Evening star., 1925-08-26
Politics at Large
BY G.. Could Lincoln

The farmer of the West and the
for being prosperous. Indeed, the pros
perity of the farmer is coming to be
almost as much a byword these days
| as was the depression of agriculture
couple of years ago. The Republic
an leaders are pointing with pride"
TO the better conditions that prevail
today in the Northwest. And condi-
| tions really seem to have improved
in a marked degree. On the other
hand, too much Republican talk of
ang. The farmers are not yet quite
out of the woods. They still have
debts to pay, many of them. Much
| will depend on the price they receive
for wheat and corn and hogs and cat
tie this year.
While the talk of farm prosperity
continues, Democrats and progressives
are trying to drill into the people of
the West the idea that New England
and the East generally have grip
| that the real benefits or the admins.
tration go to those sections. Here and
there this doctrine seems to be hav-
! ing its effect. But with prosperity,
| the Northwest is Republican, and will
| continue so. What the Republican
| leaders are hoping is that good times
will continue through next year. when
/ the new Congress has to be elected.
| 1t seems rather ridiculous to be dis
| cussing the election of a new Con
| gress when the Congress elected a
| year ago has not yet even held its
| first session. But that is the way the
| Government works under the present
| system. a new Congress does not
! get together in regular session until
! 13 months after it has been chosen at
! the polls.
The Republican national committee
! has a problem on it's hands in Wiscon-
! sin which it had not bargained for
Assurances were given by the regular
| Republicans, the "stalwarts," of that
I State that they would get together on
a nominee for the Senate 10 oppose
| Robert NJ. La Toilette, il, in the Re
f, publican primaries. But they have
| fallen down on the job. There are
| three ca andidates in the field besides
young La Follette-Roy p. Wilcox
| choice of the Oshkosh convention;
| former Gov. Francis E. McGovern
| and Barry, who wanted 10 run first
as candidate of the La Toilette
| Wheeler party 'of last year. but
! found that no such party existed, and
| that under the State law he would
| either have to run as an independent
as did the La Toilette Wheeler cleo
| tors last year, Or enter the Repub-
/ llcan primaries.
! With q good d.sized row on in the
stalwart faction of the party. the ma.
| tional committee is wondering inst
how far it ought to become involved
| IN the campaign in the Badger State.
| Ihere Is feeling in some quarters
| that wisconsin cannot be run from
! Washington and that if the regular
| Republicans are to gain control in the
State they must do it themselves.
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| Senator William NJ. Butler. chair.
man of the Republican national com.
! mttee, will leave New England to go
to Chicago soon after Labor day, ac-
cording To present plans. He will look
in on the Wisconsin fight and then 20
! as far West as the Pacific coast
largely in the interest of the con.
| gressional and senatorial campaigns
| of next year
| The Farmer-Labor party, which was
so active in the Northwest few short
years ago, seems to have hit the
toboggan, due largely to--the lessen.
| ing of hard times in that section.
! Magnus Johnson, who was defeated
! for the Senate last year. is in eclipse,
and Senator Shipstead, the other
| Farmer-Labor Senator from Mime
sofa, will have a hard time getting re-
! elected three years from now. It has
! been a party of protest again un-
| usual conditions. and as those condi-
| tions have subsidized so has the party.
J. If young La Toilette is elected as
I a Republican to the Senate, will he
be accepted as such by the party or
ganiZation of that body, or will he be
| read out of the party. as was his
| father, the late Senator? If he is ac.
| cepted. what becomes then of Sena-
! tor Brookhart and Senator Frazier of
| North Dakota, who were dropped
! from party councils along with Sena-
/ tor La Toilette? For a wear now
there has been no Republican national
committeeman and no Republican n
national committeewoman from Wis
| consin. The last resigned because
! they were La Toilette supporters. and
as the control of the Republican State
committee has been in the hands of
the La Toilette faction, no successors
! have been named. This is another
problem which the national Republic
an organization must face sooner or
| later.
Senator Jim" Watson of Indiana.
who comes up for reelection next
year. is in the State looking after his
fences" His supporters. while con-
/ fident that he will be renominated and
| reelected. would like very much to
| know what former Senator Beveridge
is going to do. If the latter went into
the primaries, it would make an ugly
fight next year.
| Notwithstanding rumorS to the con.
trary, Chairman Clem Shaver of the
Democratic national committee has
not the slightest intention of resign
| ing his job now or in the near future.
| Democrats who talk of spending money
| in an effort at this time to start
something" for the party are about as
| popular with Mr.. Shaver as a budget
| busting Congressman with President
| Coolidge. Although Mr.. Shaver is not
| talking for publication. it is known
| that he does not believe in the old
practice of letting the party debt run
| along every four years, until it car
| be paid off by the bid of one of the big
cities for the honor and plea sure and
material gain of holding a Democratic
national convention within it's confines.
| New York got the convention last
year by agreeing to pay off the Demo-
cratic debt. And look what it did to
the party. This system is all wrong
in the opinion of Mr.. Shaver and