Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-02
CALF ORN|A WILL
SCQRNL FOL. LE:TTE,
LAWRENCE: ASSERTS
BY DAVID LAWRENCE,
Especial Leased Wire to The JOurnal-Cop
rinht 1921

Especial Leased Wire to The JOurnal-Copy-
right, 1921
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 90
California is not as close a state as
the various polls and straw votes
being taken would seem to indicate.
Having investigated the situation
in northern California, where I'M
uuestionably Senator La Toilette has
his greatest strength, the writer
came away with the impression that
the Wisconsin leader would perhaps
carry the bay counties by a narrow
vote, but if that turns out to be true
Mr.. La Toilette will be showed UNI
der just the same by the unusually
heavy vote to be given President
Coolidge this year in southern Cali
fornia.
The race is between Coolidge and
La Toilette with Davis third. Little
i 5 heard about the Democratic ticket.
Had HcAdoo been nominated there
might have been a different story to
tell, for this state was strong for
McAdoo Are the Democratic votes
going to La Toilette? Undoubtedly
many thousands will support the
Third party ticket, but President
Coolidge will get a host of what
might otherwise be Democratic
votes.
The Democratic nominee is always
we'll spoken of but he does not seem
to have any vote-getting strength in
this section President Coolidge, OR
the other hand is held in southern
~ 10 in oil az Y111Ich re raj
as he is in Maine. 1t will be re
called that even when President
Hardings popularity began to Wane
in the east he could count on Cali
fornia.
! Points Primary Vote
This state, of course, is prepon
derantly Republican but in the last
two years it also has been growing
conservative. California, for instance,
gave President Coolidge a majority
of so 900 votes over it's own faVorite
son in the presidential primaries this
year. A state which will do that
can hardly be counted as easy for
La Toilette or even tending in his
direction.
Without endeavoring to explain
some Of the polls that are being
made, it is a strange aspect for the
whole thing that not a single man
whose judgment on political affairs
in past years has always been found
by the writer to be accurate, so far
as California is concerned, is say
ing this time that La Toilette will
carry the state. They all say just
the opposite and some go so far as
to indicate that President Coolidge
may run as high as 100 600 majority
in California.
La Follette's strength in certain
sections of the state may be con-
coded, but any one who knows Cali
fornia will recognize at once that
what the northern part of the state
may do can easily be counterbal-
anced by the south.
From this it should not be in
ferred that the writer believes La
Toilette will sweep northern Cali
fornia. What seems probable is
that the Wisconsin leader will run
neck and neck with President Cool
idge in and around St. Francisco.
This, however, isn't a strong posi-
ton for any one who is trying to
carry the electoral votes of the
state, and as for southern Califor-
mia, La Toilette hasn't chance.
The vote that will be rolled up from
this section on election day will be
amazing
La Toilette estate Enemy"
There are a dozen reason for the
strength of President Coolidge in
this region, but there are many more
reasons why La Toilette is weak
For one thing, a campaign has been
begun which paints La Toilette as
an enemy of California. A member
of congress has looked back into the
record and found that Senator La
Toilette voted against every one of
the tariff schedules in which Cali
fOrnia was interested. That makes
the battle against La Toilette very
concrete. For even the redoubtable
Hiram Johnson, in his most progress
sive hours. never dared to turn down
California on certain of her native
products and industries.
La Toilette, of course, is not with
out strong and influential support
ers. The Heart papers are favoring
him above all other candidates. Ru-
doIph Spreckles. of San Francisco,
is helping to finance the La Toilette
campaign. Some of the newspapers
which are closest TO Hiram Johnson
are shouting for La Toilette. He is
running on the Socialist ticket. so
organized labor is making a good
deal of noise about its advocacy of
the old man from Wisconsin.
But taken all together the vote of
California; will be a conservative ma
jority and President Coolidge will
get it just as John W. Davis would
set it if he had been president seek
ing another term. The outstanding
characteristic of the electorate is
that there is no CRY for change.
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