Evening star., 1924-04-10
COOLIDGE is CERTAIN
/ TO GET NOMINATION
Political Earthquake Alone Would
Bring Defeat After Vic
tories in West.
PLATFORM FIGHT IN VIEW
La Toilette Forces to Seek Radical
Program.
PLATFORM FIGHT IN VIEW
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

me pIeak IN the Coolidge cam
paign for the republican presidential
nomination has come. Nothing but
pontical earthquake now can pre-
vent the nomination of the President
at Cleveland in June
MT Coolidge has had from the start
lhe support of the regular republi-
can or6nhization, which is all pow
erIul IN the eastern states. 1t was
h~'e known what would be his
strength in the presidential prl-
maries. The victories in Nebraska
and Illinois-states in which weak
nesses would be expected to develop
If at all-haS knocked the wind out
of the sails of the Hiram johnson
campaign and left the field to MIR.
Coolidge.
Although presidential primary votes
are not considered binding al ma
tional convention, they are neverthe-
less an index of popular feeling. MT.
Coolidge's strength in the primaries
Is surprise even to his own lrlenuS'
To carry Michigan, Illinois, Nebraska
and North Dakota is a feat which a
regular republican has not achieved
in good many years. Republican
support of the President in the con-
servative areas of New England ana
the east has been unchallenged, but
the western seat of radicallsm mas
not been so easy to conquer.
Mr. Coolidge, according to present
indications, will have majority of
the delegates at the republican ma
tional convention on the first or sec
ond ballots. 1t may be that for the
sake of prestige and campaign ef-
fertiveness later on almost the entlre
republican convention will vote for
Coolidge. giving him the psychology
cal benefit of virtually unanimous
support.
La Toilette to Fight.
All will not be smooth sailing.
scheduled to make fight for a
radical platform, failing in which
the Wisconsin delegates and others
POSSIBLY from western states Will
announce their decision to support
a third ticket.
Efforts will be made by the Cool
idge leaders to liberalize the repub-
lican platform, not so much to placate
the La Toilette group, but to satisfy
the sentiment of the people OF west
GA states. But 1t is not believed
that any platform adopted by a regu-
lSr republican convention viii SUIT
tbA la Toilette radicals.
t1r.n nf the most difficult planks to be
foreign policy. The report of the
Dawes Young advisory council to the
rpparationS commission has been re-
ceived here with qualification, because
of the belief that it will help compose
the European situation, but the ad-
ADMINISTRATION cannot openly claim credlt
for the work of the unofficial body of
American experts, even though their
appointment was made originally with
the knowledge and consent or the
United States government.
The policy followed is exactly that
which Secretary Hughes recommended
I'm his New Haven speech. The ad-
ministration can point with pride to
the advice it rendered to Europe, II the
problems of reparation should be
solved, but it cannot point with PRIDE
relations committee of the Senate TO
bury the world court proposal advocat-
ed by the late President Harding and
President Coolidge.
Dawes Report Not Opposed.
1t is significant that the Dawes
Young report has not stirred up OPP
position in Congress. Usually, when
ever any mention is made of the
league of nations or the connection
OF any American with a European
problem, however unoffclat there is
an outburst from the irreconcll-
ables." Senator Medill Mccormick of
Illinois was one of the first to criti-
cize the plan whereby Messrs. Dawes
and Young were to be consulted by
the reparations commission.
Their report shows a Willingness to
let a committee of the leagde of ma
tionS handle some of the important
problems involved in the reparation
question, and it also provides for an
American to act as presiding officer in
one of the important permanent COM
missions to be appointed.
Such proposals as these heretofore
have been denounced as ''meddling in
European affairs" or becoming en-
tangled in European diplomacy" The
DawesYoung report, instead. is just
now regarded step in the right
direction, and may yet be one of the
boasts of republican orators on the
stump, especially when they meet the
cry that the Coolidge administration