Evening star., 1920-06-13

frame house and sharing a party-line
telephone with the pastor of one Of
the local churches. --s-
The first public office which Coolidge -
held was that Of clerk of Hampshife
county, being appointed to MI out 70
the unexpired term of his predecessorS~,e
who died. Refusing to be a candidate -
for the office again. he returned ta.w
his law practice and was shortly -
thereafter elected to the Northampton
city council. While serving in that.
capacity he was elected city solicitor =.
and later represented Northampton in
the lower branch of the general court.
Answering popular demand that
he become a candidate for mayor.
Coolidge returned to Northampton 4
and was twice elected to that office. n
serving in 1908 and 1909. II
Makes Rapid Rise. aa
With IN ever-increasing acquaint-
ance and popularity. broader field -
opened before the young attorney. and
he was elected to the state senate IN - -
1910. where he served with diStine-@A
ton for two terms. and held the officeLi
of president of the senate for time.%S
1t was member of the senate thate.
he first became known to the peoplessss
of the state at large. and for three@1.
years after his service in the uppers =
house he was the lieutenant governers1
of the state. leaving that office to be-s.E
come governor During the war he..1n
proved a most able executive, and h0uo
re-election came as climax to a.
long service for the state of hrs
adoption. ar-.@
SO intense was the issue of the
strike during the campaign last faur~
that it attracted nationwide atten-e,s-
ton. the general feeling being that -
the issue of strike violence was being
tried out in Massachusetts. Mere -
partisanship was smothered in the 90
wider question. and this was made
evident when President Wilson sent
a telegram to Gov. Coolidge congrasI
ulating him his victory. although e.
the opponent of the governor had
been democrat =.
Though widely known for h4SoH
speeches. which have rursshrough sew
eral editions, Gov. Coolidge is not ana
orator. being a man of restrained en-
thusiasm. But his earnestness never z"
fails to impress his audience. and his
native shrewdness and dry humorsOs.
have made him much sought after al.
x.. wr,,.r ,asw
1t is rather as writer than &
speaker that he is best known ,toss &
thousands, and his epigrammatic way
of expressing himself has resulted N "a
his being widely quoted. His politt4rns
cal position may well be expressed insrs
one Of these epigrams. which follows; .r
Expect to be called a stand pa tier.
but don't be a stand-patter Expect.r
to be called demagogue, but dont..st
be demagogue. Don't hesitate to hAass
hesitate to be as reactionary as the-ce
multiplication table" ~fssss
Admirers tried to induce Goy.rrsg
Coolidge to become active candf>.
date for the republican nominatioT 6
for President. They had gone so faF"
as to open headquarters for him in rc
Washington and Senator Henry Cahosa!s
Lodge had offered to present his ss
name to the national convention If the"
governor desired. when he an.er
nourced publicly that he was not R..c
ca ndidate and that he considered that-e,
while he was governor his job was a.
he statehouse. The headquarters
was closed, but the majority of theCsS
Massachusetts delegates went tQ0
Chicago with the declared intention o$
voting for him, at Least on the first
ballot.
| -Four I'm His Family.
T Gov Coolidge was married an !,
! 1905 to Miss Grace A. Goodhue. Of
Burlington. VT. Their two Children
are boys. When he was chosen gov
ernor he took up his quarters in single
| room in a small Boston hotel in ths
business district, returning the hum
dred-odd miles to his. home for the
week-ends.
He was awarded the honorary degree
of doctor of laws by Amherst, Tufts
and Williams colleges III 1913