The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-08-22
HAS
No CHANCE BIZ 7
SENSES TROUBLE
Wants Election Thrown
Into House and SEN
ate; Honesty is Not
Issue.

aACt AAOAACoAy - ANOs
Issue.
Washington-Robert La Toilette j.
not a candidate for President He
knows just as well as does every one
OF his supporters that he has not the
slightest chance OF being elected. His
most enthusiastic followers cannot
figure that he can get more than 81
votes out of the 81 electoral college.
what then is his aim? 1t is soley to
prevent the election of Coolidge and
Davis, throw the election into the
senate and there exercise some control
over the election of the next president
He knows that the house would be
effectively deadlocked as the electoral
college and the senate would have
to choose between two vice-presidcn-
tial candidates. Dawes and Bryan.
LaFollettc could make terms with
the Democrats by throwing his votes
to Bryan. These are the plain facts
which are realized fully by the man
ayers OF the two big parties and which
they hope to get clearly before the
people. Another fact they hope to
get to the rank and file of the voters
is that inasmuch as LaFollette has
not-and knows he has not-the
slightest chance of being president,
he can promise anything He will
never be called on to make good. /
Consequently he is shaping his cam
paign to meet the wishes OF every dis
contented individual with entire reck-
lessness. 1t is easy to make promises
where one will never be called upon
to make them good LaFolette has
just asserted his opposition to the
Ku Klux Klan, to the great discom-
future of the Democratic managers who
see in this step scheme to draw
from their candidate that great mass
of normally Democratic voters who
are Disguised with the cowardly
course OF the Democratic national
Have Same Wish
I'VE are, both Democrats and Re-
publicans, striving for an honest and
upright government in the United ,
States declared John w. Davis at
Rockland, Me. as he stopped to make $
4 brief speech on his way back to a
New York. He told the truth, but /
when he met his political advisers in ,
New York he found them i'm tears. a
What possible issue had the Demo- +
rats other than TO charge the Re- s
ublicans with dishonesty? they asked
n mournful accents. And if he, their
was going to admit that
he Republicans were honest and
irving for an upright government
hey might as we'll throw up the ="
PONCE. But Davis has seen the :"
rror OF his ways. One week later ="
pening his campaign at Pough-
eepsie, he said, THE great issue in a,
lis campaign is honesty in govern ''
ent.' OF course the two statements =.
e in fiat contradiction. If the Re- VI
iblicans are striving for an honest W.
nd upright government, honesty ~
government is not an issue But "
the voters believe Mr.. Davis first ~ ~
atement they will naturally ask ~
emselves, IF both parties are honest ~
d striving fer and upright govern W
ent, why should we turn from those w.
no are striving with four years =
inning and experience and put in "a
cir places men who, however honest =
c wholly inexperienced" According r.
the statements made at Democratic
adquarters here. the candidate will
yer again make the blunder of adj
ting what he we'll knows to be
lie and what he so frankly said
Rockland, that Both Democrats
d Republicans are striving for an
nest and upright government in the \
ited States
Oil In Campaign
Il is also declared that the oil
SEES will constitute onf of the chief ou
ies of the Democratic candidate. ac;
licial determination of the legality the
justice of the oil leases cannot clio
ne until after the election. The ia
rges have been made, the indict- hea
nts have been returned, but the tori
eminent has been instrumental in uf Urn
ting off all the trials until October new
later. so there can be no decision botl
upset. the plans OF the Democratic wat
iagers to make these leases an ~,
c. II, of course, after the election bel,
courts find the leases honest and you
] and beneficial to the navy and IAN