Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-05
LA Toilette GUNS
LEVEL.E:D MAINLY
At C. D. P. TICKET
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
Copyright. 1924, Ivy the Consolidated Pres
ASsocia tion-Special Leased Wire
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BY ROBERI i. SMALL
Copyright. 1924, hy the Consolidated Press
Associa tion-Special Leased Wire
to The Atlanta Journal)
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-PolitTcal
skirmishes are growing more fire.
ouent as the time for the real clash
for the forces approaches. In a lit
tie more than ten days now the bat
tie lines will be drawn. The Demo-
Gratis will have launched their main
attack upon the Republicans and
the latter will have countered with
their biggest gun.
The Democratic shock troops will
be led by John w. Davis, who al
ready is mobilizing the rhetorical re
serves he will throw at the enemy
on August II at his old home town
of Clarksburg.
Republicans holding the govern
mental trenches at Washington Will
stand fast and true to Calvin CooI'
idse, whose counter assault Will be
delivered in the capitol on August IA.
The third party 'Progressives' al
ready are out in No Mans Land,
ready to fraterniZe With the soldiers
of both old parties and to welcome
all the "deserters" to their standard.
The progressives might be called the
"sappers and miners" of the coming
campaign. They hope to set off a
few bombs under both of the old
camps In fact, they figure they
already have done so. Senator La
Toilette expects to furnish the coun-
try with at least one sensation
week and his blows will all be di-
rected as special interests which
he claims are really the generals in
command of both Republican and
Democratic armies.
Will Fight Republicans
Senator La Toilette promises to
/ fight both sides indiscriminately, but
persons who have talked with him
recently have received the impress
sion that his guns are to be aimed
principally at the Republicans. Hav-
ing dwelt more or less in the Re-
publican household, the senior sen
ator from Wisconsin probably feels
he knows the weak spots of the G..
0. P. a little better than he does the
Democrats.
The Democrats rapidly are per-
fecting their campaign much. Glenn
Shaver is functioning as national
chairman, although he will not Off
cially be elevated to that position
until the national committee meets
at the Davis notification ceremo-
MES. There is to be a better organ
ization than the Democrats have had
in twelve long years: Many of the
men who were strongest in support
of William Gibbs McAdoo for the
nomination have forgotten conven-
ton differences and are to have an
active part in the Davis campaign.
Four years ago, when Mr.. McAdooN
failed Of the nomination, his friends
largely held aloof. There is a diff
ferent spirit this year, despite the
fact that the contest in Madison
Square fGarden was far more bitter
than the one at San Francisco in
1920.
All of the warning elements of the
Democracy appear to be getting to-
gether and the Republicans no Ion
ger are making light of the attack
they have got to meet from the
avis-Bryan combina ton.
Butler a Second Hays
Chairman Butler, of the Repuh-
lican national committee, is proving
an indefatigable worker. He is fit
ting about the country with almost
the same speed and dexterity that
VIII Hays was showing four years
ago. Mr.. Butler himself has said
that he does not expect to do much
sitting down between now and the
first Tuesday in November. He
makes overnight jumps by the fast
est trains between New York and
Chicago, Washington and Chicago
and Boston and Chicago, and he eX-
poets that to constitute the main
portion of his itinerary throughout
the campaign.
Mr.. Butler has been through much
the same task that confronted Glenn
Shaver, of the Democrats. The Re
publican national organization viz
tually was made over at Cleveland.
and new hands have had to be
broken in all along the line. OF fine
organizing ability, Chairman Butler
mas attacked his work with evident
relish, and has found time between
jobs to level a number of broadsides
at the Democrats and Progressives
The followers of Mr.. La Toilette
are having the time of their lives.
They feel they have thrown a real
scare into both of the old parties
and have them Quarreling as to
which side is to lose the greatest
number of votes to the invaders.
The Independents thus are waxing
fat upon the publicity the old party
leaders are giving them. When an
astute politician like Senator Jim
Watson opines that the Progressives
may carry Eight or nine states it
is pretty good evidence that the
storm is going TO be more severe
than the old line managers were