Evening star., 1924-10-01
La Toilette Offers Greatest
Threat to Republicans.
Davis Poor Third.
BOTH SIDES CONFIDENT
OF ULTIMATE VICTORY
Democrats Appear Content to Let
Independents Fight for
States Seven Votes.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

stan Correspondent of The Star
SEATTLE, October Now you see
! 1t; now you don't. The political sit
| uation in this State is still crystal
/ lizing- The leaders of the parties say
confidently they will win. While the
echo of the boast still hangs in the
air. they admit that they are not sure
! what is going to happen.
| One thing is admitted by the Re
publiCans and the La Toilette lead
ers-not only admitted but conf
! IDENTIFY asserted 1t is that John
| w. Davis the Democratic nominee for
the presidency. is out of the running.
The Democratic leaders do not admit
! this directly. but they say: La Fol-
! lette VIII carry the State"
This expression of belief on the
part OF the Democrats. however. may
be largely due to their hopes They
would much prefer to see La Toilette
/ win the seven electoral votes of
Washington than see them go to
! Coolidge. Again. in the back of their
| heads Is the thought that if the
election of Chief Executive is cast
into Congress by a failure of any
candidate to obtain a majority of the
electoral college, either Davis or
III dl " III move into the White
House next March.
The La Toilette people are banking
10 some extent on this attitude of
the Democrats. They saw a coalition
OF Democrats and radicals and dis
gFuntled Republicans put Senator
Dlil. Democrat, successfully over the
jumps two years ago when former
senator PoindeXter was running for
reelection on the Republican ticket.
g.. D. =. Counts on Split.
The Republicans, on the other hand,
are banking on the national Demo-
cratic ticket dividing with La Fol-
Iette the forces which elected Dill
in 1922. They are banking, too. on
winning some of the conservative
Democrats to their standard. believ-
ing that many Democrats would pre-
fer to see the State go for Coolidge
rather than for La Toilette.
The Republicans are making a
straightout fight along conservative
lines.
The contest is gradually forcing
new alignment, so far as national
politics is concerned in the State of
Washington. The radical element.
the disgruntled elcments-includfng
many of the farmers who have been
III desperate straits in recent wears
La Toilette. There is German
American vote also that is going to
La Toilette, and many of the citizens
of Swedish blood will support him.
The workers on the railroads, | am
Informed by men who have had a
chance to go among them and by
some of the workers themselves, will
be strongly in favor of La Toilette
There is big railroad vote in the
ha onI-c a
lumber mill workers also are being
counted in large numbers for La
Toilette.
business With G. o. p.
ON the Republican side business is
lining up generally, as elsewhere
There is a strong movement among
members of the American Legion to
defeat La Toilette on his war record.
Many months ago there was organ
lied here in Seattle The World War
Veterans Republican Club" This
club has been active in lining up the
veterans for the Republican ticket.
The feeling against the President be-
cause Of his veto of the soldiers
bonus bill, and more particularly be-
cause of his message to Congress in
connection with that bill, is soften
ing. the leaders say. And now the
the World War Veterans Republican
Club are establishing State organi-
Zation of the Republican Service
League, new national organiZa-
ton. They are not working as mem
bers OF the American Legion. though
they are members of that organiza-
ton, but they are going after every
member of the legion in this State, as
well as the service men who are not
so affiliated. They are holding up
La Toilette as an obstructionist dur
ing the war. and accusing Wheeler
of not fulfilling his duty while dis
trict attorney in Montana, when op-
ponents of the war were charged
with opposing the draft and melting
men against the Government.
Work to Get Out Vote.
One of the objects which the vet
Grams are working for particularly is
TO get the whole vote of the State
out on election day. believing that if
the people go to the polls there is no
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