Evening star., 1924-10-08
Politics at Large
BY \. o. MESSENGER.

Davis cannot be elected. La Fol.
lette cannot be elected. Coolidge can
be elected"
This expression. uttered by Senator
Capper of Kansas is believed to voice
the confidence Of Republican leaders
In their expectation Of the choosing
OF the presidential ticket at the polls
November 4. and avertinE the choice
by the Congress. 1t Is beieved that
the great majority Of sentiment in
the country would deplore failure of
| the voters to elect through the cleo
| toral college as a national calamity,
however much it is desired by Sena-
tor La Toilette and as alleged by
| some Democrats.
1t is further believed that the at
tention on the country will be fixed
! in increasing degree as November 4
! draws near to the realization of the
possibility of the election going into
| Congress. which will draw thousands
! of votes to the Republican presiden-
| tial ticket
| There is no doubt that the country
| Is paying increasing heed to the pos
| sibilities OF the election going into
| the Congress- The political possibil-
tiles evolved in such an outcome of
| the campaign are serious enough.
They might possibly subvert the pop
ular will of the majority of the voters
| which would be certain to cause great
! discomfort among the people. Such a
! thing the Constitution of the United
: States sought to prevent by throwing
! all the safeguards around a choosing
! OF the President possible In the con-
! ception OF the trainers Of that instru-
ment. Furthermore, il would be cure
! to unscttle business and check pros
! perity.
! In business and industrial circles
all over the land these conside rations
are to be brought to the attention of
the voters in every possible way
through the intervening weeks before
| election day. BY the time the cam
paign is ended hardly a voter in the
land will be in Ignorance of the tre-
! mendous issue involved in their pos
sible failure to register the popular
will at the polls four weeks hence,
and thereby throw the selection Of
President or Vice President into the
| Congress. Senator Capper said "the
situation that the voter faces is Cool
| idge or no election"
] The Democratic managers sympa-
| thiZe with William CT. McAdoo in his
! indisposition necessitating hospital
| treatment, but they also feel sorr'
| for themselves. Mr.. McAdoo was de-
| pended upon to steady the railroad
vote and to keep il from being COB
| bled up by Senator La Toilette. 1t
! il thought unlikely that he will be
strong enough to do any campaign
| ing and Senator La Toilette h going
| hot-foot after the railroad men on
| his present trip from coast to coast.
Mr.. McAdoo is the idol of the railroad
workers and his absence from the
| field, 1T is apprehended. will cause
| the loss Of thousands of Democratic
| votes.
| Senator La Toilette is making a
drive among the negro voters and is
counting upon recruits to his candi-
dacy in the negro vote of Maryland.
West Virginia, New York. Indiana,
Ohio and Illinois, where the negro
| vote Is very heavy. Bishop John
Hurst of the Methodist Episcopal
church. a worker among negro people,
has joined the La Toilette forces
Bishop Hurst in a statement as
serts that the negro has his best
chances with La Toilette. He con-
! tends that the Progressive movement
| "opens the door of hope to the col
! ored Americans as at no time in n
! generation" because ''he lis the only
candidate who has come out against
the klan in words that no one can
! mistake He charges that the
record Of Mr.. Davis party is against
him no matter what Mr.. Davis said.
He charges that the Republicans
! have been taken over by the Khan
/ in the North and is the Klan party In
| at least a dozen Northern States.
! 4 strong appeal to the colored
| voters is being circulated by the Re-
! publican national committee in a
statement issued yesterday by James
I 4. Cobb, former special United states
district attorney and a legal repre-
! sentative of the National Association
| for the Advancement OF Colored Peo.
pie. This statement urges the color
ed citizens TO the defense of the Su-
preme Court as the bulwark of all
the rights that they enjoy and the
freedom that they have attained.
Urging the support Of President Coo
lidge, Mr.. Cobbs statement declared
that the placing of the Supreme Courl
| at tlue mercy Of the hostile Congress
would result in the reversal and null
LITIGATION of the great judicial de-
cisions such as the peonage decision,
the grandfather clause, residential
segregation and other decisions
| which constitute the very founda-
tion of the colored citizens political
and economic freedom" The Cobb
statement says Senator Robert NJ
LaFollette. the Candidate OF tho So
cialists third party, "is advocating
a policy that strikes at our very fun
damentals of government and which
! would lead to strife and chaos as in
evitably as night follows day. What
ever may be Mr.. IAFollette's i'm.
mediate thought in the matter Of his
attack upon the Supreme Court OF
the United States "the evils which
would attend putting OF same into
effect are too entirely evident to be
lightly brushed aside or referred to
as a scare
LAS far as the colored voter is con.
cerned the menace Of such a situation
is particularly threatening" thu
statement said. "Where would be tn,
end of vicious legislation affectins
our group at the hands of hostile
Congress dominated by Southern in
f1uence? suppose even now il con.
gressmen from the solid South, elected
only by sitting the unrepresentet
negro. could pass upon Supreme Cour
decisions relating TO constitutional
questions. What do YOU think woult
happen to us?"
| The German descended voters are
still discussing the recent vote Of tn,
famous Steuben Society to La Toilette
Herman Wedesweiler, prominent Chi
cago man. recently resigned his posi-
ton as chairman Of the big "olde,
unit of the society,"" explaining hi
resignation as protest against tn,
arbitrary action Of the national Off
GERS in indorsing the Progressive
party and pledsing support to it with
out consulting the members" Hi,
vote comes after similar move ir
New York. where Jules Nehring and
f,borla TT Pate roemnere nf tbI