Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-10
COOL RECEPTION INDICATED
FOR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS
AT REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
No "Pointing With Pride'
Possible This Year, So
Coolidge Will Hold Full
Spotlight
BY ROBERT I. SMALL
Copyright 1924, by the Consolidated Press
sociation-Special leased Wire
To The Atlanta Journal)

Downright. 1924, by the Consolidated Press
Association Special LEASED Wire
to The Atlanta JournaD
WASHINGTON, June Con.
gress has adjourned so the members
and the senator's may go to their
party's national conventions. 1t is
agreed here that the Republican
senators and congressman are going
to get a very cool reception at the
Coolidge jubilee in Cleveland
Many persons have been worrying
as to Just how the platform makers
at Cleveland are going to make the
congressional performances square
with the presidential professions.
The answer may be made at last,
and if is an easy one Congress is
going to come closer to being
ignored in the forthcoming Repub-
Iican platform than it ever has been
in its hectic and somewhat colorful
life.
President Coolidge always has
been in favor of a brief platform.
About the surest way to make it
brief is not to mention congress, or
in any way to kindly omit flowers in
dealing with that particular branch
of the government
TO COddle the West
The Republicans have decided to
build their campaign upon the
character of President Coolidge and
upon the future. They are willing
toll. let bygones by bygones, to let the
dead past bury it's dead, and to look
only 20 the sunrise. This figure of
speech is hardly correct at that, for
the Republican leaders are looking
to the sunset side of the country for
the support necessary to return
their candidate to the White House.
The west is to coddled and
caressed as it has never been wooed
before. Honeyed words will fall
from the lips of the temporary chair
man, of the permanent chairman
and all the in-between times chair
men, if there are any. If congress
has not done all that it might do
by the farmer, that is because other
things have pressed for cOnsidera-
ton Mr. Coolidge will be pointed'
out as man of the farm. He will
be shown seated on the old hay rick
and the men of the soil the country
over will be told that so long as he
is in the White House they will
have a direct spokesman in the seat
of the mighty and everything will be
satisfactorily threshed out in the
good months to come.
Already the Republican spell
binders have gone forth in the land
cd Nv
idge is his own platform. A good
many of the leaders Of the Grand
Old Party wish it were not neces-
sary this year to make any other
statement. They would be willing to
have the battle fought on those lines
all summer and into the early fall.
Heretofore, the Republican con-
ventions have been dominated large
ly by the senator's of the United
States and some of the higher rank
ing representatives and it has been
but natural that there should have
been a great deal of pointing with
pride to what a Republican congress
has accomplished, and no little view
ing with alarm what might happen
if the unregenerated Democrats
should ever grab the reins Of power.
Soft Pedal on Congress
But this year the congressional
influence at Cleveland will be as
nil, and so the platform builders
will be free % point with pride only
to the president and if they secretly
view with alarm the record of their
own party in congress, n discreet
silence may hull the country to a
slumber calculated to wear away
whatever smacks of anger in the
hearts Of the voters.
With the convention but two days
away, the party leaders representing
MIR. Coolidge feel that the situation
is very well, 1 hand. The program
Of the three days Of activitN-Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday-has
been carefully scrutinized.
Arrangements also have been
made for the fast telephone service
between the White House and the
Ohio metropolis, whenever Mr., Cool
idge's aides desire to get in touch
with him. AS matters stand. it is
not thought there will be the slight
est need of the telephone wires, but
until adjournment is reached, there
always is little nervousness about
4 convention expected to be largely
q cut and dried affair While every
thing may look perfectly placid on
the outside, there nevertheless is
really more strain about q conven-
ton of the. Cleveland sort than about
an open fight like the one to be
staged in New York later in the
month.
Mr. Coolidgs expects to hear CT
his nomination along about 2.11I
p. M, on Thursday next. The pre-
and the spell binding
should be over by then and of course
only one ballot will be necessary.
While the understanding is that no
other candidate will be formally
placed before the convention, never
theless the La Toilette votes in the
Wisconsin delegation will be cast
for that gentleman, come what will.
Long before Wisconsin is reached on
the roll of states, however, Mr.. Cool
idge will have received his neces-
SaTy majority. Some delegate may
then arise and move to make it
but the chances are the
call will be continued to the end.
and the LaFollette votes will have
to be counted for him. There is
; certainty that some scatter