Evening star., 1924-11-06
ELECTION UPSETS
DAWES LIFE PLAN
Would Have Refused Office
Six Months Ago, Friends
Declare.
BY the Associated TresS.

| BY the Associated Fress.
| CHICAGO November 6.-Charles c.
| Dawes on next March will assume
! an Office which he originally did not
seek and which if offered him six
months ago he almost certainly
would have declined
That statement was made today by
some of those closest to the Vice
President-elect and by those who
know the inside story of how the
banker, soldier. business man, phil
anthropist and economist has come
to the place where after next March
4 he will be second only,to the presi-
dency
Six months ago Mr.. Dawes returned
! from Europe after serving as head of
the experts committee of the repara-
tions commission. which had worked
out plan for the economic rehabili-
tation of Europe 1t was his third
period of public service after having
,-heen controller of the currency under
President Mckinley and director OF
the budget under President H"rding.
Planned Quiet Life.
Mr.. Dawes accordingly set about
arranging his affairs SO as. TO spend
the rest of his life as a private citi-
Z
and business interests and to the lite
nf a wealthy man who loves music,
art and books and whose name is con
nected with a number OF charitable
or near-charitable enterprises
Then the Republican national con-
yention came along and got Itself
into a snarl over the selection or a
running mate for President CoolloGe.
Mr. Dawes was down at Marietta.
Ieye class and little Interested in the
events at Cleveland. Conferences
among party leaders at the conven-
ton having produced no unanimity of
opiniun as TO the vice presidential
nominee the convention took things
into it's own hands and nominated
Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. Mr..
Lowden promptly declined the honor
and the name of Dawes, already men
toned and before the convention.
with the support of New Jersey and
Nebraska, was brought forward.
Acceptance Doubted.
Some doubt existed as to whether
Mr.. Dawes would take the nomina-
ton and some opposition arose to his
selection.
Those close to him declared it was
this opposition that caused him to
consent to use his name and add that
the prospect of a fight made him want
the nomination.
1t is the opinion of these friends
that promise of a fight always has
neen and always will be Mr.. Dawes
chief incentive.
The vice presidency doesn't offer
much in the way of a fight and that
is why that office, friends assert, did
not and does not appeal directly to
him as an official position.
The feeling of Mr.. Dawes is not
alone his. but is shared by the other
members of his family to a certain
extent. When the tide of votes for
the Republican national ticket set in
Tuesday night. Mrs. Dawes turned to
a friend in answer to question as to
going to Washington and said:
washington won't be entirely
strange for we have lived there. But
this is home, and we have so many
friends here we shall regret to leave
it only for a time
Daughter opposed victory.
Virginia, the 1O-year- adopted
daughter, has been pulling for the
election of some one other than her
father, making no secret of he- de-
sire to remain in Evanston among the
children she knows.
AS for Dana the 12-year- adopted
son, he accepts it as the average boy
accepts a change-just a part Of the
days life, although he admits he
doesn't like the idea of having to
leave Evanston.
If Mr. Dawes has given any thought
to what he will do after his four-year
term as Vice President, he hasn't dis
closed it to his most intimate associ-
ates Several times during his cam
paign tour, the presidential nomina-
ton in 1928 was mentioned in his
presence, but always he pretended not
to have heard or said nothing, and
maintained an unchanged expression.