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LA FOLLETTE TO HAVE NO SHOW IN G. O. P. CONVENTION 'Voters in No Mood to Elect Him Senator’s “War Record” Be ing Forgotten, But People Cringe Before His Mor dant Bitterness. Is Hope of Few Radicals By MARK SULLIVAN. Whoever else may or may not run for the republican presidential nomi nation; whether there are to be sev eral opponents to Coolidge in the field, or whether there will not; regardless of what Pinchot does, or Johnson does, or anybody else—under any and all conditions, there is one forceful figure who will challenge Coolidge and make whatever progress he can against him. That is La Follette. That the progress he can make must with practical certainty be small will not affect La Follette’s deter mination to run. La Follette is not bound/by leaders’ agreements, formal or informal, tentative or permanent-. He goes his own gait and shakes a defiant fist at the whole universe of understandings, agreements or rules. 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So far as he pays any attention to una nimity anywhere or under any cir cumstances it is to be distrustful of it. To cast a solitary vote at the last ditch is for La Follette a kind of luxury of martyrdom. That La Follette will run is cer tain; the only aspect of his participa tion in the situation of 1024 that lends Itself to speculate is how far he will get. He will probably have the 28 delegates from his own state of Wis consin, as he has had them, or the bulk of them, in every tepublican na tional convention for several years past. Dependent on who else is in the field, he may also have some delegates from nearby states like Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota and a few more distant. Would Poo] Candidacies. „ At one time some months ago the actual plan of the more extreme pro gressives and radicals, of whom La Follette is the avowed leader, was to pool the candidacies of such men as they may be able to persuade to join them in a common effort. Their plan was to have La Follette try to get the delegates from Wisconsin at least; for Brookhart of Kenyon to try to get the delegates from Iowa, and for other men identified with the group to run in the states where their power is greatest. Out of the aggregate of these indi vidual candidacies it wais the hope of this group to get the maximum num ber of delegates and to use these dele gates as a group. Xhe limitation of this process is the limitation of the number of men who are willing to take part In It. That number is very small. It will be confined to the more extreme radicals. Borah will hove no part in it; neither will Johnson nor any of the other progressives who have real and formidable strength among the people. If any of thesd latter men ever run for the repub lican nomination at all they will do so on the broad basis of their indi vidual personalities and the things they personally stand for. Far from permitting themselves to become parts of a combination acting In any such way as this, they will he care ful to avoid identification with this extreme fringe. Probably the men named—La. Follette and either Ken yon or Brookhart—would be all who could he enlisted In this project of the La Follette group. And the ex treme number of delegates they can hope to assemble by this pooling of interest would not be more than 100 or 150 out of a total of more than 1,000. Possibly, Indeed, this plan of pooling the radical candidacies may he abandoned, or may already have been abandoned. At the time it wae' first devised—I think it was Brook hart who first thought of it—there was a good deal of confident excite ment nbout it, but the writer has heard little of it lately, possibly be cause of the emphatic discouragement encountered from some of the men invited to join the pool. War Record Recalled. La Follette today does not begin to ha^e the following he had when he was a pioneer of the old progres sive movement of 10 to 20 years ago. The public has come to think of him as having a bitter strain. It la prob ably not using too strong a word to say that among the overwhelming ma jority of the people La Follette Is unpopular. This unpopularity is by no means solely due to what is often called with dubious accuracy his "war record." It is a matter of common knowledge that at one time during the war there was a tendency to make La Follette a pariah among his fellow senators, that there was actu ally a movement to expel him from the senate, and that. In addition to this formal gesture toward outlawing him, there was a disposition equally painful, possibly more painful to the victim of It—a disposition to make La Follette a social outcast in the senate. If this so-called “war record" were the only cause of La Follette's un popularity he might safely count upon recovering from It. The only ques tion he would need to consider would he the number of years It might take him to live it down and whether he Is still young enough to hope to be the beneficiary of the ultimate with drawal of this Intolerance. La Fol lette is getting up in years. He no longer gives his age in the autobio graphy in the congressional directory' He Is 68. To dissent from your nation's par ticipation in a foreign war is al ways a certain title to acute disap proval so long as the war last*. But It is equally certain that disapproval based on this cause only can evap orate so soon as wartime passion dies down. Of this law of puhllo life there are two extraordinarily plctur (*que, almost romantic, examples In England. In Great Britain's management of the recent war it had two statesmen who were clearly outstanding as Its most /.-onsplcuous and most useful. One was Lloyd George. Lloyd George was Britain's outstanding wartime leader. And yet, 16 years previous, when Great Britain was en gaged in another war. with the Boers, Lloyd George's role was then a viv idly contrasting one. In that cnrller war Lloyd George was the kind of outenst that some of us tried to make La Follette. In the Boer war 16 years before Lloyd George, then a memiier of the house of commons, took the position that It was un un just war on the part of his country and that its attack on the Boers wna ari act of shame. Ho violent was he In his denunciation of Great Brit ain's going to war, ami his opposition to It continuing It, that on one occa sion when he attempted to make a WE HAVE YOUR FAVORITE s TYPEWRITER! 11 We can a^e you over SO per cent on any a rnake typewriters and guarantee you qtial 1 ity, service and perfect satisfaction. Cash or convenient terms. If you can't buy, rent a typewriter. Our rates are lowest in the city. All Makes Typewriter Co. . 205 S. 18th Street AT 2414 If -- speech at Manchester he was attacked by a mob with such fury that the police seized him and hastily put him in a policeman’s coat and helmet to hurry him away from the angry crowd. Smuts Faced Hard Tasks. The other of Great Britain’s two most useful statesmen in the recent war—one to whom some of the most difficult tasks of diplomacy were en trusted—was Gen. Jan Smuts. And In the Boer war Smuts had been an enemy in arms of the British empire, one of the leaders of the Boers. (It was as an enemy of the British em pire that Smuts got his title of gen eral.) During the recent war, on an occa sion when the writer was in London, he had an experience which will al ways remain With him as one of the most dramatic of his memories, an experience that appealed powerfully to the Imagination in its suggestion of bigness in an individual, Genernl Smuts; and bigness also in the spirit of the British empire. The writer was one of the guests at a dinner party of which the host was General Smuts. Another of the guests was in military uniform, an active general in the British army. During the course of the dinner this active British general told a story which, summarized and condensed, was in effect as follows: sixteen years ago, ne said, "i was a young captain In the British army. I was serving in the Boer war in South Africa. One day my men captured some Boer prisoners and brought them In to me. In my talk with the Boer prisoners the*’ spoke of being especially proud of the leader in whose command they had been when they were captured. They said their commander was not only a man of great military skill, but was a highly educated man. After some talk of this kind I asked these Boer cap tives where their commander was. They said he was not far away, across a stream. After getting such information ns I could about the loca tion of the Boer commander, I went to some of my own soldiers, borrowed a rifle, went out and scouted about until I located that Boer emmander. Having spotted him, I took as careful aim ns I was capable of taking and shot at him. To my discredit as a soldier, be it said that I missed him entirely. But tonight I am very glad I missed him, for that Boer comman der was our present host, General Smuts, who Is now giving the high est service to the British empire. Gen eral Smuts," the teller of the story concluded, "has never heard this story until tonight, and l ain glad to tell it, here and now, as an incident of giving testimony to his services to the British empire in the present war.” It would be hard to find In history a parallel to General Smuts' experi ence in passing within 16 years from being an enemy In arms of the Brit ish empire In one war to being one of its two or three most trusted snd most able statesmen in Its next war. Personality Is Barrier. Dissent from his nation's attitude in time of war Is no necessarily long continuing handicap to a stateman's position. In La Follette's enso it lias almost been forgotten already. But the country has been impress ed with something strident, something high-pitched and shrill, a touch of mordant bitterness in La Follette which makes many, even including some ardent progressives, shrink a little at the thought of putting him in the White House. It is this qual ity of the impression La Follette has given the country of his personality that is his chief handicap, rather than anything about his war record. So far as the war record goes. La Fol lette, largely as the result of acci dent, has been treated unfairly. It Is generally admitted now that there was nothing either In La Follette's acts or In his utterances which justified that movement to expel him from the j senate, which wns on# of the least happy Incidents of our war-time exal tation. Because La Follette Is the formal leader of the Insurgent republican group In the senate and house and of Its following throughout the coun try It Is quite certain that the more aggressive spirits within that group will try to get the republican presi dential nomination for him. That ef fort, however, cannot be looked upon today as having even a remote possi bility of success. The present spirit of sullen unrest throughout the dbun try would have to become In the space of the coming few months al most revolutionary in order to give La Follette the faintest chance. And, while there are persons who antici pate that the present discontent may become more acute, the writer knows no one who predicts that It will go far enough to give La Follette the remotest chnnce of nomination. In deed, It would be safe to wager that of the entire 1,03(1 delegates who will compose the next republican conven tion La Follette will not have at the outside more than a tenth. He will probably have, ns he has had In sev eral previous conventions, the bulk of Wisconsin's 26 delegates. In ad dition he may possibly have scatter ed groups of a few delegates from some other states, like Michigan and Nebraska. Hut it Is hardly conceiv able that I si Follette should be nblo to muster In all more than a hundred. Such hopes as the Insurgent repub licans at one time had of capturing the presidential nomination next year rested largely on a belief they held two or three years ago, that during the Intervening period they could greatly extend or even make univer sal the "presidential primary" system of selecting delegates to the national convention. But the recent legisla tive year in the vurlous states came and went without n«y extension of tho direct primary rfystom. On the contrary, in sonte states it was re pealed or modified In a direction looking toward repeal. Direct lYlmary l.nsrs Drntind. The direct pritnnry system Is suf ficiently general to make nearly everybody familiar with the dletlnc tlon between It and the old method of choosing delegatee. Doth the presi dential primary and the old method have a variety of forma In different •tale*. I(nt. broadly epeeking, the distinction la that under the old meth od the delegates to national rnnven turns are chonen cither Dy Informal caucuses or by some other loose method which give* great power to the local party leaders. Indeed. It la not loo much lo say that under the old system the delegates to the na tional convention are chosen largely by wuys which, whatever the vurln Uona In different stales, amount In ef feet to being what the politelans call "hand picked" by the party lenders. It was precisely to take this power away from the local lenders that the presidential primary was devised. (The system was put into effect large ly ns an Incident of—and for the pur pose of—getting the 1912 nomination for Roosevelt as against Taft. who. in obedience to the tradition that every president is entitled to renominution for a second term, was the choice of the leaders.) The presidential pri mary, while it varies greatly In form, has as its essential characteristic the choice of delegates to the national con ventions by direct vote of the people In an election which is surrounded with the same formal statutory safe guard as the general elections. The presidential primary system, from the momentum it got in the Roosevelt fight of 1912, spread to such an extent that it covered almost half the states and almost half the dele gates. (The exact number of delegates now subject to the presidential pri mary method of selection is 465 out of a total of 1,036.) With the passing >f Roosevelt and the urngresslve party, the presidential primary not only lost its forward momentum, but began to slip baekwnrd. In various states, nota bly Minnesota and Maine, formal ac tion has been taken, sometimes suc cessful and sometimes only partially so, looking toward a return In one de gree or another to the old convention system of selecting delegates. 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