Evening star., 1924-04-30
Politics at Large
ny n. o. MESSENGER

more ueleBateS IN one DAY. he is
SO far "oyer the top" now that he
can almost stop figuring. The result
of yesterdays primaries in these two
states was especially gratifying to
the Coolidge managers. In the begin
ming of the Johnson campaign, the
senator's New York manager was
quoted as saying that the war would
be carried into Massachusetts and an
effort made to break into the Coolidge
ranks
The attempt was not seriously
made, however, and the only candi-
date for district delegate running on
the johnson ticket was defeated. In
Ohio a desperate effort was made by
the senator, as was done in Illinois. to
carry the state, Senator Johnson cam
paigning in person, but the entire
Coolidge ticket of candidates for dele
gates was elected and the johnson can
didates were showed under.
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California and Indiana will choose
delegates at primaries to be held next
Tuesday. Indiana is claimed confidently
By the Coolidge managers. In CaIif,r-
MIA, his own home state, Senator John
son viii make his last stand. The Cool
idge managers are reported as pre-
oictlng that the President will carry
the state.
If President Coolidge does carry
California the politicians are wonder
ing If Senator Johnson's name will
| really be presented to the convention
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Democratic national leaders who do
! not and never have fancied Tam
many's constant efforts to dominate
the Democratic party are watching
with great interest the reorganiza.
ton of Tammany following the death
OF Charles +. Murphy and are won
aerlng n the disappearance of his
masterfuL personality will enable
| Them to chop off some of the Tam
| many tentacles fastened upon the
party.
Some of them discern a disposition
on the part of Tammany to combine
I with an influential western leadeY
and thus increase its power. Tbest
| Democrats note with anxiety thf
presence of George L. Brennan ir
New York at this time, and are keen.
4 AS . IA tg upon MS COnfahlI 1.
| Iatfons with Tammany leaders,
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IL begins to appear that the death
of Charles F. Murphy is not going r.
be allowed to slow down the candi-
dacy of Gov. Alfred E. Smith for the
democratic presidential nomination
A committee of leaders of the state
1 dc
| Feit ana Norman Z. Mack at the
head, will conduct the governor;
| campaign, and will keep in toucf
with friends in other states.
Mr. Mack has declared there will bt
no change in the policy which ha:
been adhered to up to date of re.
| training from making open contest!
| in other states, and points out that
| this has resulted in making no enc.
| mles among supporters of other can.
| didateS:
The prospects are that Mr.. McAdoc
and Gov. Smith will go into the con.
ventton pretty evenly matched as t.
| the number of delegates each viii
| have in train, and that then the figh
! for reinforcements will begin Gov
Smiths managers expect to draw sup
port from New England, New Jersey
| Pennsylvania and Minnesota. Will.
Mr.. McAdoo's contemplated field is II
| the south and west.
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| Mr.. McAdoo's managers claim, how.
ever, that ne will have twice as rnan1
votes on the first ballot as any otheI
candidate, and that accretions to hi.
| strength will commence upon the
second roll call. The feeling of dis
| couragement among the McAdoo mer
| which followed fha 6iSplnc1Ira nf
| connection with the oil interests il
giving way, by degrees, and they are
heartening up as they receive reports
| from friends that Mr.. McAdoo was not
damaged as much as at first appre-
hended.
David l.. Rockwell, Mr.. McAdoo's
national mana ger. claims that he al
ready has 2171s votes pledged, with
other primaries and district elections
yet to come. The McAdoo followers
are said to be somewhat disturbed,
however. by the tendency IN some of
the states to send uninstructed dele
cations to the convention. This is
said by politicians to indicate the
growing feeling among state leaders
that thf nomination may be made
only after due deliberation and possi-
BILE consideration of names that have
not yeL come into the field.
The pledges which Mr. McAdoo's
MANI ger claims to have already Sc
cured are in North Dakota, South
Dakota. Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Mis-
souri. Georgia, Arizona, Kansas, Ne
brasNS, Pennsylvania, Porto Rico,
PanamS, Alaska and Hawaii 1t is
not claimed that the full delegations,
save in thN territories. are represent
ed in the liGt.
Democratic politicians who look
cold facts in the face and in their
solicitude for victory at the polls in
November cannot "see" Coy. Smith
on account of his alleged handicaps,
nor Mr.. McAdoo by reason of his past
connection with the oil interests, are
still casting about for an eligible
ticket without handicap. There is
more and more talk of Ralston of
Indiana and of Copeland of New York.
That young Lochinvar from out of
the west-some governor leaping into
sudden prominence--has not loomed
up yet
1t is thought by some of the leaders
that 1.-The makings" of a possible stam-
pede in the convention are good.
The Democratic national committee
has discovered a plot of the managers
of the Coolidge campaign to boost the
President "as a man better than his
party" A current statement by the
committees publicity bureau says:
Ever since it was practically certain
that President Coolidge would be the
nominee of the Republican national
convention the strategy of his cam
paign managers has been plainly ap-
parent. The first move was to belittle
the Investigations into administration
incompetency, official dereliction and
corruption and to asperse and be-
smirch, as far as falsehood could do so,
the character of the Democratic MEM
bers on the investigating committees
who brought the shocking and incrim-