The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-09-28
" EDWARD q. A

Dy EDWARD q. CLARK
washinston.-The death Of Presi-
dent Harding has thrown open the
nsld for entries In the race for the
Republican presidential nomination to
ill men who have any public right Of
ambition The whole political scene
has changed and new actors quickly
win enter thereon
here u IN enlarged list. without
prejudice. Of possible and remotely
possible candidates for the presidential
nomination on the Republican ticket:
Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts,;
Hiram W. johnson of California;
Frank o. Lowden Of Illinois; William
2. Borah of Idaho; Robert NJ. LaFol-
lette Of Wisconsin; clifford Pinchot OF
Pennsylvania; Charles E. Hughes OF
New York James W. wadsworth, Jr,
Of New York; Arthur Capper OF Kan
sas; Albert J. Beverage and James
2. Watson Of Indiana; Irvine L. Len
root Of Wisconsin; Herbert Hoover Of
California; James Wharton Pepper Of
Pennsylvania Leonard Wood Of Mas
sachusetts. now encouragement OF
the Philippine islands; Frank B. VII
liz Of Ohio, and Theodore Roosevelt
Of New York
There may be others, but If 70 they
have slipped present memory. 1t Ii q
long list and II may be that no one Of
these men will receive the nomination
Of the national convention, and that
some one yet u~nhsralded who can pre-
sent the proper qualifications as a
compromise between warning factions
and warning thoughts may be led into
the race and given the prize.
In both the political parties the con-
test for the nomination Is today a
free-for-al1. The Democrats. like the
Republicans, have all kinds Of Difficult
ties to overcome and all kinds Of an
tagonistic elements to placate before
they can nx upon 4 man who shall
meet the situation by being acceptable
to all schools Of democratic thought
New EneIand's Sentiment.
Your correspondent has JUST had a
talk on the situation with a Repub-
lican United States senator from one
Of the New England states. Naturally
II would be supposed that in New
England Republicans would give this
support to q son of New England. The
son Of New England now In the place
Of power and In the center Of the field
which men are watching is Calvin
Coolidge. VIII New England support
Calvin Coolidgef
The Republican senator said that
New England In one thing had beer
different from other sections Of the
country when II came to ~'favorite
son~ matters. he called attention to
the fact that New England did not
get anything like solidly behind Thorn
As B. Reed OF Maine or James @.
Blaine Of the same state. or John W.
Weeks or Leonard Wood, both Of
Massachusetts. when these men had
Republican presidential aspirations.
Continuing. the New England sen-
ator said "In our part Of the country
q '~favorite SON does not mean only
the favorite son Of a state but a
favorite son Of that section.
Vucu a NcW bukiduuci SctiuS u
have q right to contend for the presi-
Dental nomination. he looks not
alone to his state for support but to
the states known under the New Eng
land name. II he cannot get much
support he II not regarded rs a favor
lite son. In other parts Of the coun
try It Ii different. except perhaps In
the South where a Democratic candi-
date for the nomination generally
aspires to be known as the ~favorite
son Of his section.
Not Yet Solid for Coolidge.
New England all told has just two
votes In the convention less than are
given to the great state OF New York.
Therefore, II New England Is solid II
presents virtually as great a strength
In the convention as New York does.
This bloc Of votes can be made ex-
tremsly servtceable and may decide
the nomination, either for It's own OF
for the own Of somebody else.
New England expects Calvin Coo
fidge to make q record for himself as
prssidsnt. and yet New England Is not
At al solid today. apparently. In Its
sentiment In behalf Of the nomination
Of the new President to succeed him
self. II he shall take advantage Of
circumstances to make for himself q
leader either by carrying out certain
Of the Harding policies which perhaps
Harding himself could not have car
ried out. he Will strengthen his posi-
ton. or II he shall have the opportun-
ity to carry out some important poll
cies Of his own making. ne will do the
thing: but the fact that Presi-
dent Coolidge Is a New Englander In
no wise means that necessarily he will
the New England support"
This talk with a New England SEN
Ia. perhaps. important politically
only because II shows that President
unlike men from other parts