Connecticut western news., 1920-06-17

legislature, four -1mes for the state senate, three times for lieutenant governor and twice for governor, he won each time, and only once was the race anywhere near close. That was when he ran for the legislature the second time and won by a plural ity of only sixty-three votes. One of the secrets of his success has beer his ability to win support from the opposing party as well as from his own.
 Boston Police Strike
 The "great adventure" of MT. Coolidge's life so far was in the Boston police strike, in September of last year Down to that time he had been little known outside of Massachusetts. But that occurrence iu a twinkling made him one of the most conspicuous figures in the whole nation and set papers in the far west to exclaiming "Thank God for Coolidgew
 In that great crisis he stood un- fiinchingly and nflexbly for law and order, refusing for a moment to compromise or even to discuss those issues with the insurgents. Against him were arrayed the forces of Cor ganized labor" in mistaken zeal for the support of the strikers; and it was only a little while before the election in which he was to win or lose second term as governor. He
 
 ckusetts stood for him and reelected him by an overwhelming majority. The best comment upon that superb achievement was made in his own words on election night:
 "The heart of the people has prov en again sound and true. No mis- representation has blinded them, no sophistry has turned. them. They have listened to the truth and fol- lowed it. They have again disap- pointed those who distrusted them. They have turned away from those who sought to play upon their sell fishness. They have justified those who trusted them. They have jus tified America.
 ''Three words tell the result. Massachusetts is American. The election will be a welcome demon stration to the nation and to people everywhere who believe that liberty can be secured only by obedience to law"
 The Man and His Family
 In person MT. Coolidge is a typi- cal New England gentleman-quiet | in manner, dress and speech. He has never, probably, slapped a man On his back in his life, nor has he ever failed to return loyal, friend ly hand-grasp. He has a smoothly sl1aven face, keen, twinkling eye and a mouth and chin that, with all | his kindly smile, are as firm and in | flexible as Plymouth Rock. He | married, in 1906, Miss Grace Good | hue, then a teacher in the Clarke | School, Northampton, and made | with her his home in one half of a | wooden two-family house on Massa- scit street, Northampton, paying for it $27 a month rent. He still lives ill the same modest quarters, though the Thigh cost of living" is shown In the raising of his rent to $32 a month. Two sons have been born to him, John, now 12 years old, and Calvin, aged 10. He lives at home m Northampton whenever his official duties do not require his presence in Boston. It is said that he owns no real estate and has never owned an 
 Over the open fireplace in his modest home there hangs this leg end, framed:
 "A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke. The less he spoke the more he heard. Why can't we be like that old bird?"
 There are those who say that those quaint lines gives a good clue to MT. Coolidge's character and to some of the secrets of his success.