Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-08-30

the race for the Republican presiden-
tial nomination to all men who have
any public right of ambition. The
| whole political scene has changed and
new actors quickly will enter thereon.
Here is an enlarged lisr, 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
E. Borah of Idaho; Robert NJ. LaFol-
lette of Wisconsin; Clifford Pinehot of
Pennsylvania Charles e. Hughes of
New York; James w. Wadsworth, Jr.,
of New York: Arthur Capper of Kan
sas; Albert ]. Beveridge and James
b. Watson of Indiana; Irvine L. Len
root of Wisconsin; Herbert Hoover of
California; James Wharton Pepper of
Pennsylvania; Leonard Wood of Mas
sachusetts, now governor general Of
the Philippine islands; Frank B. VIII
Ills of Ohio, and Theodore Roosevelt
of New York
There may be others, but If so they
have slipped present memory. 1t is a
long list and it may be that no one Of
these men will receive the nomination
Of the national convention, and that
some one yet unheralded 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-all. The Democrats, like the
Republicans, have all kinds of difficult
ties to overcome and all kinds of an
tagonistic elements to pIacate before
they can fix. upon man who shall
meet the situation by being acceptable
to all schools of democratic thought.
New EngIand'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
it would be supposed that in New
England Republicans would give this
support to a 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. Will New England support
Calvin Coolidge?
The Republican senator said that
/ New England in one thing had been
different from other sections of the
country when it came to, ssfavorite
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 q.
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 I'm our part of the country
a 'favorite SON does not mean only
the favorite son of a state but a
favorite son of that section
When a New Highlander seems to
have a right to contend for the presi-
Dental nomination, he looks not
alone to his state for support but to
the states known under tie New Eng
land name If he cannot get much
support he is not regarded as a favor
tie son. In other parts of the coun-
try it IS different, except perhaps in
the South where a Democratic candi-
date for the nomination generally
aspires to be known as the fayorite
son Of his section.
Not Yet Solid for Coolidge.
sNew England all told has just two
votes in the convention less than are
| given to the great state of New York.
Therefore, if New England is solid 1t
presents virtually as great 9 strength
in the convention as New York does.
This blocSof votes can be made ex-
tremely serviceable and may decide
the nomination, either for its own or
| for the own Of somebody else.
ssNew England expects Calvin Coo
lidge to make a record for himself as
president, and yet New England is not
at all solid today, apparently, in its
sentiment In behalf of the nomination
of the new President to succeed hfm-
self. If he shall take advantage of
circumstances to make for himself a
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-
tfon, or If he shall have the opportun-
ity to carry out some important poll
cies of his own making, he will do the
same thing; but the fact that Presl-
dent Coolidge is a New Englander in.
no wise means that necessarily he will.
have the New England support
This talk with a New England sem
ator is, perhaps, important politically
only because 1t shows that President
Coolidge, unlike men from other parts
of the country, must meet the require
nents Of all the Republicans of his
section Of the country in order to get
i its support; otherwise New England
may favor somebody else. It always
4 has been section peculiar unto itself.
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