Evening star., 1926-09-17
Coolidge and World Court
Debated as Primary Echoes

Local factors played such an i'm
portant part in recent senatorial pri-
maries that the press finds difficulty
in drawing definite conclusions as to
their effect upon national issues. The
results. as the Chicago Daily News
expresses it, "have been far from
clear and not purely national"
In the Wisconsin. New Hampshire
Georgia and Nevada contests the
Wichita Beacon independent kepun-
licam holds "the fact probably is that
the coolidge factor was only a minor
thing. President Coolidge is still per
sonally strong" says the Beacon, but
has not the power to hold the admin
istration group together in dramatic
fighting orga niZatiOn such as was pos
sessed by Roosevelt. This gives the
Ia ITollettes and Brookharts and other
sinple-footing radical candidates Il
chance to throw the Republican ma
chinery into disorder. If there Should
he some great crisis, there would ne a
recryStallization, no doubt But at
present there Is not enough direction
ia national policy to keep any party
going steadily toward any given point
of the compass. Each State is hold
ing it's own little national issues con
test in it's own way, and in each State
there is a different shade of lnterpre-
tation from that of the others.
on the World Court issue, the
Lynchburg News Democraticl as
serts that about the only scalps at
the belt of the anti-COurt forces 10
date are those of Senator Gooding OF
Idaho, who recanted to save ms po-
Iitical place, and of Senator Lenroot,
who was really slain by the La Fol
lette ring. The net result IS not
such as to make Senators VINO Ia
vored the Court to quake visibly
in their boots The Chicago
| tribune independent Republican,,
however, argues that Senator Lenroot
probably would have won handily
in spite of the opposition of the La
Toilette Blaine machine if he had not
been a champion of the League Court,
and If he had come out frankly
against Volsteadism."
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Eve have seem" says the Syracuse
Herald independently. Senator Tasker
l.. Oddie Of Nevada and Walter r.
George of Georgia, World Court ad-
herents. renominated by emphatic ma
iorities In both of these contests the
World Court issue was agltated by
the reactionaries Add to these the
uncontested denomination of Senators
Butler and Cameron in Massachusetts
and Arizona, respectively, and it will
be seen that four of the six senatorial
primaries Of the week have yielded
popular Endorsements OF pro- orld
Court records" Against this showing
the Herald comedies the antis can
point to one gain in Wisconsin due
to a variety of causes, and to renom-
ination of George II. Moses of New
Hampshire, whose strength in his
state was to be expected.
But the Santa Barbara News dnde-
pendent Democratic) thinks "if either
| the supporters of the World Court or
| Its opponents can extract much con
| ISOLATION out of the results OF the re-
cent primary elections they must be
easily satisfied. The explanation OF
the situation probably is to be found
in the fact that other issues almost
always enter into the campaign, and
the further fact that many regard the
court as a closed incident"
| AS to the geneLal effect of the pri
'maries on the Coolidge administration