The Washington times., 1924-09-06
CONFINES
REAL FIGHT
To EAST
Managers Scared of La Fol-
Iette in Far West Prefer to
War on Coolidge
BY WILLIAM HARD.

ILCSiuSHSy' II hS SoAA1Co IAAO bOA
states of the solid south and the
seven of the border south, he then
needs only the three northern
states of New York, New Jersey
and Ohio to be elected.
That is why the Republicans,
although every day more and more
"supremely confident" are every
day organizing more and more
committees and bureaus and tour
ing expeditions and every other
sort of electioneering activity on
the Atlantic Coast and in the CEN
trail west.
A few little miscalculations and
misfortunes for them in New York
and New Jersey and Ohio might
give Mr.. Davis the election without
even any recourse to the House
of Representatives.
This is also why Mr.. Davis has
given so much recognition to the
so-called eastern bosses" in his
party, even at the expense of in
furiating certain numerous ex.Mc-
Adoo elements.
Mr.. Davis himself comes from
the border south. His managers
think he knows the temper, and
has the temper, of that section OF
the country. Any Democrat can
carry the solid south. Mr.. Davis,
according to his managers, will be
able, because of his origin and
because Of his manners and meth
DDS, to carry the border south.
His managers then get scared
Of.La Toilette in the far west
nd t1NSs NNy
erence to fight Coolidge in the
central west and east.
Polite About La Toilette.
Mr.. Davis accordingly is entirely
polite about La Toilette IN his
speeches. He does little, II any
thing, to deter far westerners and
northwesterners from voting for
La Toilette. The ex4McAdoo ele.
unents in the far west and north
west yell for regional he1dquar-
ters" and recognition" and ''ac-
tivity out our way" They get
those things scantily and tardily.
Prominence goes rather to the
New York headquarters with its
| special Eastern manager, Thomas
j. Spellacy, of Connecticut. Promi.
| hence also goes rather to Olvany,
| New York boss" to Tague, New
Jersey boss" to Moore, Ohio
boss"
Many McAdoodlers funne and rage.
They think they see the campaign
being dominated, being controlled.
being swallowed up. by the very
elements which in the New York
convention they denounced as a
moral menace" to the Democratic
party and to the country.
Their feelings go in large part
disregarded. New York has forty.
five electoral votes. New Jersey
has fourteen, Ohio haas twenty.
four, Together they have eighty.
three. The solid South and the
border South together have 1856
Grand tetal-269. Necessary to an
election-2s6. Majority for Davis
3. Victory!
! Stick to Bosses.
Thinking on these things, the
Davis managers refuse to break
with the wicked bosses" of the
central West and East.
They are moved also by the fact
that while the sprouting revival OF
agricultural prosperity in the West
is presumably helping Coolidge. the
industrial depression in the East
might equally arguably be supposed
to be hurting him.
Whether II is hurting him or
he
the supposition that 1t is. or that
it may be.
They are asking the Eastern
wage earners to note that Industrial
employment has shown sharp
decline steadily since last Septem.
per. 1t now is some IL per cent
below the average legel of 1923.
In textiles, which is a very heavy
Eastern industry, it is now Is per
cent below that level.
Meanwhile the cost of living in
| spite Of the prophesied results OF
the recent Federal taxation reduc.
ton law, has shown no notable
tendency toward going down.
| On the contrary, the Department
of Commerce has reported Thar
August prices were higher thar
July prices, while July prices had
already shown an advance over june
| prices.
The far Western and Northwest.
ern farmers are now getting more
money for the food they grow. The
central western and Eastern wage
earners are now paying more money
Tor the food they eat and are get.
tlng less employment by means of
winch to earn the money.
Democrat Hopes In Ohio.
The Democrats accordingly turn
their eyes from the Valley of the
Upper Mississippi where radicalisn
fights on the side of La Toilette
and prosperity fights on the side
or Coolidge amid a naturally Re.
publican population, and they
fasten their eyes on the Valley OF
the Ohio and on the Atlantic
Seaboard, where depression and
discomfort begin to appear in in.
dustry and in wage.earnins
population which is naturally
Democratic.
The Democrats hope. and begin
to believe, that Mr.. Davis will be
progressive" and "pro.labor'
enough to keep the mass of this
Eastern Democratic wage. earning
population from going to Mr.. La
Toilette; and they hope, and begin