The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-07-30
|LA TOILETTE
is AGAINST
SESSION NOW
Cont Want Congress to Con-
slider Questions at This
Time
SEES THIRD PARTY

IL Washington, July 30.-There will
be no formidable third party move
|ment in the presidential campaign.
next year if the republicans or dem.
l.ocrats nominate liberal candidates
inext year and adopt liberal policies,
Senator X. NJ. LaFollette, leader of
1.-THE republican radical bloc in con.
Egress, predicted in an extended in
Interview on the political outlook, on
the eve of his departure for Europe.
y After making this statement, SEN
ator La Toilette was quick to declare
President Harding an unsatisfactory
candidate, branding his aImlnistra-
ton as Thoroughly reactionary." He
refused to center further into dis
cussion of candidates, saying that the
time was altogether too early to con-
slider personalities.
Opposes Extra Congress Session.
II The senator expressed the opinion
that little practical good would be
| accomplished by an xtra session OF
i congress as urged by some Of his
( radical followers. The need for leg
\ islation to cure the ills of the coun-
Il try was urgent, he said, but all
measures that would really 60 to the
heart Of the nations problem would
/ be vetoed by President Harding and
there would not be sufficient votes
to override the president, he de-
clared.
AS the outstanding insurgent in
the republican party and the man
To IN
movement, Senator La Toilette COM
manded the closest attention in his
statement here. Those wno-had ex-
pected him to declare for the third
party movement Immediately as re-
suit of the growing radicalism re-
vealed by the Minnesota election,
may have been somewhat disappoint-
ed because the senator made it plain
that he was not yet committed to the
idea.
Whether there will be a real third
party, he said, depends almost entire
~ upon the course pursued by the |
two major parties.
+ Says Dissatisfaction Is General,
''If liberals should be nominated |
by either or both Of them, it is very |
doubtful whether there would be a
third party" said Senator La Fol- |
lette. "Even if there was third |
party under such conditions, it would |
not avail much"
Senator La Toilette expressed the |
opinion that conditions for the form
alton of a third party were more
favorable today than they were in
1912, the reason, he explained, is that
there is more definite body of pub
lie opinion today than there was
then.
"The dissatisfaction disclosed by
the Minnesota election" he said, ais
quite general and. it extends to the
east much more than is generally
known"
Asked what his attitude would b.
on the third party question in the
event Of President Harding's renom-
ination, he said:
"The record of the Harding admin
istration is that of reaction. l con-
slider the administration, a reaction
airy administration"
Cautious About F0rd's Candidacy.
Senator La Toilette was cautious
when it came to discussion of Henry
Ford's candidacy.
II am not able to Say what would
be the significance of his candidacy"
he said. 81 have met him Only once
and know little about him. He has i,
achieved great distinction in his =
ield."
Are those achievements such as to
commend him as a third party can q
lidate," he was asked.
Some indications point that way." Z
replied Senator La Toilette with q
smile, and he called attention to re- 9
'ent polls favoring Ford.
Doubts Wisdom of Price Fixing.
Senator La Toilette said he was not
convinced that the enactment of new \
Wheat price fixing legislation was the \
orrect way to help the farmers at \
his time. Although he voted for the n
Wheat price guaranty during the war. n
e said he questions the wisdom of n
rice fixing. One of the great evils -
+ the country today, he said, is too =, ~
1uch price fixing by the great cor ~
orations in violation Of the anti
rust laws. He believes the remedy y
es more in legislation that will
reak the control Of the interests
'hich control the grain exchanges.
he Capper-Tincher act was "weak,"
G said and it should give way to k,
luch more drastic legislation against W
he grain exchanges. in
The senator voiced his disagree p
ent with President Harding's pro- m
6sal to solve the transportation ca
roblem by compulsory grouping of
le railroads and reiterated his be- tn
eft that the Cummins-Esch law pc
lould be radically amended or re- C.
ealed outright.
He predicted the world court and Sc
le League of Nationsswould cut lit ii,
e figure as issues in the next cleo M