Evening star., 1923-10-02
TALKS and TALES
With ind About
CAPITALS GUESTS

great sovereign commonwealth OF Ar
kansas, and Col. Harmon L. Remmel,
republican national committeeman OF
that state, has the floor.
1T was not only my pleasure to
second the nomination Of President
Coolidge for the vice presidency at
the 1920 convention, but was mem
ber of the committee sent to North
ampton to notify him of his selec-
tion," said the genial southerner as
he packed his bag at the Hotel Wash
/ tngton to leave for his Little Rock
home. Il am confident that Arkansas
VIII favor his nomination to succeed
himself at the 1924 convention. He Is
a splendid type of American, q most
capable. Executive and the ideal
choice of the party"
Col. Remmel had just left the
White House. where he had gone to
discuss with President Coolidge a
plan to induce colored labor to remain
in the south. He had previously OBJ
President Harding md said that his
| successor was mos. favorable to the
suggestion.
1T has come to a pass" said the
Arkansan. when something must be
done to stop the flow of emigration
of the colored man to the north.
ITrainloads of workers are being ship
ped daily from Mississippi, Georgia
and other southern states. and unless
sensible action is taken to show the
| emigrants the folly of their move,
both the south and those leaving will
be the sufferers in the end"
Col. Remmel proposes that com
mission of five colored men. the most
Representative of the race. be appoint
ed to travel through the affected sec
tions and truthful!y explain to their
lpeople the many pitfalls to be encoun-
tered by leaving their homes. 1T is
not fair to the workers" continued the
isoutherner. las they little dream of
what lies ahead of tnem."
The Little Rock man also received
the Presidents Endorsement of the
Baptist memorial now being erected In
his home town TO the late Chief EKecu-
tive, and was advised to enlarge the
contemplated wing Of a hospital into
an entire building. This will probably
be done. as more than $150,000 has al
lready been subscribed.
| Col Remmel is president of the
Bankers Trust Company OF Little
Rock, and during the war acted as
chairman of the "FourMinute Men Of
| Arkansas" a body that put the state
over the top in all financial appeals.
New Jersey! Woodrow Wilson will
be the dominating spirit in the next
democratic national convention, and if
he but says the word can have the
spoke Redmond +. Herman, old-line
democratic politician of the "Wet-as-
lthe-ocean" state. as he sauntered
through the lobby Of the Shoreham
Hotel.
| Mr.. Herman is positive the out
standing issue in New York and New
Jersey will be prohibition. People
up our way joke over the league of
nations, immigration, tariff and the
like. but close up like clans when it
comes to the wet and dry question
said the jovfal Jerseyite. Person
ally. am in favor of keeping the
! country dry, as against the old
! domination by the brewer and dis
[ tiller, but I must say that enforce
ment of the law has become farcical
| and is breeding much discomfort in
| America"
| Continuing, Mr. Herman paid a
I glowing tribute to Gov. Al Smith OF
New York and said he was the.
| greatest yote-getter in the demo :
cratic party. He also was most en-
| thusiastic over President Coolidge
III am a. democrat, but let me SLY
here think the present Chief Execu-
! tive the strongest man In the c. O. 2.
1 know him personally and hold him
, in the. highest regard. He has the
| combined characteristics of Abraham
tLincoln, Woodrow Wilson and Samuel
| lBowles. the noted republican editor,
with the Cal Coolidge determination
dominating all He is bound to be
nominated by his party" =,
| And now Observation-Disclosures. Hen
Messy has the floor. II have known
President Coolidge ever since he came
to the Massachusetts, house of repre-
sentatives in 1907" said Michael E.
1 Hennesey, for the past thirty years
local, state and political writer of
the Boston Globe. as he unpacked his
belongings at the Lee House.
He took his job as state representa-
tive seriously-just as he has taken
every public duty, since. He did the
days work then just as he does il to-
day at the White House. There is no
mystery about Calvin Coolidge or his
success in public life. He has always
given the public the best he had
'As a colleague in the Massachusetts,
Legislature once said, Gals cold on the
outside, but a warm heart beats within.
lie wears well. He grows on one. He'll
iprove himself to be one of our great
presidents. His rugged honesty, his
simplicity, his aightforwardness and
his loyalty to old friends are outStand-
ing traits OF his character.
II the republican party can't win
with him 1t can't win with anybody.
That he will be nominated to succeed
himself have no doubt"
Few newspaper men know the Chief
Executive better than Mr.. Hennesey-
He began rubbing shoulders with him
back in 1892. when he covered" Buz-
yards Bay, the summer home of Presi-
dent Cleveland, for his paper, and has
personally known every President since.
Mr.. Taft referred to him as the polit-
ical custodian of Massachusetts" and
tCol. Roosevelt regarded him as one Of
his close newspaper friends.
| He accompanied President Coolidge to
Washington from Plymouth, VT. when
he succeeded to the Office and his story
LOT the President, From a New England
Farm to the Vice Presidency" is con-
lsidered the most complete biography Of
the Chief Executive up to the time he
! Twas elected as Mr.. Harding's running
innate.
| Is Minnesota represented in the as
lsembiy? Aye. indeedi Dressed in golf
ing togs that literally spoke, former
tSenator Frank B. Kellogg rushed
Through the lobby Of the New Willard
Hotel, asked for his mail. smiled at the
tclerk and then rushed right out again
to keep a twosome engagement with
Judge John Barton Payne.
| How're things up your way, sena-
tor?" followed the Minnesotan as he
Imade for the door.
| AL right I'm down for a. little bus
mess with the Supreme Court, will be
there a week, and some time later will
tell you all about wheat, Magnus
Johnson and anything else you might
want to know" and with a wave of
the hand the northwestern lawyer.
golf bag, suit and all, was whisked
away in a taxi for the Chevy Chase
Club.
| And here's a bit from New York on
the prohibition question. handed out
by none other than +. K. Seggeman,
who, before the enactment of the
Volstead law, was one of the largest
importers of wines and liquors in the
metropolis, and who Is making q
short stay at the Hotel La F'ayette.
For the good of all the people
ithtplr r,rnhihitinp hest said r.