Evening star., 1924-08-14
COOLIDGE TO OPEN.
FIGHT WITH SPEECH
DEFINING POSITION
President Will Make Pledges
to Nation in Reply to
Notification.
PARTY LEADERS HERE
TO ATTEND CEREMONY
First to Arrive to Have Seats in
D. A. R. Hall, Except for
Few Reserved.
BY G.. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY &. GOULD LINCOLN.
President Calvin Coolidge tonight
will lay before the country his inter
probation of the issues of the coming
Campaign, will make his pledges to
the people if he be continued in office
FOR the next four years and, will. in
effect, officially open the Republican
campaign. His vehicle will be his
address accepting the nomination of
the Republican party for the presi-
dency, which will be rendered for
mally to him by the committee ap-
pointed by the Republican national
convention in Cleveland last June.
Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming,
chairman of the notification commit
tee, will deliver the speech informing
the President officially of the action
of the convention.
The notification ceremonies are to
be held in Memorial Continental Hall.
national home of the Daughters Of
the American Revolution, where the
Washington arms conference was
held. The doors of the hall are to
be opened at Z pm. and the ceremo-
nies are to begin promptly at s
o'clock.
Party Leaders Present.
Leaders of the Republican party
from every State in the Union will be
present. They have been coming into
Washington all day in preparation
for event. Many members of the Re-
Republican national committee are here,
although no meeting of the commit
tee is scheduled. Republican gov
ernors of States, members of the Sem
HOuSa hers n
the notification committee made up
in the main the distinguished guest
list.
Although the hall holds in the
neighborhood of 1000 persons. Presi-
dent Coolidge's address will he heard
by approximately 25.Ooo,Ooo other
American citizens tonight, by means
of the radio. His speech will be
broadcast North, South, East and West.
Open to Public.
In Democratic manner. the hall is
to be thrown open to the public, ex-
cept for the compa ratirefy small
number of reserved seats provided for
the committee, distinguished guests
and the press. The first arrivals will
be the first given seats, and even the
reserved seats are to be held for
ticket holders only until $50 o'clock
The Republican leaders arriving
here today expressed their confidence
in the election of President Coolidge
next November.
They are basing their hopes or CAL
vim Coolidge, the man and the Chief
Executive of the Nation. They in
sist that the people of the United
States have faith in Mr.. Coolidge.
They do not believe that this faith
can be destroyed by Democratic at
tacks. Former Representative Hicks
Of New York, now holding important
office in the New York campaign
headquarters. said that the orsaniza-
ton for Northeastern ard Middle At
1antic States had been perfected and
on its toes, ready to go when the
campaign actively is launched. He
sees only Republican success in that
section Of the country. Similar re-
ports were brought here from West
ern States also.
HilIeS Mt White House.
Charles d. HilIes. national COM
mitteeman from New York and vice
chairman of the Republican national
committee, was an early caller at the
White House today and went over
with the President thoroughly the
political situation in New York State
Mr.. Hilles expressed his entire conf
dence that the Republican national
ticket. would carry the Empire State
Hamilton F. Kean of New Jersey.
national committeeman and candidate
for Senator. gave the President his
view of conditions in New Jersey Fol-
lowing his conference he said:
A thorough canvass of the political
situation in New Jersey convinces me
that the ticket headed by Coolidge and
Dawes will find whole-hearted support
from the people of New Jersey. The
In.,
in my State, where right-thinking men
and women realize that continued pros
~perity of the country depends upon con-
tinuance of the Republican administra-
ton SO ably. efficiently and economically
headed by Calvin Coolidge
The Republican party in New Jersey
Is militant. There is no indifference
among our voters. Early apathy is
rapidly disappearing and am con-
at the polls on election day, and that
is all that is needed for Republican
victory for the National ticket in New
Jersey.
Opposition 70 Edge.
NY contest for the senatorial nomi-
nation is having a stimulating effect.
My opposition to Senator Edge, whose
negative record of support of the
President and his party demands that
he be replaced is having the desired
effect of stimulating interest in the
coming election. 1 am confident that
when the count is made New Jerseys
IL electoral votes will be for Coolidge
and Dawes.
''Of course La Folletteism will have
some effect in New Jersey. But La
Folletteism will not menace the Re-
publican party. 1t will hurt the Dem
ocrauc party, and 1 predict now that
for every Republican who wavers in
his support of his party to align him
self with movement fostered and
nurtured by communism and other
equally abhorent and un-American
devices of government ruin, La Fol-
letteism will take three Democratic
adherents.
II am firmly of the opinion that the
impending assault on both national
candidates by La Toilette and his CO.
horts will imperil but one, and that
one will not be President Coolidge"
Lay Plans Quietly.
Notification day in Washington is
not what 1t was in Clarksburg, w. Va,
last Monday, where bands played and
John w. Davis enthusiasts marched
from morning until night. The Re-
publicans, apparently, are going
about the task of notifying their can
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