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tana. Nevada and North Dakota-Cool-
idge was leading but La Toilette was
trimming down the Republican lead
and Davis was trailing a poor third.
In North Dakota, and Montana the
remembrance of Coolidge strength was
considerable, while in Nevada his
plurality had almost disappeared as the
late returned ran up the total Tor
La Toilette.
The dispute in New Mexico was be-
tween Davis and Coolidge with DAVIS
maintained a narrowingly slender lead'
Predict More Gains
Among the La Toilette leaders there
were continued predictions OF furtner
La Toilette gains as the country sec
tons of the states in dispute sent IN
their reports. To some extent their ex-
pectations had been borne out during
the day but the republicans still hoped
that not only Montana, Nevada and
North Dakota would be retained, but
that in the Coolidge would take New
Mexico. '''''.'
Taken all in all, and considered
in the light Of the fate it dealt out
to local as well as presidential
candidates in the west and north
west, this situation represents
tremendous backward swing OF the
pendulum which two years ago
turned the politics of the western
country upside down, sent two
farmer-IabOr Senators to Washing
ton, almost swept away the month";
al republican majority in the house
and gave La Toilette a balance OF
power and virtual veto over the
republican administration.
At least two interesting figures in
the recent political life of the capital
Senator Magnus johnson of Minnesota
and Senator Smith Brookhart of Iowa
appeared tonight to have been left high
and dry by recession of the La Toilette
tide which is 1922 rose quite as sud-
denly as it now has fallen.
Two years ago both Minnesota and
Iowa as well as the Dakotas and other
sections of the northwest appeared to
be one vast conflagration of unrest
with the man from Wisconsin as the
lowering figure that embodied all hope
of relief. AS recently as last summer
Brookhart swept everything before him
in Iowa when he sought denomination
against the republican organization of
Iowa while in South Dakota Senator
Sterling, a republican regular of reg
ulars, was denied denomination at
republican primary.
May Be End
Now La Toilette not only has failed
to make an appreciate dent in the
electoral strength of Coolidge. He has
seen some of his ranking lieutenants go
down before the overwhelming counter
offensive of the republican administra-
ton and may even have, lost his hold
on a sufficient group in senate and
house to force his recognition as an inn
portant factor in legislation.
+ 1t is the apparent belief of the
La Toilette men that even as matters
stand, he will be able to hold together
some semblance of national party
organization for use in future cam
paigns. In a statement issued today at
Madison, the senator declared he would
go on as he had begun and called
on his followers to "colse ranks and
grid themselves for the next battle
His running mate, Senator Wheeler,
elected to the senate from Montana
as democrat, also publicly reaffirmed
his allegiance to the cause of his adop-
tion but made no reference to future
party affiliations. 1t remains to be
seen whether the American Federation
Of Labor whose executive council joined
in the promotion of the La Toilette,