Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1924, Page 10

10 WASHNETON HARD FRELPTON ‘Lal Follette Threatens to De- !L vour Democrats, Though Target of Warfare. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. SEATTLE, Wash, September 24.— After canvassing the situation in 8vokane as well as Tacoma und the western section of the State of Wash- inston the conclusion seems ines- gapable that President Coolidge has a hard fight ahead to win the elec toral vote here from Senator La Fol- Tette, tates present as interesting a -up as the State of Washington. It's a situation full of possibilities between now and election, for things are being done here which are much different from what one encounters in other States. In the first place, who number about 50,000, of whom about 8,000 are American Legion members, are being organized for a tate-wide drive against Senator La Follette ator Wheeler on ac- eount r record. Precinct being planned and ch is expected. The committee savs it ted Avith the undertak- s no exaggeration that ation of such pro- en developed on ow ex-service men no politic portions has s tactics of the service men in a are non-partisan. The drive is ident Coolidge or other ex-service men are encountered who perhaps do not care to vote for Mr. Coolidge because be vetoed the bonus, they are strongly urged then to vote for John W. Davis La Foliette and Wheeler are the tar- Eets of the attack. Copies of some of the literature sent out by the lowa members of the American Legion are being circulated here in large quanti- Senator La Follette is upbraided Senator Wheeler is as United States in Montana, he refused to Ute certain members of the I who in wartime defied the draft ed No Fear of Germans. relatively few (jermans Eepublicans need There are in this State so the have no fear here as they have in other States that in attacking La Yollette they will lose German votes. The ficht against La Follette in this se however, has more in it than the n mory of anti-war activity. The rowth of radicalism in this region recognized as something that the ynservatives must counteract. The LE lette movement is drawing from both Republican and Demo- eratic camps, but mostly from the lat- ter. In order, therefore, to Kkeep down the La Follette vote the con- servatives are hoping the Democrats c ne way be urged to vote avis. Ivery vote recorded for avis is counted as one lost to La Follette. There is a noticeable friend to Davis in certain Re- publican newspapers supporting Cool- idge. 1f the Democratic vote could be held in line for Davis. President Coolidge would easily carry the State. But the Democrats are going over in large numbers to La Follette and Wheeler. 1f the Wisconsin Senator swallows the Democratic party in this State and gets a fair share of the Republi- can vote, he will win the electoral vote. There are sign that many Democrats of the radical fringe, and some who are not so radical but who care far more about a victory for their State ticket, will trade votes with the La Follette sypporters. Thus with the La Follette people not especially concerned about the State ticket their votes might go to the Democratic State candidates in return for La Follette support. Deals like this carried the State for Roosevelt in 1912, Also two years ago Senator Clarence Dill beat Senator Poindexter by a combination of Democratic and radical Republican votes. Da Regulars See Vietory. The regular Republicans are hope- ful of victory, however, through other channels. For one thing they are really planning to get out the con- servative Republican vote. Then there is the mix-up over La Follette supporters. At present there are three separate sets of La Follette electors going on the ballot, unless an agreement can be reached or the courts intervene. One set of electors will prgtobly be withdrawn through the ini®.%ce of Senator La Follette himselt, but another set, it is charged, is there through collusion with the regular Republicans and will got get off. In the hope of confusing the enemy, the Republicans are not in any hurry about unscrambling the situation. There are some signs, of course, that the State is not as radically in- clined as it was two years ago. A recent election for Supreme Court judges resulted in a defeat for the radicals. Improvement in agricul- tural conditions has swept aside some of the protest vote which might have gone to La Follette. Effective organiaztion work is Being done in Spokane. The factional troubles inside the Republican party in the western end of the State have not been removed and the campaign Fas not yet really been begun. There s talk that the local leaders want financial aid from national head- quarters and that some of them are anxious to build an organization that will recover lost ground in State &ffairs. On the face of it, La Follette has #n even chance of carrying this State today. By election day the work of the ~ex-service men and the Re- publican organization probably will make it a different story, but it will e close to about 10,000 plurality for President Coolidge is most that is Boped for. = (Copyright, 1924.) ifiUINTET HELD UNDER 7 VARIETY OF CHARGES Men and Women Arrested in Ta- koma Park Face Serious Accusations, _ Three men, said by the police to Have been caught in the act of break- ing into the Watkins apartment House in Takoma Park, D. C., last Seek and arrested at the time, in i{company with two women, one of ‘Whom carried a baby, were held un- der bonds of $3,000 each on a joint ‘tharge of transporting a stolen auto- imobile into the District at a prelimi- nary hearing today before United States Commissioner Macdonald. _ One of the men, C. H. Clinton, ‘was held also on an additional charge of violating the Mann act, and an additional bond of, $1,000 was re- quired. The other two men are Frank William Gardner and Walter Edward Bush. Immediately following the hear- ing the men and their woman com- anions were taken to Police Court to answer charges of attempted housebreaking and carrying con- cealed weapons. The women are Mrs. Laverne Mae Bush and Ardra Mae Jones. The Women are being held at the house ‘of detention and the men at No. 10 precinct, U. S. WORKERS FACE SALARY CUT WHEN GIVEN PROMOTION (Continued from grade in which the has al- ready been exceeded. further explanation of the rule,” continued the decision, *it may be stated that Congress sought by the average provision which it inserted in every appropriation act for per- sonal services in the District of Co- lumbia, subject to the assification act, to absolutely control the ex- penditure of these appropriations for personal services in every grade. The exceptions noted were only for allo- cations of positions held June 30, 1924, in accordance with the rules fixed by the classification act. Cites Rates in Law. “That there might be promotions from one grade to another and yet result 1 lesser compensation is shown by the fact that the minimum compensation of a grade at times overlaps the compensation of the next lower grade, so that higher grade positions may be paid less than a lower grade position. It is the view of this office that subsequent to July 1, 1924, when not a matter of allo- cation, the excess in the average is for elimination as speedily as pos- sible, nd, to that end, adjustments in such a grade should reflect the largest possible elimination or lower- ing of the excess. Accordingly every new change in such a grade, whether by transfer, reinstatement, promo- tion, reduction or whatever the change may be, must necessarily be at the minimum salary rate of the grade Government officials in high posi- tion who disagree with the position of the controller were outspoken to- day in ying that they differed with the controller principally over his interpretation as expressed in_the terms “as speedily as possible.” They pointed out that it would be advisable to reduce the average of salaries gradually, but not “as speedily as possible.” 3 Decision Called Unfalr. Critics of the controller’s position declared in their opinion it would be within the law to promote, under such conditions, by dropping an em- ploye only one “step” in the scale of laries, instead of sending him down to the bottom of the list. “It would be obviously unjust,” said this official, “to move him up and re- duce his salary as far as possible.” Injection of the new decision into the classification situation promised today to develop a snarl of unusual situations, in which departments wish to promote employes, but do not wish to cut their salaries. It was pointed out that usually the best person to promote to a vacancy of importance is often one of the most efficient and best paid persons in the grade immediately below. Where the two grades overlap in salaries and the average provision is violated, as is often the case, such promotions would result in cuts in salary. Many Questions Raised. What will the officials in charge do? 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