Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-07-24
A Weekley Panorma of Events in the
National Capital
By PETER KEEGAN
Special Correspondent of
SOME DELAY HAS been caused in

UNLESS SOME CHANGE takes
place in President Coolidge's present
plans he will do little or no campaign
ing away from Washington. Some
Republican leaders have urged him to
take the stump for long and siren
uous speaking campaign through the
Middle West, in view of the tours
to be made by LaFollette and Davis,
but the President does not want to
go, believing that just as much can
be accomplished via the radio. Then
too, he is sorrowing deeply because
of the death of his youngest son,
and feels that during the next few
months, or at least until autumn his
life should be as quiet and private
as it is possible to make it.
MRS. ROBERT M. LAFOLLLETTE
who went to the same law school that
her husband attended and who has
fought by his side in all the political
battles in which he has engaged, will
have charge of organizing the women
in his. campaign for the Presidency.
She is a politician of great expert
ence and ability and expects to be
able to line up many thousand OF
feminine votes which might other
wise go to the Republican or Demo-
cratic candidates.
DEMOCRATIC. LEADERS admitted
ly worried over the sudden and spec
tacular boiling of the party by SEN
ator Burton X. Wheeler of Montana,
the famous investigator of the De-
partment of Justice under Daugherty.
Immediately after the New York
convention it had appeared that the
Democrats were going to get togeth-
er and that harmony would prevail
throughout the party. Wheeler Is
genuine dyed -the1wool progress
i've, however, who felt that his place
was with LaFollette rather than with
the old guard of the Democrats. The
only other outstanding Democrat In
Washington who, is likely to follow
Wheeler into LaFollette's camp is
Senator Dill of Washington, but it
is pointed out by the supporters OF
Senator La Toilette that if leaders
like Wheeler and Dill are ready and
willing to publicly bolt, there must be
plenty other voters in the country
with similar feelings.
PRACTICALLY ALL the political ex
perts in the capital these days can't
see anything else this winter ex-
cept a President selected by Con-
gress rather than by the Electoral
College. Of course, the general cam
paign is young yet, but most of the
dope points to deadlock in the cleo
ton that will have to be broken by
the House of Representatives as pro-
vided by the Constitution. Even the
House may not be able to do the job,
which will put it up to the Senate to
make the final decision. 1t will then
De LHdL Lar OIleLIe VIII IIy W get HIS
running mate in the White House as
the Senate would make it's selection
from the presidential candidates
NOTIFICATION CEREMONIES for
both Coolidge and Davis will mark
the first big fireworks of the cam
paign. The President is holding
daily conferences with members of
his Cabinet, party leaders to work
out the general plan of the speech
in which he will formally accept the
Republican nomination. In many
respects the speech will parallel the
COP platform, but it will go into
considerable detail in setting before
the country the personal platform up
on which the President will conduct
his campaign. Davis is in the Maine
woods writing the speech which. he
will deliver in accepting the Demo