Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-13
COOLIDGE HEARS
Of NOMINATION.;
He WILL ACCEPT
Says 1t viii Be Especially
Pleasing With His Old
Friend, Harding, Candi-
date For President.

oV'iiuSt' NiltH IOtllltu lbDlShI
| that he had been nominated by the
republican convention for the vice
presidency authorized the Associ-
atcd Press to say that ne would
accept the nomination.
The governor issued the follow
ing statement:
THE nomination for vice presi-
dent coming to me- unsought and
unexpectedly, l accept as an an
honor and a duty 1t will be espe-
Clally pleasing to be associated with
my old friend, Senator Warren G.
! Harding, our candidate for presi-
dent.
The republican party has adopt
ed a sound platform, chosen a wise
leader and is united. 1t deserves
the confidence of the American.
people. That confidence l shall
endeavor to secure"
To the newspaper men he said:
Il am pleased and shall accept.
l am particularly pleased that !
am to make the run with Senator
Harding"
Boston, June 12.--Calvin Cool
idge of Northampton, Mass, al
though in public life in his native
tive state almost ever since his
graduation from Amherst college
in 1895, was little Known outside of
Massachusetts until the greater
part ef the police force of Boston
went on strike in September, 1919.
Coolidge was governor of the state.
He ordered out the state guard to
patrol the streets of the city OF
Boston after a night of rioting, an
nounced that law and order would
be preserved and declared that the
strikers were deserters and that
their places would be filled by 9TH
er men.
The strikers never regained their
positions. Troops maintained or"
der for several weeks and a new
police force was recruited. TheI
stand taken by the governor car
ried his name to all parts of the
country and in his own state he
was promptly nicknamed Law and
Order Coolidge
As the presidential campaign OF
1920 approached his admirers urea
to induce him to become an active
candidate for the republican noml-
nation for president They had
gone so far as to open headquaf-
ters for him in Washington ana
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge had
Offered to present his name to the
national convention if the governor
so desired, when he announced
publicly that he was not a candl-
date and that it was considered
that while he was governor his JOB
was at the state house. me heau-
quarters were closed but the ma
iority of the Massachusetts ueie-
gates went to Chicago with the de-
clared intention of voting for MN
at least on the first ballot
Calvin Coolidge was born on
farm in the little village OF lily
moth VT, on July 4, 1872. his
father, in addition to carrying on
the farm, was the, village store
.keeDer. CoOhdge's ancestors, from
the time John Coolidge settled III
Watertown, Mass. in 1851, were
all farmers,
Young Calvin worked on the
farm and in the store and attend
ed the village school. Then he
progressed in his education in
academies in the Vermont towns OF
Ludlow and st. Johnsbury and ms
father sent him to Amherst coileSe'
At the commencement exercises Ill
the year of his graduation ne was
one of the class orators.
Coolidge next studied law in the
office of a law firm in NOrthamp-
ton to such good effect that after
twenty months digging at the law
books he was admitted to the par.
He opened a law office in the same
city and continued to practice
there until his public duties occu-
pied all his time.
His first public office was as
member of the Northampton CITY
council in 1899. Successfully, he
was city solicitor, county clerk
state representative for two years
mayor for two years, state senator
for four years, the last two serving
as president of the senate, ana
lieutenant governor for three years
In 1918 he was nominated by the
republicans for governor and was
elected by plurality of about y
600. He was renominated in 1873,
and aided by the prestige gained
through his relation to the Boston
police strike, was reelected by a
plurality of more than $4,000 and
received the largest total vote ever
cast for a governor in Massachu-
sets.
Governor Coolidge was married
in 1905 to Miss Grace A. Goodhue
of Burlington. VT. Their two chill
dren are both boys. When he was
chosen governor he did not aban-
don his modest residence in half of
double house in Northampton,
but took up his quarters in single
room in a small Boston hotel in
the business district, returning the
hundred odd miles to his home for
the week ends