The Glenwood post., 1920-08-14
uacIe Tets Bel Tine Stories
Current Events For the Children
and 0rown-ups, Too
CALVIN COOLIDGE
NEVER DEFEATED

"I'vc been telling you great many
things about cur next president, War
rem g. Harding said Uncle Ted, a.
Jack AMI Ruth were seated on the
front lawn fpr their story, "but l
have not cold you anything about eur
next vice. president, Calvin Coolidge.
Governor If Massachusetts,.
"Tell ls all about him. said Ruth.
| Yes, pl Ease do Uncle Ted.' spoks
up Jack.
Well, kiddies, can't tell you all,
but 1 will start now and finish the
story some other time. In the very
first place, Governor Coolidge has new
| er been beaten in any race he has
made for a political office. Fourteen
times he has run for public office,
since his nomination for the office Of
city councilman in North Hampton,
Massachusetts. Governor Coolidge has
always been big man in his own
state but it was not until he was re
elected to the office of governor last
fall that he became real national
character. The big thing that his re-
election hinged upon was the way in
which he handled a strike Of the po-
licemen of Boston. This strike took
place shortly before the end of his
first term as governor and he made
the police understand at once that he
was not only against the strike but
After the very first night of rioting,
Governor Coolidge called out the state
guard and in his order named the
striking policemen as 'deserters. He
kept up his fight against them in such
a way that they were never given back
their positions and the fact that he
was re elected by big vote shows
that the people of Boston and the
state of Massachusetts, knew him to
be right in his stand. Nothing / can
tell you will show better why he took
this position than a proclamation
which he issued On September "a of
last year. 7 will read it.
There appears to be a misappre-
hension as TO the position of the po-
lice of Boston. In the deliberate in
tention to intimidate and coerce the
government of this Commonwealth
large body of policemen, urging all
others to join them, deserted their
posts of duty. letting in the enemy.
This act of theirs was voluntary,
against the advice of their well-wish-
crs. long discussed and premeditstsl,
and with the purpose of obstructing
the power of the government to pro-
| tect its citizens or even to maintain
its own existence. Its success meant
anarchy. BY this act through the OPP
Grafton of the law they dispossessed
themselves. They went out of office.
They stand as though they had never
been appointed. Other police remain
ed on duty. They are the real heroes
of this crisis. The state guard re-
sponded most efficiently. Thousands
have volunteered for the guard and the
militia Money has been contributed
from every walk of life by the hun
dreds of thousands for the encourage
ment and relief of these loyal men.
These acts have been spontaneous, sig
/ nigifant, and decisive. I propose TO
support all those who are supporting
their own government with every pow
err which the people have entrusted to
me. There is an obligation, ineseap-
able, no less solemn, to resist all those
who do not support the government.
Tho authority of the commonwealth
cannot be inundated or coerced. 1t
cannot be compromised. To place the
maintenance of the public security in
the hands of body of men who have
attempted to destroy it would be to
hout the sovereignty of the laws the
people have made. 1t is my duty to
resist any such proposal. Those who
would counsel it join hands with those
whose acts have threatened to destroy
the government. There is no middle
ground. Every attempt to prevent the
formation of a new police force is \