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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1923)
Ford Can Cause Deadlock, Says Mark Sullivan Slay Carry Enough! States as Third Party Candidate to Prevent Majority in Electoral College. fCnhtlnurd From rate Four.) radicals think of La Kollotts as their true leader." The radical movement, which has been strong In Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, is trying to muke headway In Illinois, and is going to make an attempt to capture the republican Party machinery under the leadership of the present Governor Small. Small's speeches are in the extreme radical Vein. He says he would create an interstate farmers’ commission to reg ulate the sowing, distribution, prices and sale of crops. . 'This Illinois radical movement, un der the leadership of Governor Small, has adopted a formal platform. Some of the planks of this platform Illus trate the general tenor of the whole radical movement In the middle west. .Among the planks are these: That America shall not Join the league of nations or any other asso ciation of nations “without first sub mitting the proposed covenant of the league or the association or world court to a vote of the American peo ple." That there shall be an amendment .to the constitution providing that the United States shall never declare war unless there has first been a popular referendum, except In cases of actual invasion. — “We stand for legislation which will 'Impose a tax on excess profits, largely crease the federal estate tax on his .estates and exempt from national .taxation all Incomes of less than *5,000. "We demand such restriction of ihe power of the courts as shall leave to the people the ultimate authority lo dotermiae fundamental questions of social welfare and public policy. •To secure this end we favo. ,ai ^unendinent to the constitution of the United States which will povlda for the election of federal judges by a popular vote for a term of ten yeais. "We declare our continued allegi ance to the traditional republican pol icy of a protective tariff, to equalize ihe differences in cost of production at home and abroad, so that Ameri can producers and American labor may he protected without imposing exorbitant monopoly prices upon every American household. “We advocate a bonus by the na tional govenmont for every American sailor and soldier who served in the world war, recalling the fact that war rofiteering produced one American millionaire for every three American soldiers killed in France. We insist that the money neeessnry to meet the sacred obligation be raised by taxes laid upon those who profited by the war. "We insist upon drastic action by the national government to relieve the present financial hardships of the farmer. The farmer, who produces the food of the world, is clearly en titled to a a much protection as the vast railroad and other public utility corporations. "We urgently recommend the Im mediate repeal of the Esch-Cummins railroad law. which has produced high freight rates and is partially respon sible for the economic distress among the farmers and the high cost of liv ing in the cities." Adequate representation by women, on an equality with men. In all pub lic offices and employments. Laws which "will effectively end control by monopolists and specula tors of the markets for grain, live stock and dairy products." Whatever may come of this radical movement tn Illinois and however It may affect the presidential situation, the strong belief is that Senator Me dill McCormick will be return-d to the senate next year. Senator Mc Cormick is certainly one of the very strongest Individual republican poli ticians In Illinois. When he ran for the senate before he carried 95 out of the 101 counties outside of Chicago. In Iowa one of the most promlnant of the radicals. Senator Brookhart. comes up for re election next year. The regular republicans claim that Brookhart has suffered some diminu tion in popularity in his home state during the year since he was elected and hglieve It will be possible to de feat him next year. The outstanding fact, however, as reported in official republican circles in Washington, ts that no leader has yet appeared to make the contest against Brookhart. Meantime Breokhart goes cheerfully on. One of the rumors that has reached Washington Is to the effect that when congress next assembles Brookhart and La Follette will Intro duce a measure calling for a uniform if 5 per cent reduction In railroad freight rates. In spite of the extravagance of some of these expressions of radical ism. which are so extreme as to bring unnecessary odium on the legitimate and necessary demands of the far mers for relief—in spite of all this, the very great improbability of any thing really radical happening Is proved by any examination of facts ■which goes beneath the surface. To start with, Coolidge will be president for a year and six months to come. Coolidge will undoubtedly be sympa thetic to any legitimate and prac ticable effort to bring the condition of the farmers Into line with that of the other element* of the community. But. at the same time. Coolidge will no more attach his signature to any clearly unsound legislation than would Harding. Further than this, there Is only the remotest possibility of anybody really radical being in the presidency during the four years following 1925. It is not conceivable, even under the most unexpected circumstances, for anybody more radical than, for ex ample, Hiram Johnson, to get the republican nomination. Neither is it conceivable for anybody more radical than McAdoo, for e xample. to get the democratic nomination. And persons who are familiar with both these men —even persons who oppose them strongly—do not think of them as radical In any-extreme sense. Not only Is it Impossible for any extreme radical to get the nomina tion of either of the major parties; further than this, as to Henry Ford, it is. In the first place, clearly im possible for him to get siiher the re publican or the democratic nomina tion. In addition, it Is practically im possible for Ford to start a third tarty with such strength and mo mentum as actually to prevail over the other two parties and elect hint president. The only possible chance Ford has for the presidency next year would lie In starting a third party, and — this Is the Important thing—starting It now. If Ford anil Ford's friends wait until the two ma jor parties have held their conven tions next year, and try to start their third party thereafter, it will be too late to he successful. There is no sign of Ford or Ford's friends start ing a third party In the immediate future. That being so, there Is hard ly the faintest possibility of Ford be ing the next president of the United States. • While Ford cannot get either of the old party nominations, and while he cannot win with a third party, If he waits until after the two major party conventions to start that third party, it Is still true that there Is a possibil ity of his causing a good deal of un pleasant commotion next year. This is a possibility which Is engaging some of the thought of the more far sighted politicians of both parties. The law requires that the successful candidate for president shall have a majority of the entire electoral college. This means that the successful candl date In the election must have some thing more than half of the 531 elec toral votes. Ordinarily, with only the candidates of the two old parties run ning, it turns out automatically that one or the other has the necessary majority. Hut if Henry' Ford should complicate the situation by running on a third ticket, he might, while falling far short of success, carry enough states to bring It about that neither the republican nor the demo cratic candidate should have a ma jority In the electoral college. For ex ample, if Ford should carry, as he might readily carry, the states of North Dakota, South Dakota. Wiscon sin and Michigan, or any similar group of states, It might result that neither the democratic nor the repub lican candidate would have an actual majority in the electoral college. In such nn outcome the Vaw re quires that the election be thrown Into the lower house of congress. This has happened In two case* In our history, once in the case of Jefferson and Burr, in 1801, and once In the case of John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, In 1825. If the coming election for the presi dency should, by such a sequence of events as is here outlined, be thrown into the present house of- representa tives, some curious and disturbing re sults might readily follow. When the lower house of congress elects a presi dent the members vote, not as Indi viduals. but by states. That Is to say. the entire 45 members from N'ew York would cast one vote. The one mem ber from Arizona would cast one vote, w-hlch would be equal in power to the entire 45 members from the state of New York. What would actually hap pen would be that the members of the lower hotfse from each state would hold a caucus and that caucus would determine for whom the vote of the state should be cast. Now the curious fact about the present congress is that^while the re publicans have a majority of the in dividual congressmen, a majority of about 20, the democrats, on the other hand, have the majority of the 3tates. The democrats ha^'e a major ity of the members of the lower house of congress from more states than the republicans have. From that It might appear that If the election were thrown Into the house of rep resentatives the democratic candidate would surely win. But this doe* not necessarily follow. The congressmen from some of the states might feel called upon to vote for Henry Ford if it should have happened that Henry Ford carried their states in the election. Out of all this complexity tt has been figured by those who have looked into It carefully ‘ that It would be possible for a deadlock to arise in the lower house of congress. If such a deadlock should arise and should continue until March 4. 1925. It might then happen automatically that the next president might be whichever of the candidates for vice president re celved a majority of the votes. The net of all this Intricacy, as occasion ally expressed, is that the next presi dent of the United States may turn out to be either the republican or the democratic candidate for vice presi dent. While many of the politicians who habitually look close into future cal culations of this kind have been all through the process here outlined, and while these eventualities will be possible, it still remains a fact that they are within the world of the pos sible—almost within the world of the whimsical—rather than of the prob able. It is clearly a fact that Henry Ford and his friends, while falling short of the presidency, mighty cause a good deal of commotion next year. But the infinitely greater probability, based on the way events have turned Tile Fir»t Waiker Made Wai a Von— Oeer 47 Yeari Ago. You’ll Never Misi the Money You Pay for a Voaa Waalier. 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