Evening star., 1924-09-14
NEW YORK VIEWED
SAFEFoR COOLIDGE
Third Party Stirs More Ex-
element Than Davis, But
G. 0. P. Is UnWorried.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, September 1S.-
This has always been q Republican
stronghold. so 1t is not surprising to
find President Coolidge not only re-
tanning the normal Republican voter,
but good many others. who do not
relish a change in administration at
any time-the natural born consefva-
tives.
The President will get big vote
hereabouts. His opponent, John w.
Davis, has not stirred his own party
to activity. Possibly it is because
Davis believes in concentrating in
other States, and possibly he plans
to stimulate interest when he be-
gins a tour Of this State. But thus
done very little.
The La Toilette third ticket is
making more noise than the Demo-
Gratis. Senator Burton Wheeler, vice
presidential nominee with La Fol-
lette, addressed an enthusiastic meet
ing here two nights ago. 1t was
rainy, and the hall would have seated
5000, but about 1000 or more were
on hand And they cheered him with
a spontaniety that tended to prove
they did not need to be convinced Of
the merit of his plea.
Audience of Workers.
Analyzing the crowd, it was not a
sifk-stocking affair, though here and
there were the parlor socialist type.
Most of the audience came from the
working classes. They looked like
the thousands one has seen listening
intently to the soap-box orators OF
the past ten years. No doubt there
were many Democrats, but the con-
,AI
party ticket ultimately will draw
from both major parties. Yet it will
not affect the outcome here, for the
stay-at-home vote, which so often Is
conservative, will be coaxed to the
polls this year. One does not have
to go far to discover that the bene-
ficiary of the get-out-the-vote move
ment will be the Republican party.
The public may be prepared for
record d-breaking vote. judging by the
effects being made in localities so one
sided in politics as this. The vote in
Maine few days ago was significant
of this move. Then 100000 votes were
cast as compared with 1885, 900 four
years ago. incidentally the mathema-
ticians will be somewhat upset. Prof.
Irving Fisher of Yale, has figured it
out. for instance. that the Democrats
in Maine had a higher percentage of
the total vote cast last Monday than
they did two or four years ago and
that correSpondingly the Republican
percentage of the total was diminished.
Throughout the Nation a larger vote
than four years ago is in prospect
Notwithstanding the early signs Of an
apathetic campaign so usual in Sep
tember. This part of New York State.
populous and conservative, is a good
cross-section by which to judge.
Nothing Like 1912 Race.
But who are the La Toilette sup
porters? Are they former Democrats
or Republicans or Socialists? The
Republican leaders almost everywhere
would have one believe La Toilette is
swallowing up the Democratic party.
Yet not single outstanding Democrat
in this city has come out for La
Toilette. nor have any leading Re-
publicans for that matter. In this
respect indeed does this campaign Diff
fer from 1912. Then almost every
day some prominent Republican an
nounced himself as a Bull Mooser. In
some States. the whole Republican
organization bolted to Roosevelt.
Nothing like that is happening this
year at least in this part Of the world.
They know no civil war or insurrec-
tion in the Republican party. All is
serene on the banks of the Genesee
strongly without a symptom of falter-
ing. La Toilette has hold on the
working classes but even they are not
angry or hungry. They are not fired
with a passion of discomfort They
like La Toilette because his fame as
a champion of the masses has spread,
though no concrete achievement or
pledge Of future performance catches
the imagination of his followers as a
slogan. Ia gfr
there Is may be classed as socialistic
to an extent, but with it goes a number
of people who want to be different.
who like the words "Independent' and
Progressive" and whose detection
from the ranks of the regular parties
whf)be to no small degree Offset by
the new vote.
t.. Group Is Sullen.
Its no three -cornered roll here.
President Coolidge has measured up
to the traditional idea of a Republi-
can nominee, and whether he repre-
-sents vigor, or masterful silence, or
common sense, or cool colmness, or
maintenance of the status quo, the
fundamental reasoning Of those who
uniformly support him is that he
himself ranks above his party COL
leagues and that he will somehow
soothe the aches of the last Congress
and keep business. employment and
all the other materialism of the hour
safety intact. For there is no urge
for "progressivism" as it was known
in 1912; no crying ills to be reme-
died; no crusaders singing Onward,
Christian Soldiers" None of these
outbursts have characterized the
third party movement here. It's a
sullen group, with a class protest as
of yore. Their vote may be large,
relatively speaking, but 1t will not
exceed in percentage the votes cast
in this State in previous years for
Independent tickets.
So far as New York is concerned,
the La Toilette movement can be dis
missed as hardly a factor at this
writing. October may see a change,
but conservatives will then be awake,
too.s This is a rock-ribbed Republi-
can State, with no Theodore Roose-
velt running this year, but a man
from distant Wisconsin. Such is the
effect thus far of all the keynote
speeches, denunciations, labor exhor-
tations and political palaver Of the
two months that have elapsed since
tho electric fans at the Republican
convention were first adorned with
tho slogan, keep cool with
Coolidge" And, what's more, they
accent the last syllable of La Fol-
lette, which about illustrates what q
stranger he really is to the people
within these gates.
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