The Washington times., 1923-10-03
FINDS COOLIDGE
STRQ|VGIN new
EN|BL. AND
President Has Votes to Save
Eastern States for g. o. r,
Observer Declares.
BY WILLIAM HARD.

NEW LONDON, Conn, Oct. 8.
The personality and popularity
of Calvin Coolidge will be an al
most essential part Of the task
of holding New England solidIy
loyal to the Republican party in
next years national campaign.
That is the conclusion which iii
accumulatingly impressed upon
the observer who travels through
the New England States and who
without prepossession notes the
character and development Of the
local struggles between the two.
MAJOR political party organixa-
tons.
Passing Through Crisis.
In many parts Of the country Ii
seems to be supposed that New
England is somehow like Pennsyl-
vania and that any Republican can
carry the whole of It without diff
Guilty. This assumption Is emphati.
eally without foundation. New Eng
land is passing through great fun
damentRl industrial and social crisis
and transformation and In four az its.
six States In moving into an are
when politically Il will stand on the.
end Of q knife Republican and Demo
cratic preferences ana tendencies.
The New England railroads, which
were powerful conservative Renubli.s
can influences, are today for the
most financially broken and politi-
cally poWeriess
The New England manufacturers !.
who used To be counted upon to be
hOle-neartedly In favor OF truly Re
publican tariffs, have many of them.
Increasingly turned toward the doc
trine Of free raw materials and
have been detected giving encourage
ment and support to- Democratic
critics of the Republican tariff policy 4
The trend of Industrial events III
New England ig therefore against
the Republicans. and so Is the tend
OF social and religious events.
Socially the larger families or the
immigrants are sWamping the small
Ter families Of the Yankees.
ReligfOusIy the Catholics are gain
ing upon the Profestants. The cons
sequences are seen spectacularly III
Rhode Island, which is New Eng
lands most compactIy developed IN
dustrial community ana which Il d
prophecy accordingly Of the future
pf the whole New England's south
eFn and cents.al districtS
Rhode Island IN Example.
The governor Of Rhode island. the
lieutenant governor, the attorney
general. the State treasurer. are
Democrats. The only reason the ma
t0rity in the State legislature is Re-
publican Is that Rhode Island still
cllngs In its constitution to the so
called rotten borough" provisions
which gives to little country towns
representation out OF All proportion
70 the number Of their Inhabitants. |
Inc mayor of Providence, the |
capital OF Rhode Island and the |
second largest city in New England, |
- Democrat; and sthe only way
the Republicans today can manage
10 Keep majority In the city
council and in the board of alder |
men OF Providence is through main
tanning the oId-time property quail.
ncation for voting for the members
Of those bodies.
Rhode Island is q pin prick on
the map. but in national votiMg
electoral strength ii is precisely as
large as North Dakota which fills
20 much space on the map and
which fills so much space also in DO.
Itical calculations and conjectures.
Rhode Island today, II it were or
ganized politically as virtually all
other American States are Organized.
without the so-called rotten Dor.
Oughs" and without property voting
qualifications. would be dominated
by the Democratic party not only
in the major executive offices, as
now, but also and additionally in
all the major legislative bodies.
Turns to Coolidge.
Vermont md Maine. among the
New England States, are most
exempt from this Democratic
New Hampshire,
Massachusetts. Rhode Island, and
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