The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-22
PRESS ON THE NOMINEES

tuShC anu NlCe pFeSlueHL nave OrOukHL forth a flood of approving comment
 from the nations press. Before the
 campaign begins in earnest, there is usually much editorial frankness in ap-
 plaisal of party selections. Editors real
 ize that, whichever party wins at the
 polls, it is essential that candidates on
 both sides be of the requisite caliber,
 so that the nations president will be an Siable man. Undoubtedly the Republican
 party would not have chosen MT. Cool (. idge were it not for the fact that he is
 already president, with the unexcelled
 political leverage his position gives him. 2 Nevertheless, the people realize that a
 much less capable man could have been
 chosen. MT. Coolidge may lack some of .s the qualities the American people ap-
 prove in their presidents, but he is hon. est, conscientious and courageous, thor @ough American and deserving of public
 respect. The Democrats can choose a
 better man, but it eminently behooves them to do so. Otherwise they may for .feit their bright prospect of victory. t+t According to the Philadelphia Public
 Ledger, "there have been few conven- stions like that at Cleveland, where the
 from the first to the last tap of the
 
 !. Coolidge was irresistible. Those who watched the three days at Cleveland 7 know what a grip is his upon the mind
 and heart of his party. Cleveland moved in the heightened shadow of the man from Massachusetts. An aroused party took the ancient and crusted tory ism of the senate oligarchy' and rele-
 gated it to the background, while the :, pale pinks were dragged down in the tides of Coolidge enthusiasm" The : Ledger thinks that the Coolidge strength had it's origin in his stand on taxation and the bonus. Perhaps not enough en1-
 phasis is placed upon his official posi- {. .tion.
 {, As to the appeal of MT. Dawes the Z St Louis Post-Dispatch remarks: ".We osuspect that before the campaign is over the Republican ticket in the popular es-
 tffnation will be Dawes and Coolidge. sseThere is a glamor around Dawes, his ,s achievements, his methods, his character < istics, and his riproaring language, which C attracts the limelight. He will supply the warmth and color and Coolidge the
 framework of the campaign" The same newspaper believes that "big business" '.is@behind the Republican ticket, and con- zGlades: "If the Democrats happen to nominate ticket that is not fairly con- yservative, or at least safe and sane lib- 1eral, all the opposition will be branded s5Etth bolshevism, menacing the very ! 5foundatiOns of government and orderly
 Society. The campaign will not be an '. easy fight for any of the parties or
 groups in the field. We predict a redhot
 campaign, with all the guns and muni- stions of political warfare going at full 5blast."
 "a 8The thoughtful editor of the Spring 19field Republican of Massachusetts is not much taken with the choice of MT. |! Dawes, and gives some excellent reasons e sfor it's position. For example: General : Dawes-who is not a soldier but a
 banker in occupation-can add no
 strength to the ticket where the ticket
 needed strengthening. If there was a ' Dawes vote it was already for Coolidge. At no time did the report reach Cleve- land that the president wanted Dawes i-ss his running mate. although Borah,
 Kenyon and Hoover figured in the class
 'acceptable' to the White House. The president's political sense was unerring .iflasmuch as he had been sufficiently , iolaved up already to the conservative s+business men of the country as thor ' oughlv safe and sound" However, the Republican overlooks the factor of solid i. 5fying vote already in part appealed ; to. as against diluting that vote by intro ducing a presidential potentiality rep resentative of the progressive element, ssuch as Borah. The selection of Dawes
 has on the whole strengthened the ticket, 1. for even if Dawes is a banker. his ap- gpeal to popularity is real and based on avery different grounds. He is a man S1,n nd hof " |.
 ways attractive to Americans.
 An analysis altogether comforting to
 Democrats is made by the New York ' World: "We do not see how conserva- &tive Republican convention could have s,done better, It selected a ticket and : wrote a platform after it's own heart. < It pushed the Old Guard in congress out
 of sight where it could not be seen by
 the men who will finance the campaign,
 and yet it managed to straddle the one E greatest issue which divides Old Guard
 Republicanism from Big Business Re-
 publicanism. For on the Mellon plan
 the party committed nobody to anything.
 Barring jealousies born of humiliation, < the conservative wing of the Republican ., party should be able to unite in an ap- peal for regular Republican votes in the territory east of the Mississippi and
 north of the Ohio. For the Republican !. party gave up any pretension to being a ; 'dlational party or a party appealing to ' all classes. To the mass interests of the West it offers nothing. To progressives anywhere it offers nothing. It goes to r the country as the representative of the conservative vested interests of the East /. end North, It goes, to it's credit be it 5s said, with comparatively little conceal ! lrnent." This argument is in line with
 the thought of several Democratic lead
 CTS that the party opportunity is to be as progressive as is consistent with T sound principle.
 t-y The Tampa Tribune is unreservedly z Z, 5,,disapproving in its comment; With an i .eyasive and cowardly platform, refris- : 6xated candidate for president for whom z they entertain and show but little re-
 ct. and a gallery-playinS cand date