Evening star., 1924-11-01
Drift to Coolidge Noticeable
With Possibility for Victory
Growing.
INDEPENDENTS LAY CLAIM
TO PLURALITY OF 100000
Race Between Schan and Magnus
Johnson for Senate
Neck and Neck.
ny G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.


MINNEAPOLIS, November III
you could assure the Republican lead
ers here that Minnesota would go for
Coolidge and Dawes next Tuesday by
500 votes you would be in danger OF
being kissed on both cheeks. Fear
! uncertainty and hope fill the atmos-
phere.
Botk The Republicans and the La
Toilette supporters are working
feverishly in the final drives for their
candidates The La Toilette people
apparently have greater confidence in
the outcome than the Republicans
On the other hand, some of the La
Toilette workers admit that the cam
paign of the Republicans during the
last fews weeks has made inroads
upon the La Toilette strength.
Coolidge Drift Seen.
The Coolidge drift, which has made
itself felt in the rest of the country,
has put in its appearance. When l
was here six weeks ago, my impress
sion was that Minnesota would cast
its electoral votes for La Toilette. 1t
still may do SO. The impression of
La Toilette victory still fingers. de-
spite the hopeful reports from vari-
Gus cities and counties around the
State. But IL Coolidge should make a
big sweep throughout the country
generally. and there is strong evil
dence that he will do SO. then Mime
sofa probably will be found IN the
Coolidge column
La Toilette has had the benefit in
Minnesota of the Farmer-L.abor party
organization. which has been a great
help to him. The two United States Sem
ators Shipstead and Magnus Johnson,
are Farmer-LaboriteSa and working hard
for La Toilette
Much will depend upon what Mime
apolis does. The city has been a Repub-
lican stronghold. A huge effort is being
made to get the vote out in the belief
that the bigger the vote the better it
will be for he Coolidge-Dawes ticket.
Approximately 1885, 900 persons are regis
tered in the city. 10000 more than ever
before. and the workers have pledged
themselves to get the people ta the polls.
not only here, but in other parts of the
State.
Hope to Carry City.
Republicans hope to. carry Mime
apolis by $4,000 to 10000 votes and to
break even in ST. Paul. The La Fol-
lette people, on the other hand, are con-
tending that they will break even in
Minneapolis and will carry St Paul by
from 5000 to 5000 votes.
II is expected that $4,000 votes will
be cast the State over. The number may
run even higher. The La Toilette lead
ers expect to get the support of many
former Democrats. and it is conceded by
the Republicans that they will do SO.
The highest estimate of the probable
vote for Davis that I have heard here
was 10000 Many believe that 1t will
be much below this figure. When former
Gov. John Lind, Democrat, announced
his support of La Toilette and intro
duced Senator La Toilette to the audi
ence which greeted him here recently, it
was considered a signal to the Demo-
Gratis to get on the La Toilette band
wagon if they wanted to prevent Cool
idge carrying the State.
1t is true that the Democratic
party in Minnesota had earlier been
largely absorbed by the Farmer
Labor party. and that there may not
be many more Democrats to get on
the La Toilette band wagon, but it is
equally true that in recent elections the
Farmer-IIabor party has been sue
cessfu1. Thas party elected a Senator
in 1922, Shipstead. and another in
1928. Magnus johnson.
Republican hopes are based some
what on the belief that the people.
while willing to vote radical" for a
senatorship, are unwilling to vote so
when it comes to the election of a
national administration-tha they
are willing to make their protest
through support of a Shipstead or a
Johnson. but are not willing to vote
for La Toilette against a Coolidge.
1t must be said, however, that La
Toilette has no terrors for many of
the people of Minnesota. There NAV
be people in other parts of the coun-
try who do not know the difference
between Bob La Toilette and a new
Partisan hair cut for women, But
not here.
Labor for In Toilette:
La Toilette will receive a very
large percentage of the labor vote. II
Is conceded by the Republicans; of
course, many of these votes were at
one time Democratic, many of them
IN 81: Paul. which is a black spot for
the Europeans anyway.
But even the labor vote has ra.
ceived several jolts in recent days
that may have the effect of reducing
La F'ollette's strength. 1t is long
way from Broadway to the Twin
Cities, but when it became known
here yesterday that the executive
council OF the Central Trades and La
Dor Council of Greater New York
had Withdrawn the Endorsement
earlier given La Toilette and gone
over to John w. Davis, it was some.
thing of cold water douche for the
La Toilette group.
Furthermore. the overwhelmine de-
feat OF the British Labor party and
victory OF the Conservatives in Eng
land has not been an announcement