Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-31
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n HARRY B. HUNT

| WASHINGTON, May 30. - No
more difficult problems will be
faced by William M. Butler, cam
paign manager for President Cool
idge, than that Of selling" the
Coolidge candidacy to William
Edgar Borah Of Idaho.
Borah has been the first choice
of Butler and the Coolidge clan for
the honor of placing Cautious Cal'
in nomination at the Cleveland cos
vention.
But Cal in his wariest days was
never more cautious than Bora
has been in considering whether or
not to accept said honor.
Borah's personal preference is, IN
this campaign as in most matters he
undertakes, to play lone hand. He
is up for reelection himself this
year, and it is a question whether
his own position in Idaho will be
helped or hurt by too close an
utilization with the Coolidge cam
paign.
Borah's strength in his home state
has been his progressivism. The
chief claim for Coolidge Support,
however, is on the ground of the
presidents caution and conservat,
ism. While the two could be mixed
to Coolidge's advantage, nationally
She combination if applied locally in
Idaho.
1t is chiefly the advantage that
would result from an open and
sweeping endorsement of Coolidge
by Borah that has been sought in
| the effort to persuade Borah to
Imake the nominating address.
This would serve two purposes.
1t would incline favorably to Cool
idge a large Progressive following
which would accept Borah's esti-
mate of the main and his abilities
as their own estimate.
And, having committed himself 20
the Coolidge Candidacy by placing
him in nomination, Borah would be
compelled to ride the range peace
ably with the organization outfit
during the entire campaign.
A less important factor, but one
that also has had its part in the neg
citations, is chat Borah's speech
would be one that would get across
not merely to the convention but to
the country.
Borah's speeches are good copy"
Next to the original IT. R." no man
recently in public life has had the
knack of expressing himself so as
TO catch the newspaper headlines as
has Borah. His speeches are pic.
turesque and full of punch"
His voce, too, is powerful and
with carrying quality that can
reach the farthest corner even of
Cleveland's great auditorium.
Next to Borah, consideration Of
the nominating speechmaker has
conferred chiefly around Albert j.
Beveridge of Indiana.
Beveridge, too, carries some of
the aura of Progressive, through
his adherence to Roosevelt in 1921.
He is, also a good orator. He mas
perhaps greater eloquence, but less
force, than Borah.
But Indiana Republican politics
are so scrambled this year that TIE
advantage to the Coolidge cause
through Beveridge would be mucn
less than through Borah. With a
triangular interstate battle raging
between the Watson-New. Beveridge
factions of the G. O. p, the Hoos-
Ter orator might cost Cal. even the
small chance he now has of carry
ing that state.
Third in the list comes the loudeat
speaker of them all-Senator Frank
B. Willis, Of Ohio.
No amplifier is need when Willis
speaks. His speeches nominating
Theodore E. Burton, in 1916, and
Warren G. Harding in 1920, have
never been surpassed in point of vol
ume and audibility. Willis will
nominate Coolidge, if desired. Or
he will accept a vice presidential
nomination if offered. Either way,
Willis is willing!