The Washington times., 1923-10-20
PRESIDENT
USES Old
TACTICS
Coolidge Allowing Pinchot to
Heat Iron Which He Is to
Strike, Says Hard.
By WILLIAM HARD.

The underneath politics OF To-
days governors conference here,
on the Republican side, is reveal
ing two chief lines as follows:
1. The Republican party is
moving toward setting itself up
as the special foe of liquor and
the special friend Of prohibition
in a great drive for the great
drifting independent" woman
vote of 1924.
2. President Coolidge is on his
way toward doing all over again
politically precisely what he did
rs governor of Massachusetts, in
the Boston police strike.
Democratic Bid for Votes.
Republican leaders here have been
quite uneasy on the subject Of the
feminine vote because OF the &C.
tivity of the Democrats in setting
themselves up as the special foes
of war and the special friends Of
peace. This is thought to have
proved attractive to many of the
members Of many widespread and
influential women's organizatio -.
In fact, from the. Republican
standpoint, the leadership OF several
such organizations is thought to
have gone Democratic. These or
ganizations have sometimes given
themselves dominantly to two en-
deavors. They have advocated and
popularized the idea of woman's
Influence in its policies and they
have given unending publicity to
each successive project in Inter
national cooperative organization
Tor peace. =
They thus today. as this geVer-
nors' conference is meeting, are
causing many Republican leaders
the severest anxiety. These lead
ers realize that on the point OF
international cooperation" they
cannot really successfully compete
with their Democratic rivals. They
realize that their party Is far too
closely tied to the irreconcilable and
Afsolationist element to be able to
make any really convincongly COM
plete gestures toward intimate. Eco
operations" with the countries on
the other side of the Atlantic.
Hope Lies In Prohibition.
They therefore have to angle for
the independent women vote, with
some other bait. They are going
70 find it in prohibition.
A few Republican governors In
today's conference are wet, or, at
any rate, moist. They will all,
whether wet or moist be overborne
firmly in the end in the national
councils of their party If present
tendencies continue.
The dominant Republican opinion
a. that women are even more
against liquor than against war.
Attracted as they may be toward
q party which calls itself especially
antiwar, they will be still more
attracted, it Is argued toward
party calling itself especially anti
liquor.
The Democratic party, it is
claimed by the Republicans cannot
successfully, after it's repeal Of the
New York extra dry law, make it.
self out to be an extra dry organi-
ration. That opportunity is safely
reserved, ii is claimed for the Re-
UuD1C4n party anu the 1ScpuOIACdA
party will grasp it.
The independent woman voters
will accordingly see on the one
side a party I'VE especially will
save your sons from war" and on
the other side a party saying I'VE
especially will save your sons from
the bootleggers" to perfect peace"
the Republicans answer will be
perfect prohibition"
Bone Dry Woman Vote.
Underneath all the criss crossings
on the surface of today's conference
the basic Republican current is to-
wards the bone dry woman vote.
Meanwhile the President is
thought by his closest observers to
be engaged in a straight away
imitation of himself out of his Bos-
ton police strike days
1t is remembered that in those
days for a long time the only things
done against the strike were by
the police commissioner and by
the Mayor of Boston. They did all
the negotiating and all the inter
Vening, all the taking of strong
arm possession and all the organic
Ing Of substitute volunteer police
men and, in fact, all the calling
out Of the militia for quite a while.
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