The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-08-06

-tlinc III vermont y dIHdlS, SoH WIN
is vice president succeeds to the
presidency upon the death of the
president; for Arthur succeeded Gar
field as Coolidge succeeds Harding.
:, Only twice before Pierce, in the
nations history, did New England
give son to the White House, for
both of the Adamses, John and his
son. John Quincy, second and sixth
president, respectively, were natives
of and elected from Massachusetts.
FEW vICEPREsIDENTs
FROM NEW ENGLAND
Mr. has the nation chosen sons
pf New England to be viceprcsidents
in any considerable numbers. Only
five have gone from there--John
Adams and Elbridge Gerry of Massa
.chusetts, Hannibal Hamlin Of Maine,
Henry Wilson of New Hampshire and
Calvin Coolidge. Two others Chester
A. Arthur and Levi p. Morton, born
in Vermont, went from New York.
The nation now has it's 3Oth presi-
dent; and of these, six have died in
office, to be succeeded by the vice
president. William Henry Harrison
Of Ohio died in 1871, John Tyler of
Virginia succeeding him. Zachary
Taylor of Louisiana similarly gave
way to Willard Fillmore of New York,
in 1850; Abraham Lincoln of Illinois
to Andrew Johnson Of Tennessee in
1865; James A. Garfield of Ohio to
Chester A. Arthur of New York in
1881; William Mckinley Of Ohio to
Theodore Roosevelt of New York in
1901, and now Warren G. Harding of
Ohio is succeeded by Calvin Coolidge
of Massachusetts.
Little Of sectionalism in this les
ser. place which New England plays
to other regions that have furnished
presidents and vicepresidents. If the
charge Of sectionalism is to come out
of the element of nativity and resi-
dence, then Virginia, with its eight
sons who became president, and Ohio,
with her seven, far more than New
England might be accused of color
ing the chief magistracy with the
ways Of life and thought which are
peculiar to their locale. And New
York, once called the state with the
deciding voice in election of the pres
idency. would find only three of the
30 presidents whom it might claim as
hers by virtue of residency.
Sectionalism, then, as outgrowth of
birth or residence, is a minor consid-
Grafton, in appraising habits of
thought and elements of character in
the presidents of the United States.
Or larger moment, perhaps, are vo-
cation and education or culture. In
this particular, vocation, perhaps,
comes first-especially when it is
considered that of the 80 men who
have occupied the presidency, 20 have
been lawyers whose road to the high
est political office started when thew
were practising the. profession of law.
And as for education, like number,
20, have been college men, Coolidge
giving Amherst its first alumnus
president.
Sectlonalisn1, vocation, profession
edIcation-these are elements which
might color the presidency. Yet
above them rises individualism, and
down the table Of presidents one may
run his eye and choose no one man
who may fairly be accused of being
limited in his course of action by
considerations growing out of these
factors. But "still and ALL" as the
downeast saying goes, there stands
out today one quality which marks
Calvin Coolidge. In vision and loyal
ty and responsibility and all that 20
to make him fo& the presidency, he
is an American, of no single state OF
section or class. Out from his bio.
graphy through his 80 years since he
came to his majority, Calvin Cool.
idge's Americanism stands forth. ac.
centuated by his courage, his deli.
beration, his restraint. But one 9TH
er factor remains, that marks him
apart from this or that other citizen
of the republic.
He is Yankee of the Yankees,
For three hundred years the Cool
idges have been New Englanders-of
VERMONT. or Massachusetts,. For 300
wears the elements that one looks to
FIND in. people of the northeastern
portion of the United States have
been distinguishing characteristics of
the families that lead down TO Calvin
Coolidge, and up to the present pre-
sidency. From the soil Of New Eng
land they have come-New England
soil. which, its proud sons say, .pro-
duees rocks-yand men,"
When He Won His Bride
He Is q sandy, red haired, medium
sized, smooth shaver, silent, drawl-
in& quietly humorous Yankee. is
President Coolidge. Born in Ply
mouth, vi, in notch in the hills Of
the Green Mountain state Plymouth,
which used TO Be named Salt Ash
before Il came into the name Of Ply
month village. a 1ittls village 81
hardly 400 souls IL Plymouth: typi-
caIly New Englandish. typically Yam
ks6, rs the long spreadout house that
II the Coolidge .farmhouss testifies,
and a. the store across the street
testifies, too-the store that vas tie
bilthplsee o1. CALVIN Coolidge. All
the wsys Of these Plymouth folk
- Yankee Ways and ~ are the
1nys of plymouth or Halt Ash -
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