The Washington times., 1924-06-09
c. D. P, RACKED
BY WEST VS..
EAST WAR
Cleveland Hears New Threats
lmpend Unless Farmer Is
ConciIiated
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the House of Representatives at
Washington, has opened headquart.
ers here for the nomination for
vice president and offers himself as
the soution for the problem.
He is the only vice presidential
candidate who Is outrightly and Wig
orously in the field. His friends are
visiting all the delegations from all
the other States and have made
some Roadway for him even in the
delegation from Massachusetts,.
Other Westefners, including some
from the Iowa delegation itself, are
laboring fervently for William s..
Kenyon, formerly United States
Senator and first founding fore
father Of the whole farm bloc idea
in Congress.
One Of Kenyon's most Intense
personal enemies from Iowa said to
this writer today:
IT dtest Kenyon. hate him.
You know always have detested
and hated him. But he-or some
man thoroughly like him-on the
ticket with Coolidge is now the only
way In which certain whoe States
in the West can be saved from go.
ing Democratic or from going for
La Toilette. The nomination Of
Kenyon for Vice President would
break and destroy the La Toilette
movement out my way. Oh, now
hate Kenyon! but, oh, how hate
La Toilette more!'
Attitude Is Typical.
That speech was a faithful pre-
sentiment Of the feelings entertained
by large numbers. Of Western dele
gates in this convention today.
They are just as much for Coolidge
as any Of the Eastern delegates are.
They are just as Republican as any
Of the Eastern delegates are. They
claim, however, that they under
stand the diseases Of their section
ana that they know the only recipe
for curing those diseases and for
restoring the patient to sound
health and to assured Repub-
hcanism this fall.
They claim dominantly that
Lowden, Of Illinois, would not be a
sufficiently drastic remedy. Will
liam M. Butler, President Coolidge's
personal campaign manager, has
committed himself to seeing favor.
able prospects for Lowden in the
matter Of the Vice Presidential
nomination. The Western delegates
doninantly are admirers of Lowden
personally, but often regard him
only as soothing syrup. They
numerously claim that what is
needed Is q mustard plaster, and
they are convinced that in order to
| get mustard it will be necessary to
take somebody like Dickinson, Of
Iowa, or Kenyon, Of Iowa, or Borah
Of Idaho-or the like.
New Outbreak Reported.
A certain new force was lent to
their contentious today when
George C. Jewett, head of the Ma
tional Wheat Growers Association
which sells more wheat by far than
any other one organization in the
country, arrived and brought It'd
ings of large meeting Of agricul
tural interests to be held In Mime
apolis next week to consider what
sort of political revenge should be
taken upon politicians and upor
political parties guilty of defeating
the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief
bill and guilty also of other acts
which they regard as agricultural
high crimes and misdemeanors.
This prospective meeting in Mime
apolis, u appears, Is quite differ
ent affa1% from the radical third
party convention which La Toilette
denounced and which simultaneously
will be holding its sessions in St
| Paul.
This new outbreak OF the agricul
tural volcano in the West Will rep
resent conservative and propertied
and monied agricultural elements.
1t will be attended, for instance
by 8. X. Thompson, president Of
the Farm Bureau Federation OF
Illinois, and by Frank Murphy
legislative representative of the
Farm Bureau Federation Of Mime
sofa, the farm bureau being one OF
the conservative wings of the or
ganized agricultural movement.
1t will also be attended by Brown
OF Indiana, and by Skies, of Iowa
president and vice president re.
spectively of the National Livestock
Association, which sells more than
$40, 100000 worth Of livestock an.
nually.
These interests are conservative
propertted interests, but they are
represented here as being ready to
take any political action necessary
In order to persuade or compel the
East to DO what they call sharing