The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-01
Y sCANDIDATES
 M RE IN ACTION
 0N LABOR DAY
Davis Xnd La Toilette To Travd While Coolidge
 UseA Back Porch
By RAYMOND CHAPTER. Heased Wire\fO The Age-Herald.)

wAsH1NGToN, Aug. 31.-Labor day marks the Neal beginning of the presidential campaign. All three can didates will talk practically at once.
 President Coolidge addresses dele gation of friendly labor leaders at the White House about noon.
 Davis, the democratic candidate, speaks to labor picnic at Wheeling, W. Va, at 2:30 p. m. The speech will be broadcast nationally.
 La Toilette, independent candidate, makes radio talk 10 labor at :3o p. m., from Washington. This speech also will bA broadcast nationally
 With all three candidates talking, the apathy which has hung over the campaign for two dull months may be lifted. Not in years, has so little Tn. terest been apparent in presidential campaign. Davis has been trying to stir up a discussion of issues, but with little success. Public interest mostly is in the Franks case. the fliers and whether Washington will nose out the Yankees for the pennant.
 Challenges Ignored.
 Davis has tried hard enough Tn number of speeches to stir up some shouting, but due to the reticence Of Coolidge and La Toilette, Davis hasn't been able to do anything but shadow box. He puts on the gloves every few days. but nobody ever climbs into the ring with him. His challenges go out into dead space. The best he can do is to scrape up fight with vice-presi- dential candidate once in a while.
 But now it is only two months until election day. Davis and La Toilette have a lot of ground to cover if they expect TO shake Coolidge out of the White House.
 The labor and independent vote is to be canvassed thoroughly by all three candidates now. Coolidge will do less talking than the other two, but his managers will make up for that byotheir highly organized efforts.
 La Follette's talk to labor Monday will set the pace for his campaign. In it, he will state the issues of the cam pa;sn as he sees them. Not only from thn point of view of organized labor, but witl4 respect to other questions, no doubt,
 1t th, sam, hour, his running-mate, Wheeler will be addressing labor on II. speaks tt Worcester, Mass, and then ewlmgg nto a trip through New Eng land to ,vean the labor and independent votes from Coolidge and Davis. The La tul cite ticket hopes to pick up thousar s of democratic votes.
 Daria after his Wheeling speech. swings into the middle west and will tso ae f,r out as Denver, making a eo day 1nket of it. Another western 1in VI be made later in the cam pai<n.
 To Use Back Porch.
 Coolidge isn't spending any railroad fare on campaign trips. But he is planning to make the back porch of the White House serve as Harding's front porch did at Marion four years ago. Naturally he won't talk as much neswill his opponents. He will study his shots Carefully and make' every one count. But there won't be many of them.
 Labor has 1t in its power this year to exercise tremendous influence, not only upon the current election, but upon the future of political parties. La Fol lette is '--'-o at the independent pro- gressive o," 9nd B, ,ie P-"eressives still ren,Lil.o: 8isn no confi1lsS If the othe, W p,}5. II g he be iHves, "rolsh ptoGrc ., vo5er, .4rn O., th's v"ar, tho ,,zs.s for rew pro eraes. iiberc' part .. 'ece been es:s ]. Jt 'L- lan.9 5t.. as a W oss the G,,y,e D f:>.nrera. il .. 70. a g,e1t g.. :" h. demo- c.ntic -ty and VIZ. redu'c r ta the rank oi n hopeless minority party +. nos' of he northern states, leaving it q sartio Ial party with its southern strenet as its chief asset.