Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-28

, his recent reelection TO the Gov
! ernorship of his State.
Coolidge is not much of a talker
! He writes better than he talks, il is
! said-and he acts better than he
/ does either. He is one Of the quiet
est men in Massachusetts,, and has
been called one of the coldest. But
his friends deny this. They admit he
is reserved, that emotionalism is as
noticeably absent from his makeup
as is passive submission to radical
And they speak right out in meet
ing when the subject OF Coolidge's
honesty is mentioned.
Born July
Cal. Coolidge will give you a
square deal" Massachusetts Dem
, ocratic leader told the Brooklyn
! Eagle. 1T won't make any differ
ence what party YOU belong 10. IL
he says he is for you. he is; and he
will keep on being for you. If he is
against you, he'll tell you so; and
he's stay against you, too"
Recognition of this angle of his
character was responsible for his
popularity in Northampton, Mass,
where he made his entry into poll
tics. and where he gained the
D
Plymouth. Vt, in 1872, he entered
life with a New England conscience.
And no man born on the Fourth of
July, as was Calvin Coolidge, could
well escape being a rip-snortin
American. Patriotism was his
birthright
Coolidge hung out his shingle as
4 lawyer in Northampton shortly
| after his graduation from Amherst
College. In 1899, when only % years
old. he was elected to the City
Council. and from that time mount.
ed step by step to the office of Gov
ernor. From a councilman he be-
came a city solicitor, and then a
court clerk. His party began to no.
| tice him, and in 1904 he was made
, chairman of the Republican city
committee. In 1907 he was sent to
the State Legislature. Two terms of
that and Northampton elected him
mayor. and then sent him 10 the
State Senate for four terms.
Won on His Nerve
BY that time the name of Cool
idge had ceased to be known in
Northampton alone. All of Massa-
chusetts had begun to hear of him,
and in 1915 his party nominated him
for Lieutenant Governor. He car
Fltu the tItGllOn DA Il pluIdllIy OF
$4,000. The following year he was
reelected by a plurality of 10000
Massa chusetts Republicans by now
had learned that Honest Cal" Cool
idge. in spite of being a quiet man.
was n vote-getter of some attain
ments, and after one more term as
Lieutenant Governor. he was pro-
NOTED to Governor. Last year his
plurality for Governor was only IT.
900, but this year he swamped his
opponent.
Such is the political history of this
man Coolidge. He stands four-square
for AmeT'canism. which he has
proved TO he n pretty good thing to
stand for. Some Americans had be-
gun to be Just a wee bit timorous
OF mention of radicalism and Boil
shevist tenets. Governor Coolidge
proved that in Massachusetts Amer
icanism still is popular. and, as peo-
ple are very much the same
throughout the United States. po-
litical leaders and newspapers prac-'
ticallv have ceased to talk of red
peril " Coolidge rose higher than
any n"Iitical party. sachusetts
Republicaps admit He won BY what
CeorPa Patullo politely terms
towels" ard what william Allen
V-h'tn calls hy n ''shorter and uglier
word" E.e.
Coolidge Sc"s UashinptOn
But what OF Coolidge, the man?