Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-07-25
A Weekly Panorama of Events in the
National Capital.
(By Peter Keegan)

Unless some change takes place in
Presidents Coolidge's present plans
he will do little or no campaigning
away from Washington. Some Re-
publican leaders have urged him to
take the stump for a long and siren
uous speaking campaign through the
Middle West, in view of the tours to
be made by LaFollette and Davis, but
the President does not want to go, be-
lieving that just as much can be ac-
complished via the radio. Then, too,
he is sorrowing deeply because of the
death of his youngest son, and feels
that during the next few months, or
at least until autumn his life should
be as quiet and private as it is poss-
ible to make it.
Mrs. Robert F. LaFollette, who
went to the same law school that her
husband attended and who has fought
by his side in all the political battles
in which he has engaged, will have
charge of organizing the women in
his campaign for the Presidency. She
is a politician of great experience and
ability and expects to be able to line
up many thousand of feminine votes
which might otherwise go to the Re-
publican or Democratic candidates.
Democratic leaderes are admitted
ly worried over the sudden and spec
tacular boiling of the party by Sen
ator Burton K Wheeler of Montana,
the famous investigator of the De-
-partment of Justice under Daugherty.
Immediately after the New York con-
vention it had appeared that the Dem
ocrats were going to get together and
that harmony would prevail through
out the party. Wheeler is a genuine
dyed-in-t -the-wool progressive, how
ever, who felt that his place was with
LaFollette rather than with the old
guard of the Democrats. The only
other outstanding Democrat in Wash
ington who is likely to follow Wheeler
into LaFollette's camp is Senator Dill
of Washington, but it is pointed out
by the supporters of Senator LaFol-
lette that if leaders like Wheeler and
Dill are ready and willing to publicly
bolt, there must be plenty other voters
in the country with similar feelings.
Practically all the political experts
in the capital these days can't see
anything else this winter except a
President selected by Congress rather
than by the Electoral College. OF
course, the general campaign is young
yet, but most of the dope points to a
deadlock in the election that will have
to be broken by the House of Repre-
sentatives, as provided by the Con-
stitution. Even the House may not
be able to do the job, which will put
it up to the Senate to make the final
decision. 1t will then be that LaFol-
lette will try to get his running-mate
in the White House as the Senate
would make it's selection from the
vice-presidential candidates.
Notification ceremonies for both
Coolidge and Davis will mark the
first big fireworks of the campaign.
The President is holding daily confer
ences with members of his Cabinet,
party leaders to workr out the gen
eral plan of the speech in which he
will formally accept the Republican
nomination. In many respects the
speech will parallel the G. O. P. plat
form, but it will go into considerable
detail in setting before the country
the personal platform upon which the
President will conduct his campaign.
Davis is in the Maine woods writing
the speech which he will deliver in
accepting the Democratic nomination
at his home in Clarksburg. 1t is upon
this speech that progressive Demo
Gratis of the type of Bryan are count
ing in their demand that the Demo
cratic candidate make it plain that
there is nothing reactionary about his
views and that he is progressive
from the ground up.