The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-27

LoWden, whose managers hurt
him in 1920 by spending more
money for more purposes than he
knew about, is absolutely known
to be in possession of an ex-
tremely valuable queen-bee, kept
over from the 1920 Presidential
beehive.
Friend Of Farmers.
Lowden has the asset of being
q farmer and a friend of the
farmer. in addition to being a man
Of great wealth and also of the
great world. His assets and his
qualities unite to keep alive in him
q determination to be President of
the United States; and although he
has been concealing that determine
tion behind a veil of public reti-
cence, it exists beyond any doubt
or denial. and in political confer.
ences here and elsewhere has been
fully and frankly expressed.
Lowden is just as much a candi-
date, in effect, as Johnson; and he
8 just as much a. candidate as
Coolidge, the distinguished New
Highlander who once was charged
y
now is charged with being a
moderate and middle grounder.
When Illinois is contested, as it
win be, by johnson. the progress
stvely conservative candidate, by
Lowden, the conservatively pro-
gressive candidate, and by Coolidge,
the moderate and battle-ground
candidate, it Is thought here that
the voters Of Illinois viii be pre-
pared, as they will perhaps have
to be prepared. for the advent also
Of Clifford Pinchot, of Pennsyl-
wanna, the distinguished liberal on
labor and anti-liberal on liquor.
JOhnson's friends understand and
believe that Pinchot has been per-
euaded to enter the primaries in the
Western States. They do not think
that in those States he could do
any harm to any candidate except
Johnson. They accordingly think
that he is making great mistake.
Check by Foreign Affairs.
It had been hoped by certain
moderate liberals and mild progress
siyes that Johnson would keep 20
certain States and that Pinchot
and that then in the national nomi-
mating convention the weaker Of the
two would swing his delegates to
the stronger on the basis Of COM
mon progressivism or enlightened
and forward-looking conservatism.
The difficulty about this plan il
that Pinchof and Johnson con-
ecientiously differ fundamentally on
foreign affairs Pinchot inclines to-
ward international organizations OF
a diplomatic and economic and
judicial sort, while Johnson, as ne
will probably say in his speech In
Chicago today, is willing enough to
have a foreign policy but insists
that it be a policy for and by the
United States acting in US own
name and not through leagues or
through what he calls alliances.
Accordingly q cooperation IN
campaigning between P1nchot and
johnson is difficult in the extreme
TO arrange. Moreover there are
certain farming elements which,
having received more support and
a more jealous practical promotion
from Pfnchot than from Johnson,
are anxious to see Pinchot go into
the presidential primaries IN the
western farming States, where they
think that his enthusiasm for
agriculture and for prohibition will
strike those two responsive local
chords into a glad song OF national
triumph.
All Have Western Urge.
johnson, therefore, and Lowden,
and Coolidge, and Pinchot, are all
of them candidates with an urge
behind them in the weatern coun-
try; and it is thought here that
when the voters try to decide tie
tween them on their varying de-
grees of progressivism and con-
servatisn on strictly economic
bread and butter domestic questions,
they will have on their hands q
quite considerable task.
Opinion here is moving toward
the view that distinctions on for.