The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-07-10

DOUBTFUL indeed it is if men of all parties were
ever badly disappointed in the nominees of their
parties they this year Before the National Demo-
cratic convention met Calvin Coolidge had show
in 100 of being elected With the selections the pres
ent week, his chances have changed nothing
most certain
And his success will be greeted defeat by nearly
if not quite half of his party.
The question which at present agitates the thinking
voter is if the time has really when the plans of
the founders of the have failed to function
to such extent that the will of the be
enforced in conventions of the parties.
The Republican situation forced them by a
calamity With the reactonary and cold booded Cool
idge in the White House, they could not avoid nominat
ing him. That he regarded looser evil
denced by the fact that it difficult get running
mate for him. and this remarkable very rarely
has the second place been refused.
The Democrats built their funeral pyre. They
could have successfully resisted the assaults of Wall
Street and the monied class which intended
for them in event. They sought the destruction of
Democratic hopes They Coolidge. They about
all the people who do want him. With the democracy
torn with such passion before rended
on they felt that their work well DONE but for
of an accident they nominated Morgans personal attor
ney, man who has given evidence of having
single pulse beat of regard for laborer producer
They have secured the seemingly impossible Two tickets
and either perfectly satisfactory to them
1t is too early at this writing say what the
on of the public will be to the work of the Democratic
convention 1t is not too early however to defeat
in its most humatng form stsaring in the face We
have lost the farmer vote We have lost the labor
Dispatches tell that Gov. Charley Bryan Nebraska
has been nominated for second place They do
whether he has given his consent His brother w. j.
asked to withdraw from the convention before Davis
nominated. Bryan blood may be thinner than dish
water, but think not. We Gov. Bryan
down the honor Walsh of Montana Meredith Iowa.
and Sweet of Colorado did, before they nominated him
Then to be sincere and the Committee should put
Doheny in his place
The only CLEAN of light in the political skies is the
candidacy of Robert La Toilette Rumor has it that
Supreme Court Justice Brandes to with him for
second place 1t is very bad for the public
Brandeis from the exalted position he occupies but
asmuch the candidate for vice president has much the
best show to be president this coming ehap the
change will be good
The common people, those who produce those who
toll, have but hope left: If they the La
Toilette ticket in sufficient volume throw the election
into the Congress- victory might yet be snatched from
the jaws of defeat Some states will for Davis.
concerted effort might carry several for La Toilette
other thar the half dozen he is get If the eec
ton De thrown into the Congress the two worst fea
lures, Coolidge and Davis will be eliminated for neither
party has the votes to elect president in the House
BY coalition of the progressves with either party in
the senate vice president, who would become acting
president be elected.
One thing is very certain-no ordinary citizen can
find much difference between the tickets they
from the conventions.