Evening star., 1924-07-06
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

HIS endurance test in Madison
Square Garden hasn't been
merely drumming out the ear
drums of radio listeners in
and testing the staying powers of
Chairman Walsh's unfailing fairness
and P. ]. Haltigan's resonant an
nouncing. 1t is causing a tie-up all
along the lines in the presidential
campaign.
The Republicans, with platform and
party nominees agreed upon without
any russ and feathers, are now forced
to sit back and loaf for awhile, be-
cause just what sort of campaign they
will wage, in what particular section
or states will be the storm center.
and what will be the principal battle
cries could not be determined until
they knew who would be the Demo-
cratic standard bearer. The Repub-
hcans are also waiting for the result
OF the Progressive political pow-wow
In Cleveland, which, in turn, has been
delayed because Senator La Toilette
intended to make comments upon
what the New York convention did.
Never before have the Republicans
been SO late in starting their cam
paign, and yet they can make onIy
tentative plans. all conditional on
what the Democrats and the Pro-
eressives may do, or may fail to do as
expected.
Dawes to Work in West.
AS things now stand the Republican
campaign plans can briefly be boiled
down to this-"Turn Dawes loose RI
cavort in the west" They think
Cooi1dge can carry the east just by
sitting back and keeping quiet, and
that there isn't much need to do any-
thing in the south. They figure that
while Charles G. Dawes was born in
OHIO, because he went west in his
youth for a few years and has since
held friends there, and carried along
otners through recent lean years, that
he Is recognized as western man.
and that leaders in the west feel un-
der obligations to him.
All In all. rather vigorous time
is in prospect for Mr. Dawes.
But the campaign will not become
really lively till along in September.
Unit Rule Is Blamed.
1t isn't the two-thirds rule, that
requires candidate to get more than
two-thirds of all the votes in the con-
vention before he can win the
nomination, that has been PLAYING
mob SO much as the unit rule, under
which delegates who wanted to vote
for one candidate were held in line
ballot after ballot, for some other
candidate.
when Senator Harrison in his kew
note speech referred to the Repuh-
lican convention as a cut-and-dried
affair, and predicted that the Demo-
cratic conventio1spwould be different
red hot, noisy and letting the voice
Of the people howl-he was onIv
partly right.
The Republicans have never had
the two-thirds rule in their conyen-
tlons. They have not had the unit
rule since 1sso-forty-four years ago
at the time of the greatest conven-
tlon hight in all the political history
OF this government, when Grant and
Blaine were both eliminated and
Garfield was the compromise nominee.
The Republicans really have a
representative body in their conyen-
ton in this respect. Delegates are
elected at meetings held in each
congressional district of each state.
and over these district delegates the
state convention has no control.
These district delegates are respon-
sible only to the voters in their own
district The delegates-at-large elect
ed in each state are bound, of course,
by the resolutions passed at the state
conventions. Therefore the district
delegates are not bound by any unit
rule in the Republican convention.
They cannot be boss-controlled
Delegates Not Blamed.
In the Democratic convention in
Madison Square Garden listeners in
have had repeated evidence of state
delegations that wanted to break up,
some of which when polled were
$3.50. as between Smith and McAdoo,
but held solidly in the McAdoo
column under the unit rule. The
delegates are not to blame for the
tiresome, delaying succession of bal
lots-it is the boss rule that had the
unit vote resolution passed that is
responsible. Delegates are leaving