Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-03

After the lightning strokes which
the Coolidge administration sunereo
when Mckinley, Pepper, Stanneid'
C,,noninS and Hanna Succumbed IN
successive senatorial primaries. Short
ridges victory in California is a wei
come breeze in a politically oppressive
Summer Such admin1Stratlonlsts as
are left in Washington, or as nave al
ready returned from vacation an,
sences. believe the worst is over. IL
Lenroot, arch-World Court protago-
MIST in the Senate, squeezes through In
Wisconsin on September Z, the White
House will be inclined to feel that the
anti.court drive has spent it's force.
n will in any event be the League or
Nations, not the Senate, that VIII
cause America to reverse its actlon
in entering the court. NotWlthStano'
ing recantations by Senators like
Gooding, Republican. and Trammel,
Democrat, there's still a long, long
trail for anti-courters to travel pe1ore
thew can undo 76-to-17 vote by which
the Senate approved the protocol IN
January, 1926.
Coolidge leaders have persistently
declined to admit that primary defeats
of administration supporters denote
that the President is slipping.
Their argument is that the President
cannot delegate his prestige" They
contend that his strength and his
popularity are essentially his own, and
that the factors which give him a holC
on public favor are not, and cannon
be. affected by either the overthrow
or the triumph Of congressional candl
dates. These, the Coolidge spokes
OY fhnU 90
hut the Presidents position remains
unchanged. Nevertheless, the out
come of the November elections is
awaited with 'undisguised interest, not
to say anxiety, by the Republican
national management. "On-year
results in contemporary times have
proved to be the forerunner OF dis
aster for the party in power. Tart
defeat in 1912 followed the loss OF
one branch Of Congress two years
previous by the Republican party; anc
| the Democrats lost in 1920. following
their catastrophe at the 1918 election
and have been in the wilderness ever
! since.
Henry Lamar, Strapp1ng young
| Washington lad, whom some fist1t
| thorities look upon as future
! heavyweight champion of the world
| ia a grandson of distinguished
American statesman and jurist-tht
| late Associate Justice L. @. c. Lamar
| of the United States Supreme Court
! Lamar is now undergoing intensive
| training. with a view to possible ap-
! pearance in one of the preliminary
contests preceding the Dempsey
| Tunney function at Philadelphia or
| September 20. A cousin of youns
Lamar plays left field for the
| Philadelphia Athletics. The battling
| descendant of the Georgian-Missis
sippian. who was successfully a Con-
| federate diplomatic officer, member
! of both House and Senate of the
United States, Secretary of the In
| terror, and finally a Supreme Court
| Justice, started out to be lawyer
| but forsook the bar for the prize
ring. He was lately amateur light
| heavyweight champion boxer of the
United States, but has now turned
professional. Lamar is under q, and
giant.
The Turkish government seems not
disinclined to use strong arm tactics
to force the United States Senate to
ratify the Lausanne treaty. Our
business men al Constantinople main
tain a very active American Chamber
of Commerce" which is the focal
point of American trade throughout
the Near East. Reports recently
reached this country that the Turkish
authorities had compelled the cham
Der to put up its shutters. The news
appears to be premature. All that
Mustapha Kennels people at Angora
have done is to threaten that the
organization would be put out OF
business If the Senate continues to
refuse to see the beauty and useful