The Washington times., 1924-06-14
HOLD OUTS
ARE0NLY
~
FEAR
Faty
New Leaders Hope Old Guard
Aid and High Farm Prices
/; WiII Bring Victory
Ry. WILLIAM HARD.


lean convention managers re-
manning here today gave them
selves to analyzing -or guessing
the, prospects Of the campaign.
1t. became clear, as usual, that
the greatest political wiseacres
can differ among themselves just
aS much as the lowest and most
undistinguished political amateurs
and .outsiders.
Some leading professional Re-
pubkcans are "defeatists." They
think that the tide is against the
Republican party.
Others-and a majority-think
there are two firm reasons why
the Republican party win win this
fall.
.ET Believe u. S. Conservative.
The first Of these reasons, &C.
cording to them, is that the Repub-
Mcan party through nominating
Coolidge and Dawes, has taken an
absolute connected stand in favor
production and low costs of taxa
tion rand business prosperity with
dividends and with pay envelopes.
has always been, and is now, and
Glways will be, at a test, conserva-
tiNN. It believes, at heart they say,
in business management and bust.
ness results. For proof they ap.
pear"Nto the record of the campaign
6fr 1895.
They intend to make this cam
pqjgn. another 1896 campaign. Nc
Kinley, then the Republican candi-
date, had business man for man
9kerLMark Hanna. Coolidge, now
the Republican candidate, has a
business man for manager-William
M. Butler, of Massachusetts, a tex
tile manufacturer.
"a Bold Business Viewpoint.
l@'That is the way they put It.
They Hboldly take the business point
OfAView and they maintain that
thea country forever takes the bust
ness spoint of view provided, only
the politicians express It and ex.
plain 1T competently and courage.
ouslya9 %.s<$r m 40.
-nIt is going to be a str6ight-out
tight. The convention may have
9eemed, except in the matter Of the
wee Presidency, dull and tame. The
campaign on behalf Of the Repub.
Mcans is going to be emphatic and
determined and adventurous.
toGeltlemen are being gathered TO-
pFomisingly assert the business
point of view-uncompromisiugly
and ;confidently.
Back Of that there stand certain
other gentlemen who will not deal
in oratory, but in market quota
tons.
1.-THE farmers Of this country are
going to be made prosperous be.
tween now and November IL the
business friends Of Calvin Coolidge
can possibly bring 1t about.
sSon1e OF them point out to this
writer, for his instructions, that the
price of wheat has already gone up
several cents.
They tell him that 1t is going to
80 up quite few cents more before
election.
They also say that hogs will have
gone up from z cents to II cents q
pound and cattle from $26 to SS5
Il head.
& This writer cannot make out
whether they intend to perform
these feats by their own exertions
Or only by the natural operation of
natural influences in the market.
In any case they confidently ex-
pect that between now and Novem-
Der Hthe economic condition OF the
farmer will be enormously i'm.
proved.
This is precisely what happened
IN the fall Of 1896, when William
Jennings Bryan, who in June was
a; victor, was in November dead
cock in the pit. under the spurs of
William Mckinley and of revising
agricultural prosperity.
A wicked wag here today said:
"The way for the farmers to get
prosperous Is to threaten to vote
for La Toilette, then the big bust.
ness men would say: Don't do that;
we'd rather see you prosperous
!. Fear Possible HOld-Outs.
Courageous conservatism and 70.
VIKING and returning prosperity
that IL the recipe by means of
which the Republican managers
'here-the majority of them--hope
and intend and confidently expect to
cook a meal of victory next fall.
Their only admitted woe Is the
Npathy Of some Of the Republican
old political leaders whom they of.
Tended during the convention. They
would like to be sure, for instance.
that Jim Watson Of Indiana, will
get out and send all the Watson
boys to the polls in Indiana on the
tirst Tuesday after the first Mon.
day in, November.
s,.T They will cultivate those leaders
now. They learned a lesson from
the power which those leader a
showed in the matter of the Vice
Presidency during the conventions
closing hours. They will cultivate
those leaders-in so far an these
leaders are conservative.
~ purged Republican party, with
the radicals in 1t excluded from all
A united purged Republican party,
with the alienated old bosses brought
baek- into cooperation through con.
SESSIONS to them in the way OF
s1Tfbher market quotations for
&heak and swine and beef ana
other products OF the farm.
That Is the Republican road to
victory as the remaining Republican
managr5 here soc IL and plan IL.
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