The Omaha morning bee., 1924-10-05
LABOR PAPER
FOR COOLIDGE
Midwest News Deserts Ranks
of La Toilette and Wheeler
Because of Indifference.

The Mid West News, an Omaha
periodical which has been support
ing the La Follette-Wheeier indepen-
dent ticket in the national campaign,
has just come out for the reelection
Of Calvin Coolidge.
This Is one of the most important
switches made so far in the three
cornered fight between Coolidge, La
Toilette and Davis. The paper Is a
labor and agricultural journal with
la large nationwide circulation. j.
A. Lochray. editor of the Midwest
News. has returned from two
weeks tour of eastern states and in
la signed statement in his paper de-
clares that the La Toilette forces
have failed In their effort to line up
labor
wherever I have gone among the
La Toilette supporters ] have found
nothing but pessimism-a condition
brought about by the general indif-
ference. il not actual opposition. on
the part OF the rank and file OF the
American wage earners toward the
campaign of Senator al Toilette and
Wheeler" the statement reads.
Campaign Destructive One"
This attitude, Lochray asserts, has
sprung from the Unborn common
sense and conservatism of these wage
earners themselves" He character.
izes the La Follette-Wheeler cam
paign as a destructive one "aimed
against established institutions long
recognized as a part of our Amer
lean life" The statement continues:
American Institutions and Amer
lean standards are at stake in this
campaign. American wage earners
are vitually concerned in the protec-
tion and preservation OF those institu-
tions and standards. They prefer the
standards which they have today,
standards which are superior to those
Of all other countries and infinitely
preferably TO the roseate pictures cf n
millennium which la Toilette and
Wheeler promise them after the
house In which they are now living
has been torn down.
NO Halfway Ground"
la Toilette is an enemy Of the
existing order ~ things. He has ac
cepted the unqualified endorsement OF
| the socialists and other radicals
| There is no halfway ground. Between
our institutions and those of social
ism. the forerunner OF communism
there lies an impossible chasm. We
must choose one side or the other
La Toilette accepts the support OF
the socialists who expect him to put
| their doctrines and theories into force
and he must be classed as a socialist
by all thinking people. even though
he does not label himself as such
La Toilette stands on the social
istic side of the question. On the
other side stands Calvin Coolidge
with constructive program for the
preservation and bettrrment of our
! institutions"
Coolidge Record Good.
| In his statement, I.ochray quotes
/ from several Of the president
messages to working men to demon
strate coolidge's interest In the ad
vancement OF wage earners. The
presidents labor record. the state
ment asserts. is above reproach. His
determined position In favor of econ
omy and tax reduction should appeal
| to labor. Lochray believes.
| The editors statement concludes
"The president wants to help every.
body's business by making easier the
business of making living.
| Because he stands for American
institutions, for common sense and
economy In government. and for ths
rights of all under the constitution
Calvin Coolidge will be re elected
and his victory, In my judgment, will
mean a more prosperous and happy
people. not only. in America but in
Europe as we'll, during the next four
years.
That is why I am for Coolidge. y
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