Evening star., 1924-07-23
SHAVER, IN CAPITAL,
STARTS. ORGANIZING
New Democratic Head Con-
fers With Hull and Other
Leaders.


Democratic national committee, who
arrived yesterday, today is working
on organization plans for the COM
ing compaign at national headquar-
ters here He was in conference with
the retiring chairman, Cordel Hull,
who will leave Washington for a rest
before going to Tennessee, his home
Davis-Bryan ticket.
Visited by Democrats.
Mr.. Shaver is settling into the
harness preparatory to the active
work which must soon follow. A mum.
Der Of prominent Democrats called
on him at headquarters today, includ-
ing Daniel c. Roper, one of the Dis
trict's delegates to the national con-
vention and a McAdoo lieutenant dur
ing the preconvention campaign. Rob.
Davis men in the District, was an
other caller. Mr.. Harper said that the
plans of the Davis for President Club,
headed by Carter B. Keene, are pro-
crossing rapidly. The club will main
tain radio receiving set in it's head
quarters, in the Ebbitt Hotel, he said,
so that the Davis and Bryan speeches
of acceptance may be heard there.
and other speeches during the cam
paign.
Mr. Shaver's journey from Clarks-
burg. w. Va, to the Capital was
begun Monday night by automobile.
About 20 miles outside of Clarksburg,
however. the motor broke down, and
the chairman was forced to walk
four or five miles before he was
able to to get transportation, and he
finally wound up by coming into
Washington on train. Some OF the
Republican politicians here seem to
take Mr.. Shavers mishaps as an
augury of what Is to come in the
campaign.
Butler Goes to Chicago.
While Mr.. Shaver was making his
entrance into Washington, Chairman
William NJ. Butler of the Republican
national committee was shaking the
dust of the Capital from his feet
He left here yesterday afternoon for
time, supervising the arrangements
for the campaign in the West, which
1t is well recognized will be of vital
Importance to the fate of the Re-
publican ticket-or, to put it the
other way round, to the Democratic
and the La Toilette tickets
The Republicans, the Democrats and
the La Toilette group are relying
largely upon their vice presidential
nominees to take important parts In
the campaign through the Western
states. Mr.. Butler will discuss, in
Chicago. the part that Gen. Charles
G. Dawes will play in that campaign.
Gov. Bryan of Nebraska is suppoEed
to be the leaven in the Demo
cratic loaf to take the curse of
Wall street off that party's national
ticket, and to win votes in the pro-
gressive West. But while President
Coolidge will not invade the West in
person, contenting himself, perhaps,
with dozen speeches over the radio,
delivered here in Washington, John
w: Davis may. we'll seek to overcome
criticisms leveled at him by Senator
Wheeler-La Follette's running mate
and others on the ground that he
is conservative and allied with the
so-called interests.
Wheeler to Campaign.
Senator Wheeler, culled from the
ranks of the Democrats, also will be
the active campaigner for the inde-
pendent Progressive ticket The La
anxious to get a vice presidential
nominee who could make an active
campaign, and they believe that in
Wheeler they have made such a Sc
lection.
Some of the Republican leaders in
believe that the nomination OF
Wheeler on the La Toilette ticke,
is going to be of assistance to the
Republicans in that section of the
country. They see him taking pro-
gressive votes in the Western States
from the nnr,nrrofio
which the Davis-Bryan combination
otherwise might have received These
westerners are not fooling them
selves in regard to the strength OF
La Toilette in Wisconsin, the Da-
kotas and Minnesota, however. But
having much Of chance in some
of the other Western States in view
Of the Wheeler nomination and his
assaults upon the Democratic ticket
Rely ON Dissatisfaction.
One factor which some of the Re-
publicans are relying upon to aid
them in the coming campaign is a
strong disinclination on the part of
the voters to have the election thrown
into the House of Representatives.
They point to the unpopularity of
Congress-both Senate and House
with the people out in the States.
They do not believe that the people
will be willing to have the election
Of a President handed over to the
voters will prefer to cast their ballots
for President Coolidge. OF course,
the Republicans are not giving this
as their only reason why the voters
should stand by the Republican ticket.
But they are saying that it will have
in November.
Senator Wheeler expects to take the
stump late in August, in Boston, and
from then on, to conduct speech
making campaign of growing inten-
sity.
Formation Of definite campaign
plans awaits the selection Of the
which will direct all phases
of the fight for votes. To what ex-
tent Senator La Toilette and his
running mate should make a personal
appeal for support, meanwhile, has
been the subject of discussion at in
formal conferences.
Goes East Tomorrow.
The tentative plan. which the cam
paign committee Is expected to ap-
prove and chart in more definite
lead off the fight. He leaves tomor-
row for three weeks rest at a
Cape Cod resort and probably will re-
turn to Washington for further con-
ferenceS with Senator La Follette be-
fore delivering his first speech in
Massachusetts, his native state.
Later the Montana Senator will
swing westward through industrial
states of the east and middle west
to the Pacific Coast. Before election
day he expects to invade a number
of states in the west and southwest
and one or two in the south.
Transforming" will be no new ex-
nerience to Senator Wheeler. During
his campaign for the Senate in Mon
tana two years ago he got a taste
of four or five speeches a day, topped
off with a night address of an hour
or so.
Just how extensively Senator
La Toilette will campaign will not
he determined for several weeks. He
ta the radia at in n g