The Washington times., 1924-03-14

ing LndL ne pears no Ill Will toward
possible rivals Of his for the Presi.
dency.
Second. for the purpose Of con-
ciliating and winning over the
radical Northwest.
1t has become history that Calvin
Coolidge willingly allowed his rival,
Clifford Pinchot, governor Of Penn
sylvania, to have his way in at.
tempting to be the solver of the
anthracite coal problem.
Mr.. Coolidge, far from saying that
Mr.. Pinchot should never have any
thing from the Federal Government,
gave him one Of the largest assign.
ments' ever given to anybody from
the Federal Government. He gave
him anthracite coal, according to
Mr.. Piinchot's own desires, and Mr..
Pinchot has been at it busily and
INCREASINGLY ever since, with little
time to spare for working at the
idea of any Presidency for himself
Then there was Leonard Wood,
governor general of the Philippines.
He has an ungovernable ambition
to be President. Calvin Coolidge
most fortunately finds himself in
utter accord with anything that
Leonard Wood does in the Philip
pines.
He gives Leonard Wood the most
unflinching support. There Is alb
solutely no quarrel that Leonard
Wood can pick with him and no
issue that Leonard Wood can find
against him.
Additionally, for several moments,
Calvin Coolidge thought Of appoint
n -
the closest friend and hacker Of
Gen. Leonard Wood, namely, Colonel
Proctor, Of Cincinnati, who spent a
million dollars and more Of his own
money in trying to get General
Wood nominated for the Presidency
on the Republican ticket in 1920.
Calvin Coolidge cherishes no ami
mosities toward those who have
wished or who now wish to be Presi.
dent or toward any of those who
have backed or are now backing
these wishers.
Generous Toward LOwden.
This sweetness of temper he has
| shown also toward Ex-Governor
Lowden Of Illinois. whose friends
are even now engaged in running
around amid the grass-roots of the
Western prairies telling the politi-
cal managers in western States that
Calvin Coolidge cannot carry the
western States, because be is a
Vermonter and a blue. nosed Yankee,
whereas Mr.. Lowden can indeed
| carry them because he Is a genuine
Western farmer who owns and
operates a terrific number of I'LL
nois acres which he operates
through large numbers of farm
hands to whom he gives employ
ment.
Calvin Coolidge tried to get Mr..
Lowden accordingly to go to Lon
don as the American ambassador
to the court of the King of Eng
land and, when Mr.. Lowden could
not go in that direction. appointed
him to go in the other direction and
organize cooperative associations
for marketing farm crops among
the robust and uprising farmers
of the Northwest.
Mr.. Lowden has been pursuing
this errand through all the biz
yards of the Northwest for some
time. Now comes Judge Kenyon
of Iowa, whose congressional dis.
trict in Iowa has just recently re-
fused to give any endorsement to
Calvin Coolidge for President.
Endorsed by BrOOkhart.
Judge Kenyon has also been en-
dorsed for President by Senator
Brookhart Of Iowa, who is we'll
known to be the most complete
and Understanding radical in the
whole United States Senate.
At the recent Republican State
convention in Iowa, a large number
Of delegates are reported by the
Iowa newspapers to have been en-
tirely devoted to Brookhart.
They totally refused to endorse
Calvin Coolidge for President until
Mr.. Cool!dge's manager came to
agreeable terms with them. It is
confidently believed that tlHs man.
ager of Mr.. Coolidge's presidential
aspirations in Iowa will indulge
himself in no further combat
against Mr.. Brookhart's senatorial
aspirations In Iowa in the next
election
The flat fact is that the Coolidge
management came to terms in
Iowa with the Brookhart element.
This matter-of-fact and sensible
and politically necessary develop
ment has gone along with the
Presidents increasing inclination
toward the so-called paternalistic
measures in Congress for relieving
the distress of the Northwestern
farmers through Governmental or.
CARNATIONS for lending money to
those farmers and for selling their
products.
Favorable to Farmers.
The truth is in Washington that
paternalistic measures have over
and over again been adopted to.
ward such institutions as railroad
companies. The New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad Com.
pany, for instance, now owes the
United States Government an i'm
mense sum Of money which the
United States Government lent to
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