Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-11
Has Held Political Offices
Longer and 0ftener Than
ANY Other Man of His
Years in WASHINGTON
BY ROBERT 7. SMALL
Especial Leased Wire to The Journal-Copy-


right 1921
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-Prior to
the election of last Tuesday, the
country, for some reason or other,
had the impression that Calvin Cool
idge didn't know much about poll
tics. The country thought of him
as more or less OF a political found
ling, a chance man of fate, a play
thing of destiny.
President CooHdgo is the master
politician He has held political Of
fees oftener and longer than any
man of his years now in Washing
ton
Coolidge has run for political Of
fices Just twenty times: and twenty
times he has been elected. If any
man in politics today can match or
beat that record, let him come for
ward at this time or forever after
hold his peace. Certainly there is
no one to match a path of political
fortune. which has run all the way
from CITY councilman of Northamp-
ton, Mass, to the presidency of the
United States, with only about five
lean" years intervening from the
lowest to the highest.
1t might almost be said of the
president that he has won twenty
one times, for in college he entered
a national contest for a gold medal
offered by the Sons of the Revolu-
ton for the best essay on the ''Prin-
ciples for Which the Colonies
Fought in the Revolutionary War."'
The contest was open to all colleges.
Young Coolidge, of Amherst, car
RED off the prize.
Within four years after his grad
uation Coolidge had made his first
political bid and won his first pOlit-
ical victory. He was graduated in
1895. In 1899 he was in the city
council of Northampton. Political
victory number two came when he
was elected city solicitor in 1900 for
two years. In 1904 came political
victory number three-clerk of
courts
Then the budding politician, who
had after great deliberation trans
planted himself from Vermont to
Massachusetts soil began to warm
up bit and strike out for higher
things.
Since 1909 Mr.. Coolidge has never
been out of public office, and he has
just been elected to four years more
in the White House FROM March d,
next. This will carry him from
March 4, 1925, to March d, 1929, q
stretch of twenty years of political
preferment.
Mr.. Coolidge's victories have come
in this manner:
/. City councilman, 1899.
2. City solicitor, 1900.
3. Clerk Of courts, 1904.
4. House of representatives, Mas
sachusetts. 1906.
s. Reelected to house, 1907.
6. Mayor of northampton, 1909
T. Reelected mayor, 1910.
8. State senate Massachusetts,
1911.
9. Reelected, 1912.
| 10. Reelected, 1913.
II. Elected president of senate,
| 1913.
10. Elected to senate. 1918
| IS. Elected president of senate,
1914.
IA. Lieutenant governor of Massa.
chuSettS, 1915.
10. Reelected, 1916.
16. Reelected, 1917
II. Governor of Massachusetts,,
| 1918.
| IS. Reelected governor, 1919.
10. Vice president of United States,
| 1920.
20. President, 1924
Mr.. Coolidge never has made
much fuss and feathers about his
remarkable political record. That
is why the public has known so lit
tie concerning it. He long ago
adopted the theory that silence was
| golden, and there has been none to
say him nay.
Where other politicians would
have been pointing with pride, :"
"Silent Cal" has merely gone ahead
sticking to the job, doing the days
work and reaping the harvest. If
he has lacked ina Gination. as some
of his opponents have said, he GER
tainly has not lacked the necessary
essentials OF success.