The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-14
First Line Defenses Are Planned For Pacific Coast
New Colonel House i'm Sight;
 Rich Bostonian Close Adviser
 to New Chief Executive, US.

WASHINGTON, Aug 14-win Frank A. Stearns play the role of Col. House or Harry Daugherty in the Coolidge administration
 This is the question that is agi- tating political and official circles and prospective fob hunters since 1t devolved that the. Boston depsrt. ment store owner sis t1e closest personal friend aud adviser ai;d political supporter q the new peesi. dent
 Few people outside of Massa chusetts, even among the national political leaders or newspaper men i in Washington were aware of the intimate relationship existing be- tween the two men before MT. Coolidge aseended to the presidency.
 It was everywhere thought that in his characteristic taciturnity the new executive kept his own coun- sel in political matters@ There was no thought of a close adviser to whom hesturned in matters of great moment4
 But the story of Stearns inevi- tably had to come out when Mr Coolidge took the oath of office as chief magistrate and came to Wash ington to assume his duties. Mr Stearns, who was in New York when President Harding died, met the new executives train in the me- tropolis and traveled with the party to Washington.
 From the station he rode to the hotel with the president and Mrs Coolidge and was assigned the suite immediately adjoining that of the president and the first lady MT. Stearns has entrance to the presi- dential suite and is in frequent con sultation with the president. He is a very retiring sort of gentleman. however, and makes no effort to keep in the limelight, turned full up ,n the new executive. Rather he seeks to avoid publicity band absolutely re- fuses to talk with newspaper men Of his relationship with MT. Coolidge
 iiC LII sHuStl1U dates back to 1914. The wealthy Boston man first was attracted to tha then president of the Massachusetts senate when a piece of l.gi ,latior in which MT. Stearns was deeply n- terested came up. If involved wa ter plant which it was desired to de. velop at Amherst, where both men were graduated though seventeen years apart.
 Coolidge at first was very cool to the idea and declined to aid the bill. It failed. But at the beginning of put through the measure in his usual way, without saying word tos it's advocates in advance. Stearns at once became interested in the then young politician, and as he got to know Coolidge better, his enthusiasm for him grew. He regarded him as a man of destiny. In all of Coolidge's political campaigns since that time Stearns has been his chief financial packer and supporter. Coolidge has never lost political race
 After Coolidge became governor of Massachusetts Stearns turned his attentionito the White House He believed his champion some day would become president That hel might become better known to the general public volume of Coclidge'sl speeches were prepared under the title of Have Faith in Mas iachu setts." MT Stearns was the publish CT. The Boston police strike came about this time with a part play ed by Coolidge thatJegave him a na- tional reputation for law enforcement, and the book attained nationwide circulation. r | A Coolidge-for-president boom sprang up and Stearns throw all his power behind it.
 The rest of the story is we'll known. Coolidge failed to get the presidential nomination at the Re publican convention.s but dr 4w sec ond place on the ticket and nov he is president by reason of the tragic death of President Harding.
 Politicians are wondering wht.hrr Stearns will take hand in patron. age matters or be satisfied toI keep in the background and be con. tent to play the role of consultantl and adviser. Col House played the latter role in the Wilson ad- until the famous break in Paris. Daugherty was the ar bitter of patronage matters as well asi political adviser to PresId ent ! sDih1aH ]