The Holly chieftain., 1923-09-27

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to nature; in the mountains. in the brooks. tn.
shining like .Sn in n cir the ssa IN @
nelds titled not by machinery but by the brain
rssy os ny 10 5h: :Dnz ns ~n
their Income. and fear no man.
New England. Of course believes implicitly in
the New England type. 1t also halls the President
as fine sample of the type. The Boston Post. q
Democratic newspaper. speaks for New England
when II says:
s 3e os., ~ @ a He mot
ME siGo M a. He Is the nhsfi.or of al the spenaor
has svea to 4merea =. service 'na' new eng
So New England elects to stand or fall with
Calvin Coolidge as cautious, discreet. thrifty.
tight-mouthed, God-fearing, efficient Down-East
Yankee.
The Coodges certainly go back to the beginning
of things in New England. The first American
Coolidge came over about 1880 In the FIRST flight
of the Puritans and settled In Watertown, Mass
In 1850. John Coolidge the Presidents great-great
grandfather, after service In the Revolution
moved to Plymouth, VT. He hired out occasion
ally to his neighbors-and he left farm to each
of his five children!
Each succeeding generation Of these Plymouth
Yankee farmers seems to have run true to .yIe
Calvin Coolidge's grandfather was justice Of the
peace. constable. selectman and town agent and
attended all the political state and county conven
tions. John Calvin Coolidge. the Presidents ia.
ther. hale and hearty at seventy-eight-the Presi-
dent says he has been the most formative nhu-
ence In his iife-owns the farm where his great.
grandfather settled. He was tax collector and
constable for thirty-eight years. He justice
OF the peace. He served five sessions In the legs.
lature, two in the senate. He kept store ran the
shop when the blacksmith left town, could pull a
tooth, was road commissioner, settled estates
taught In the Sunday school and usually looks
x1 ting NJ tho pln Mt oroIo TN
Presidents great at.grandfather without school.
Ing: his grandfather went to the district school;
his father went to the academy at Ludlow; the
President himself s a lawyer and a college grad
uate.
Coolidge luck" has become proverbiai. He
started out BY being born on the Fourth Of July.
He has been in public office almost continuously
since 1s99 He has never met defeat at the polls
He won wife who Is a genuine helpmeet. He
has two fine sons police strike In 1910 made
him famous over night. There are ambitious poll
tcians who would give millions for the popular
appeal of the setting In which he took the oath Of
oflice-the parlor Of the old homestead the old
fashioned kerosene lamp; the gathered neighbors
outside In the darkness the father. notary pub
lie, reading the constitutional oath to the SON the
son, with raised hand. repeating the oath and add.
ing so help me God"
Several things evidently must be taken into con.
sideration in connection with the Coolidge luck"
and the Presidents political career to date Poll.
tics with Calvin Coolidge has been profession
Here is his creed, stated publicly:
Politics Is not end but . means It Is not
product. but a process 1t Is the art of govern-
ment. Like other values II has it's counterfeits
.. It 10 the process Of action in public affairs
Calvin Coolidge knows politics more thoroughly
than the average man knows the multiplication
table; he has learned the game from the bottom
up He has been ably tutored His opponents
say that when the occasion demands expert
chauffeuring of the steam roller Coolidge is n
good man ut the wheel He has had powerful and
devoted friends back Of him. And the record