Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-07-26

UNLESS SOME CHANGE takes |
place in President Coolidge's present |
plans he win do little or no cam
paigning away from Washington |
Some Republican leaders have urged |
him to take the stump for long and |
strenuous speaking campaign through |
the Middle West, in view of the |
tours to be made by LaFollette and |
Davis, but the President does not |
want to go, believing that just as
much can be accomplished via the |
radio. Then, too, he is sorrowing
deeply because of the death of his
youngest son, and feels that during |
the next few months, or at least !
until autumn, his life should be as
quiet and private as it is possible to
make it.
MRS. ROBERT NJ. LAFOLLETTE, |
who went to the same law school that
her husband attended and who has
fought by his side in all the political
battles in which he has engaged, will
have charge of organizing the
women in his campaign for the
Presidency. She is a politician of
great experience and ability and
expects to be able to line up many
thousands of feminine votes which
might otherwise go to the Republican
or Democratic candidates.
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS are
admittedly worried over the sudden
and spectacular boiling of the party
by Senator Burton K Wheeler of
Montana, the famous Investigator of
the Department of Justice under
Daugherty. Immediately after the
New York convention it has appear
ed that the Democrats were going to
get together and that harmony would
prevail throughout the party
Wheeler is a genuine dyed-in-the-
wool progressive, however, who felt
tn.t his place was with LaFollette
rathl than with the old guard of
the Democrats. The only other
outstanding Democrat in Washington
who is likely to follow Wheeler into
LaFollette's camp is Senator Dill of
Washington, but it is pointed out by
the supporters of Senator LaFollette
that if leaders like Wheeler and Dill
are ready and willing to publicly
bolt, there must be plenty other
voters in the country with similar
feelings.
PRACTICALLY ALL the political
experts in the capital these days
can't see anything else this winter
except President selected by
Congress rather than by the
Electoral College. OF course, the
general campaign is young yet, but
most of the dope points to a dead
lock in the election that will have to
be broken by the House of Re-
representatives., as provided by the
Constitution. Even the House may
OF be able to do the job, which will
put it up to the Senate to make the
final decision. 1t will then be that
LaFollette will try to get his
running-mate in the White House as
the Senate would make its selection
from the vice-presidential can
didates.
NOTIFICATION CEREMONIES
for both Coolidge and Davis will
mark the first big fireworks of the
campaign, The President is holding
daily conferences with members of
his Cabinet, party leaders to work
out the general plan of the speech in
which he will formally accept the
Republican nomination. In many
respects the speech will parallel the
COP platform, but it will so into
considerable detail in setting before
the country the personal platform
upon which the President will con-
duet his campaign. Davis is in the
Maine woods writing the speech
which he will deliver in accepting
the Democratic nomination at his
home in Clarksburg. 1t is upon this
speech that progressive Democrats
of the type of Bryan are counting in
their demand that the Democratic
candidate make it plain that there Is
nothing reactionary about his views
and that he is a progressive from the
ground up.
JOHN WILLIAM DAVIS. De-
mocratic nominee for the Presidency,
received hundreds of congratulatory
kilograms soon after his nomination.
Two of the kilograms are worth
reproduction. One from man in
comparable among his kind who was
born a wit, made a politician, and
elected to Vice President:
If good wishes help. you have
mind Thomas +. Marshall.
The other was from woman,
from whom such words were signifi-
cant:
Heartiest congratulations to you
and the party | feel that in your
hands the things that Mr.. Wilson
fought for will have worthy
champion. Congratulations to Mrs.
Davis. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.