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Show LOOKER WEST PRESIDENT'S CAMPAIGN FOR FIE- nr LECTION TO CONCENTRATE ON WINNING DOUBTFUL WE8T 8econd Term Drive Begun Under Cr Direction of Attorney General Daugherty; Prohibition It Issue Washington. Tho "winning of the R west" will bo tho first objocttve of . Kar President Harding's campaign for re- Bin; election which hat boon definitely star started by tho executive's cloao polltl- Wo( ral associate, Attorney General Da ugh- WRg ort3r in ' Tho president nnd hla political ad- visors aro understood hero to hare 101 decided that to attain a Itopublican dow victory In 1024, the great bulk of the dom atatea la the middle and far west Jure must be carried. In tbla respect, the bo I proslderft will use the samo political jc, atratoKy aa waa employed by his pre- pu0 docosaor, Woodrow Wilson, who, in B 1010, nosed out Charles B. Hughes by winning the west Hopo of swinging tho west into line worl behind the Itopublican standard Is the principal roaeon for tho prtsldont'a 'DK ' transcontinental tour this summer. "ou lie does not wish to makp an exten. ""j1 sire campaign tour following hla jo- nomination In June, 1024, and there- dow foro feels he must cot record of his 1 ' ' administration beforo the west this year. A study of the results of the congressional election laat November has convinced the Republican polltl- gan cat chiefs that the party mutt be BB strong In tho west If It la to succeed, bur In moat of the eaatern states, where of I prohibition la still an Issue, the Ro- groi publicans are "drier" than tho Demo- by crata, and this, according to some of ma the 0. O. P. lenders, will Jeopardize 0f 1 tbolr strength thore, although It may him react favorably westward. era |