Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-12
REPUBLICAN THREAT
T0cUT LEAGUERS
Non-Partisan Party's Victory
Threatens to Develop Wis
consin Political War.
Special Dlspatch to The Star.

MILWAUKEE,, September 11.-Sev-
eral days will be required to develop
the political situation which resulted
from the primary Tuesday. Republic
can leaders are puzzled as to the next
step.
The state republican ticket COM
prices the following Non-Partisan
League candidates: John j. Blaine for
governor. George F. Comings. lieu
tenant governor. and E. S. Hall, Sec
rotary of state. The ticket also car
ries the names of these republicans:
Senator I. L. Lenroot, renominated;
w. j. Morgan. attorney general, and
Henry Johnson, treasurer. All were
nominated in Tuesdays battle.
Threats are being made by repre-
sentative leaders all over the state to
knife the Non-Partisan leaguers. The
league leaders, who are allied with
Senator r. NJ. La Toilette, would
gladly get rid of Senator Lenroot
and the other candidates. The ques-
ton is whether the candidates rep
resenting such divergent views can
get along we'll enough to make q
campaign.
WILCOX wa anus conference
Senator Roy P. Wilcox. second high
est candidate, whom Blaine defeated
by about 5000. has wired other de-
feated candidates for governor ask
ing for a conference to consider the
situation. Mr.. Wilcox points out that
Blaine received only a few more than
10000 votes, while the five repub-
lican candidates polled 100000 votes.
The question Is what the republicans
will do to secure representation.
Reports are to the effect that the
national committee Is greatly wor-
ried over the situation. Republican
leaders friendly to Senator Harding
have no love for the Non,partisan
League, but they would dislike to see
a situation develop tending to bring
about the defeat of Senator Lenroot
in November, or likely to weaken the
presidential electoral ticket.
How to quiet the antagonistic ele-
and accomplish this task without Of
Tense to voters whose support must
be held is the problem before national
and state managers.
Fear La Toilette Power.
The problem has not entirely un-
folded 1t Is not known and probably
will not be known for several days
whether the legislature is controlled
by the La Follette-Non- Partisan
tive wing. If the radicals have won
the legislature, Senator La Toilette
will be in position to write the state
platform, name the next state chair
man and central committee and desig-
nate the thirteen candidates for presi-
law all this work is done by the plat
form convention to which the newly
chosen legislative nominees are the
delegates.
Should the radical element find it
self in q position to name the presi-
with which to compel the regular re-
publicans in the convention to be
good. In any event. hard fight Is
expected over the resolutions to ins
dorse Harding and Coolidge, whom
Senator La Toilette has condemned
and repudiated. The platform conven-
ton will convene in Madison. Septem-
Der 81.
Women Voted Conservatively.
That the La Toilette state candi-
dates should have won with a minor
ity vote following the election Of La
Toilette delegates to- the national
Conventional last spring by $4,000 ma
jority was a matter Of some surprise.
The returns show, however. that 3d.
Toilette delegates last spring voted
Tuesday in their own primary. In
addition 10000 to $4,000 democrats.
chiefly anti-La Toilette men, went
into the Tuesday fight to swell the
vote OF the La Toilette opposition.S
The women who voted for the drst
time appear to have been . somewhat
weight in the scale.
The Blaine nomination was made
possible by the circumstance that
Dithmar, the second La Toilette can
didate. poled only about one-quarter
of the total La Toilette vote. while
the steps Of Wilcox. the chief con-
tender against Blaine. were logged
by three other candidates who. to-
gether. received more votes than Will
cox was able to gather. The renom-
nation Of Senator Lenroot by about
$4,000 is clearly traceable to the phe-
nominal run by Mayor A. c. McHenry
of Oshkosh, who, on a wet platform.
poled more than 10000 votes. the bulk
of which came from James Thompson,
Non-Partisan League candidate.