Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-16
UPSTATE NEW YORK
STILL REPUBLICAN,;
Ia Toilette IS WEAK
By DAVID LAWRENCE


tanning the normal Republican votes
but good many others who do not
relish a change in administration at
any time-the natural born conserva'
tives.
The president will get a 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
ctEer states and possibly he plans to
stimulate interest when he begins a
tJur of this state. But thus far
the Democratic organization has
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 seat
ed 5000, but about 1000 or more
were on hand. And they cheered
him with spontaniety that tended
= to prove that they did not need to
be convinced of the merit of his plea.
Analysing the crowd, it was not a
. silk stocking affairs though here
AThG there were the parlor socialist
WIPES. Most of the audience came
from the working classes. They
looked like tie thousands one has
seen listening intently to the soap
box orators of the past ten years. No
doubt there were many Democrats
but the conclusion seems justified
that the third party ticket ultimate
ly will draw from both major par
ties. Yet it will not affect the out.
come 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 beneficiary of the get-out-
the-vote movement will be the
Republican platform.
Record-Breaking Vote
The public may be prepared for
a recordbreaking vote, judging by
the efforts being made in localities
so one-sided in politics as this. The
vote in Maine few days ago was
significant of this move. Then &c.,
600 votes were cast, as compared
with 10000 four years ago. Incl.
dentally, the mathematicians will be
somewhat upset. Prof. Irving Fisher,
OF Yale, has figured it out, for in
stance, 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 cor
respondingly the Republican percent
/, age of the total was diminished.
' Throughout the nation a larger vote
than four years ago is in prospect,
Notwithstanding the early signs CT
it1
September. This part of New York
state, populous and conservative, is
a good cross section by which to
judge.
But who are the La Toilette sup
porters? Are they former Demo
Gratis or Republicans or Socialists?
SThe Republican leaders almost every
where would have one believe La
Toilette is swallowing up the Demo
cratic party. Yet not a single out
standing Democrat in this city has
come out for La Toilette, nor have
any leading Republicans, for that
matter. In this respect, indeed, does
this campaign from 1912. Then al
most every day some prominent
Republican announced himself as a
Bull Mooser. = In some states the
whole Republican organization bolt
ed to Roosevelt. Nothing like that
is happening this year, at least In
this part of the world. They know
no civil war or instruction in the
Republicans. All is serene on the
banks of the Genesee, and the throo
of industry pulsates strongly with
out a symptom of faltering. La Fol
lette has a 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. Such La Toilette strength
. as there is may be classed as Social
istic to an extent, but with 1t goes
a number OF people who want to be
different, who like the words indie
pendent" and progressive ana
whose detection from the ranks OF
the regular parties will be to no
small degree offset by the new vote
Coolidge Satisfactory
It's no three-cornered roll here.
President Coolidge has measured up
to the traditional idea of a Republi-
can nominee and whether he repre-
SCENTS vigor or masterful silence, or
con1eAon sense, or cool Calmness on
the naintainence of the status quo
the fundamental reasoning of those
who uniformly support him is that
he himself ranks above his party
colleagues and that he will some
how soothe the aches of the last
congress and keep business employ
ment and al 1.-The other materialism
of the hour safely intact. For there
lis no urge for 'proSressivism" as
lit was known in 1912, no crying
ills to be remedied, no crusaders
singing Onward, Christian Sol
diers." None of these outbursts
have characterized the third party
movement here. It's q sullen group
with class protest as of yore. Their
vote may be large, relatively speak
ing, but it will not exceed in percent
age the votes cast in this state in
previous years for independent tick
cts.
So far as New York is concerned
the La Toilette movement can be
dismissed as hardly a factor at this
writing. October may see a change
but the conservatives will then bf
awake. too. This is q rocll-ribbet
Republican state, with no Theodore
Roosevelt running this year, but q
man from distant Wisconsin. SucE
is the effect thus far of all the key
note speeches, denunciations, labor
cxhortations and political palaver o.
the two months that have elapsed
since the electric fans at the Re
publican convention were first adorn
ed with the slogan keep cool will
Coolidge" And what's more, they
accent the last syllable of La Fol
lette which about illustrates what
stranger he really is to the peopl,
within theSS gates,
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