LA FOLLETTE CLUB SCORNS DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE

In answer to the letter from the Democratic Club which appeared in the Harvard CRIMSON on September 26, the La Follette-Wheeler Club has sent the following irate reply. The letter of the Democratic Club asked the La Follette-Wheeler Club to join with them in electing Davis to insure Coolidge's defeat.

The La Follette-Wheeler Club of Harvard University

"22 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

"The Harvard Democratic Club, 15 Holworthy Hall, Cambridge.

"Gentlemen:-

"When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,

And will talk in contemptnous tones of the shark:

But, when the tide-rises and sharks are around,

His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.

"Presidential elections are not horse races; it is not absolutely essential to bet on the winner. It seems strange that I should have to call this to your attention because you seem able to distinguish differences between the Republican and Democratic Parties. To find these delicate disharmonies would seem to require discrimination of a high order, and I should have supposed that this ability could be applied in other fields.

"Because Mr. Palmer has been out of office four years, and because the war contracts and Shipping Board news is no longer carried on the front pages, we have not forgotten the outrageous record of the last Democratic administration.

Davis Little Better Than Coolidge

"Because Mr. Davis half-supports the League of Nations, we have not forgotten his connections and his avowed views which would almost certainly entangle us even further in Latin America. Nor has Mr. Davis shown himself interested in solutions of industrial problems; he has always stood with the group who would settle strikes by clubs and injunctions.

"We as liberals and progressives cannot support a man who as President of the American Bar never opened his mouth through years of hysteria and persecution in defense of rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, a document which he seems solicitous to defend not when it is in danger of suspension, but only when it is in need of orderly and vital amendment.

"But to return to my first point. The possibility of the election of Mr. Davis is far less than that of Senator La Follette. Furthermore, in the event that Senator LaFollette should not win, the election will almost certainly be thrown into the House or Senate, where both Senator LaFollette and Senator Wheeler would be nearer success than any of the other candidates.

I am not at all sorry to tell you than the LaFollette-Wheeler Club of Harvard University declines to join you in support of Mr. Davis.  "Very truly yours,  "Larry R. Brown,"