The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-10-09
Political Contests
Over State Issues
Obscure Main Fight

ably the bulk of the German vote,
the latter variously estimated at
from $4,000 to 10000. Well-in-
formed Republicans are authority
for the statement that the LaFoll-
cite vote may exceed 100000. The
Democratic chieftains say it will be
less than $4,000, while the man
ayers of the Wisconsin senator's
campaign, with show of optimism
the sincerity of which is hard to
doubt, insist that their candidate
will poll between 175,0O0 and 20O,-
900, and in the event of neck-and-
neck race between Coolidge and
Davis they insist that LaFollette
will have a chance to capture Okla
homa's ten electoral votes.
Kansas Has Local Fight
Leaving the turmoil of the Okla
bona situation and crossing the
state line into Kansas, another local
complication is run into, this time
concerning the gubernatorial con-
test once more. Kansas has since
the days of the civil war been the
stormy petrol of American politics.
The state has from time to time
been represented by statesmen of
high order and political freaks. 1t
has on occasion embraced with en-
thusiastic affection most of the
'isms" and political patent medicin-
es and panaceas that have been Of
fered. 1t was the hotbed of Popul-
ism and the home of Pfeffer, of
"whiskers' fame and of 'Sockless"
Jerry Simpson. On the other hand
the state took just pride in the
brilliant John ]. Ingalls,. This year
when things we're apparently des-
tined to move along smoothly, the
veteran journalist, William Allen
White, decided that local conditions
needed renovating and to that end
himself as an independ-
ent candidate for governor upon
one issue alone and that local is
sue White was one Of the original
and staunch support
er of Theodore Roosevelt and has
always been strong factor in Kan
sas politics. What influence his
will have on the general
result is being awaited with inter-
est.
BroOkhart Bolts Ticket
Shifting from Kansas to Iowa,
the senatorial contest here also
all others, although as
in Oklahoma its effect on the presi- |
Dental result in the state is of such
influence as not to be ignored. The |
situation in the Buckeye state broke |
into the limelight anew last week |
when United States Senator Smith !
W. Brookhart exploded politincal
bombshell by a demand upon the I
national republican committee that |
Charles G. Dawes be removed from
The ticket as the party's candidate
'or vice president. The result was (
IN immediate movement on the part
If the state central committee to
.ead Brookhart out of the party and
@ withdraw from him the support
If the Republican state organiza-
ion. Brookhart was chosen two
,ears ago to fill an unexpired term
md was renominated in the Repub-
lean primaries this year. He has
rained with the LaFollette crowd
his career in the senate.
Following the Brookhart outburst,
Dawes went into Iowa on his speech
making tour and was given great
walton, when he fiayed the LaFoll-
program. Luther A.
Brewer, prominent Cedar Rapids
has announced his in
dependent candidacy for the senate
gainst Brookhart.
Special Election in Wyoming
A new element has arisen in the
ituation in Wyoming occasioned by
he death last week of Governor
William B. Ross, following an
peration for appendicitis. Govern
r Ross was the third Democratic
overnor to be elected in Wyoming
uring its thirty-four years of state
God. He was elected in 1922 to a
term which began January
1923. He was elected after one
Z the most bitter political cam
aigns ever waged in the state. His
cath necessitates the calling of a
Decial election to be held on the
anne day as the general election in
rder to fill the vacancy. Just what
feet this new condition will have
n the general result in Wyoming 1t
too early of course, to even guess
ut it injects an unexpected feature
ito the campaign in that state.