Evening star., 1923-07-14
Wyoming Rated Doubtfulml924
In Check Up of Harding's Visit
Farm Depression Still Makes State Res.
tiue, Investigator FHuds.-Mc4doo
Democratic Choice.

present indications are deceptive, the
Teapot Dome affair is going to cause
the republican party trouble in 1924.
1t may even rise up to both-r so IN
vulnerable a candidate as Senator
Warren, who generally is regarded
unbeatable in the state in which he
arrived poor lad nearly sixty years
ago and which has honored him time
and again with every Office in it's gift.
Admits Serious Situation.
Mr.. Warren comedies that conditions
in many directions are Serious" for
the G. o. p. though he radiates con-
fidence that the Harding visitation
has done wonders in rehabilitating
q. o. p. fortunes. Wyoming ranks as
the fifth oil-producing state in Amer
lea. Salt Creek field, which adjoins
Teapot Dome, is the worlds biggest
gusher, so it's averred hereabouts.
casper. where genial pat" Sullivan.
resides with his family of beautiful
girls. is the largest and liveliest city
in Wyoming.
1t is mainly the job of Pat" a
warm friend of President Harding. to
keep Wyoming safe for the q. .. T. in
1924.
Wyoming's great coal producing
state. too. The United Mine Workers
are very strongly organized. They
are nursing grievances in connection
friendly to the Harding administra-
ton. They came down hard on
Frank w. Mondell last November.
feeling that the man who had rep
resented Wyoming in Congress for
sixteen years had not espoused the
cause of his states mining classes
with that devotion they thought they
had Il right to expect.
RaiI Injunction Cited.
Wyoming, being realm of mag
nificent distances. is full of railroad
divisional headquarters and railway
shops. 1T was vital1y Interested in
last years bitter shopmens strike.
and took due umbrage at the Daugh-
erty injunction. The coal turmoil
and the shopmen's strike will hardly
be forgotten by 1924, and the G.. o. i.
is likely to hear unpleasantly from
both of them.
Men tell the writer that Mr. Hard
ing would have done we'll not to con-
fine himself in Wyoming, as he large
ly' did. to discussion of the admins
tration's coal policy, but to have de-
voted himself to some extent to world
court talk. Wyomingites are not few
erishly excited about international
affairs, though vaguely they've the
feeling that the quicker things can be
Strengthened out in Europe, the soon
err. somehow. this western agricul-
tural country will revive.
out here, and many people are anxi-
Gus for American adhesion to any
scheme. world court or otherwise
that will make war less probable and
reopen world markets to the farm
produce of the United States.
McAdoo Has Friends.
Mr.. McAdoo is the only democrat
talked about in Wyoming anent 1924.
The plainsmen like him because he's
dry. because he has so strong q
record in favor of organized labor.
rail labor in particular. and because
they have come to look upon him as
Westerner. McAdoo's hold on west
ern delegations appears to be secure
and unbreaka BILE.
1t is astonishing to find the uni
versatility of McAdoo talk TO the vir-
tual exclusion of any other democratic
aspirant. Ford talk, of course, is en-
countered, but in Wyoming is heard
most frequently in terms of ridicule
saturated with contempt. If Harding
the leading parties, the Ford vote"
in Wyoming will not be vital fac
tor.
1t would be a CHEEKY optimist who
today would say that Mr.. Harding
would defeat Woodrow Wilson's som
in-law. The sands, by all the common
signs, are distinctly running the other
way. That can be chronicled without
minimizing by an iota the unquestion-
ably pleasant personal impression
made by one of the most lovable
characters who ever was President of
the United States, when he invaded
this land of distress three weeks ago.
Copyright, 1927