Evening star., 1924-06-13
LOSS OF FARM VOTE
FOR G. O. P, IS SEEN
La Toilette Group Holds Party
Failed in Platform and Also
in Selecting Dawes.
UNRUFFLED BY RECEPTION
Says All, Purposes of Attending
Sessions Were Fulfilled.
UNRUFFLED BY RECEPTION
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 1s.-
They muffed the ball every time it
was PASSED to them"
This was the terse comment of
Robert NJ. La Toilette. jr., member
OF the Wisconsin delegation, upon
the manner in which the regular
wing of the party had handled the
issues of the Republican national
convention. following adjournment
of the convention
Members of the Wisconsin deIega-
ton consider that the Republicans
have failed in their platform, and
that the selection of Gen. Charles G.
Dawes as their vice presidential can
didate has shut them off from any
appeal to the agricultural states of
the west.
Not Ruined by Reception.
The delegates from the Badger
State were by no means ruff1ed by
the reception which the delegation
received at the hands of the ma
tional convention. They came to
Cleveland for a purpose, and they
stuck to that purpose. They pre-
sented their platform as a minority
report of the resolutions committee,
and got it a hearing in the conven-
ton. This was all they expected to
do. They registered their protest
Coolidge and the various vice
presidential candidates put forward
by the regular Republicans, by vot-
ing for Senator Robert M. La Toilette
for President, and for Senator George
W. Norris of Nebraska and Senator
Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa. both
members of the radical group in the
Senate, for Vice President.
From the view Of the Wisconsin
delegation. which desires the election
and the further increase of the pro-
gressfve or radical group in both
houses of Congress, the nominations
made by the national convention yes
terday were eminently satisfactory.
1t is their opinion that the Coolidge
Dawes ticket will add to the total of
the vote cast for La Toilette should
he run for the presidency on a third
ticket, and, in any event, to the
strength of the progressives who will
offer for Congress in November.
For Conservatism.
The selection of this ticket and the
platform adopted, in the opinion of
the Wisconsin Progressives, indicates
clearly that the regular Republicans
have determined to make a clear-cut
campaign for conservative ideas and
principles and against the Progress
sive proposals advanced by the Wis
consin delegates in their platform.
The defeat of Judge William S.
Kenyon of Iowa, a recognized Pro-
gressive, though always regular in
his party affiliations, was due, they
say. to a combination of eastern con-
servatives. The old guard was in the
saddle when Kenyon twas turned
down, they insist.
Nor were the La Toilette supporters
sorry to see Judge Kenyon's nomi-
nation defeated. His selection as the
running mate for Calvin Coolidge
might have been effective in giving
the ticket a progressive tinge, with
out, in their opinion, making it really
progressive. A Vice President, no
matter how progressive, would have
but little chance to advance his
theories of government in that Office.
it is pointed out. But. nevertheless.
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