Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-04-17
DAKOTAs CHEER
COOLIDGE FORCES
WEAKENING OF RADIcALIsM Is
SEEN BY REPUBLICANS OF
CONSERVATIVE TREND.
By EDWARD 3. CLARK

ngLOn VINO are lOydl To the uOInlHdIlOu
cause of President Coolidge say that
they see in the result in South Dakota,
even though Senator Johnson carried
the state, marked evidence of
strength for the President in a state
where it was not expected to show it.
self so pronouncedly.
Some of the conservative Repub-
licans go further and say that the
results in the two Dakotas show that
today there is a decided weakening
In what has been called radicalism.
The supporters Of the President fur
Their say that he is known as con-
sentative and that the trend Of pro-
gressivism in the Northwest toward
his support shows Enthusiastically that
a part of the country which has been,
as they view it, at sea, is returning to
the anchorage Of conservatism.
Naturally enough, this viewpoint Of
conservative progressivism is not that
of the advance progressiyes in either
the house or the senate, or for that
matter outside of the two bodies.
There isn't the slightest symptom Wis
ible of a desire to return to conSerya-
tive standards in the progressive blocs.
Coolidge Nomination Certain.
So far as the Republican nomination
Is concerned everybody here politician
or otherwise, knows that unless there
is political earthquake or an over
whelming visitation of glacial ice from
the northland Calvin Coolidge is to be
nominated in Cleveland in June. South
Dakota for Johnson or for Coolidge
would have made no difference. There
are nearly 300 Coolidge delegates to
the national convention already chosen.
Before April is gone Rhode Island,
Michigan, Maine, Washington, Wiscon-
sin, New York and Illinois Republicans
will name their delegates to the Cleve-
land convention. Chances are that,
cutting out Wisconsin and perhaps
part of Illinois, all these states will
be represented pretty solidly at Cleve-
| land by Coolidge delegates. When
they have chosen their convention rep
resentatives the President will be only
few delegates short Of the number
necessary to nominate.
Republican party managers here are
surprised, but they won't say so, at
the marked evidence accommodating of
how much stronger than his party Cal
win Coolidge is. The oil Investigations
and such disclosures as have come
from them seem not to have hurt the
administration, while unquestionably
they have hurt the party. There has
been no discolored eye for Calvin Cool
idge, it is said, although some other
ones of prominence in the party are
groggy from punishment.
Conservative Republicans as repre-
scented here have thought for a long
time that the Dakotas and some of
the other northwestern states were
working their way back to a sort Of
progressive conservatism which is as
different from the recent manifested
radicalism as autocracy is from an
archy They do not expect that these
states ever will take kindly to Re-
publican leadership of the reactionary
thought, but they do think or say they
think radicalism soon will be thing
of the past in the states just south
of the Canadian line.
"Farmer Naturally Conservative"
The Republican thought runs this
way:
Several of the states where pro-
gressivism has been almost violent are
virtually solely farming states. Fam
ers are not radical ordinarily. Finan-
ciaI troubles alone led the agricultur-
list into the radical field and now that
radicalism has proved to be no relief
he will countermarch into the field of
constructive conservatism
The strength Of Calvin Coolidge in
North and South Dakota is used by
the Republicans to prove the point
they would make.
There are some Republicans here
who believe the increased strength of
Coolidge and conservatism in the two
Dakotas and the signs that what has
been shown to be true there will be
proved true elsewhere in the West,
may make Robert NJ. LaF'ollette think
hard before he commits himself to the
leadership of a third party. It is pref
tv well understood in Washington that
the Republican platform will be made
as progressive as circumstances admit
and perhaps little more So
Was Daugherty Fairly Treated7
Attorney General Daugherty having
followed Secretary of the Navy DENLY
out Of the cabinet, the. natural ques-
zion in Washington concerns itself
with the effect that this forced de-
parture of Mr.. Daugherty's from the
cabinet will have on the future Of the
Republican party, and more particu-
larly on the future Of Calvin Coolidge.
1t is unquestionably true that few
members of President Cooiidge's- cab
met do not believe the Daugherty res
ignation should have been asked. The
majority of the cabinet, however, I'M.
questionably believes the President
did the proper thing. It was easy
enough on the instant that Daugher-
TVS resignation became known to tell
what Republican opinion would be on
the subject, for this opinion was ex-
messed freely during the two months
that the matter was hanging fire and
this advance opinion also was sharply
split.
There are many Republicans here
who think that. inasmuch as Daugher-