Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-06-20
A Weekly Panorama of Events in the
National Capital.
(By Peter Keegan)

The Republican campaign to keep
Coolidge in the White House and to
bring the irrepresible Dawes to
Washington to preside over the Sen
ate gets under way just as the Demo
Gratis are treking toward New York
to name their candidate. At this
writing it appears that neither Nc
Adoo nor Smith can win the nomin-
ation-that they will wear each other
out in the opening balloting at Mad
ison Square Garden and will then
have to agree on dark horse so that
the weary delegates can get away
from the high priced hotels and go
home. John w. Davis and Samuel
Ralston are suggested as likely com
promise candidates.
The famous "Old Guard" of the
Republican Party is relegated to the
rear and then some in the organiza-
ton. They have all felt the Coolidge
axe, welded by the forceful if, not
clever Butler, and they have taken
their medicine. Many of them are
resentful and their resentment will
flare up time and time again against
the Massachusetts manufacturer who
displaced them in the command of
their party.
Marion Leroy Burton, the Michigan
college president, who nominated Mr..
Coolidge in the Cleveland convention
is destined for public office should
the Republican ticket be successful in
November 1t is said here that the
President would like to see him at the
ment of Education and Welfare, en-
dorsed in the Republican platform and
provided for in the pending plan for
reorganization of the governmental
machinery.
All the biting phraseology at the
command of these Democratic leaders
skilful with the pen will be brought
into play at the New York convention
in drafting the platform. The first
complete platform which will be laid
before the Democratic Committee on
Resolutions came from the hand of
Carter Glass, the junior Senator from
Virginia. 1t was Glass's platform
that the San Francisco convention
adopted four years ago before NOM
mating McAdoo and the Virginia
Senator has hopes that he will again
be successful. Denunciation of the
Republicans for official corruption
will feature the Democratic platform
and a flat claim will be made for
credit from the people for effectihg
substantial tax reduction.
Having vetoed the soldiers bonus
bill, President Coolidge is now trying
to set himself right with those who
opposed his position on that measure
by insisting that the Government lose
no time in administering the law de-
spite the fact that Congress has made
no money available for that purpose
Cabinet officials concerned with the
bonus have been ordered to disregard
Congress and cut red tape so there
will be no delay in getting the bonus
insurance certificates to the soldiers.
Split wide open on nearly all pub
lie questions, the Republicans and
Democrats are in agreement upon at
least one issue this year and that
very important one. The Republican
platform endorsed the Harding
Hughes world court plan, and this is
the one supported by the Democrats
in the Senate, who proposed it after
Republican Senators had turned down
the Harding plan which had Presi-
dent Coolidge's approval. The chief
difference is that the Democrats will
demand complete adherence to the
covenant of the League of Nations.
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