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

This expression. uttered by Senator
Capper OF Kansas is believed to voice
the confidence of Republican leaders
in their expe citation Of the choosing
of the presidential ticket at the polls
November 4, and averting the choice
by the Congress. 1t is believed that
the great majority of sentiment in
the country would deplore failure of
the voters to elect through the cleo
toral college as 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 Of 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
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-
ceptlon of the trainers of that instru-
ment. Furthermore. 1t would be sure
to unsettle business and check pros
perity.
In business and industrial circles
all over the land these considerations
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 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"
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The Democratic managers sympa-
thize with William G. McAdoo in his
indisposition necessitating hospital
treatment, but they also feel sorry
for themselves. Mr.. McAdoo was de-
pended upon to steady the railroad
vote and to keep it 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 is 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. it 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 a
generation" because "he is the only
candidate who has come out against
the Kan 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 Klan
in the North and is the klan party in
at least a dozen Northern States.
A strong appeal to the colored
voters is being circulated by the Re-
publican national committee in
statement issued yesterday by James
A. Cobb, former special United States
district attorney and 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.. Cobb's statement declared
that the placing of the Supreme Court
at the mercy of the hostile Congress
would result in the reversal and null
lification 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
LaF'ollette, the candidate of the 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.. LaFollette'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.'' the
statement said. Where would be the
end of vicious legislation affecting
our group at the hands of a hostile
Congress dominated by Southern in
f1uence? Suppose even now if con-
gressmen from the solid South, elected
only by sitting the unrepresented
negro, could pass upon Supreme Court
decisions relating to constitutional
questions. What do you think would
happen to us?"
The German descended voters are
still discussing the recent vote of the
famous Steuben Society to La Toilette.
Herman Wedesweiler, prominent Chi
cago man, recently resigned his posi-
tion as chairman of the big "older
unit of the society,"" explaining his
resignation as protest against the
"arbitrary action of the national Off
GERS in indorsing the Progressive
party and pledging support to it with
out consulting the members" His
vote comes after a similar move in
New York, where Jules Nehring and
Charles H. Pate, members of the
Steuben organiza ton, defied the group
who tried to deliver the German vote
to La Toilette. Mr.. Wedesweiler said ::
Il believe good, hard, sound sense of