The Washington times., 1924-01-31
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
The Man Who Should Be President
By DIR. FRANK CRANE.

Under the title Of "The Man Who Should Be Pfes-
dent" Clam Frank, the editor Of the Century Mag
aEine gives interesting sketch Of the sort Of per
SON who should nominated for President Of the United
States at one Of the coming Conventions.
Briefly he states that the next President ought % bO
and independent enough to put the welfare Of
the country above his desire to get votes for his party
his own reelection.
Second, he should be whose mind is open upon tho
question Of the relation Of the United States other
tons TO make foreign policy partisan matter
Third, the next President should be man who realizes
that the Government of the United States il growing
thing constantly developing and not fixed piece OF ma
chnery constructed by gifted fOeathers never TO be
changed.
Fourth the next President should be who viii take
the people in general into his confidence and use the
inteligenty.
Fifth the next President should not be desk slave
and job distributor but should give his attention princi
paly to the spiritual leadership Of the nation.
1t S safe to say that this kind Of President will not be
nominated Presidents elected by the people but they
are selected by the political parties These parties held
together by the dead hand Of organization They
called into existence by live issues Today they Organ
zatons in which who differ widely the issue of the
held together by the artificial demands Of party
loyalty and the selfish desire for office"
In order to hold together they have "tO club their mem
bers into unity by pleas for regularity and appeals to the
human desire to be part Of successful group"
Consequently the kind Of who is to be nominated is
That M his votegettng power consists in his purely meg
ative qualities He must have opinions that offend the few
The result is that the average President Of the United
States is first class He is usually einenty
respectable and personally Presidents have ranked
very high clean and honorable citizens But outside Of
few conspicuous exceptions presidents well kings
second class men,
The only way out Of this would be to nominate a
who is not politician not interested in getting votes but
who qualified for the job not only by his high personal
character but by his intelligence and common sense. Also
a man of especially high vision and courage.
would suggest therefore that the next President be
pure nteectual that h who is familiar with deal
ing with ideas and not who Is merely skllful in
handling people.
And in order to relieve the anxiety Of the President
makers and them trouble would suggest that they
nominate Mr.. Glenn Frank.
He young enough and handsome enough to be interest
ing He make better speech than any President
happen to have heard He has political entangementS
and would draw largely the independent voters Of both
parties.
He is democratic, genial and phrase of Bill Nys
pleasant to be thrown amongst
Personally speaking if that kind of should be NOM
mated think should vote for him.
the Democrats and Republicans put up the usual type
Of President do not think should take the trouble to
vote at all.
And in stating fear that am expressing the sent-
mentS OF very large number Of citizens.
Of course the party bosses want such man. but If
something should happen that they did such type
OF man am merely telling them his address.
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