The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-29

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 governor of a state should be left be- hind when the delegation starts fer the national convention.
 The drys have made the same as- sault on Mellon's enforcement of the Volstead~ act and on the fall-dOwn of federal enforcement of the liquor law. and in that issue and the belief that Pinchot would clean up Pennsylvania at least the Quaker state elected Pin chot governor two years ago and there by brought grief and humiliation to what was left of the old Penrose ma chine.
 The reversal of conditions since the progressives talked about running Pin chot for the presidency can only be due to one thing-Coolidge.
 The explanation of this dogged loy- alty to the President is difficult. When you ask for it you are told the people regard him as safe. or that the people are tired of talk and glad of the pres enee of a retieent man. It oes not sound very convincing, but in default of anything clearer it must be accepted.
 Mir. Coolidge has solved no problem that confronted the country when he came to the White House. The farm CTS are bleating more pathetically than ever, the soldier bonus still is facing the probabilities of veto; our foreign relations, thanks to tn eJapanese ex- clusion law, are in worse state than at any time since the arms confer ence of a reticent man. It does not the future; his handling of the oil graft situation is criticised with great vehemence by those who think he should have cleaned house in the be- ginning. And yet, Mir. Coolidge con- tinues to corral the votes and life is being made miserable for everybody in his party that raises his voice against him.
 Mir. Coolidges pre-convention cam paign has been devoid of mistakes. Hiram Johnson may rave about the iniquity of the shuffling of the south ern delegations. but Coolidge has the delegates and Johnson has only a lot of political stone bruises, mute testi- mony to the rocky road he has tray eled.
 There are a lot of old timers watch ing Mir. Colidoge's performance in the same attitude as the crowd that | commented on the ignorance of Jones. the prospector, which suggests that it might be as well if the democrats did not bank too heavily on the Presi- dents lack of technique in the ap- preaching struggle.
 G. o. P. Picks RaIston It Is almost impossible to find democrat who will venture an opinion ns to who will be the candidate after the Madison Square Garden conven- cided it will be Senator Ralston. They have curious answer to the oft-made objection that it would not be good policy to name a man who, if he was successful, would be seventy-one when 1t came time to run for a second term.
 If Coolidge is beaten this time," runs the logic. ''it will be because the country is beset with problems that could not have been settled by any administration. Four years hence the countr will be in as bad d pickle as it is now, if not worse. and the resentment at the party that was unable to cure the incurable will be even more bitter, because the farm CTS will have suffered longer. Whats the use thinking about a second term under such conditions"
 These gloomy souls do not even ad- init that the settlement of Europe s difficulties spell immediate prosperity for this country. They say as soon as the mark is worth anything Ger many will begin buying her pork from Poland and her wheat from Russia and before these countries again become our markets the next administration will he heaped with the obloquy for the economic situation. even if no new com plications come along to add to the bur den.
 Possibly there is something of the same sort in the minds of the mag mates of the republican national com mittee, which would account for their sudden onslaught on the progressives as typified by the recent reading out of the party or Senator Norris, the mild est of the radicals and perhaps the strongest. except La Toilette. l Adams ThrcIRs Bricks
 John Adams, republican national chairman, goes out with the convention according to the usual but not invari- able custom. He threw bricks when President Harding was trying to put window glass into the fabric of our foreign relations. not aSsailing the world court directly but clamoring day by day that any approach to participa- ton in Europe's affairs meant Uncle Sam would pay the bills. Now when those about Coolidge are talking about getting Kenyon or Borah, or even Sen ator Norbeck of South Dakota, to run with the President Adams is crusading against the republican insurgents, not mentioning these three but Jumping all their associate progressives as part of Red conspiracy.
 They all know the Senate will be lost to the republicans after the No vember election anyhow and they will be no worse off with democrats in most of the seats now filled by Brookhart. Frazier and the rest of them, whether CooIid0a DttIIa or ,ot T,.