The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
DEMOCRATS CITE
 EFFORT OF DAVIS 1. TO ASSIST LABOR
Party Will Rely Upon Candidate To Appeal
 To Workers
By THOMAS l.. STOKES By Leased Wire to Aga-Heraldl

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 WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-De- spite the very whole-hearted in- dorsement of the La Toilette move ment by the American Federation of Labor, democratic leaders are going to make a strong bid to hold in line as much as possible of the labor vote, which normally goes largely their way.
 The democrats do not intend, by any means, to take the action of the federation's executive council as final, as regards the labor vote. They fully realize the effect of the indorsement, but there's too much at stake to let it go without a stiff fight.
 This is the reaction of the demo- crats. Republicans, on the other hand, never count strongly on the labor vote, and have not been greatly worried over the action of the federation,~ ,~but have pointed to 1t as a harbinger of i'll for the democrats.
 Many To Vote Straight
 Despite the order coming down from President Samuel Gompers, many labor ing men are inclined to vote the straight ticket this year, some republicans, more democrats. The effort of the demo- cratic leaders will be to build their campaign to keep their regular labor followers in line, to attract some of those usually republican, and to at tract others who are at the present time torn between party allegiance and the word from their union leaders.
 VvH lbs, l..S, &., will point to Davis friendliness to the wage-earner, and to the cases which he has handled in their interest. They will depend upon Davis himself to ap- peal to the labor vote through a gen. eral progressive and liberal tone in his campaign addresses.
 Progressive Guns Loaded
 But the La Toilette forces have some ammunition of their own to shoot back, and they depend upon the senator from Wisconsin and his fiery colleague, Sen ator Wheeler, to declaim against the former connection of the democratic candidate with Wall street interests, and his appearance for the New York sugar exchange in defense of the in- dictment brought by the government last year, when the price of sugar jumped.
 Democrats, in their effort to swing some of the republican labor vote, will center their fire on Dawes, and cite his connection with the minute men of America" an organization regarded by labor as opposed to its interests.
 Robert NJ. La Toilette, Jr., straight ened out one difficulty Tuesday which has been worrying Coolidge managers, when he announced that his father would run in Wisconsin, his home state, as an independent progressive, and that Coolidge would not be forced to run as an independent, as had been feared.
 Reports Fealty Denied
 Young La Toilette said there is no basis whatever for reports that Cool idge would be forced to run as an in- dependent.
 The Wisconsin progressives," he said, have never resorted to sharp po- htical practices and will not do so now. Senator La Follette's candidacy will be presented as an independent pro- gressive on the same basis that has been adopted for other states, in so far as the maze of legal technicalities per nit"
 President Coolidge, now completing his speech of acceptance, has had some difficulty in treating all of the problems he desires to discuss in this one ad- dress, it was said at the White House Tuesday, and he may follow it up with another shortly afterward. The Pres ident probably will have the first draft of his speech ready Wednesday for the inspection of Chairman Butler of the republican national committee.