Evening star., 1924-08-10
CANDIDATES TALKS
To PUSH CAMPAIGN
AHEAD THIS WEEK
Parties Have Held Back
Pending Pronouncements
by Standard Bearers.
COOLIDGE FORCES LOOK
FOR INDEPENDENT VOTES
Butler Tells of Plan to Form Ma
tional Non-Partisan Body
to Aid President.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Before the close of this week Pres
ident Coolidge and John w Davis, as
the nominees of their respective par
ties, will have given their personal
interpretations of the Republican and
Democratic platforms as adopted, and
their outlines of the issues the cam
paign presents. Mr. Davis will fire
the first broadside tomorrow night at
Clarksburg, w. Va, his home, and
President Coolidge Will deliver his
speech of acceptance here Thursday
night in Memorial Continental Hall
From the dates of the national con-
ventions until today little has been
attempted by the Republicans, the
Democrats or the La Follette-Wheeler
forces beyond the consummation of
organization plans for the campaign.
There has been a general holding
back until after the candidates shall
have made their statements to the
people. Senator La Toilette is max
ing no acceptance speech. He made
his statement to the public when he
announced his candidacy at the time
of the convention of the Conference
for Progressive Political Action in
Cleveland.
More Activity Due.
With the announcements of the
candidates on the issues of the cam
paign out of the way, it may be ex-
pected that the campaign will enter
upon a more active period, though
in many of the States real cam
paigning will not begin until Sep
tember l or even later.
The Republican campaign manage
ment is convinced that President
Coolidge is going to receive the sup
port of a very considerable number
of the so-called independent voters"
and also of men and women who have
formerly voted the Democratic ticket
For that reason, Chairman William
NJ. Butler of the Republican national
committee last night announced that
a Coolidge and Dawes non-partisan
organization, national in scope, prob
ably would be a feature of the cam
paign.
Believe i'm Coolidge.
Several reasons are given by Re
publican leaders for the detection
of these voters to the Coolidge stand
ard. Chairman Butler last night said
that it was the belief of the people
in the sincerity and honesty of the
Coolidge administration, and also the
dissatisfaction of others with their
own party leadership.
Other Republican leaders are lay
ing stress on the desire of voters not
to throw the election into the House
of esentatives-which would fol-
low if the vote of the electoral col
lege was SO divided among Coolidge,
Davis and La Toilette that none re-
ceived a ma ajority. Senator Lodge Of
Massachusetts, for example, from his
sick bed only a few days ago, sent
an address which was to be read at
a Republican gathering in Nahant,
in which he warned the voters gen
orally that such a condition might
result in the House being deadlocked
over the choice of a President, and
that finally the election would go
into the Senate, where one of the two
highest candidates for Vice President
would be balloted on and the success
full candidate would then become the
acting President of the United States.
Fears Bryan as President.
Mr.. Lodge takes the view that in
such event, the Farmer-Labor SEN
ators, two in number, and several
of the so-called Progressive Repub-
lican Senators would cast their votes
for Gov. Bryan, the Democratic
nominee, and bring about his cleo
tion as acting Observation-Disclosures
in, fact-over the Republican nomi-
nee, Gen. Charles G. Dawes. This, in
Mr.. Lodges opinion, would be
great calamity.
Supporters of the La Toilette
Wheeler ticket, however, pointed out
last night that Senator Lodge was
begging the question when he laid
down the premises that Dawes and
Bryan would have received more
votes than Wheeler in the electoral
cellege for Vice President. They
pointed out that it may be found
when all the ballots are counted on
election day that the La Toilette
Wheeler ticket, if it does not stand
first, may stand second in the num-
ber of ELECTORAL votes. Then If the
election is thrown into the House, a
vastly different situation may arise.
Two Alternatives Presented.
For example, il the House should
be deadlock ed-and to a mathemat-
ical certainty it would be-and the
selection of an acting President be
left to the Senate after March 4
next, as 1t must be if the House is
unable to elect, then it would be a
race in the Senate between Dawes
and Wheeler, or between Gov. Bryan
and Wheeler. This would put a diff
ferent complexion on the situation,
indeed. AS between Dawes and
Wheeler, the Democrats of the Senate
would hold the balance of power. As
between Bryan and Wheeler, the Rec
publieans would hold the balance OF
power.
In one quarter 1t was suggested
last night that rather than bring
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