The Colorado statesman., 1923-09-29
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to nature; in the mountains. in the brooks, the
waters of which hurry % the sea; in the lakes
shining like silver in tn cir green settng in the
mot Gy
their Income, and fear no man.
New England, of course, believes implicitly in
the New England type. 1t also halls the President
fine sample of the type. The Boston Post.
Democratic newspaper, speaks for New England
when 1t says:
Calvin Coolidge cannot fail. He embodes not
fe BLOOD He Gse IS the e of ali the
Hnd ana all b the Of service that New Eng
So New England elects to stand or fall with
Calvin Coolidge cautious, discreet. thrifty,
Hght-mouthed, God-fearing efficient DownEast
Yankee.
The Cooldges certainly go back to the beginning
of things in New England. The first American
Coolidge came about 1880 in the first flight
of the Puritans and settled in Watertown. Mass.
In 1880 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 a farm to each
of his five children!
Each succeeding generation of these Plymouth
Yankee farmers seems have run true to tyre
Calvin Coolidge's grandfather 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 seventyeight-the Presi-
ence in his life-owns the farm where his great
grandfather settled. He tax collector and
constable for thirty-eight years. He justice
of the peace. He served five sessions in the egis-
lature two in the senate He kept store, the
shop when the blacksmith left town, could pull
tooth was road commissioner, settled estates,
taught in the Sunday school and usually looks
after the seating of the people at funerals The
Presidents great grandfather without school
ing; his grandfather went to the district school;
tha To he
President himself is lawyer and a college grad
uate
coolidge luck" has become proverblal 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 a wife who Is genuine helpmeet. He
has two fine sons. police strike In 1910 made
him famous over night. There ambitious poll
tcians who would give millions for the popular
oppenl of the setting in which he took the oath of
ofIice-the parlor of the old homestead the old
fashioned kerosene lamp; the gathered neghbors
outside In the darkness; the father. notary pub
lic 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 a profession
Here Is his creed, stated publicly:
Politics not end. but means. 1t is not a
product but process Ssss is the m art of govern
1t is the process Of action in public affairs
Calvin Coolidge knows politics more thoroughly
than the average man knows the multiplication
tnble: 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 a
good man at the wheel. He has had powerful and
devoted friends back Of him. And the record