The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-11
CHOICE Of
LEADERS
IN EAST
Foe Of World Court and Other
Policies Fit in With Old
Republican Views.
By WILLIAM HARD.

By WILLIAM HARD.
The South plus the Atlantic
Northeast-that is the conquering
force which enthusiastic Coolidge
political hackers hope to put into
the next Republican Presidential
nominating convention under the
possible suggested Northeastern
and Southwestern Presidential
and Vice Presidential running
banner:
Coolidge, of Massachusetts,,
and Hyde, of Missouri"
Gov. Hyde's Views.
Governor Hyde in Washington
this week expressed the highest re-
gard and firmest support for
Coolidge as President and as leader
of the Republican Party. In
Coolidge circles-among Gals pals"
1T is faithfully expected that Hyde
will put forth his best endeavors to
bring a unanimously Coolidge dele
CATION from Missouri to the Republi-
can national convention of 1924.
simultaneously in those circles the
suggestion spreads that no filter
running mate than Hyde-and none
more useful-could be provided for
the presidential runner from Mass
achusetts.
1t is noted that it is Senator
George Moses Of New Hampshire, a
peculiarly hard-boiled ''irreconcil.
able" and heavyweight hater of the
world court, who today takes the
initiative in summoning all New
England TO rally to the cause Of
Coolidge for next year.
Famous Letter is Recalled.
It is noted that 1t was Governor
hyde OF Missouri who sent to
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge .of
Massachusetts, the famous letter
which implored Senator Lodge to
save Missouri from the world court
"a letter which Lodge gladly
answered by saying in effect that
while he could not undertake to cut
would be only too happy to put
ground glass in its tea as soon as
1t arrived in the Senate
The preponderant political weight
OF New England is against the
world court; and the section which
will be exhorted to exhibit Calvin
Coolidge 20 the next Republican
national convention as it's "favorite
son." is not Massachusetts,, but all
New England. For this purpose
New England, it is hoped, will be
one commonwealth 80
The last President elected out of
New England was Franklin Pierce
In 1852. 1t is hoped and prayed
that New England will want to
elect another New Highlander in
1924-seventy-two years later.
The general opinion here is
strongly to the effect that these
prayers will be answered to the ex-
tent of producing six solid Coolidge
delegations out ofs the New Eng
land States in the Republican con-
vention Of 1924, If Coolidge succeeds
in giving the country q passably
strong and effective administration
1000 Convention Delegates.
In the convention there will be
approximately a thousand delegates |
The delegates from New England |
will total approximately a hundred |
To them the Coolidge enthusiasts |
add the delegates from New York |
and New Jersey and Pennsylvania. |
They calculate that Coolidge fits |
the Republican temperament Of those |
Rtates, especially in the profession |
ally Republican political groups |
which especially choose Presidential |
convention delegates.
They also calculate that Coolidge |
win handle the threatened anthra- |
cite coal strike firmly, and that the
Atlantic Northeast will particularly
and permanently bless him and re. |
member him for it,
The delegates from New York and |
New Jersey and Pennsylvania will |
number almost 200. Added to the
New England delegates, they will |
give Coolidge some 900 delegates
from this one Northeastern section |
of the country alone.
They then note with Joy that the
delegates from the solid South"
and the border South" would he
enough, II added to the Northeast
ern delegates, to give Coolidge ma
Jority.
Delegates From South.
The delegates from the "solid
Eouth"-that is, from Virginia and
North Carolina and South Carolina
and Georgia and Florida and Ala.
bana and Mississippi and Louisiana
and Texas and Arkansas-wiIl num-
Der some seventy-five. 1t is argued
that no Republican President could
possibly. with Presidential political
patronage and with ordinary manly
resolution, avoid capturing those
Seventy-five.
The border South" - Maryland
and West Virginia and Tennessee
end Kentucky and Missouri and
Oklahoma will furnish 1872 dele
gates.
At this point the supporters of
Governor Hyde Of Missouri step for
ward to explain his merits.
He is IN agreement, they claim.
with the international policy which
the present Administration will pur-
sue. That policy, they insist, will
be one of as much abstinence from
International affairs as is feasible
This writer. after talking with
many exalted political personages
who have had the high honor OF
exchanging views on the subject OF
the world court with the present
President Of the United States, is
Bound to say that Overwhelmingly
they seem to come away with the