Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1924, Page 5

FIGHT ONLY BEGUN, SAYS LA FOLLETTE Back in Cleveland, Where He Started Campaign, Candi- date Sees Victory. +1in Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, November 1.— Cleveland’s public ha | where his pendent candidacy for president announced and the recent Republi- ational convention was held, t M. La Follette d his cam- n tonight with a sp« in which reiterated confidence (hat he will n Tuesday's election. The progressive tide i rising,” he declared and will carry the progres- ves on to victory. “But this is only the beginning of he fight. We cannot in one short truggle capture all the strongholds n which privilege has become en- irenched. For more than 50 years the private monopo'y system has been disging itself into the very heart ©f zovernment. Its allies are in the executive departments. in Congress and in the courts. They are in the State and city governments. They spent millions in securing their ent power, and they cannot be ted in a d Reviews Campaign. lling bow, after being d with a petition by “some men and women from every state ) the Union,” he had announced on 4 t0 a meeting of his supporters in the hall in which he spoke tonight that he would become a candidate, nator La Follette said “I thank God that I did accept. For 1o matter what may be the outcome of this election, no matter what may my fate in the years that are to e, I shall forever rejoice that I «d a part in this great campaign to | restore government to the people. I hall be proud that I aided in pro- £ the message of this great ement—the message of humanity, rty and justice. I am happy also that T have as my running mate a man worthy of the ghest honors which the nation can or. Brilliant, incorruptible, ageous, and fired with the ideal- of a knight of old, he has cap- 4 the imagination of the nation | made even his bitterest enemies | spect, almost as much as they fear, the name of Burton K. Wheeler. “Wlen this campaign was launched, Your Tt months ago, we had no organization, we had no money and o rich and pampered friends. But| ° d.d have the raith. We did have | hie courage. And, above all, we did | Tave a cause to fire the hearts and | command the ready allegiance of the t masses of people. It is t5 thls At cause—it is to these millions of Lumbie men and women that this movement owes the wonderful ngth and the vitality which has slenced the cynics, astounded the politicians and made Wall Street tremble with fear.” Obeyed Master's Voice.” v pre- 0.~ own the plar- submitted by the Wiscon- n, Senator La Follette as- at “in complete obedience to master's voice, except for such protest as cou'd be made by the dele- | 2 m Wisconsin and North Da- t ccnvention went through ard-dried performance. vice presidential nomination “d some trouble, because no first- ss man could be found to accept place on the ticket” he added, that the orders of £ cu “The independent candidate slipped © Cleveland, headquarters for three the railroad brotherhoods, early teday, traveling during the night #-om Pittshurgh, where he spoke last Tight. After preparing his tonight's speech, he left his private car, which 4 carried him approximately 7,500 les in the last four weeks, to de- er more than a score of addresses in 12 states, and went to Public Square to place a wreath on a statue ©f the late Tom L. Johnson, one-time yor of Cleveland. So large was the ecrowd which #athered to witness the brief cere- ony, that 20 or more policemen nd a dozen mounted officers were quired to prevent blockade of sireet traffic and t6 clear a path for the Senator's automobile. Later, Mr. La Follette went to the e of Warren S. Stone, president the Brotherhood of Locomotive gineers, to rest. After his ad- s here, he departed for his Wis- n home to vote. He is due in Aladison tomorrow afternoon. MAINE DEMOCRATS « ARE URGED TO VOTE Heavy Plurality Is Conceded td Coolidge—La Follette Seems ‘Weakening. Frecial Dispsteh to The Sta AUGUSTA, Me., November 1.— orge L Emery of Biddeford, chalr- an of the Republican State commit- . said today that President Cool- dge would carry Maine Tuesday by £ margin of between 100,000 and 125, €90 votes. This estimate is consid- ered rather,too high, but Democratic leaders who do mot talk for pubii- tion, vay that President Coolidge will .carry the State by 50,000 or 75,000, Tntil the last: few days it was be- teved .the labor union vote would go o> Senator La Follette, but it is now !d that John W. Davis will get a part, at least, of that vote, which is @ujte an uncertain factor, but which Tecent ycars at least has been publican. La Follette has some rength among the faculty of the Tniversity of Maine, and ig some of the churches, but it is not belleved 1y leaders that he Wil poll more than 10,000 votes in the Stat total vote is estimated at 225 COOLIDGE VOTES, 350; HOUSE LEAD, 31, REPUBLICAN CLAIM Statements Predicting Party Success Are Issued by National and Congressional Heads After Reports Made by Districts. | | By the Awociated Press. CHICAGO, November 1. — State- ments predicting success in Tuesday’s national election were issued from dRepnbllca.n national headquarters to- ay. Chairman Willlam M. Butler of the national committee said: “T have been asked for a statement of 500 words, giving my opinion as to the outcome of the election. I do not need that many words. It Is my belief that Calvin Coolidze and Charles G. Dawes will be elected on Tuesday, ‘and that they will have more than 350 votes out of 531 in the electoral college. The issues are clear cut and I believe the country understands them thoroughly.” Congressional Statement. Representative Will R. Wood, chairman of the Republican congre: sional committee, issued this state- ment: “We will elect not lcss than 248 Republican members of the next House of Representatives; we may elect 265. In a total membership of { to 47 over a bare majorit | due allowance for those who. {elected as Republicans, cannot be counted on as true adherents to the Republican faith, we wiil have as a minimum 31 votes more than can be mustered by the combined opposition, and if our most ranguinary hopes are realized we will lead the combined minority by 65. “These eStimates are based upon returns which have been received from every congressional district of the country. These returns show, for fnstance, that in every State, save one, which now has Republican rep- resentation in the House, we will re- tain our present strength and we will make oertain gains in at least 14 States, and possibly in as many as 2: “Based on our latest informatio we will hold our own in California, Connecticut, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine Maryland, Massachusetts, Mich. igan, Missouri. Montana, Nebraska, ew Hampshire, New Jersey, Ne York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Islan b. 0. P. LANDSLIDE SEEN IN ILLINOIS State Expected to Give Cool- idge 400,000 Edge—Small to Defeat Jones. Making though Special Dispateh to The Star. CHICAGO, November = 1.—Despite an unusual amount of trading and trimming on the part of the Repub- lican factions, the leaders all predict amA avnact o real landslide for the Republican - party in " Illinois next Tuesday. Private- 1y many Demo- cratic leaders con- cede that the Re- ‘ublicans have the best of the situ- ation in Illinois. Coolidge w111 carry the State by an overwhelming .ote, probably 400,000 plurality. Charles S. Deneen, Republican, will be: elected United ates Senator un- less all surface indications are wrong. Gov. Len Small, Republican, is expected to win a re-election, despite a terrific fight that is being made on him in his own party. The Democrats are making a strenuous campaign for Norman L. Jones and have hopes of winning. Small may run 200,000 votes behind his ticket and still be elected over Jones by a big vote because of the drift toward Coolidge. The Demo- cratic condidate for United States Senator is Col. A. A. Sprague, an ex- service man and a millionaire busi- ness man, who heretofore has been a Republican. He has shown ability as ‘a campaigner and undoubtedly will receive a large number of Re- publican votes. The Democrats hope to win with Jones ‘for -Governor and Sprague for Senator. The odds appear to be against them. Outside of that the Democrats are centering practically all of thelr efforts in trying to save their county ticket in Chicago and Cook’ Count JOHN R. BUTMAN. VITORY OF DAV SEEN N ARZONA State Expected to Go to Democratic Candidate by " Majority of 5,000. cial Dispateh to The Star. sp;‘HOENIx, Ariz., November 1.—The candidates of the Democratic party will be elected, in Arizona. John W. Datis will carry the State by a plu- rality in excess of 5,000 and Repre- sentative Carl Hayden will be elected practically without opposition, as in many counties of the State his op- ponent’s name does not appear on the ©f course, the larger the vote the larger will be the vote for President Caelidge in 2 Republican ‘State with ’;‘v New England man running for resident. Woman om Ticket. The names of four parties will ap- ; pear in the ballot in ‘this State—Re- publican, Democratie, Progressive, or 1a Follette ticket, and Socialist La- bor. Tor the first time in the history of the State the name of a woman, Mirs. Mary Perry Rict of Rockland, will appear on the baliot as a candi date for presidential elector. she be- ing one of the Republican nominees. Mrs. Gertrude M. Pattangall of this ity. the woman member of the Demo- cratic national committee from Maine, and wife of the Democratic leader, Willlam R. Pattangall, in a «tatement today declared that a vote ror La Follete in Maine is a vote for Coolldge. ‘Maine will give its electoral vote o the Republican candidate,” Mrs. Yattangall said, “No sensible person expects any other result, but the size pf the vote cast for Mr. Davis has Jon important bearing on the future 'of the Democratic party in this State. J.very voter who desires to see the Jremocratic party continue to func- tion should vote for Mr. Davis, and if 10t, 1t is not much. use to attémpt to sraintatn a Democratic party in Maine. = ' J. CLEMENT MURPHY. ballot, having been submitted to the secretary. of state too late to be cer- tified to the boards of supervigors. Gov. George W. P. Hunt, who has waged a vigorous campaign on the issue of the development of the Colo- rado_ River and the protection of Ari- zona's rights in the river, and who is opposed to the compact negotiated at Santa Fo by the commission of which Herbert Hoover was chairman, will be clected by a thousand plurality. The La Follette strength in Arizona 1s waning. Arizona is aroused over the scan- dals of the present administration in Washington and welcomes the oppor- tunity to rebuke the Coolidge ad- ministration. JAMES WYNKOOP. 5 HURT IN WRECK. 220 Shaken Up When Park Flyer Leaves Track. By the Assoclated Press. GARDNER, N. Dak., November 1.— Four persons were badly injured ap- paréntly, 30 were less seriously hurt, suffering cuts an 220 were shaken up today, when the Great Northern Glacier Park Limited, No. 4, left the track about ome m! south of Gardner, = | 435 this will give us a margin of 30, | | | | THE SUNDAY. South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. % In Connecticut we wiil gain one seat. In Illinois and Indiana, where the tide is running strongly our way,, we will gain from one to three seats in each delegation; while in Missouri and New Jersey, we will make a sure gain of two, and probably three. In Ohio we will gain two scats and one or two in Nebraska. “We now have 21 Republican Con- gressmen from New York; in the next House we will have at least 27 and possibly as high as 29. In Pennsylvania, where we have 30 Re- publican Congressmen now, we will} have at least 34 in the new House| and it is not at all unlikely that the Republicans will make a clean sweep in that State and elect all 36 Con-! gressmen. “West Virginia, the home of the Democratic nominec for President, now has two Republican Congre: men—in the new Congress we will surely have four and we may have, as many as six. In fact, I think thei higher figure the morc ltkely of the! t We also stand te gain one mem- | = cach in Oregon, Washington Montana and New Mampshire. In Delaware, Nev: a Mexico, | having one Congr: cach, our prospects are very fair for electing Republicans to succced Democrats | now sitting. “In addition to the foregoing, wel have a fair prospect @f gaining one seat each in Massachusetts, Michi- gan, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Tennessee. “Summing up, we are sure to hold 222 of the 225 seats we now have in the House, and a minimum gain of 26 would give a total Republican mem- tership of 248. If we make the max- imum gains, which are based upon conservative estimates, we will eclect 265 Republicans to the next House Disregarding those who, while run- ning as Republicans, are at heart| not in sympathy with Republican deas, we still will have a safe work- ng majority in the lower branch of ‘ongress, and a House which will up-| hold the national administratio COOLIDGE TO URGE BALLOTING BY ALL Speaks Over Radio Tomor- row Night—Many Sug- gested for Cabinet. President Coolidge concluded a busy week, and the last before elec- | tion, working yesterda¥ at his desk. | Business occupied the attention of the President. who has taken little part in the last-minute political activities and who will conclude his participa- | tion in the campaign with a radio talk tomorrow night urging cltizens to vote. More than a score of telegrams were received yesterday at the White House in response to Mr. Coolldge's request to farm leaders to submit | recommendations for a_successor to the late Secretary Wallace. Ten names were mentioned in the mes- sages. They were: Louis J. Taber, master of the National Grange, Co- lumbus, Ohio; Charles H. March, Litchfield, Minn., farmer; John Fields, Oklahoma City, former editor of the! Oklahoma Farmer; Samuel Adams, Washington, former president of the Agricultural Editors' Assoclation: E. E. Fayville, Portland, Oreg., edltor of Western Farmer; Frank O. Low- den, former Governor of Illinois; Herbert Myrick, Springfield. Mass.; Charles Grand, Urbana, Ohio, mem- Bers of the House of Representatives: C. W. Pugsley, president of South Da- Kkota Agricultural College and former Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, and J. Lee Coulter, president of the North Dakota Agricultural College. Numerous messages continue, to| arrive at the White House from every section of the country in regard to the appointment. So far, it was said | at the White House, there appeared no unanimlity of opinion. No plans out of the ordinary have, been made by the President for pass- ing the week end. It is expected he and Mrs. Coolidge will attend church services as usual today. RESULT IN WYOMING IS STILL IN DOUBT Victory of Coolidge Assured, But Senator Warren Faces Hard Fight to Win. Special Dispatch o The Btar. : CHEYENNE. Wyo., November 1.— Although Wyoming normally is Re- publican by 10. per cent of its 70,- 000 votes, elements of such uncer- tainty have entered into the present i that. faW. observers' are centur'ng dogmatic predictions con Serning e outcome of the senatorial and gubernatorial contests. Coolidge and Dawes probably will carry the State by the normal Re- publican majority with La Follette and Wheeler second and Bryan and Davis a poor third. Frances E. Warren, Republican for 30 years, United States Senator, faces the supreme test of his, political career in_his race for re-election, because of Progressive support of Robert R. Rose. Democratic candi- date. George R. Kindler, Progres- sive candidate, but not receiving sup- port from the Progressive organ‘za- tion, will command a considerable vote that otherwise probably would go in the main to Rose, and this vote may be the factor deciding the con- test in- Warren's ‘favor. The Progressive vote is less a fac- tor in the contest between Charles E. Winter, Republican incumbent, and Theodore G. Wanerus, Democrat, for Wyoming’s only seat in Congress, and Winter should win by a majority of several thousand. The gubernatorial situation is diffi- cult to appraise. Democratic strategy in_ nominating Nellie Taylor Ross, widow of the late Gov. William Ross, was shrewd. No other Demo ecrat, perhaps, could have hoped to dofeat Eugene .J. Sullivan. Repub- lican nominee, but . the. reaction in popular imagination to the candidacy of the first woman to be nom'nated for the governorship in Wyoming, the a bruises, and about | considerable Progressive support Mra. 1le | governorship. first woman’'s suffrage State, plus many votes that will go to Mrs. Ross because of sympathy for her in her bereavement, plus the “dyed in the wool” Democratic vote; plus the very Ross will receive, make the woman candidate a formidable bidder for the ‘| accurate, the statement to that effect | believes that the President will win. ! of 600 words giving my opinion as to | have a majority of the electoral votes STAR, WASHINGTON, COOLIDGE RIVALS Charges Attempt to Stam- pede Voters With Personal Attacks on President. By the Assoc'ated Press. NEW YORK, November 1.—Secre- tary Hughes wound up his campaign- g here tonight with the declara- tion that the opponents of President Coolldge had started out with an at- Ltempt to “stampede” the country with ‘ill-measurcd attacks upon reputa- tion,” but hLad' found their cfforts vain. 3 “4ong after his detractors have been forgotten,” he continued, “the mem- ory of Calvin Coolidge will be cher- ished by the American people. “Let violators of the law be punish- ed, whocver they may be, but it would be extraordinary to assert that their misconduct, for which they are being duly prosecuted, affords any reason why we should adopt free trade instead of profection, or alter our fiscal administration, or change our foreign policy, or have govern- mental ownership, or denaturc the Supreme Courf Mr. Hughes declared statements made by John W. Davis us to unem- ployment during the Harding-Cool- | idge administration showed “a luck | of knowledge of the true state of the record.” 0 The Republican administration, he said, had inherited a crisis from its Democratic predecessor, “and with It 4.500,000 unemployed,” due to the fallure of the Democratic administr tion to prevent post-war inflation. Deals ‘With Arms Parley. The Secretary again dealt at some length with aspects of the Washing ton arms limitation conference touc! ed upon by Mg Davis in recent speeches, “I confess that I am mystified,” he sald. “In one breath he (Mr. Davis) is all for disarmament and peace; he wants conferences and many of them. In another he disparages the only conference of late years that has been reasonably successful. “What partisan exigency is there ! this campaign which requires the Democratic candidate to disparage | this work? He appears to be willing to throw any stone that he can pick up. Mr. Davis had asked, Mr. Hughes said. Whether the naval treaty “boana us to a definite inferiority as com- pared to England,” when he knew that the contrary was the case and Great Britain for the first time had | agreed to naval equality. “So far as I know,” Mr. Hughes continued, “nothing whatever was | said about gun elevation during the conference. Mr. Davis does not refer to the fact that the proposal as to this originally was due to the erron- eous report that Great Britain had altered the clevation of the guns on her retained capital ships. When it appeared that this report was in- had to be retracted. Ships to Be Replaced. “The question, as far as it is tm- portant, really relates to certain of our ships and these will be replaced withln 10 or 12 years. So far as ships built in replacement are con- cerned there is no question what- ever as to elevation of guns. Is it not manifest that the question is not one for discussion in a partisan cam- paign for the purpose of depreciat- ing the work of the Washington con- ference, but is an important practical | one to be considered on its merits| and doubtless will be 8o, considered by Congress?” The Secretary declared Mr. Davis did not “seem to understand the difierence between the treaty and Keeping the Navy up to the treaty ratio.” “Whatever failure there may be in this respect In keeping the Navy up to the treaty ratio is not chargeable to the treaty, but to Congress. 'Mr. Hughes added, “and as to this the Democratic members of Congress must bear their full measure of re- sponsibility. We are for keeping the Navy up as contemplated by the treaty. The treaty protects us from a wasteful expenditure and it cer- | tainly does not prevent building up to the ratio which the treaty itselt contemplates.” 283 TO 315 VOTES SEEN FOR COOLIDGE; MAY BE LANDSLIDE (Continued from First Pfl‘e‘) the West, are not so backward. Mr. Butler asserted tonight that President Coolidge would be eclected by more than 350 electoral votes. He firmly Mr. Dixon’s claim is that “we will not only have a majority of the elec- toral votes, but the total will exceed 300, and we will also have a majority in both Houses of Congress.” Ev campaign manager must claim vie- tory. All three party managers are performing as they should in this re- spect. Mr. Butler's statement is brev- ity itself. It follows: Butler Claims Landslide, “T have been asked for a statement the outcome of the election. I do not need that many words. It is my be- lief that Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes will be electéd on Tuesday, and that they will have more than 350 votes out of the 531 in the elec- toral college. The issues are clear- cut, and I believe the country under- stands them thoroughly. Mr. Dixon said: “Our latest reports show that the Re- pub'ican campaign strategy has proven a failure. The silence of President Coolidge on corruption in public office, practical relief to farmers, and on all other questions, has convinced the peo- ple of his weakness, lack of courage, and failure in leadership. b “We await the verdict of the Ameri- ‘can peop'e to be expressed at the ballot box the fourth of November with ab- solute. confidence and assurance of a sweeping victory. We will not only, but the total will exceed 300 and we will also have a majority in both houses of Congress. Our reports from every section of the country show a large majority against Coolidge and the present administration. Progressive Forecast. The statement of Mr. Nelson trum- pets forth the formation of a new party. It lays claim to increased strength of the Progressives in the next Congress, both Senate and House. It eays: “The new Progressive party is as- sured of its first vlctoryl&the Ppolling. booths of the Nation Tuesday. ° “Out_of this campaign has come a new, permanent, fearless national or- ganization whose mighty influence for righteousness will be felt in all elec- tions in the future, -*“There will be more Progressive representatives and senators in the next Congress than in any since the Civil War) when greed and privilege first fastened its tentacles on the Gov- ernment. When the vote is counted many doubtful States will be found with substantial majorities in the Progressive.column. The tremendous vote which will be registered at the polls Tud¥day sounds the knell of AOHN €. THOMPSO) A corruption in government. *No political headquarters of any B {of Illinois, Michigan and Chio were |determined the results of the elec- | Dome. D. C, NOVEMBER 2, 1924.—PART 1. IHUGHES ASSAILS | WHEELER CLOSES * NEW YORK AT Assails G. 0. P. Donations in - Speech—To -End: Tour: in Baltimore. By the Assoclated Press. NEW - YORK. November l-—In a hurried last-minute skirmish for votes, Senator Wheeler, independent vice presidential candidate, got In three speeches in the New York area. He invaded New Jersey at Hoboken early in the evening, but returned in time to make the final talk of the day in New York City itself. It was his third appearance in New York, but 14,000 miles of western travel and seven weeks of time had intervened between his former ap- pearance, and he declared that obser- vations made during the interim had convinced him that west of the Mis- sissippi the La Follette fight had been won. He clalmed. likewise, that the electoral struggles in Central States giving himself and his principle a chance for stralght out election re- gardless of deadlock possibilities in Congress. In platform plays rehearsed during cores of western appearances, Sen- ator Wheeler asked his uudiences to consider President Coolidge seated in an empty chair, which he jerked to position beside him. To the imaginary occupant of the seat he fired a series of campaign questions, as to conduct of the Natiorz! Government, bank de- posits of State funds in Massachusetts nd declared that the answers.were “the usual silence emanating from tb White House.” Raps G. O. P. Denations. “Here in the City of New York there are men who belleve they have al- ready written your election story for you, with the check they have writ- ten, the $5,000 checks, their $25,000 checks, their $60,000 checks,” he de- clared. “They believe their money has tion, and they believe their money will come back to them many times increased, during the next four years. It remains for you to say, your pencil stubs in the voting booths against their fountain pens in their bank offices. “In the past the political intelli- gence of the private interests has been greater than the political in- telligence of the plain people. The people have been Republicans, Demo- crats, Socialists, even voting as Bap- tists and Catholics and Ku Klux Klansmen, but the bankers have voted as bankers; the steel manufac- turers as manufacturers; the railroad operators as rallroad operators. The wealth of your Nation has drawn ever into fewer and fewer hands. Sees People Areused. “If 1 thought for one moment that YOu were not £trong enough to throw off this habit in this enlightened year, I should not be here tonight. But this year, in my opinion, the peo- ple are roused and ready. There has been a shameful chapter of national shame written by the Republican ad- ministration in the past three years, and it has been my steadfast purpose to see (hat the people shall not forget 16 He renewed charges of corruption he has brought against the Republi- cation administration, based on testi- mony taken at the Senate hearings last winter in investigations of the Department of Justice and Teapot He named in alphabeticai or- der former Attorney General Daugh- erty, Secretary Fall and a score of others connected with the matter. Senator Wheeler will go to Balti- more tomorrow, where he will con- clude his campaign Monday. — party, whatsoever, either East or West, has more complete or more reliable information as to the trend of public sentiment in the various sections of the United States than | ha- the Progressive headquarters here in Chicago. We know that conditions | in various States do not warrant any of the predictions made by the Re- publican organization. True, the Re- publican machine has been able to as- semble an unprecedented slush fund, | but it has not been able to influence public opinion as in former years. Great Vote Predicted. “Republican managers bave learn- ed, as we have learned, that the La Follette campaign has gathered strength beyond all hope and pre- dictions. The Republican machine knows that In many of the States the electoral vote it is claiming for Cool- idge will surely be cast for La Fol- lette. Their boastings are solely for the purpose of catching the band- wagon vote, and in this they will fail. “From now on the new Progressive party must and will play the lead- ing role in the affairs of the Govern- ment in the United States.” Whether the La Follette-Wheeler management will be able to weld a really strong liberal party out of the discordant groups which have , fol- lowed the Progressive standard 'dur- ing this campalign is a_question. One thing appears reasonably certain, if a new party is to be born and to be- come 5o strong as to replace one of the old parties, the group idea will have to be given over and a single cohesive organization will have to be formed. Breaks in Ranks Already. It is in the formation of such.an organization that the stress will come. It has been sought through the executiye council of the.Ameri- can_ Federation of Labor, the rall- road brotherhoods and other organi- zations to line up labor for La Fol- lette during the campaign. But there have been breaks in_the ranks, the _latest appearing in New York. Whether the withdrawal of indorsement of La Flollette by the ex- ecutive council of the Trades Union Council of Greater New York was_regular, or whether it was the work of a “fump" meeting of the council, as claimed by Samuel Gom- pers, the fact remains that important leaders broke away from La Follette. This is a rumpys in only one of the groups which have been back of La Follette. If the new Liberal party.is to have any degree, of success in this country—certainly should a measure of present prosperity continue in the United States—it will have to’ modify its platform. The people are not ready to swallow some of the proposals of the La Follette platform, notably that which deals with the courts and that which proposes government own- ership of the railroads, g Future of Demecrats. "he Democrats in their efforts to dafeat Coolidge ~have done. thelr ntmost fo aid.the La Follette party— for that is what it may now be termed in view of the statement ismued by Mr. Nelson, 'In many of thase Western States they have practically agreed to wipe the Demo- cratic party off the. map, always with the intention, of course, of resur- recting the Democratic perty at som later date. 2 But the Democratic party in,some States had been absorbed prior to the present campa!gn—as in the case * the Farmer-Labor ¥ ig-Min- nesota. It may find that to resur- want the Democratic party, even in _sates like Californla and.Washing- DELAWARE LIKELY jand, | majority ton, will be a difficult task after the election. # There ate 169 “Scotch mountains which have the prefix “Ben. INDIANA VOTERS STATE AND NATIONAL TICKETS| Coolidge Believed Likely TO “SCRATCH” to Get Ekdars, Though Democrats Are Confident—La Follette May Receive 200,000 V otes. Speeial Dispatch to The Star. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., November 1. —Indlana voters nearly a million and & half of them, will go to the polls| next Tuesday prepared to do more “seratching” than ever before. in the | opinion of obscrvers who have in- vestigated conditions in this Stat ‘The “‘scratching” will range fro the presidential candidates down to the lowliest office figuring in the contest. The undeflying causc of the de- partlre from orthodox party ties is the Ku Klux Klan, which has made {nroads on political afiiliations. That the Klan can be instrumental in causing “scratching” was evident two | years ago when the knights first ap- peared in Indiana and Samuel M. Ralston, Democrat, was elected by a majority of 35000, and Ed Jackson, now Klan-backed Republican candi- date for governor, was elected secre- tary of State by a majority of nearly 40,000. 200,000 For La Follette. Most observers believe President Coolidge will carry Indiana by a majority of between 50,000 and 75,000, T0DEFEAT DU PONT State, However, Counted as Certain to Choose Coolidge Electors Tuesday. Special Dispatch to The Star. | WILMINGTON, Del., November 1.— | Although the election in Delaware | will probably be close because of | the bitter fight be- | ng waged against | ien. Cole: n Ira Pont, the Repub- ‘fcan candidate for United States Sen- ator, the indica- tions point to the| election of the Coolidge electors. Col. Robert G Houston, candi- | date for Congress, | may pull through | with Robert P.| Robinson, Repub- | lcan candidate for | Governor. The danger of the de. COLEMAW DU PONT. feat of Gen. Du- Pont is brought | about by the battlc being waged agalnst him by insurgents in party led by the forces of Alfred L | DuPont, who for vears has fousht | the ambitions of his kinsman. { Most of the opposition is confined | to the two lower countics, where there is a large rural population. | Antl DuPont Leaders. H The leaders in the anti-DuPont | forces in Sussex is d by former Rep- resentative Caleb R. Lavton, who ran on the ticket with Coleman DuPont | tWo years ago and was defeated. | In Kent Count; Frank Allee, "! | former Upited States Senator, is at | the head of the oppositic Republi- can’'leaders admit that Kent County probably will go Democratic by f 1.000 to 1,200 majority and that S sex will be in the same column with from 300 to 400 votes to spare. The only hopes of the Republicans is to roll_up a big Republican ma jority in Wilmington and rural Nes Castle County. Wilmingt | ‘Wilmington is expected to return a | Republican majority of at least 3,500, ! although no figures are given| for New Castle County, the Republi cans are expecting a large enough| to -overcome the adverse | vote in the lower part of the The Democrats have waged & c 1 paign on the issue of taxation. They | argue that the rcoad building and school building have been carried to extremes especially for a State where the population is less than 300,000 Counted for G. 0. P. - KEYSTONE CONTEST GENTERS ON HOUSE With Coolidge Safe, G. 0. P.| Leaders Seek to Obtain " Solid Delegation. | | Py the Associuted Press. HARRISBURG, Pa, November 1. —Pennsylvania’s real battle next Tuesday will be over second place in the balloting for President. President Coolidge is assured of the State's vote and in the last week Republican Jeaders have been seeking not only to pile it up by hundreds of thous- ands, but to carry as many of the 36 representatives as possible. State Chairman W. Harry Baker, in his estimate issued tonight, said Coolidge and Dawes would have “a lead some- where between 700,000 and 1,000,000.” Chairman John H. Bigelow, leader of the Democrats, sees a swing to Davis in the last week in portions of the State where he had doubts last week, but confines his predictions to increases of Democratic representa tion In the congressional delegatio Chairman Charles Kutz of the La Follette committee, who some time ago expressed some hopes that the Wisconsin Senator might repeat what Roosevelt did in 1912, has no figures, but insists there is a silent vote, which will be heard from in the in- | terest of his candidate. | The British elections have had some | effect in Pennsylvania, where there | are so many industrial communities, and it has helped Coolidge more than Davis, but the manner in which the Republican State organization has swung into its campaign work is the most significant of all recent de- velopments. The Democratic cam- paign.has been quiet and there have been signs here and there of feelings still, ruffied by the Madison Square convention. The La Follette people have conducted a vigorous spcech- making campaign with the Senator making two- visits and hardly a county has been left untouched by campaigners. Pennsylvania elects only three State officers, one of them a judge, and Republicans are assured of vic- tory. the representatives. The La Follette people have endorsed a number of Democrats, which has made some hitherto Republican Distrits uncer- tain, -but if the Coolidge people realize their hopes the presidential vote, will carry candidates along. Nineteen oandidates are on the labor ticket, HAMILTON. 1 | both Republicans claim practically all of |} although the militant’ Democratic State organization is making extrava- gant claims for John W. Davis\ The La Follette organization believes the Wisconsin Senator will poll in the neighborhood of 200,000 votes and many politicians are inclined to grant that estimate. The congressional and State tickets are a different story, however. It bardly seems possible that the Re- publican claim of a clean sweep of the Representatives is possible. The Republicans are sure of electing Repre- entatives in the tenth, ninth and eixth tricts, and the Democrats seem to be equally sure of electing Representa- tives in the first, second, third and fourth districts. The others are close and may go to either party. As further evidence of the “split- ticket” voting that may be resorted to, most observers believe that Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Democratic nominee for governor, will be elected over Jackson and that he will draw most, if not all, of the State ticket with bim. —HAROLD C. FEIGHTNER. | OREGD SWIGS T0G.0.P BANIER Coolidge Expected to Have Substantial Majority and Sweep Is Seen. Special Dispatch to The Sta. PORTLAND, Oreg., November 1.— Portland last-minute indications are thut Oregon will stay in the Bepub- lican column for President by a sub- | stantial plurality. Republican States headquarters are claiming the State by as high as 36,000. The La Follette campaign has been slumping for the past two weeks. seemed to be the general opinion that Davis would run third in the State. now second place is in doubt. United States Senator Charles L. McNary will be returned to the Senate by a big majority, not even the Deino- cratic leaders contending that Milt A. Miller, his opponent, Las a ch: of election. . W. C. Hawley will returned from the first and Ni from the second congre: t s Both e Republic: third con Portland sentati e 1 major part, R 2 nomine: Watkins has the support of the La Fol. lette leaders and organized labor. While strictly local issues entering largely into the fight, a bitter fight is being cen- tered on him, and this, added to the | overwhe ublican malority in the distric! his situation pre- carious. Both sid tory. d the result is uncertaln. There is no gubernaiortal campaign in Oregon this year. INSOUTH DAKOTA Both Coolidge and La Fol- lette Forces Confident of Victory. Spevial Dispatel to The Star, SIOUX FALLS. S. D, November 1. —With the election near at hand the Coolidze and La Follette managers are claiming South Dakota. There is no doubt that La Follette developed unexpected strength in this State and La Follette leaders are claiming they will carry the State for him. The Republicans, on the other~hand, claim that during the past week or 10 days, there has been a pronounced swing from La Follette to Coolidge. and that with anywhere near a full Republican vote South Dakota will give Coolidge a plurality 000 or 30,000 over La Folletta. South Dakota women supporting Ceolidge are said to be doing valiant work among, women_ voters of the State and Républican’ leaders say if the Sta saved to Coolidge it will be largely due to the work of the Coolidge women. There ‘is littie| doubt that Representative C. Christopherson, Royal C. Johnson and William Williamson, renominated by the Republicans in the three districts of the State, will be re-elected, It is practically certain that Carl Gun- derson, Republican nomines, will be elected governor. It is claimed he will carry nearly every county. Louis N. Crill, Democratic State chairman, claims the Democrats will elect U. S. G. Cherry of Sioux Falis, their candidate for U. S. Senator, by a plurality of 20,000 over Gov. W. H. McMaster, Republican nominee, who in the Spring primary campaign supported Senator Hiram Johnson for President and in thi® campaign is promising he will join the farm bloc if elected and will demand a revision of the present Republican tariff law. 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Ask for Catalogue, & H H Two weeks ago it| ional district. of which | are ciaiming vie- | | | | ¢ Livingstone Academy 1517 Rhode Island Ave. Frasklin 7475, ¥ i 5 20,000 DAVIS LEAD SEENINKENTUCKY Stanley Has Slight Lead for Senate—Little House Change Apparent. Special Dispate s LOUISVIL Ky.. Prediction of a 20,000 Democra jority made by the party mana Kentucky time of the re - tion of ¢ in October called c Wilson, ¢ of the election. At O. Mays, Republican chairman expressing confidence and the that he has “a fighting chance. clines to issue any fizures for estimate. Judge Wilson's 0 Th ember the an claim for both the Davis-Brvan ticket and Senator A Owsley Stanley, against whom the combined shafts from the Kentucky antisaloon league and the Rapub’ican national committee’s war chest have been loosed. However, it is considered likely, as is natural, that the sena- torial candidate will run from 5,000 to 10,000 behind the head of the ticket especially in view of the fizht centered on him, which has alienated a not considerab on_of the Democr: To extent overcome ost of the ollette vote in the cities, but is well known that there are thousand of voters who stamp their ballots on! by the side of the top elector on th- ballot, which makes the other cand: dates trail. Believe Stanley Safe. Careful po'itical observers, realizin= after this State's weathering of the 1820 storm, that Kentucky is normally Democratic, feel that the Davis mu- jority might be as much as 20,000 ap: that of Stanley as much as 12,000, The Democrats, while they havr zained considerab'e, are t sanguine of carrying the fifth (Louisville) af trict. The Republicans claim it f ¢ Coolidge 2nd Dawes by 10,000 and & » lieve that Fred M. Sackett, Stanley': Republican oppon. run ahead of the tic e town and that his majority will be around 14,000, The figur that hig! especially Sackett h there are rumo of a trade invo ving $75,000,000 road bond issue which m be effected to ihe 2dvantace of the Re publican candida Co H. Th and there appears to be no reason t. anticipate any in the politica of the ucky delegatio . All indications, alsc the re-election by a big John W. Langley, the who is race, appears do overwheiming defeat hecau splendidly organized is no race INWEST VRGIA 'Careful Survey Indicates 20.- 000 Majority, But Demo- crats Dispute Claim. Special Dispatch o The St CHARLESTON, W. Va.. Nove 1.—A careful su y of the politica situation w a predict Presid will Virgin 20,000, High national com- mittee. publican _ State 150,000, Former ph Holt Gaines tor, told the Vi L. Representative Jo: a reliable progno: writer tod. the Coolidge plurality would be at least 40,000. Howard M Gore, Republican nominee for gov- erner, is likely to run cosiderab! ahead of Coolidge. He is certain to lead the party's State ticket. Col Guy D. Goff, the senatorial nomines appears to be safe by a comfortabls margin de: fact that h Democratic opponent. former United States Senator W. E. Chilton, will win a heavy vote from the La Fel lette ranks. View of Democratie Chairma Finley Bunlap, Democratic § chairman. informs the writer tha conservative reports fully coverin: the State indicate a plurality for Davis not under 25,000. Democratic leaders generally are optimistic, al though many of them admit privatel that the results will be close. Maj. John B. Floyd, the La Follerte State manager, declares the W sin senator will have a plurality of the votes and that Coolidge will be a “poor third” in the State poll. Un- biased opinion is the La Follette strength has been diminishing the past two weeks. His vote will not £o ,000, it is believed, although Maj. Floyd is claiming 90 per cent of the mine vote and 85 per cent of the labor vote as a whole. This vote in other years has been abont equally divided between the two major parties The “State pride” factor that Demo- crats believed carlier would carrs Davis to a sweeping victory in We: Virginia does not seem to be very potent. The pride is still there, but not of sufficient strength to draw any great number of Republicans. Several of the more sanguine Republican leaders say Coolidge will carry Davis' old home county of Harrison. L KIRTLAND SR T BULL CALF AS PRIZE. Special Dispatch to The Star. EMPORIA, Kans, November 1.— bull calf that has spent its youth cavort- ing in a cow pasture unmolested by the wearers of the Ku Klux “nightie” may be an aid to William Allen White, inde- pendent and anti-Klan candidate for Governor of Kansas, in winning the elec- tlon. Charles S. Brady, Republican farmer near here, has offered the present Kan- sas municipality that casts the greatest per cent of votes for the Emporia editor and author a caif of the above descrip- tion. The calf is further described by’ the farmer s being a thoroughbred and having a white face.