Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-08-19

state guard and in his orders named
the striking policemen as desert
ers.' 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 reelected by a
big vote shows that the people of
Boston and the state Of Massachus-
etts knew him to be right in his
stand. Nothing l can tell you will
show better why he took this posi-
ton than a proclamation which he
issued ON September oath of last
year. l will read it.
There appears to be a misappre-
hension as to the position of the po-
lice of Boston. In the deliberate
intention to intimidate and coerce
the government of this common
wealth a large body of policemen,
urging all others to join them, de-
serted their posts of duty, letting in
the enemy. This act Of theirs was
voluntary, against the advice of their
well-wishers, long discussed and pre-
meditated, and with the purpose of
obstructing the power of the govern
ment to protect it's citizens or even
to maintain its own existence. Its
success meant anarchy. By this act
through the operation of the law
they dispossessed themselves. They
went out of office. They stand as
though they had never been appoint
ed. Other police remained on duty.
They are the real heroes of this
crisis. The state guard responded
most efficiently. Thousands have
volunteered for the guard and the
militia. Money has been contribut-
ed from every walk of life by the
hundeds of thousands for the encour-
agement and relief of these loyal
men. These acts have been spon-
taneous, significant and decisive. l
propose to support all those who
are supporting their own govern
ment with every power which the
people have entrusted to me. There
is an obligation, inescapable, no less
solemn, to resist all those who do
not support the government. The
authority of the commonwealth can
not be intimidated or coerced. 1t
cannot be compromised. To place
the maintenance of the public secur-
ity in the hands of a body of men
who have attempted to destroy it
would be to fiout the sovereignty of
the laws the people have made. 1t
is my duty to resist any such pro-
posal. Those who would counsel it
join hands with those whose acts
have threatened to destroy the gov
eminent. There Is no middle
ground. Every attempt to prevent
the formation of new police force is
blow at the government. That way
treason lies. No man has a right
to place his own ease and con-
venience or the opportunity Of max
ing money above his duty to the
state. This is the cause of all the
people. I call on every citizen to
stand by nae in executing the oath
of my office by supporting the au-
thority of the government and resist
ing all assaults upon it.
"This shows you more than any
thing I can say the kind of man we
will have as the next vice-president
of the United States. Governor
Coolidge was born in Plymouth, YER
mont, on July 4, 1879, and it is in
teresting to note that three presi-
dents have been born on Independ-
ence day. His father still lives on
the farm at Plymouth, where the
governor has been visiting this sum-
mer doing all kinds of work just as
he did in his 'boyhood days. Calvin
went to the public schools of Ply
mouth and at the age of nineteen he
entered Amherst college, graduating