Evening star., 1924-10-17
"He'I| Keep Us Out of Trou-
ble," Slogan Wins Many
to Coolidge.
LA Toilette STRENGTH
CUTS INTO BOTH RIVALS
Progressive Candidate Has Many
Followers Among Farmers
and Laborers.
H q. GOULD LINCOLN,
STAN Correspondent Of Tie star.

DIES MONIES. Iowa, October Ii
Hell keep us out of trouble
That is the essence of the Coolidge
campaign in Iowa. It's having its ef-
feet here-as it is in other States.
lust s the Wilson "He-kept-us-out-
of-war' slogan carried many of the
Western states for the Democratic
party in 1916, so this appeal of the Re
publicans, holding up Coolidge as kind
of lightning-rod to shed radicalism.
hard times and the like. is working
among the people now.
To give Zest to the claim, since Mr.
Coolidge has been President conditions
in Iowa have improved. This applies
TO the farmers. He is not out of the
woods yet. but he's on the way The
hoG-Iowa is the greatest hog-raising
state i'll the Union. and is second only
TO Texas in the matter of cattle-is
bringing approximately s1a in the Chi
cago market and about s11.15 in Oma-
ha. This is the highest price since
August. 1921. A year and a half ago
hoC was worth only about one-half
this amount. The wheat and corn
prices are well up. although the the
crops are shorter than usual
Brookhart storm Center.
Brookhart, on the ballot as Repub-
iican candidate for Senator, but a
repudiator of the Coolidge Dawes
ticket and advocate of La Toilette, is
the storm center. 1t is Brookhart
and the supporters of Brookhart who
are making possible the strong race
which Senator La Toilette is putting
up In Iowa. rock-ribbed Republican
state since Eli was a pup. which was
some time ago. The man who did
probably more than any one else to
put Brookhart on the political map
Dante Pierce. editor of the Home
stead-is backing La Toilette and
hooding the farms with his paper
lauding La Toilette and condemning e
the Republican administration. Lewis
n. Cook, who handled some Of the
Brookhart campaigns, is directin;, tn g
La Follette campaign. La Toilette
himself. of course, makes an appeal
To many of the Labor voters in the
State. He is liked by many of the
farmers. He delivered an address
here to one of the greatest crowds
that ever assembled in Des Morn-s
to hear political speech AMI was
loudly appiauded.
Brookhnrt to Win.
Brookhart is going TO win his
senatorial race. There seems little
doubt of that in anybody's mind
though some of the Democrats are
trying to persuade themselves that
their man. Steck, with some dis
gruntled Republican support. has a
chance. Brookhart's lead over his
opponent is estimated all way from
100000 to 100000 votes Steck vas
a McAdoo supporter at New York and
also would not vote to name The
Khan" which is hurting him now.
Such being the case, why has Cool
idge chance to win in Iowa? In the
first place. Brook hart is running as
a Republican. Many of his support
ers will vote the straight Republican
ticket. This means Coolidge as we IL
as Brookhart. If they vote for Brook
hart and La Toilette, they must split
their tickets-a ticklish job for some
voters. In addition to this, there are
81 officers to be elected in every
county. The Republicans who are
running for these Offices will be elect
ed in large numbers. They will go
out to get their frie to the polls
on election day, and they will be in
terested in seeing them vote the Re-
publican ticket.
Then, there's the psychology of the
situation. La Follette's movement is
new. 1t has caused a lot of euth
siasn. But IA wise political observer
here evolved the maxim that in new
cause the enthusiasm must strik e
deep in at least three -fourthS of the
voters if a majority is to be recorded
for that cause at the polls. When
election day rolls around. many A
voter will feel the tug of old party
alliances
&. o. y. Majority Large.
The Republican majority in Iowa
with only the Democrats to reckon
with--is huge. In 1920 Harding re-
ceivcd in round numbers. 634. 900 votes
to 227,000 for Cox. or plurality of
100000 votes. Since 1872. Iowa has
cast it's electoral vote for the Repub-
lican nominee except in one instance
when the state went for Woodrow
Wilson in 1912. because of the split
bctwe en- Roosevelt and Taft in the
Republican party. Even then, the
combined Roosevelt and Taft vote
was about 100000 greater than the
Democratic vote.
If the La Toilette strength was
coming merely from the Republicans
possibly result like that of 1872
might be expected. though the Re
publican vote of 1920 could be cut
strength would be less than either
that of Coolidge or La Toilette. But
the La Toilette ticket is going to
draw from the Democrats as well as
from the Republicans. So 1t appears
that John w. Davis has little show
of figuring prominently in the re-
suits in Iowa this year. The Demo-
cratic managers will tell you that he
has chance, that they believe the
Republicans may swing to him in the
end to prevent La Toilette from
CARRYING the State. But that sounds
like political propaganda
Prefer La Toilette.
When you get them down to bed
rock, the Democrats admit that they
would prefer to see La Toilette carry
the state than Coolidge. Anything to
beat Coolidge. They do not believe,
of course, that La Toilette can be
elected President-or many of them
would prefer to vote for Coolidge
But they believe that vote for
La Toilette is half a vote for Davis,
since they figure that If the elec-
ton is thrown into the House Davis
will sit in the White House.
1t may be that the Democrats will
try to throw their strength to La
Toilette in the last few days of the