Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
NORTHWEST SURE
To OFFER RADICAL,
OBSERVERS ASSERT
Ford as an Independent, in
. Addition to Straight DEM
ocratic and Republican
Tickets, Seem Certain
By ROBERT I. SMALL
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
Copyright, 1921


third but fourth ticket in thu
presidential race next year was fore
cast in the election of Magnus John
son, of Minnesota, to the United
States senate isis week.
Seasoned politicians here in Wash
ington are looking forward to thu
most chaotic campaign the country
has ever known.
The possibility that the people o
the United States may not be able
to choose their own president ant
that the election of a chief magis
trate may be thrown into congress
becomes more and more of proba
bility as the days go by.
There are even those who say
that congress will be unable to agree
and that Vice President Coolidge
by default, may become in fact the
next president of the United States
The election of Senator Magnus
Johnson as a Farmer-Labor radical
from Minnesota, following the elec
ton last fall of Senator Shipstead
on similar ticket, has made it GER
tain that this radical group will
bring forth a presidential candidate
from the restless northwest.
Aside from the Socialists, the Pro
hibitionists and other minor parties
which persist in putting tickets in
the field every four years despite
the discouragements of dwindline
ballots, the presidential race next
year will be made up as follows:
Straight Republican ticket.
Staight Democratic ticket.
Henry Ford on an Independent
ticket
Bob La Toilette, or some equity
dependable radical, on a Farmer
Labor or protest ticket.
40 Fight Forecast
OF course there is going to be a
fight to reduce the number of major
tickets to two. The hackers of Henry
Ford are going to attempt to cap
ture the Democratic nomination and
the radical group from the north
west VII make bold bid to defeat
= President Harding in the Republic
can convention. 1t is not believed
that either of these two raids will be
successful The spirit of Verdun is
burning brightly in every regular
Republ. can and Democratic breast
and the full force OF the 'organiza
tons is being gathered to throw
back the Ford and La Toilette boom
ers as they come over the top.
The Republican citadel also may
be assailed by Senator Hiram John
son, of California. Senator Johnson
has been in Europe for five months.
1t has been five months of ominous
silence. The senator gets back to
the United States on Tuesday, 1t
is not believed the silence will last
long after that, and it is certain the
international policies of President
Harding are going to be assailed hip
and thigh. This expected attack
upon the president, however, will not
altogether satisfy the Farmer-Labor
radicals of the northwest. They dc
not regard Senator Hiram Johnson
as one of them, and even if he could
wrest the regular Republican Eomi
nation from Mr.. Harding, it is not
likely that such an outcome would
plans.
Ford Backers
The Henry Ford hackers have
come out in the open in a number
of the states this week with asser
tons that if the Detroit automobile
king is denied the nomination Of one
of the old parties, he will positively
run as an Independent. The Ford
organizers rather like the ideas of
an Independent run. They believe
Henry Ford would attract more
votes as an Independent than as the
nominee of a regular party, and
what they crave most is votes for
Henry. They also find comfort in
the recent Minnesota election. They
believe Henry Ford would attract a
large share of the Farmer-Labor
vote because he has as many ideas
pleasing to the multitude as any OF
the Farmer-Labor leaders.
The Republican "Old Guard' are
not at all panic stricken by the re.
suit of the Minnesota election. Nor
or they appalled, at the prospect OF
four contending tickets in the field
next year.
The Old Guard philosophy is not
bad one. They admit they are go
ing to nominate President Harding
and that he III run as q conserva
tive Thss- 2s. that TO oppose Presi
dent Harding the Democrats are Ger
tain to nominate a man of progress
sive if not radical ideas. They do no
believe the Democrats would Oppose
conservative like Harding with g
conservative like Underwood
Therefore, it is figured out that
I1n iY1C Nysa{ 1xye
will be opposed by at least three SO
called progressive or radical groups
In other words. the conservative
strength of the country will be cen
tered on Mr.. Harding, and the pro
= gressive and progressive radical sen
timent will be divided among I REF
or more tickets.
The prospect of this widely divided
opposition to their candidate fills
the G. o. P. leaders with anything
but disndy