Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-23
COOLIDGE RECEIVES
VIRGINIA COURTESY
AT THE AUDITORIUM
Massachusetts, Governor Is
Greeted by a Large Rich
mond Audience.
HIS TRIBUTES TO STATE
WIN MUCH APPLAUSE
Vice Presidential Candidate
Makes Only Casual Allu-
sion to League.
I.OwDEN AND MORROW HERE
Illinois Executive Criticizcs Busi-
ness Methods OF the Wilson
Administration.
HIS TRIBUTES TO STATE
WIN MUCH APPLAUSE
LowDEN AND MORROW HERE
Illinois Executive Criticizcs Busi-
ness Methods OF the Wilson
Administration.

With three Republican oratorical
Governors as the stellar attractions
and Job T.. Hedges. who Gried for the
governorship class in New York in
1919. and q band OF twenty-five pieces
as added features, the Harding and
Coolidge mass injecting. held under
the auspices of the local 6. Q. j.. cam
paign organization last night. at
tracted to the City Auditorium a
crowd that packed the biz hall to the
doors. About 80 per cent of the au-
dience was made UP OF women. Me-
groes who applied for admittance on
the lower floor were sent to the gall
lcry. where about $50 OF the colored
voters were segregated.
Governor Calvin Coolidge, the Re-
publican vice ce-prcsidentiai nominee.
vho led off the oratorical program,
proved 10 be the least effective of the
speakers. He was fairly eclipscd by
each OF the three seasoned and WELL
schooled spellbinders OF his party.
who followed him. The Massachu-
setts Governor seemed 10 purposely
avoid reference 10 the real issues Of
,ht campaign. making only casual
allusion to the league of nations.
There was nothing 10 challenge de-
bate in the speech, which he read
from the prepared manuscript and
which was In the nature OF felici-
tous dissertation on the pleasant re-
iations that have always existed he
tween the Commonwcalths of Virginia
and Massachusetts, an appreciation OF
the virtues. political and domestic, OF
IL IN
duced from the time Of George Wash
ington to the present. the speaker
studiously omittinE mention of Pres
.dent Wilson. His praise OF the
| State was warmly applauded.
Mr.. Coolidge, slender and straig hi
of figure, with silver-sray locks and
countenance serious and almost
sscctic. was given a fattering recep-
tion BY the crowd, when he was pre-
sented by Colonel Henry w Ander-
son. But Il remained for the speak
ers following him TO arouse enthus-
i5sm. His utterances were not what
the crowd expected AT frequent in
, tervals. however, there were polite
outbursts of applause as the Cover
, nor paused in his reading. In part
he said
Text OF Coolidge Speech.
"Virginians who are proud of wha:
Washington and Jefferson did TO es-
tablish the nation can trust Warren
G. Harding TO preserve and maintain
H." he declared. detailing some his
toric achievements OF the Old Do
minion and Massachusetts for the
past 200 years.
/
Whenever Massachusetts and N:r-
| Ginia have stood together" he said
they have advanced the welfare OF
| America and the world by their en-
! ample. Your statesmen have beer
| the guiding influence which we have
| sought TO follow. We shall neve-
| forget that it was your greatest son
the first American, George Washing
ton, who came to take command OF
the colonial troops under tho elm
still standing in Cambridge, and
drove the last foreign invader from,
the soil OF Massachusetts.
I'VE shall never forget that wher
the war was done he presided owe
the convention which drafted tho
Constitution OF the Union and that
1T was the prestige of his supper
that secured its ratification by tho
states. We shall never forget thn,
tCOntinued IN Isirbth paCnl