Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-06-06

68th Congress is at last in sight.
Early on the morning of Sunday, June
9Th, falling gavels in both houses will
announce the close of the session, af
ter which the members will scatter to
their homes for the approaching po-
litical campaigns. Many will go i'm
mediately to Cleveland to be on hand
for the opening of the Republican Ma
tional Convention.
President Coolidge will remain in
Washington during the convention,
leaving it to his friends to look after
his nominations, the actual drafting
of the Republican platform and the
other convention details. A special
telegraph wire is to be rugged up from
the White House to the convention
hall in Cleveland to keep the Presi
dent advised of all developments as
soon as they occur and SO that he may
issue orders to his political lieuten-
ants if the occasion warrants.
With the convention but a few days
away, some doubt still remains as to
whom will be selected as the Repub-
lican president candidate. Among
those prominently mentioned for the
second place on the ticket are former
Governor Frank o. Lowden Of Illinois,
Major General James G. Harbord and
Senator VIM. E. Borah, but there are
a host of other possibilities.
Senator La Follette's activities in
the direction of the Presidency re-
main a constant subject of specula-
ton among the politicians of all
parties. No one believes that La
Toilette has any chance of being
termination to run as an independent
candidate means that he may carry
enough states to take the election out
of the Electoral college and throw it
into the insurgent- House
of Representatives, where no one
knows what might happen. 1t is not
expected he could carry more than
ten states at the most, most Of these
in the middle west
The grave consequences threatened
by the Japanese Ambassador in the
event the American Government went
ahead with its exclusion plans
has developed so far in some jingo
talk in Japan and formal protest
handed to Secretary of State Hughes.
There is nothing that can now be done
about it, regardless of how much the
President disliked to sign the exclu-
sion bill. The excitement over the
eastern question has given big navy
men in Congress an opportunity to
rush through building program in
volving the expenditure of about
S150,000,000 for new ships.
June fifth has been set as the date
for publication throughout the coun-
try of the application forms for the
soldiers bonus insurance certificates.
The War Department estimates that
it will be the latter part of June be-
fore the official application blanks
will be ready for distribution, but
number of newspapers have arranged
to print them before that time. The
insurance certificates will not begin
to reach the veterans until early next
year. Cash payments will begin in
March, 1925.
Democratic senators are playing
AlphonsO and Castor in the cloak
rooms now. So many of them are po
tential presidential candidates that it
keeps them busy announcing that
they are not running and that they
are supporting someone else. Manv
look upon Ralston of Indiana as the
likely Democratic choice.
The White House garden parties
this spring have not been so success
full. The weather has been cold and
it has rained nearly every afternoon
that the President and Mrs. Coolidge
arranged to receive on the lawn of
the Executive Mansion At the first
outdoor party, the President caught
cold and has not yet fully recovered.
Now he is leaving it to Mrs. Coolidge
to do the hOnOrS at these affairs