Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-17
IA TOILETTE TO HEAD
THIRD PARTY TICKET
Radicals and Parlor Bolshcvfsts
May Name the Senator From
Wisconsin rs Standard Bearer.
WAIT FOR JoHNsoN's ACTION
II California Senator Bolts Oil
Guard Republicans, In Toilette
Following Seems Ready To Sup
port johnson as u Candidate.
BY y. FREDERICK EssARY.


WASHINGTON. May l6,-Whcther
or not Hiram Johnson bolts the Re
publican National Convention a sec
ond time and offers himself as an in
dependent candidate for tho presi-
dcncy. there Will be third ticket in
The field. promoted and supported
largely By the forces which now rec
ognizc in Senator Johnson leader
/ and epoke sman.
:. This ticket will be headed BY Sem
ator Rober; NJ. La Toilette, OF Wis
consin. according 10 interests which
are now more or less identified with
tho Johnson wing OF the Republican
party. and which are not yet certain
that terms OF peace vii! hc success
fully negotiated between tho John
sonitcs and the Old Guard.
Already Senator La Toilette has
been rendered a presidential nomi-
nation By the Committee OF Forty
2. Eight. a group of extreme radicals
{, formed many months ago to bring
into existence new party and a
group which has the sympathetic
support OF many people associated
, with the Plumb Plan League and
other scmi-Soc.ai.stic organization
La Toilette Is Like Dark:s.
And /; Is added that La Toilette
has tentatively agreed TO make a
campaign as standard bearer OF these
elements provided there is no radical
party tickc, In the field this year. In
other words. the Wisconsin Senator
seems to be waiting to sec what
Johnson and his people do before de-
Gliding upon course OF his own.
II the Chicago convention event
ually swallows Johnson. thereby
branding the Republican pnrty as
country. or II Johnson, after being
denied the nomination. plunGes in as
nsSd Of ns 'AEd PsFiX of ans
will not matcrialize. The interests
which are prepared 10 champion him
and be champidnGn by him will 70
-. All the logic OF the present s,ua-
ton points 10 third ticket candidacy
on the part OF senator Johnson. Few
people can be found In Washington
vention II he IS rejected. he will
either surrender to the Old Guard in
behalf of some compromise candi-
date. or he will engineer n revolt. His
hackers insist with manifest sim
,ferity that he Will not surrender:
that no terms can he offered him that
he will accept that do not include his
own nomination.
=, la Toilette Has Nothing tn Lose.
la Toilette has nothing to lose II
he heads third ticket He Is rirtu-
ally accommodated rs Republican
Ia. 4 IL IT, - q.
majority because his vote is. nHccs-
fn:y to maintain oScendancy. Many
OF his party associates would have
voted to expcl him II his expulsion
The prospect that his candidacy
might serve TO defeat the Republican
tickle; this fall therefore. would
should Johnson not become a candi-
date. !; is even assumed that 1t
would give the Wisconsin Senator a
great deal OF personal satisfaction 20
know that he was instrumental in
bringing about such = defeat He
does not fail, To remember. ot course,
that he was KILLED OF In 1912 as the
progressive candidate for the Rcpuh-
lican nomination.
He WAS in a rcbellious state of mind
then and refused to deliver the VIE
consin delegation TO Roosevelt. Twice
forces tried 20 destroy him In his
own state. but hr has survived every
battle in his homo State and Is now
in control Of the Wisconsin delegation
to the Chicago convention.
; How much actual strength la Fol!
lettc would draw 20 his standard de-
ponds largely upon the candidates
and the platforms: OF the ;wo old-ttro
parties. II neither il radical: !;
neither makes any appeal to the pro
Germans or tho Sim Fe!ncrs: Ii
neither holds out any hope TO the
government ownership advocates. or
The "pa-lor Bolshcvists" OF the per
secuted" aliens, or the I W. VS. or
.other would-bc revo,utionists. the
Wisconsin Senator might poll q heavy
Vote IN some sections OF the country
Otherwise. the La Toilette vote would
prohahlv he negligible