The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-08
COOLIDGE EASY
MICHIGAN
VICTOR
Ford Defeats Ferris in Demo-
crat Primary Despite In
dorsement of President.
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in this great central pivotal State
of Illinois wished simply to be let
alone by Presidential aspirants.
The Republican party here. un.
der the leadership of Senator Nc.
Cormick and of Senator Mckinley,
produced nice quiet slate Of "un,
instructed" drtaca'r HHd n@an-
while the Democratic party here,
under the leadership of the heap.
big boss. Gorge Brennan, did like
wise.
Plans All Arranged.
On the McCormick-M cKinley
slate, there were, and are, dele.
gates, personally favorable to vari-
Gus different Republican Presi-
Dental aspirants. On the Brennan
slate similarly there were, and
are, delegates favorable to numer-
Gus different Democratic Presi
Dental aspirants.
Everything was all nicely arranged
for happy internal Illinois political
riot with all such extraneous issues
as the Presidency postponed for
settlement until the national con-
ventions should meet in June,
Thereupon, however, Coolidge, in
sisted upon putting certain pledged
Coolidge delegates on the Repub.
lican primary ballot to be voted
upon here today; and William Gibbs
McAdoo, of California. insisted
upon running a virtually complete
slate of pledged McAdoo delegates
throughout the State on the Demo
cratic ballot; and Hiram Johnson,
of California, invaded Illinois with a
list of Johnson pledged delegates
and also put himself up in a per-
sonal combat on the Republican bal
lot for presidential preference"
against Coolidge.
Fight Becomes Political.
Thus, Illinois, quite considerably
against it's local political organiza-
ton, will find itself today plunged
heavily into the politics of the
United States.
West of the Mississippi it has
been noted in previous dispatches
by this writer, that interest in ma
tional politics and in national
policies is widespread and intense.
Here in this State on the eastern
bank of the Mississippi, the interest
in national politics and in national
policies is distinctly smaller and
duller.
The national issues most fire.
quently heard by this writer in
conversations with Illinois political
managers are the issue of a deep
waterway from Lake Erie to the
Gulf Of st. Lawrence, the issue of a
deep waterway from Chicago to the
S.tvy nP
getting permission from the Federal
Government to draw off enough
water from Lake Michigan to carry
through the Chicago drainage canal
southwestward to the Mississippi
and the Gulf of Mexico.
Here in Illinois the difference be-
tween the sentiments and ambitions
Of the west and the sentiments and
ambitions of the East begins TO
appar.
The region west of the Mississippi
is looking for large and drastic acts
by the Federal Government to re-
lieve the distressed economic con-
dition in which the farmers and
ranchmen of the west of the Mis-
sissippi> find themselves.
Really Buffer State.
Here in Illinois the Eastern in
difference to those large and drastic
acts begins. Illinois today is a
buffer State between the uprising
of the West and the down-settling
Of the East.
At that point, however, in comes
young Mr.. Newton Jenkins and
bursts into the Illinois Republican
primary as a candidate for United
States Senator against Senator Nc
Cormick and against Charles S.
Deneen on a La Toilette" platform
of energetic Federal farm relief
and of energetic Federal new rail-
road legislation, supported by GER
tain organized farming elements
and by the railroad trade unions.
Jenkins is the effort of the
Western agricultural and railroad
trade union radicalism to strike
through the buffer State of Illinois
into the territory of the Eastern
enemy. Professional political opin.
ion here is strongly to the effect
that he will have only a small vote.
In many farming and wage-earning
quarters, however, it is claimed
that Jenkins vote will be large
and impressive.
Points i'm the Contest.
The points then which emerge in
today's primary election in Illinois
are as follows:
l. Illinois as a State is absorbed
in trying to find out if Thurlow
G. Essington can take the COVER
norship of Illinois away from Len
Small, who is charged by his
enemies with being so corrupt and
30 wicked that the mere exact state
ment of his corruption and wicked.
ness seems to many voters to be
manifest exaggeration and persecu.
ton, thus indicating incidentally
that national wickedness at Wash.
ingtOn is cot one bit greater than
alleged local wickedness here-and
elsewhere.
2. If Hiram Johnson should today
win the presidential preference"
on the Republican ballot, the whole
regular INSTRUCTED" Republican slate
of Presidential delegates is pledged
thereupon to vote for him at Cleve-
land. The Republican machine"
here is confident that Coolidge will
win the preference" johnson is
being fought by the machine, and
has no machine of his own. He is
almost utterly lacking in any kind
of organized professional political
support. He can be regarded almost
as being engaged in playing soil.
tare for the Presidency. If in those
circumstances he wins the Presi-
dental preference in Illinois, or IL
he wins even a considerable of dis.
trict delegates. it will have to be
regarded as an extremely serious
blow to the popular prestige of
Coolidge.
On the Democratic Side.