Evening star., 1924-08-30

Three issues of the campaign-the 9
progressive movement headed by
Robert N. La Toilette, the world
court, and the League of Nations
are dealt with by Gen. Charles G.
Dawes in accepting the Republican
nomination for Vice President. with
characteristic directness and clarity
they are treated, according to the
Seattle Daily Times independent Re-
publican). And other issues are prom
ised full discussion during the coming
months.
That the issue is drawn clearly
between Repubiicanism and La Fol-
letism is the most important conten-
ton of the vice presidential can
didate," the Democratic party being
''interposed between two armies of
progressive conservatism and Of rad
icalism." the Cleveland Plain Dealer
independent Democratic) points out
and adds. "a startling feature Of the
speech Is the frank admission that the
result of the La Toilette candidacy may
be to deadlock the contest and make
Organism succeed the Coolidge policy"
When Gen. Dawes "centered much of
his fire on La Toilette" he was do
ing real service in recalling that
red flag message" the Birmingham
News independent Democratic) main
tains, for ''most people did not see it,
perhaps, and did not know that over the
bunch Of political mongrels backing La
Toilette floated the banner of anarchy"
Considering Gen. Dawes declaration
Of the ''unimportance of the Democratic
party" in connection with his state
ment that this is a campaign Of brass
tacks-not lambast," the Baltimore Sun
independently remarks, This may not
be precisely bombast-though it is
something akin thereto-but it is GER
tainly not brass tacks." But opposed
to this opinion is the Republican as
sertion, through the Kansas City Jour-
nal, that the declaration that the cam
paign Is between radicalism and Re-
publicanism' has been "instantly ap-
preciated by Republicans. radicals and
Democrats alike" and 'the Democratic
ticket has been virtually waived in view
Of its own negative character and the
two positive but diametrically opposed
viewpoints of the real character con-
tenders"
The press does not deny that Gen.
Dawes great claim to fame lies in
his conception of the solution for for
eign problems embodied in the Dawes
plan. But the Democratic papers,
among them the Great Falls Tribune,
voice amazement that although. ''at the
time Of Dawes appointment the Presi-
dent sent out from the White House
a statement that he had no official con-
nection with our Government at all.
still Gen. Dawes now seeks to carry
the impression that the Republican ad-
ministration should be credited with
the results Of the investigation that now
bears his name" AS the New York
World independent Democratic) puts it.,
when Gen. Dawes leaps from a Re-
publican approval of a cry Of distress
to the boast that Republican admins
tration has saved Europe, he is accom-
plishing one of the longest jumps on
record and one that hurdles facts"
Typical Of the view of the inde-
pendent papers is that of the Lincoln
Star, which sympathizes "how it must
have wrenched Charley Dawes to
place his approval on the 'do-nothing'
policy of Calvin Coolidge" and to ad-
vance 1.-The amazing proposition that
President Coolidge and Mr.. Hughes
are entitled to some credit for the
now settled reparations program"
For, as the Chicago Daily News Qn-
dependent) holds, "Mr. Dawes is no
timid isolationist."
But, the Illinois State Journal Gre
publican) explains, "Mr. Dawes ex-
presses the opinion that had his COM
mission been an official body or If the
President and Secretary of State had
taken the attitude that such commits
sion should be official, Europe might
not today be facing away from the
chaos and hatred of war;
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That only three issues of the cam
paigh were treated in the speech Is
the complaint of the Lynchburg News
(Democratic). which feels that. like
Coolidge, Mr.. Dawes is apparently dis
posed to dismiss the indictments
against Fall" and "the evident in
lcination of Coolidge to discredit at
tempts at investigation into the con-
duct Of guilty men connected with his
administration as trifles light as air"
The Milwaukee Journal Independently
regards 1.-The phrases that come from
his tongue as those of the ordinary
politician, willing to ignore funda-
mental ills in government for the
sake of winning an election" But.
among Republican papers, the New
York Herald-Tribune believes that
both Coolidge and Dawes hold fast
to the best Of the past and have open