Milford chronicle., 1920-08-27
UNCLE TED'S
BEDTIME STORIES
JACK HEARS MORE ABOUT
GOVERNOR COOLIDGE

4 "If you don't tell us now I know
Al you'll never tell u.s. 1t was Jacl
/ talking after cOaxing his uncle fol
I ten minutes to tell them more about
] Calvin Coolidge, vice presidential
4 candidate on the Republican ticket.
1 Il suppose if 1 were dying" said
/ Uncle Ted. 1.-THE last thing you'd
4 want would be a story. Well, all
! right, come on over here, and you
too, Ruth, and I'll start where 1 left
off two weeks ago and tell you a few
more things about Governor Cool
idge."
"Has he any children?" asked
Ruth.
''Yes, Ruth, he has two boys and
they play the violin and mandolin
quite well. I told you about the Bos-
ton police strike and how he handled
that situation so well and how Presi-
dent Wilson sent him telegram of
congratulation when he was re-elect-
ed Governor Although he occupies
the highest Office in the great state
of Massachusetts, he lives very sim
ply in a twO-story frame house in the
town of Northampton and his tele-
81 phone is on a party line with the
minister Of one of the local churches.
M While in Boston at his official work
|# he lives in a single room in a hotel
q nd each weekend he makes the trip
& odabout one hundred miles home to
hf family.
- tThe first public Office held by Gov.
Coolidge was that of clerk in Hamp-
q shire county, having been appointed
u toi complete the term of a man who
had died. When the term of Office eX-
i pired he would not run for it but re
turned to his law practices Not long
afterward he was elected member
s. of the city council of Northampton.
While serving on the city council he
was elected city solicitor and little
later he represented the city of North
ampton in the general court. In 1908
the people wanted him to run for
mayor. He made the race and was
elected, and in 1909 was reelected
to the same office.
"As he continued to be elected to
these various Offices he became more
and more popular and in 1910 he was
elected to the state senate. He serv-
ed two terms there and for some time
was president of the Senate. Of
course, while was in the Senate
of the state he had an opportunity to
know people from all parts of the
state and after he left the Senate he
held the Office of lieutenant govern |
or for three years. He left this Office
to become governor and proved him
self one of the most able of all the |
war governors. He is not an orator |
but his speeches are of the plain and |
easily understood type. He is always /
earnest and convincing in what he /
has to say and his fund of dry hui
NOR has made him greatly in de-
mand as a speaker throughout the I
New England States"
HAS he written much?' asked .
Jack, whose one ambition it to be-
I come a writer.
Eyes, indeed, Jack. In fact, he is
better known as a writer than as a
speaker His writings are full of
p1inted efii efifsiia5 Here Here are & Few:
There is no right to strike against
the public safety by anybody, any
where, any time. Duty is not col
lective; it is PERSONAL Unless good
citizens hold Office. bad citizens will
Those who attempt to lead the wage
earners, must first show that they
themselves are patriotic We need
more of the Office desk and less of
the show-window in politics. Let men
in Office substitute the midnight oil
for the lime-light.'
"And here, kiddies, is a very good
one to remember, DO the days work.
If it be to protect the rights of the
weak, whoever objects, do it. If it
be to help powerful corporation bet
ter to serve the people, whatever the
opposition, do that. Expect to be
called a stand-patter, but don't be a
stand-patter. Expect to be called a
demagogue, but don't be dema-
gogue.'
These quotations give you some
idea of the way he thinks and writes.
After the many big things he had ac-
complished his many friends wanted =,
him to be an active candidate for the
presidential nomination. His friends
went so far as to open Coolidge
Headquarters in Washington and
Senator Lodge, Republican leader of :
the Senate, said he would present d
Governor Coolidge's name to the con-
vention in Chicago if the Governor de- L
sired. But all this action stopped d
when Coolidge said he would not be
a candidate, stating that so long as he
was Governor Of Massachusetts, his /,
Job was right in the State House at =
Boston. His marked ability was rec !,
ognized in 1919 when he was given y
the honorary degree of doctor of laws =, :
by the tdTes. colleges of Amherst, y
Tufts and Williams. ~
so you can see that the man who =
will be our next vice-president, the IL
second highest Office in the United -
States, is a real man and man who ~ ~
has accomplished things. AT least ~
Warren G. Harding and Calvin Cool u
dge will not be dictated to by any &C
body. President Wilson will be the u
dictator to Gov Cox, should he be
elected. So if the people should u, u
elect Mr.. Cox they will simply be !"
slecting Mr. Wilson; in fact, it is -
'umored that he intends to stay in DC
and run every bit of the
Government he possibly can. And IN IN
hould Mr.. Cox be elected Mr.. Wilson III
ure will run it unless Tammany
Hall. the sponsors of Gov. Cox. sue %
eed in getting the upperhand." M ~
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