Evening star., 1926-10-05

in securing it. But there is no doubt
where his sympathies lie at the pres
ent writing.
All of this had led the Democrats
cynically to paraphrase the Senator's
Coolidge needs Ernst" slogan INTO
four barreled slogan of their own:
Coolidge needs Ernst. Ernst needs
Mrs. Langley. Langley needs a
parole. But Kentucky needs Bark
ley"
Will Not Act on Parole.
1t is understood here that Washing
ton will keep hands off the Langley
parole until after election. 1t is not
required to assure Mrs. Langley's vic
tory in the tenth district, while Lang
ley's liberation at this time might
cause a Instantaneous political re-
action in the State at large. In the
mountain country. where to make
moonshine is considered an inalienable
right, Langleys activities never
were regarded as feIonies. He will be
welcomed back to Pikeville, which he
served in Congress for more than
20 years, without suggestion of
moral turpitude attaching to his
name. But the rest of Kentucky does
not feel quite that way about him.
Senator Ernst is using undoubtedly
strong material in his own behalf in
identifying himself horse, foot and
dragoon with the Coolidge adminiStra-
ton. The President is pretty firmly
ntrenched in the State of Clay, Crit
tenden, Carlisle. breckenridge Ollie
lanes and Marse Henry Watterson.
Kentucky Republicans, now that they
control Louisville and Jefferson Coun-
ty and have two G. @. F. United
States Senators for the first time in
history, speak of the State as having
become pretty solid Republican terri
tory. though it has an incorrigible
habit of remaining Democratic in pres
idential years. The &. O. u. has a
we'll oiled and smoothly working or
in every precinct. and be-
iieves the party cannot be undermined
this year.
Yet there's d disturbing tradition
that Kentucky has hardly ever re
elected a United States Senator. If
Ernst secures a second term he will
be recordbreaker. None of his sup
pOrters expect him to win. if at all eX-
cept by a close vote. The total off
year poll viii not exceed 100000 If
Ernst can squeeze through by any
thing from 10000 to $4,000 Republ-
can leaders will consider it tre-
mendous victory. The campaign of
ticially begins with hope. rather than
as their inspiring emotion.
Will Stress Prosperity.
Coolidge prosperity" will be
stressed by Senator Ernst and the
Republican candidates for the House
day in and day out. The House
delegation is Democratic by s
tn nd n1o
in prospect. Since whisky ceased
to be Kentucky's principal industry
the State has filled up with manu-
featuring establishments, which are
almost in every case beneficiaries of
the protective tariff Kentucky, like
the rest of the industrial United
States, is rolling in prosperity. There
is no unemployment. Wages are
high. The argument that Ernst and
his fellow Republicans are using with
unquestionable telling effect is that
kentucky is in enjoyment of these
conditions because of Coolidge and
other Republican pOlicieS-the pro-
tective tariff, Government economy,
tax reduction and all of the other
articles in the Republican campaign
creed of 1926, and that danger lies in
swapping congressional horses.
easy to refute this reasoning, al
though Representative Barkley is
pounding away in that direction be-
fore big audiences all over the State
and, he says, evOking hearty re-
sponseS. He assails Republican pros
perity as a myth, because the farm
ers have no share in it. He is be
rating the Coolidge administration for
codling "the protected manufacture
ing East" and ignoring "the bankrupt
agricultural West" He is riddling
Republican economy claims by assert
ing that even the running expenses
of the White House under Coolidge
are vastly heavier than under any
preceding President. Barkley is also
attempting to show that the civil
service pay roll in volume and num-
ber of personnel is larger and costlier
than at any time in the Nations his
tory.
1t is at Senator Ernst's career in