POLITICAL WARFARE

Evening Star, Issue 18650, 3 June 1924, Page 4

POLITICAL WARFARE

TENS!', SITUATION IN STATES. IMIKPATUXE FOR CONVENTIONS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, June 1. Willi (ho Republican Convention a week away, and tbe Democratic Convention three weeks off. politics have become America’s greatest business. The air is full of forecasts, prognostications, ami claims of the rival aspirants and leaders of the rival parties. Everyone is certain of victory, but actually uncertainty exists. It. is really a remarkable instance in American political history tiiat a man who is the avowed leader of ids party should be openly repudiated by that party in Congress upon three important occasions, Mr Coolidge, whose nomination is certain, and whoso control of the parly machinery is undisputed, lies been com-p-clod to bow to Congress in the matters of immigration, the soldiers’ bonus, and taxation, Congress having overridden the President. J,ho Democrats have derived great benefit and satisfaction from these happenings, and the Republican morale is weakened. Mr (Joolidgc's rtinning mate —-namely, the Vico-presidential candidate • —has become an important problem; while Senator La Folietlc’s threats lo organise a third parly and the impending battle over the pla-tlonu ]>romise excitement and trouble.

The Democrats, too, aro distraught by factional disputes, indicating a serious Cniggle at the Democratic Convention.— •A. and X.Z. Cable.

Senator Robert Marion Lafollotto. of Wisconsin, will he seventy years old in June, said the New lock correspondent of the 1 Dad}' Telegraph ’ in a recent despatch. J lie threat from In’s sick-bed at Washington that lie wil) lead a Third Party and bolt from the Republican Convention this sum MKT unless a Presidential candidate and a platform sati.slactory to him arc chosen has thrown American polilics into confusion. Mr LaJollelte is a .Republican when and where he chooses, and Mr Talollettc is a, man all the lime. In the great parly pack ho runs as a lone wolf, and frequently lake.-, th« trail with his own small pack and wrests the quarry from the, greater. Acknowledging no leader, lie endures no rival. The groups in 'noth Houses of Gongrcss which hold the ihalancc of power between the nearlymatched Republicans and Democrats follow Mr LaJollrtle. He lends the rebels of all organisations; be is the trumpeter of all social discontent a.nd the drummer of economic revolution. ]1 o mav never occupy the White House, it is oornmento.d; but he may become America's politic,'ll dictator in a, time when many are denouncing both the great existing parties.