Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-10-27
Politics at Large
By G.. Could Lincoln.

President Coolidge's announcement
| that both he and Mrs. Coolidge wouio
go to their home in Massachusetts
to vote in person for Senator WllIlam
| M. Butler for Senator and for GOV.
| Fuller to succeed himself is just what
/ Republican leaders in the Bay State
have been hoping for weeks. They
| regard the announcement that the
I President will journey to Northamp-
ton for the purpose of casting MS
ballot as a clarion call to Republl-
can voters to turn out In this OH
year" election What they have fear
| ed is that Republicans in rural COM
munities might fail to vote. while
Democrats and wet Republicans fa-
voring Walsh for Senator and CASTOR
for governor would flock to the polls
| in the cities. President Coolidge
letter approving Senator Butler and
Gov. Fuller is doubtless worth many
| votes to the Republican candidates
in a race which appears close. the
Coolidge name is a name to cOnJure
with in Massachusetts. just as the
La Toilette name has been potent In
| Wisconsin for the last quarter CEN
| fury. Democrats may say that the
Recommendation Of the President that
Butler and Fuller be elected is an
indication of uncertainty and fear
on the part Of the Republican leaders
this year. But that will scarcely null
lily the effect of the appeal made by
the President.
| X X X \
In the other State fights President
Coolidge has kept his hands of, this
year. He has spoken highly of some
Of the candidates for the Senate or
! Republican tickets, as in the case OF
| Lenroot of Wisconsin before the prl
| mary. But he has made no direct ap
| peal to the voters except in Massa
| chusetts. 1t would appear that the
! President is we'll within his rights and
| the proprieties in saying a good word
| for the Republican candidates in his
| own home State, both as titular lead
| err Of the Republican party ard as
President Of the United States. Sup
| port Of the President and his admin
| istration have been made an issue IN
Massachusetts this year, although IN
| many other States local issues alone
| will govern the results of the cleo
| tions. In Democratic circles. the &C
| ton of the President in advocating
! the election of Senator Butler Is
| placed on all tours with the plea made
| by the late President Wilson In 1918
| for the election of a Democratic SEN
| ate and a. Democratic House to aid
| him in CARRYING out his policies. Al
| that time the United States was IN
| the midst of war. Repupilcans
who believed they had cast partisan
politics aside to aid the Democratic
| administration to win the war were
highly incensed at the implied crltl'
cism that Republicans were not to be
| trusted. They rose and smote the
| Democratic candidates for Senate and
| House. The result was disastrous to
| the Democratic party. In 1918 tnere
was also much displeasure with the
| Democratic administration In many OF
| the States. Wartime rule Is rarely
| popular. The situation this year Is
| vastly different. The country has
| been prosperous, generally speaking
Notwithstanding the refusal OF Demo
| Gratis to admit this to be the truth
| President Coolidge retains wide popu
larity, in spite of his stand against
a certain type of farm relief legisla
| ton. and in spite of scandals which
affect Republican organizations ano
candidates in several of the States.
! x X \ X
Senator Pat Harrison Of Mississippi
genial Democratic leader, who has
| been steadily on the stump during
4 = III,
his audiences by relating an incident
of his travels in Missouri. AS he was
passing through Dexter, Mo-, a man
in the seat next his opened the rail-
road car window and shouted to ma
tive:
"Hey, stranger, is there any work
in the quarries here?"
"Naw," was the laconic reply.
AS the traveller drew his head In
sadly, Senator Harrison turned to him
remarking with twinkle in his eye
1.-THE only place where there is
work in the quarries this year, my
friend, is in rock-ribbed Republican
Vermont, where they are cutting
tombstones to be placed over the pc
litical graves Of Republican Senators
Newberry Of Michigan, after he had
been accused Of buying his election in
1918"
"Jack" Cochran, Democratic candi
date for the House in the eleventh
Missouri district-the district now
held by Harry Halves, who is a candi
| date for the Senate-has gained a
reputation as a public speaker Of UNI
| shaken nerve, to whom hecklers are a
mere nothing. When he delivered his
maiden speech in his campaign to sue.
| coed MIR. Halves, the audience was
literally sprinkled with hecklers. They
turned their full battery on Cochran
But their questions never feazed him
! He talked right along as though no
one had sought to interrupt him.
An old-t1mer at political meetings
said afterward to a friend of the
candidate. admiringly:
Say. that fellow is some cam.
palgner They can't heckle him."
! WE'LL replied the other, Cochran
IS good speaker. But YOU know
don't you, that he is deaf?' ''0 "
| The Republicans of Kentucky .ra
counting on getting out As large a
| vote as possible in the mountains of
the eastern part Of the State. In these
mountain districts, the vote is almost
solldly Republican. The system adont.
ed to get the mountaineers to the
polls Is quite simple. A key man is
selected at the head Of each mountain
gulch. On election day the key man
mounts a white mule. takes an Amer.
lean flag in one hand and horn in
the other and rides down the gulch,
calling on all voters living along his
route to follow him to the polls.
| The Kentucky mountaineer is
-, nothing If not patriotic. He will fol.
low an American flag as long as he
can see 1t. Where the mountain roads
merge into larger roads leading to
polling places, the Republican man.
ayers have automobile trucks or
wagons to haul the mountain voters
to the polls. Rumor has it that after
| they have voted they get dividend
from a barrel Of the best moon.
shine" to help them on their way
home.
| Senator Richard P. Ernst, Repub
lican, Is faced with defeat in the Ken
lucky senatorial election or the smash
ing of a precedent of many years
standing. Not for SO years has a
United States Senator been reelected