The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-07-03
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
Ticket Nominated at Cleveland
VIII Be Elected Is Prediction

Washington, June 17,-Coolidge
and Dawes That is the Republican
ticket nominated at Cleveland, the
ticket which will be elected November
4. This prediction is based on the
views Of some of the ablest political
Prognosticators in Washington, in
Guiding some sagacious Democratic
leaders. The nomination Of Calvin
Coolidge on the first ballot, by 1921
votes out of 1915, constituted zone
of the most impressive demonstra-
tons Of party solidarity in the his
tory of the Republican party" it was
an exhibition OF unity which stunned
the opposition party and struck ter
rOr to the hearts of the la-Follette-
ties. That Calvin Coolidge, q homely
man with the homliest of the homely
virtues should have succeeded in so
far capturing the imagination Of the
American people in the brief period
he has been President-and he was
little known before; that he, with his
quiet manner, his economy of words,
his answering courage to do right,
regardless of what his political ad-
visers assured him was essential to
his political success, should have so
compelled the admiration of the
American people as to win his nomi-
nation with practically no dissenting
voice is an occasion Of unspeakable
establishment to the professional poll
ticians who, returning from Cleve-
land in droves today, confess them
it. Calvin Coolidge defed the old
guard, vetoed the bonus bill because
he thought it was right, vetoed the
Bursum pension bill because he
thought. it was right-in a word
practised in the White House those
homely virtues he had inherited from
his sturdy Puritan ancestry and
which had been instilled into him on
that almost bleak New England
farm, rejected all the time-serving
compromises which the professional
politicians regard as essential to sue
cess and has beaten the politicians at
their own game. AS the New York
Times (Democratic) remarks sadly,
1T will take some Democrat to de-
feat Mr.. Coolidge"
To Mr.. Coolidge and the members
of his cabinet. to the voters gener-
ally, to all but the old guard, who
wanted Frank Lowden, the nominal
ton of Charles G. Dawes is an oc-
casion of infinite satisfaction. Had
Mr.. Coolidge been willing he could
have at any moment dictated the
choice of his running-mat But he
would not. His political representa-
tive, Mr.. Butler, tried to and failed.
| But the convention chose for second
place with the same wisdom that
prompted their choice Of presidential
candidate. Son of Gen. Rufus Dawes,
| commander of Wisconsin's famous
Iron Brigade, Gen. Dawes has a
warm place in the hearts of all loyal
| Wisconsinites. Graduate of Marriette
College and the Cincinnati Law
School, his hold on Ohioans is not
less deep. Adopted son of Nebraska,
where he went with his bride to prac-
tise law and where he lived all the
early years of his law practice, he
has never lost the place he won in
the esteem of Nebraskans. Right
in France he made an enviable rec
ord in charge of the S. o. s., and won
the loyalty of the A. f. F. Promi-
nent business man of Chicago, he is
regarded by Illinois as one of her
favorite sons. Special arbiter of the
German Preparations commission and
deviser of that settlement which now
promises real peace for Europe, he
has gained the admiration of the
world. Under the benefcient prac-
tice instituted by President Harding,
of having the Vice President attend
the meetings of the cabinet, Mr..
Dawes will prove Of invaluable assis-
tance whenever world questions come
before that important body for few
Americans know the European coun-
tries and their problems as we'll as
he. That President Colidge made no
mistake in trusting implicitly to the
judgment of the delegates to the con-
, vention is the profound conviction of
the ablest men in the national capt.
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