Evening star., 1924-09-07
BOTH PART|ESP[Ay
0LDC[A|M|NG GAME
Neither Has Money Enough
for Any Other Tactics at
Present Moment.
BY ROBERT r. SMALL,


NEW YORK, September s-Tpe
| presidential campaign now has reached
the claiming stage. In lieu of other ac-
INVITES, made impossible by the re-
narkable slowness with which the trl.
pelleVers are coming across with CAM
paien coin, the various and eundry ma
uonai chairmen are issuing statements,
long, long statements. in which they
are oigestIng reports from all Sec
tions and foreca sting as well as broad
castlns what they think will happen or
ought to happen on next November 4.
inc campaigning is moving ahead
WIN painful lack of speed. Mr. Davis is
making ieisurely tour of the West,
oeVoting more time to urging upon lead
ers the necessity of organization than
ne is upon speeches. The speeches will
come later. Organization is needed at
tne moment. The Democrats have been
virtually without a machine for tha
past or IL years, and il has been no
easy task to build one up in the sho.t
time which has elapsed since tho cor
Vention adjourned and the campafs,,
started.
Money Need in Vital.
AS matters stand now in the Demo
cratic party there seems to be an uu-
| usually large number of cooks and it
is the hope of the faithful
followers of Jackson and Jefferson
that these supposed culinary experts
VIII not spoil the possibilities or
broth next November Lack Of
money has made the work of the
Democratic organization doubIy difi-
cult, but in this respect the donkey
riders have not been in a much worse
hx than the elephant herders and the
erstWhile followers of the Bull Moose
DeOnla in a
excited. There being no excitement,
there is no hysterical tearing apart
or purse strings and it has been hard
shedding for the two old parties TO
keep their headquarters open. Per-
haps it will be different in October.
There will be more interest then, and
perhaps more liberality on the part OF
the expected contributors If not,
then both old parties will face an
awful deficit at election time. for 1t
is perfectly evident the campaigns
must move along temporarily on
credit basis.
1t is not so easy to learn just how
the La Toilette movement is progress-
| ing financially. Nothing much has
been heard of the Progressives' money
matter since the original announce
ment that they would raise a cam
paign fund Of al least s3,000,000 The
Republicans and the Democrats said
they would like TO raise between
100000 and s5,000,090, but ever
since they expressed that hope it has
been case of try and do it. The Re-
publicans are not faring nearly so
well as they did in 1920. when they
ended up with deficit of s1500, 600
The Democrats are doing better than
they did in 1920 for the very simple
reason there was no way for them 10
do any worse.
Tactics inexpensive.
So, in the midst Of all these fnan-
cial worries and difficulties, the ma
tional chairmen have taken UP the
claiming game as being both amusing
and wholly inexpensive.
The Republicans are claiming, first
Of all, that they are sitting so pretty
in the race 1t viii not be necessary
for President Coolidge to make anv
further speeches if he doesn't want
to. OF course, If he desires from time
to time to say a. few words in tha
east room or on the rear lawn at the
White House to visiting delega-
tions," the managers of the campaign
| will not object. They even intimate
| there will be quite Il number of such
occasions. But as for the Pres dent
going on even the briefest sort of
campaign tour, they say that il is en-
tirely unnecessary and, therefore, out
Of the question.
It begins to look very much as If
the Republican organization will pro-
vide for a number of political pii
grimages to Washington. It will he
a revival in way of the front porch
campaign at Marion four years ago.
Delegations of all sorts from all parts
of the country went to see and hear
Mr.. Harding. Now they will so to
see and hear Mr.. Coolidge.
G. o. p. Denies Alarm.
The Republicans also are claiming
that they are not the least bit alarm
ed about Mr. La Toilette. Chairman
Butler has gone SO far as to doubt the
Senator's ability TO carry his own
home State of Wisconsin. 1t is fur
ther claimed that the La Toilette
boom is collapsing like a toy balloon
pierced by nischievous pin.
The Democrats are claiming that
these statements are all bunk. They
| say their reports show that La Fol
lette is gaining ground daily in the
| Northwest and that the Republicans
are bound to suffer from his candt
dacy. The Republicans say La Fol-
lette unouestionably will cut into the
labor vote, which usually goes Demo
cratic The Democrats claim this IS
| all "bosh.'
Between the claiming of this by one
| old party and the claiming of that hy
the other old party, the La Toilette
crowd is waxing fat on publicity and
claiming it is gaining all around.
The Republicans are claiming th9t
| the Democrats virtually have given
UP all hope of carrying singI"
Western State. The Democrats are
claiming they are just beginning -
| hope in that direction. with Mr.. DAVIS
not only extending his present tour
| but planning a second one later on.
The open season for claiming is IN
| full blast, and you pays your money