Evening star., 1924-04-16
Politics at Large
BY N. o. MESSENGER


President Coolidge has 4s4 delegates
to the national convention, leaving
only 81 to go, and he viii get those and
others before the end Of this month,
Did any one Ay. 'Tt is all over but the
shouting?
And now they are talking about
having the President drop in on the
convention in person. receive formal
notification of his nomination. deliver
his acceptance speech and start the
campaign on the spot with . whoop
and hurrah
That would certainly put some gin
ger into the campaign and be an
innovation OF sorts -. ...
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Women are to attend the Republican
national convention In numbers, New
York state sending nine delegates.
Rhode Island win send one, woman
delegate, with one man delegate from
each of its thirteen districts.
The women Of Cleveland are organ
izing to set a record of hospitality
and entertainment for the national
convention. s
Daniel Ladd Rockwell, Mr. McAdoos
general campaign manager, writes to
washington, taking issue with the
recent statement of former Repre-
sentative Carlin, Senator Under
woods Washington manager, that
senator Underwood had won Is, out
of the 26 Iowa delegates. He says
that MIR. McAdoo will have 90, the
other going to Gov. Alfred e.
Smith OF New York.
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Democratic politicians noted with
interest the attack of Gov. Neff of
Texas upon Mr.. McAdoo and Senator
Underwood. The governor, who is
Influential in Texas politics, said of
Mr.. McAdoo:
Mr.. McAdoo has made himself un-
available. His own testimony makes
II unthinkable for him to secure the
Democratic nomination" He charac-
terized Senator Underwood as a gen
tieman and statesman of recognized
ability" but said that he is i'm
possible on account of his hostile atti-
tude to prohibition.
Gov. Neff insists that the delegation
shall go to the convention uninstruct-
ed, else they will be like a bunch of
wax figures, or parrots saying the
same words over and over"
McAdoo headquarters in Chicago
are conducting lively campaign and
sending out highly favorable reports
of his progress as the campaign
wakes. They claim that Senator Reed
Is not likely to even appear in the
MISSOURI state convention after his
defeat in the recent primaries.
The loss of Illinois to Mr.. McAdoo
is admitted, but his headquarters
charge it was due to crooked work
at the polls.
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Women will be largely in evidence at
the Democratic national convention
also. Thus far delegates at large and
district delegates have been selected
in Maine, New Hampshire. Porto Rico.
Arizona and Kansas.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New
YORK has been appointed by Chair
man Hull Of the Democratic national
committee chairman of an advisory
committee of women to formulate
planks on social welfare legislation.
which Will be submitted to the plat
form committee of the national con-
vention.
Mrs. Roosevelt will select for the
committee women who are nationally
known as experts in various social
welfare endeavors.
The American Economist. offfcfaI
organ of the old guard, high tariff
protectionists. is respondent over the
outlook for the Republican party next
fall, because, 1t says, the party is
not stiff-necked enough on the tariff.
Indeed. it even apprehends defeat Of
the party.
time says this old guard organ. "the
Republican party is beaten-beaten
not by its enemies, the free traders,
by its own apathy and Indifference.
Its own haif-heartedness. Not since
1900 has the tariff been made the
dominant issue in any Campaign. The
main difference between the two mar
ties is their difference on the tariff.
without the policy of an adequate
tariff in the interest of American la
Dor and capital, there is little to
choose between the Republican and
Democratic parties.
Unless the Republican leaders
doctrine and define the issue of the
campaign, instead Of letting the DEM
ocrats define it, the Republicans may
as well throw up their hands and not
waste time foolishly. There is yet
party, but they cannot do so by
pussy footing The thing, the only
thing, for protectionists to do is to
come right out sQuarely for protec-
ton. to tell the truth about the policy
which has always brought prosperity
to the nation. They must not hesitate
to tell the truth about free trade, and
that truth is that every time the
y~e - - L.
the government the nation has had
hard times, unemployment and suffer-
ing as a direct result Of free-trade
fallacies."
That is the extreme high protection
point of view. It Is not shared by
the Progressive: Republicans, who
think that the tariff is too high al
ready and who advocate lower rates.
OF course it is absolutely rejected
by the Democrats, who are going to
make demand for lower tariff one of
the principal issues of the campaign.
A current statement from the. Demo
cratic national committee has this to
say upon the subject: ~
Demands for reduction of, the tariff
are coming these days from quarters
from. which the authors Of the Ford
least expected them when the law
was being written in 1929. Agricul-
tural publications and thousands of
individual farmers IN the west have
Joined the cry for a revision down
ward as the only sure and permanent
relief that can be given to agriculture
'In many instances the insistence
on a reduction OF the present Re-
publican tariff is founded on the ar
guments which Democratic senators
and representatives urged against its
passage. The Nebraska Union Farm
er. official publication of an impor-
tant agricultural group. is making