The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-09
SILENT MAN IN WHITE
HOUSE HAS EN- GUESSING
THE NEW PRESIDENT KEEPS
TIGHT MOUTH DESPITE Eff
FORTS TO PUMP HIM.
BALKS SEEKERS INSIDE DOPE

Correspondents Fall Down ON Frying
Assignments; So Does Boss and all
Others. Holds Whip Hand and
PROPOSE to Keep 1t.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-For TIVE
solid months President Coolidge has
withstood all efforts to pump him. He
is now as much of an enigma as when
he was jerked out of the obscurity of
the vice presidency. The spotlight
which beats down upon new occu-
pants OF the white house has revealed
nothing of Coolidge.
President Coolidge has said that he
will follow the Harding policies That
is all that has been CLEANED in two
months of assidious ferreting by ex-
perts Members of congress, highly
paid lobbyists with powerful eonnec-
tons extending into the very heart
OF the government politicians, news
paper correspondents, distinguished
visitors-all have tried to sound the
silent man in the white house and
they haven't been able to sound a
sound
Politicians who have sought in vain
to draw some expression of opinion
from the new president are enjoying
the story that is being told here on a
prominent metropolitan newspaper
publisher Desiring to know confiden-
TALLY the position of Coolidge on va
rious important questions the pub
lsch h. nh rto rf
reporters here to work They would
trace rumor back through two or
three persons and then hit a blind al
ley. They could find no one who had
word straight from the throne. So the
publisher came down and made a
white house engagement himself He
came out after spending considerable
time with Coolidge.
And the Boss Fell Down.
What did you find outp his Wash
ington representative asked.
Not a blamed thing" he Snorted.
Coolidge has held IS or so confer
cnces with newspaper correspondents
but has never at any of these discuss
ed the world court or the soldier Boz
nus, although he answers questions re-
lating to minor matters frankly and
willingly.
One railroad official, after a recent
conference with Coolidge, attempted
to state the presidents position and
was publicly rebuked the following
day by a spokesman at the white
house
This was an annoyance which Hard
ing often suffered.
tfIHha@ rao01a coroa anI
talk to me | can't sit there hike a
dummy" Harding once complained.
I've got to say something now and
then But if | so much as nod my
head they rush out and say | agree
with them"
Politicians-both republican and
democratic-are embarrassed by the
Coolidge silence. Democrats have
nothing to shoot at, and republicans
with presidential hopes have no issues
on which to challenge CoOhdge's
leadership.
Bears Are Scarce
Senator johnson is out in California
loaded for bear, but there are no bears
vet Former Governor Lowden, of
Illinois; Governor Pinchot, of Penn
sylvania, and Senator James =. Wat
son, of Indiana, all nourish presiden-
tial ambitions, but they cannot begin
campaigns until they have something
tangible to attack.
Time is against them and IN favor
of Coolidge. Coolidge will not make
record-good or bad-rmtil con-
gress comes back, and by the tiEne he
has been tested it will be almost too
Io4a fo, rao,,E1ican ri4yaf c IN nruanize
for delegates in the primary and state
convention fights, which begin m the
early spring.
clubs are being formed from Maine
to California. Thus the Coolidge
forces are being organized while the
opposition founders and marks time
in the dark.