The Indianapolis times., 1928-06-13
KEEPING UP
With
THE NE WIS
BY LUDWELL DENNY

II ANsAs CITY, June 13.-Charles
IN Dawes is trying to slip in the
back door.
Convinced he is beaten by Her.
bert Hoover for the Republican
presidential nomination, he now
asks for second place on the ticket.
Wall Street is trying to force
Hoover to take him. Mellon is re-
ported willing.
Running as a presidential dark
horse behind his stalking horse.
Lowden, Vice President Dawes two
days ago secretly deserted Lowden
and began his new under-cover race.
While his aids in the anti Hoover
lllance--LoWden, Watson, Goff and
Curtis-were making the last des-
perate effort to stop Hoover before
the convention opened, Dawes quiet
ly was urging Hoovers friends to
accept him for second place.
This Dawes move explains the
sudden and mysterious disorganiza-
ton of the allies long before the
President, through Butler and Mel
Ion, swept aside the camouflaged
draft Coolidge barrier behind which
the allies were operating for Dawes.
In his vice presidential race he is
relying on the same paradoxicaI
combination of Wall Street and
farm politicians which was not
strong enough to beat Hoover.
THOUGH Hoover now controls
Il the convention, Dawes scouts
are pressing the argument that
Hoover can not carry the election
against Smith without the support
of Wall Street and of the revolt
ing" farm States.
Dawes opponents insist he would
be a menace to Republican victory
and ruin Hoover as "the peoples
candidate" They say:
AS the tool of Wall Street,
Dawes will be denounced by the
Democrats to the voters, many Of
whom will desert the Republican
party on that issue.
Dawes lacks the farm strength OF
Curtis Of Kansas and other avail
able farm politicians who, through
not dirt farmers, are at least not
bankers.
Dawes notorious anti-labor record,
and his attempts to organize the
Minute Men Of the Constitution
as an American Fascist, make him
the most hated politician in the
country by the American Federation
of Labor, civil liberty advocates and
liberals" generally. The A. F.. of L.
several days ago issued a convention
statement denouncing Dawes. 1t is
said to rate Hoover and Smith
about even, so the second man on
each ticket is expected to determine
whether the labor majority goes
Republican or Democratic in No
Vember.
Dawes connection with the Lori
mer bank scandal will be used by
the Democrats to support their COR
ruption charges against the party.
The Democrats will try to impli-
cate Dawes in the oil scandals. In
vestigations are already under way
for this purpose, it is said.
Dawes is so unstable" in word
and act that he would be a menace
to the country in a domestic or for
eign crisis-especially if he, like
Roosevelt and Coolidge, became
President through death of his
chief,
NAWES' opponents have no diff
- flculty in proving that he has
been the Wall Street candidate from
the start. The original Dawes mar
was Charlie Hilles, New York boss
and direct spokesman of Republican
financial interests. Hilles evolved
the draft Coolidge strategy as a
blind for Dawes, and persisted in it
after public rebuke by the Presi-
dent.
Knowing that direct Wall Street
support for Dawes would kill him
with the farmers, whom this Chi
cago banker claims to represent,
Hilles' ineffective dark horse tactics
nevertheless were Dawes only
chance.
In that under cover campaign
Hilles and Dawes had one power
full club which they used against
Hoover, and which they are using
in a different way today. They sent
the word down the political line
that Wall Street in the event of
Hoover's nomination would throw
its moral and financial support 10
Al Smith.
If the other Dawes ring, repre-
sented by the farm politician allies,
had been as effective as Hilles per-
haps the desired convention dead
lock against Hoover could have
been created, Lowden withdrawn
and Dawes suddenly substituted as
"the farmers friend"
THIS has direct bearing on
i Dawes vice presidential cam
didacy.
Dawes began preparing this farm
strategy last year by helping the
agrarian bloc in Congress pass the
McNary- -Haugen farm relief bill,
which was vetoed by the President
on the ground it was fallacious and
unconstitutional While Dawes
western managers we're trying to
convince the Middle West that Nc
Nary -Haugenism was the only pa
nacea, he last month helped push
the bill through Congress again and
forced a second bitter veto. 1t was
charged that the bill was passed
for political purposes to further
Dawes candidacy and enabarass the
Administration.