Evening star., 1924-07-30
NFQLEIIE SEEKS:
{ TO TAKE NEW YORK
Strenuous Fight Planned to
Secure Electoral Votes From
Empire State.
MIGHT BACK HYLAN
Fear, However, New York Mayor
or Smith Might Run Away -.
With Party.
BACK HYLAN
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.
Copyright, 1924

tCopyrlgnt, lSSf.)
NEW YORK, July 30.-The fol
lowers of Senator La Toilette and
Senator Wheeler. the real new sena
torial presidency oligarchy. rose uI
today to remark that they, too, are
going to fight for New York State In
the coming election. Furthermore
the Progressives, as they call them
selves now, are going to raise FUNDS
in New York City to help carry on
their fight. 1t is asserted IN most
positive fashion. however, that none
of it will trickle in from Wall Street
State adherents of the La Toilette
Wheeler political merger are plan
ming to hold a big convention in Al
bany in about two weeks. and there
has been some talk that they might
indorse Mayor Hylan of this city
who is looking for a demand to come
from the people that he run for gov
ernor against AL Smith, in the event
John W. Davis the Democratlc prest J.
Dental candidate, is successtpl Al
getting AL to stand for a tnlrd Germ
Democratic banner in the State three
times, twice successfully, and is
anxious to retire to private life, but
national leaders of the party are IN,
sistent that he make one more stan
in an effort to swing the 40 votes OF
the pire State into the Davis cel.
umn.
HyIan on Watch
Mayor Hylan is watching every
move made BY or in behalf OF GOV
Smith, and is holding out his own
threat of an independent candidacS
as means of diScouraglnS the beh'
ocrats in naming the governor :
mayor love each other like a couple
of strange bulldogs.
The La Follette-Wheeler third par.
ty coalition might be to the liking OF
pie themselves seem bit dubious
about the mayor. They do not know
whether he would stay put or not ane
most of the spokesmen of the con-
the La Toilette banner are deslrons
of putting one of their own men q
the head Of the state ticket, SO there
will be no danger Of some one run.
ming away with the party at crucid
moment in the campaign.
Decide on Full Ticket.
The state Conference for Progress,
the name the La, Toilette followers
cling to in the State, has decide,G
upon an active program ana 1ul
State ticket. There has oeen eoNe
talk that friends of Gov. Smith amohe
the disafected political element.
fag may attempt to stampede the
progressive convention into an IN.
dorsement Of the governor for = thirt
term. These elements, however, ~
ndins u the Ssxnr same HSiap ndorse
ment of AZ Smith 1t Is argued, ml3h'
result in swallowing up of the entire
progressive movement in New 1orh
And work to the advantage of Mr.
Davis and President Coolidge.
UrEe Greater Efforts.
The progressives are being urged
to greater efforts by the national
leaders at Washington. They are
being told that the movement is
growing like wildfire the country
over, and there is no reason why thf
flames of discomfort with the two
old parties should not be famed into
full blaze here in the neart OF tne
conservative east.
The progressives have been i'm
menSely pleased with the publicity
they have been getting and by the
consideration given them by the Re-
publican and Democratic managers
The third party. is feeding fat upon
the denunciations being heaped upon
it and is gathering strength by the
Republican announcement that it will
draw its support from the Democrats
and from the Democrats statement
that it will draw it's support from
Republicans.
New England Republicans have
come out with declarations that La
Toilette will get his greatest vote
among the labor element in that Sec
tion which is said to be normally
Democratic. Democrats of the mid,
die country and the Northwest have
predicted La Toilette would get his
greatest vote among the Republican
farmers. The La Toilette people are
grinning at all this and say 1t is
evidence of extreme discontinue or
the part Of the old-line politicians.