New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-08-03
POLITICAL MIX-UP
LIKELY TO FOLLOW
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the White House to find out about
them.
Warren" said a friend of many
years standing, you've got to make
some announcement of your inten-
tons. These fellows who are oppos-
ing your nomination are grooming
this one and that one and before we
know it, our wing Of the party won't
have anybody as candidate and
We'll lose political advantage"
Boys" said the president, Il
haven't made up my mind. / expect
to make some speeches in the west
and elsewhere sometime soon and if
the reaction is favorable I'll carry
on"
A refusal to run for second term
they argued, was confession of fail
ure. ...4.-t. ....g b..
"All right fellows" responded Mr..
Harding, Iii carry on; that's settled,
I'll carry on. Tell our fellows that"
A few days later Senator James E.
Watson of Indiana, one of the admin
istration spokesman and party whips
made the announcement in the sem
ate that if Warren Harding wanted a
nomination he was going to have it
and that it was idle to discuss a pros
pective contest"
Was Ayowed Candidate
Following that declaration the
President was an avowed candidate.
All Seemed Clear
At the same time word had come
that one of the men who was looked
upon as principal contender had
said he found himself without an issue
and the clouds all appeared to be out
of the sky.
Another western senator, power
in republican affairs, not because of
his party regularity nor his adherence
to the Harding program, at the same
time was using all his personal inf1u-
ence to keep the foremost prospective
contender against Mr.. Harding out of
the field and was telling all his friends
much to their surprise that he was
for Harding.
There must be no repetition of
1912" this leader said. mo democrat
must be elected because the republi-
can party cannot agree. We must
take Harding for another term
Then just as everything seemed to
be smooth sailing, Mr.. Harding made
his declaration for entry of the United
States into the World Court.
Trouble Over World Court
The friends among the stalwarts
who had urged Mr.. Harding to de-
clare himself for another term told
him he had made a great mistake.
The contender who had once told Mr..
Harding's friends tina the found him
self without an issue, sought out the
same men and told them that his
previous declaration was "all off" and
that he believed he had found the is
sue.
These Developments threw political |
plans awry and now the sudden death |
Of the president gives them another
twist. Whether Vice President Cool
dge will ask a nomination at the
hands of the coming convention as did
Theodore Roosevelt after the death of
Mckinley, remains for the future.
the party chieftains will wish
o accomplish his nomination is yet
o be decided. The leaders still feel
hey must go before the country with
N endorsement of the accomplish
nents of the Harding administration. {
'he best informed feel they will most {
likely choose to do it with some men,
'er of that administration,
Like Roosevelt Case
The late Tom Platt made Theodore
Roosevelt a vice president with the
penly announced purpose of putting
i'm out of the way politically. He
made him a president and one of
merica's national heroes. The case
f Coolidge is similar In the conven-
ion of 1920, the party leaders placed
4 nomination for vice. presidency,
enator Lenroot of Wisconsin, but the
eegates remembered Coolidge and
breed his nomination. They recalled !
is record as governor of Massachu-
etts and the fate of that moment in
steaming hot convention hall on a
une day has made him a president
{ the United States