Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-29
LODGE, DAUCHERTY
CALL ON COOLIDGE
GOES UNEXPL AINED
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
Ueased Wire Service to The Journal.)
lCOnviirht 1924

NlhDNllEHl, i'-t.)
AHSINGTON. March IT.
Harry Daugherty went in one door
and Henry Cabot Lodge went out
the other.
Thus might the visit of the attor-
ney general and the Republican
leader of the senate to the office of
President Coolidge Wednesday be de-
scribed. For a few bCief moments,
the neWspapermen saw visions OF a
reconciliation between the senior
senator from Massachusetts and the
man who is under investigation by
4 senate committee. Not long ago
Mr.. Lodge advised the president that
the attorney general should not re-
main longer in the cabinet. Mr.. Cool
dge felt that the attorney general
should have his day in court. Mr..
Lodge thought the Democrats would
only use the occasion to keep the
Daugherty case in the head lines in
terminably. Some VINO differed with
Mr.. Lodge thought the Democrats
would do that anyway and that
better defense could be made by Mr..
Daugherty if he remained in office
fighting than if he quit under fire.
The Democrats are living up to pre-
dictiOns. They are fighting the at
torney general but he is biding his
time and expects to launch his cOun-
ter attack shortly. Then it may be
taken for granted that he will re-
sign, for he will not continue to
make himself the subject of con-
troversy on the eve of a presidential
campaign.
Mr.. Daugherty said he had r'routine
matters" under consideration with
the president. He had nothing else
to say. There appears to be an I'M
between Mr.. Coolidge
and his attorney general, however,
and, at least until the investigation
is completed he will stay in the cab
met.
This was a day of suppressed ex-
element in the White House. The
returns from South Dakota came
so slowly as to make impossible any
expression of administration opinion
out for the last few days the Coolidge
have given the hint that
they did not expect a, victory in
South Dakota and would be satisfied
if the president made a good run.
The president had been told in ad-
vance that most of the congressional
delegation from South Dakota was
against him and that it wuld be hard
for him to win unless he could make
q personal. campaign as Senator
Hiram Johnson has been making up.
a primary by long distance
is hardly as effective as personal
visit but the obligations Of the office
prevent Mr.. Coolidge from Venturing
forth to far away points. That's
where the man on the outside has
the advantage over the incumbent
in the White House.
Another bit of politics was brought
TO the president today by G.. c. Ham
lin, editor of the Colorado Springs
Gazette, who is slated to
be Republican national committee
man from Colorado. Mr.. Hamlin
lunched with the president. He said
Mr.. Coolidge was stronger than the
party in the west and that the
chances of carrying western states
were improving daily.
AS the time for the natiopal con-
ventions grows shorter, the gather
ing in of delegates for Coolidge con-
tinues in such fashion as to
strengthen the opinion that oppost-
ton in the Republican national con-
vention to the nomination of the chief
executive is diminishing. The South
Dakota primary has been regarded
as a sort of turning point. An over
whelming defeat for the president
would have stirred the hopes Of OPP
ponents. The close race in South
Dakota has not dampened the en-
thusiasm of the Coolidge partisans
but has given them the idea that
they can at least hold their own in
the western states, something which
a few weeks ago might have been
opon m runStiOl1