Evening star., 1924-04-13
COOLIDGE DISPLAYS RARE
POWER AS VOTE GETTER
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OF tnat majority was reduced in
the congressional elections Of 1922,
but 1t is not to be supposed that
1T has all vanished into thin air.
Whatever volume has remained re-
publican may reasonably be ex-
pecteds to prove that President
Coolidge is a vote getter, and
those who vote against him will
do SO because OF opposition to the
republican party itself and not be-
cause Coolidge Is the candidate.
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The majority opinion among re-
publican politicians is that Presi-
dent Coolidge has strengthened
himself by the stand he took on
the encroachment of the Senate
upon the executive branch in the
case of the scope and method of
the Mellon investigating commit
tee. Comment of the public Fri
day and yesterday agrees with the
republican politicians. The sud
den heat engendered among demo-
cratic senators would seem 10 in
the defensive. but they will seek
to make political capital out of
the incident nevertheless.
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Senator Hiram w. johnson of
California is giving the republi-
cans something to worry about.
His statement the other day ac-
cusing his own party of consti-
tuting q combination of CROOKED
big business" and crooked poll
tics" does not make pleasant read
ing for them as they vision the
ides of November
Moreover, Senator johnson saws
ne is to stay in the race and will
keep up his attacks on the party
until the nominating convention is
over. 4 dispatch from New Jer-
sey quotes his managers as saying.
that he will invade that state next
week in a speech making cam
paign. The senator does not say
what his attitude toward the
ticket and the candidate will be in
the campaign for election IL he
loses the nomination. Politicians
point out, however, that if he con-
tinues his present line of talk he
can make enough trouble between
now AND June to cause possible
damage to the party, unless there
comes reaction from the bitter
ness of his attack. Some of the
politicians think that he damaged
his cause in the primaries by his
assaults on the President and the
party.
President Coolidge won another
victory in the farming belt last
Friday, when Oklahoma swung
into line for his candidacy, with
promise of her twenty three dele
gates to the national convention.
The. dispatch said that virtually
all republican county conventions
elected Coolidge delegates to tho
state convention, which will meet
April 23 and declare for the Presi-
dent.
For some time the Oklabomans
IdCllpIdI LTCuDle On dc
count of a row over judgeship.
The judge has been appointed, and
the opposing faction has evidently
decided that there is nothiu' to
it" in bucking the President
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Up to the hour 5I2 Coolidge del
egates have been elected, with 555
necessary to nominate. If IL dele
gates are included in Georgia,
where there are contesting SETS
but both for Coolidge, that gives
him 523. Between now and the
end OF the month delegates will be
chosen in New York, Pennsylva-
MIA, New Jersey. Florida and Della
ware which will put him "over the
top and way beyond.
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AS President Coolidge's majority
grows, the peacemakers in the
party will devote themselves to.
seeking to discourage possible
boiling state delegations.