Evening star., 1924-06-03
COOLIDGE COURTS
WESTERN VOTERS
Leadership in Convention, at Presi-
dents Behest, Taken From
Eastern Men.
NEW ENGLAND IS OPPOSED
Resentment Grows at Number OF
Plums Falling That Way.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

By FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
The Republican West will be in the
saddle at Cleveland. 1t will be there
at the behest of New Engand's IA
yorite son, Calvin Coolidge. At the
Presidents instigation, virtually
every important post at the national
convention will be in the hands of
man remote from Massachusetts.
There's method in that strategy. The
keynote will be struck by an Ohioah
Representative Theodore f. Burton.
The platform committe will be headed
by Ambassador Chalres B. Warren of
Michigan.
Mr.. Coolidge will be placed in NOM
ination by Dr. Marion Leroy Burton,
native of Iowa and president OF the
University of Michigan. The perma-
nent chairman of the convention VIII De
Frank H. Mondell of Wyoming. Finally.
the vice presidential nomination VIII
be bestowed, with Coolidge's bless
ing. if not at his direction, upon some
man from the great open spaces in
the Mississippi Valley or from points
west.
VIII Favor West.
In other words. by every means
at the Presidents command the Cool
-dEe steam rOlleT al SlcNelduo - ~
he fabricated with western grease
Nobody, as far as externals are con-
cerned, is to be in position to say
that New England ruled the roost at
the convention which will glorffy the
silent man from Massachusetts,. The
Coolidge high command is frankly
actuated by a determination to leave
no stone unturned to ''cultivate' the
western country. 1t knows the dlS-
affection there.
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tations have not been approximately
realized. 1t particularly is conscious
of the animosity existent all through
the rural regions to to the New mo,sias Eng
else to convince the Republican lead
ership of that. the La Toilette
strength all through the agricultural
sections of the west and northwest
journal of Philadelphia has continued
its farmer straw vote up to the
threshold of the Cleveland conven-
tion. 1t shows the Wisconsin senator
Coolidge in the states canvassed, and
shows him with a tremendous vote,
far ahead of his nearest rival, Nc
Adoo, in apparent popular favor.
Republican managers no longer
make any secret of their respect for.
not to say fear of, the la Toilette
movement" They recognize it now
to be the real thing. 1t has ceased
d
dition. They have decided that the
wisest thing for them to do at Cleve-
land. whether it turns out to be
effective or not, is to give the west
representation in the deliberations
which are to end in the Presidents
nomination.
New England Opposed.
When the writer was in the west
last summer. camping on the trail OF
President Harding and touring some
of the states he visited and others to
Dakotas, Minnesota. Nebraska and
Iowa, it was manifest everywhere
that New England" was in bad
odor with the soil-tilling community.
big plums at Washington that had
dropped into New England laps.
That was on the eve of the fall of
the biggest plum Of all--the presi-
land lap. There was much bitter
talk, too, of the New England
made Fordney tariff. even though
former Senator Porter j. McCumber
of North Dakota was Representative
Fordney's coadjutor in the framing
of that measure.
OF course, the farming west is much
too canny a community to be satisfied
with the stone of convention sops at
Cleveland instead OF the bread of real
benefits like farm relief legislation.
the grant of Muscle Shoals to Henry
Ford, the reNam OF the ESch- Cum
minis law. amendment Of the federal
reserve act and the other issues that
are considered paramount in rural
estimation. But the Coolidge con-
tingent is going to make bold ges-
lures toward tho sections in which
the sun sets, just the same. Hence
the two Burtons, hence Warren.
hence a Lowden or other western vice
presidential nomination, and hence
good many things at Cleveland
which will turn out to have sprung
from the same root cause.
During the campaign the western
note will be loud-pedaled. too. The
quarters, to that end, is likely to be
pitched at Chicago, with western men
like Good of Iowa in strategic posi-
tions of control.
(Copyright. 1924