stop to sending from the United Kingdom liquor which ultimately reached the United-States was still under consid- eratior,- Arthur Ponsonby, under- | secretary for' foreign affairs, told a questioner, in the House of Commons today. The difficulty was, he said, to frame measures which would not hurt tegttimate trade THINKS SUEARNEN DELAYING REPORT La Follette Calls on Tariff| | Commission for Explanation | of Slowness. Decluring that he had “reason to believe” that representatives of sugar interests were delaving a report by the Tariff Commission upon an inves- tigation into costs of sugar produc- tion, Senator La Follette today called | upon the commission for an explana- | tion. ! The investigation which the com- mission is making was ordered nearly eighteen months ago, Senator La_Follette - said, .-“following - diw- closure that the Republican chatrman of the Senate finance committee, act- ing in conjunction with a member of the President’s cabinet, had sought to use the tariff-making power as a | means to compel Cuban sugar grow- ers to reduce their production and | thus to increase sugar prices to the American consumer."” Issues Formal Statement. In a formal statement the Wiscon- sin Senator reviewed the history of the commission's investigation into the sugar tariff, asserted that the sugar Interests had been “powerful enough to delay action through the highest official channels of this Gov- ernment,” and added that “attempts have been made to intimidate and otherwise obstruct the action of the commission.” He directed a letter to the chairman of the commission ask- ing for the complete record case. The investigation should have been completed long ago, the Senator said, and “for several weeks there have been persistent reports that the re- Portyof the commission was ready to be made public.” Sugar Men Busy. “It is well known that representa- tives of the sugar interests have been very busy in Washington,” Senator La Follette continued, “actively using every influence and device to delay the completion of the investi- gation. “It is obvious is held back until the end of the sugar year, in September, The American people had seen in recent years in the sugar interests, he declared, “a striking demonstra- tion of monopoly control, not only of prices, but of their own Government.' In 1920, under a Democratic administra. tion, he said, an “artificial inflation” of sugar prices raised the rates to the consumer to 30 cents a pound, while in 1922 American banking interests, which “controlled 70 per cent of the Cuban sugar properties,” obtained an opportunity during the consideration of the Fordney tariff bill in Congress to affect the situation as to prices. i Cites Smoot's Letter. ‘The Wisconsin Senator cited a let- ter written by Chairman Smoot of the finance committee in January, 1922, to Gen. Crowder, then in Cuba, ask- ing that the President of Cuba be given a proposal by which the Amer- ican tariff on sugar would be reduced provided Cuba would limit her pro- duction. The Cuban government fol- lowed up by sending a delegation to Washington, which had audience with Senator Smoot, Secretary Hoov. er, Gen. Crowder and C. C. Hamlin, whom Mr. La Follette characterized as a “lobbylst for American beet sugar interests.” “All of these gentlemen urged the artificial limitation of the Cubai sugar crop,” Senator La Follette co; tinued, “in order to decreaze the su- gar supply imported for consumption by the public in this country, * * & Rumors wére circulated to the effect that ‘the Cuban sugar crop has fail- ed’ Evidence existed that many cane crops controlled by American bank- ers in Cuba were destroyed by fire, thus tending to reduce the available supply.” Issuance of “a misleading Depart- ment of Commerce report” in Febru- ary, 1923, dealing with sugar stocks, occurred during a period when sugar prices rapidly- .advanced. Senator La Folletie said, and the “only pro- tection afforded to the public by the government” was the filing of “an unsuccessful injunction suit” against the New York Bugar Exchange in that if the report “From Press to Home Within the-Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city, block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as t % District Will Wipe Out Indebtedness In Full on Friday The District government will be out of debt Friday, August 1. On that date the 50-year issue of 3.65 per cent bonds, the only form of indebtedness the Disfrict has, will expire and there are ample assets available to retire the bonds as they are presented. Maj. Danfel J. Donovan, auditor, has not yet made a report on the condition of the debt account at the close of the last fiscal year, but on June 30, 1923, the net debt, after allowing for sinking fund as- sets, was $165,609. The current appropriation act makes available a sufflicient appro- priation to close out the issue. The sinking fund is invested in other securitles and will be sold as needed to take up the outstanding municipal bonds. This debt was incurred prior to 1874, when extensive improvements were being made in the old Ciyt of Washington, under the board of public works. FLYERS T0 START LASTLAPOF RACE |World Girdlers Leave Eno- land for Kirkwall Early Tomorrow Morning. By i Aecel-ted Fress. BROUGH, England, American will take off for Kirkwall at 5 o’clock tomorrow morning, according to pres- ent arrangements. This early departure on the first | stretch of the final leg of more than 00 miles yet to be covered by the 2 Juiy |airmen was made possible by com- | pletion of the arrangements for pa- | trolling the route and the tests made vesterday of the airplanes. The ma- chines had their first flight since the pontoons have been attached, and their performance proved quite satis. factory. The machines were put their final tuning up and tests today. BOSTON PLANS WELCOME. Nation, State and City Will Greet Flyers to First Home Port. BOSTON, July 29.—The return to home soil of the world-girdling fiyers at this port, two weeks hence, will be marked by greetings from the na- tion, the state and the city. Under plans announced by Capt. Louis R. Knight, in charge of Army aviation n New England, the flying officers will stay here only one day between ‘arrival and departure before hopping oft again for Mitchel Field, N. Y. The flight from Pictou Harbor, S, will end at the harbor en- trance, from which point planes will taxi up to the East Boston air port | for the exercises of welcome. There they will be met by Maj. Gen. Andrew Brewster, commanding general in New England, and his staff, together with state and city officials. Only an informal dinner given by the combined air service clubs of New England has been set for that day, so that the flyers may rest. The second day here they will make a round of calls, receive the keys to the city, and, |at the Hall of Flags, in the State House, accept official welcome by Gov .Cox and staff before the public greetings on Boston Common. A visit to Camp Devens and a dinner, by the chamber of commerce will complete the day’s activities. On the third day the Navy men will fly again. By the Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, July 28.—Ice condi- tions in east Greenland are severe, says a radio dispatch today from the Scoresby Sound expedition ship Groen- land, the captain of which is the ex- plorer Einar Middelsen. The stern and steering gear of the ship are re- ported to have been crushed”in the | ice at the entrance to Scoresby Sound. A reliet ship will be sent to aid the Groenland. FLYERS LEAVE ROME. Argentine Aviators Following Route of MacLaren. By the Associated Press. ROME, July 29.—Maj. Zanni, Argentine aviator, and his com- panion, Beltrame, hopped off tnis morning from the Centocelle air- drome in continuance of their at- tempted world flight. They are fol- lowing the route of the British flyer MacLaren, who flew from here to Corfu and thence to Greece. -— MRS. FERGUSON HOLDS SECOND PLACE IN RACE ‘Woman Candidate for Governor of Texas Maintains 3,450-Vote Lead. By the Associzted Prese. DALLAS, Tex., July 29.—Mrs. Miriam Ferguson, Democratic candidate for the nomination of governor, maintained a lead of 3,450 over Lynch Davidson for second place in Saturday’s Initial Demo- cratic . primary, according to returns tabulated today by the Texas election bureau. The returns were from 237 out of 252 counties, with 55 counties complete. Mrs. Ferguson is the first woman can. didate for Governor of Texas. She is seeking the office to avenge her hus- band, former Gov. Jim Ferguson, who was impeached. The vote of the three leading candi- dates is as follows: Felix Robertson, 164,293 ; Mrs. Ferguson, 121,263 ; Lynch Davidson, 117,813 the Thel round-the-world aviators | through | he papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 92,218 TWO CENTS. LAFOLLETTE HELPS R.OP. AS 1912 SPLIT DID WILSON, IS VIEW | Certain Defeat of Democratic Ticket Prophesied by Re- publican Leader. RECOVERY OF FARMERS COUNTED UPON HEAVILY Hard Fight to Retain Control of Senate Seen, But Nominal Advantage Forecast. BY G. ULD LINCOLN. “The La Follette-Wheeler third | ticket is doing and will continue to do to the Democratic party in this coming campalgn and election j what the Rooseve't-Johnson ticket did to the Republicans in 131z It is making certain the defeat of the Democrats through the abandonment of the Democratic ticket by hun- dreds of thousands, probably mil- lions of voters, in favor of the La Follette candidacy.” This is the deliberate judgment of lone of the shrewdest and clearest thinking leaders of the Republicans in the Middle West, who recently has | had an opportunity to judge the sit- uation in some of the industrial centers of the East In his opinion, the Democrats, who fostered the 1dea of a third ticket with La Iollette at its head, hoping for another such victory as came to the Democratic standard in 1912, owing to the split |in the Republican forces at tnat me, were sadly mistaken. Radicals Not G. 0. P. Factor. | “Not since 1908 has the Republican i party received any votes of the so- jcalled radicals,” he continued, indicat- {ing that the Republicans would not ! have to look for victory through sup- |port from that quarter. The more {radical element has supported either {the Democratic or the Socialistic [ticket. That element will now flock |to the La Follefte-Wheeler ticket. | The Democrats will find themselves lamentably weak in Eastern indus- | trial States because of this defcction, {he said, and in the Western States { the radical strength will be so divided | between the La Follette, and Dem- {ocratic tickets that the Republicans | will be successtul, as was the case | with the Wilson ticket in 1912 | The Republicans are placing much { reliance upon the recent increases in {prices of farm products. Not only {do they see the farmers with money lin their pockets—where before they {had none—more willing to vote to | continue the Republican party in | power, but they believe that it will | be possible to convince the farmers | that the Republican leaders have been correct in their diagnosis of the agricultural situation. The application of the law of sup- | Ply_and demand, they will say, has | righted in a few brief weeks what {all the legislative nostrums proposed by the radicals could not have accom- | plished at all. They believe that the | tarmers will be able to understand | readily the object lesson Coolidge to Cite Help. But the Republicans will not be silent about the efforts which they made to aid the farmers during the present administration. It may be | expected than the President in h speech accepting the nomination will { make mention of the legislation put | through by the Republicans, starting with the emergency tariff, which raised a tariff wall so high about many of the farmers’ products that it virtually halted the importation of | many of the farmers' products and thereby prevented much greater dis- tress, which, they say, would have fol- | lowed had the cheaper grains and othe: products from other countries been allowed to pour into the United States unrestricted. The aid to the farmers through the increased pow- ers granted the War Finance Cor- poration to ald in financing the salo and purchase of agricultural products | Wil be stressed also. It will be difficult to persuade the | farmers in the expected changed con« | ditfons due to higher prices because of the failure of crops in Russia, 1% | Canada and other parts of the world, that they should support a ticket which promises artificial means to maintain the prices of farm products. Hit La Follette on Dry Issue. From the same Republican source it was learned that it is proposed to take all possible advantage in the “dry” States of the Middle West and West of the reported inclination—in the past, if not now—of Senator La Follette to the cause of the “wets.” The record of the Wisconsin Sena- tor on prohibition measures will be spread throughout these States. Here and there already, the challenge has :been issued by dyed-in-the-wool pro- hibitionists to the La Follette ticket. The Anti-Saloon League of America has not taken a position in opposi- tion to the candidacy of Senator La Follette. While Senator La Follette's record on measures of interest to the prohibitionists has not been consist- ently for the measures advocated by the league as they might desire, it is pointed out that he voted for the resolution to submit the prohibition constitutional amendment to the States. Furthermore, it is recognized that Senator La Follette is being strongly supported by many men and women who have been very active in the Middle Western and Western States in favor of prohibition. During the Democratic national convention in New York, at one of %ole n of faith” meetings_of on Page 4, Column 14