Evening star., 1924-06-15
VEST WILL ACCEPT COOLIDGE,
BUT IGNORE G.. O. p PLATFORM
Agricultural States Certain to Continue Sending
More or Less Radical Senators, Says
William Allen Whie.

think their constituents desire them
to vote Moreover, there Is no way
to keep these western congressman
from organizing outside OF the Re
publican party to get things done IN
Congress which will please their con-
stituents Posting funny trespass no
rices against cyclones in Republican
platforms will be futile no matter
how respectable it may look, and how
safe the trespass notice may read.
To those Republicans who are igno-
rant of the deepseated feeling of the
western Republicans against eastern
party control, perhaps this opinion
will come as news. or course, there
are many Republicans out west who
agree with the present leadership OF
the party They are the types that
belong to the organization, and at
tend conventions but the voting ls
done by majorities who are opposed
to the domination OF conservatives.
In every state west OF the Missi ssippi
large groups Of Republicans will pay
not the slightest heed to the anti.
bloc plank OF the platform. and Will
go right ahead electing mon to Con-
gress who will vote for the things
which the western Republicans de-
nland Much good 1t will do to make
Spoots at them in the platform. The
trouble with making snoots at the
unless you have a gun IT only spolls
your face.
VIII Continue Tnctics.
Capper Brookhart. Norris. Borah.
La Toilette, Iadd and all missouri
valley Republicans who voted with
the Democrats when they felt like 1t
will keep right on doing II. For aftSr
all. to put IL upon its lowest ternis
that is how they hold their JOBS IN
addition to which consideration, thSy
and a majority of their constituents
believe that these votes were properly
ir{n n
believes these things for which the
men in the various blocs stand for.
They actually think they are right
and so long as this is free coun-
try. and 50 long as the rlght OF rree
discussion holds in the country, about
the only way to stop these bloc sena-
tors and congressman from voting
outside the party caucus. is to come
out and talk to the people. convince
them that they are wrong. But it is
sumo that the men who have voted
in line with the common BELIEF out
west should be read out of the party.
That will achieve nothing.
The West will not surrender. II VIII
smile tolerantly at the plug hat talk
of the platform and continue To vote
the Republican ticket, sending men
to Congress who will go their own
way. The West feels that il has the
same right TO its brand OF Repub-
lieve in the Democrats and sees no
hope of a third party. 1t feels that
the fighting is too good inside the Re-
publican party and results too easily
obtained TO go voting the Democratlc
ticket or organizing a third party
The candidacy of Coolidge pleases the
West 1t believes in him. 1t knows
he will not surrender TO the lofces
that overwhelmed Harding. The West.
being Yankee by inheritance. hikes
Coolidge's Yankee ways of thrift and
outstanding honesty and cautious out
unyielding courage; 80 IL VIII .ooe
for him and send him the same lot OF
insurgent Congressman which Will
make his congressional leadership as
futile as it has been. The West Is
perfectly willing to leave the execu-
tive branch of the government IN
is not going to surrender for one mo-
ment its hold upon the Congress. The
election of Coolidge and Dawes may
insure an honest administration OF
public affairs. But all the futile plug
hat platforms in the world will not
change the character or the western
Republicans, nor affect their belief in
what they feel is their best interests
in legislation.
They may care to elect con-
gressional delegation of Republicans
lust as free as the West and as rad
ical as the West may care to be at
the moment. AS a matter of fact the
West is not particularly radical just
now But 1t chershes its right to be
radical and still be Republican. And
that is why il can easily accept Cool
idge and Dawes and return Brook
hart, Borah. Capper. La Toilette and
the members of the farm bloc, no
matter how the national platform
rails at these things.
(Copyright, 1924. by the Bell Syndicate. Incl