Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27

Tongues busily wagging in Wash
ington over President Coolidges
plan to excuse Charles G. Dawes
from vice presidential attendance at
cabinet meetings are specializing
over the real reason. To this OBJ
server comes an intimation that
Dawes Butler feud is at the bottom
of the first scandal of the Cool
idge administra tion-to-be. Gen.
Dawes, as all the political world
knows. was never the preference of
the Coolidge management as the
Presidents running mate. At the
Cleveland convention the banker
brigadier was nominated In the
teeth of Chairman Buffers opposi-
ton, after the new boss" had, in
turn, tried to put over Borah, Low
den, Burton and Hoover. After Cool
idge and Dawes became the nominees,
all went merrily until the campaign
swung into the active stage. Then
the Dawes-Butler ruction flared up
afresh The vice presidential candi-
date objected to being ordered hither
and thither to make speeches. He
told Butler $50 the story goes) that
pleased. Relations meantime have
been strained
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Eyes Of the country will be peeled
in the direction of Connecticut on
December is when the Nutmeg State
elects a successor to Senator Brande-
gee. 1t will be the first out-and- out
League OF Nations contest since 1920.
Hamilton Holt, Democrat, who OPP
poses Gov:-elect Hiram A. Bingham,
Republican, is as dyed-int he-wool a
covenanter as there Is in the United
States. At the Democratic national
in
passionately for a straight pro-league
plank tn the platform. Connecticut
since time immemoriai has ranked as
a doubtful State, both in local and
national elections. Cleveland carried
1t In 1854 and 1892, and Wilson in
1912. Except in G. o. P. landslide
years, Democratic candidates for. gov.
ernor and United States Senator have
always given Republican opponents
close runs. In recent municipal cleo
tions Democratic mayors were elected
all over the State Coolidge swept
Connecticut by nearly. 10000 ma
jority on November f. But the G. O..
p. will take no risks, and Senator
George II. Moses. chairman of the
Republican senatorial campaign COM
mittee, will assume personal COM
mand of the fight to hold the Brande-
gee seat.
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John Hays Hammond, recently re-
turned to Washington from Europe,
had long talks with Stanley Baldwin
then on the eve of resuming the
British premiership. The famous
American mining engineer is con-
WINGED that Baldwin and Coolidge see
eye to eye on a variety of outstand-
Ing questions. Baldwin is a. cousin
Of. Rudyard -Kipling. at whose home
Hammond met the Conservative
leader. The American has enjoyed
the ultimate friendship Of Kipling
since Hammond was a collaboration of
Cecil Rhodes in South Africa. The
original manuscript of Kiplings THE
White Mans Burden" hangs in Ham
moud's picturesque study in Wash
ington.
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Paterfamilias, otherwise known as
the family meal-ticket, is in for a
scorching time of 1t when the great
and solemn referendum of the Illi-
nois League Of Woman Voters gets
under way. The league, a state
branch of the national organization
headquartered in Washington, wants
to x-ray the attitude of the family
toward expenditures" 1t has sent
cut a QUESTIONABLE which includes
such questions as this:
what 10 the husbands attitude
toward the expenditures he makes