The Washington times., 1924-06-11
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G.0.P.SHOW
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Ray Long Thinks Producer
Might Be Able to Jazz Up
Performance
BY RAY LONG,
international News Service,
tCopyright; 1891, by. International

BY RAY LONG,
Internatienal News Service.
Copyright 1924, BY International
News SeFvice.)
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June IL
It's a shame that the Republicans
can't get Morris Gest to run their
conventions. Morris has the fine
faculty OF taking dull show and
making 1t seem interesting. For
instance the Miracle was probably
the dulIest show that we New
Workers. have seen in many a year,
but the way Norris staged It. 4
seemed to be q wonderful spectacle,
full OF thrills, action and advOn.
ture.
The trouble with. this convention
10 that there Is no adventure. The
only possible uncertainty IL in the
nomination of the Vice President.
Now am like you folks back
home. ! don't care q whole lot
who happens to be nominated for
Vice President. Somehow you and
! don't figure that the fellow who
may be nominated for Vice Presi-
dent may be the fellow that il
President before his term is over.
You and look at Coolidge and we
say to ourselves, ''he is a fine,
safe sort Of fellow to whom we
may tie our kites and ride along"
At least we only had to pay so per
cent on our June Is income tax,
and we only have to pay IS per
cent on the other two installments
on our tax for 1924.
Saves Him Money.
So we say to ourselves, Coolidge
must be a pretty fine sort of fel.
low. He saved me several hum
dred dollars in June and he's going
to save me a few hundred dollars
in September and December. 1
think he's a pretty good scout.
Nobody else ever saved me any
money on my income tax"
And 90 we are here to do q lot
Of tribute to Mr.. Coolidge and a
lot Of old-line politicians are going
to get up and do a lot OF cheering
for this fellow and they are going
to tell the rest Of w that all cur
hopes are centered in this son of q
Vermont farmer, who is going to
think like all Of us sons of Indiana
and Illinois farmers. He il the
fellow who is going to lead us out
of the wilderness.
Perhaps he is. Coolidge has done
a lot of things that I didn't think
he could do. But all the time that
1 am here In Cleveland. and that
/ look on at a cut and dried con-
vention Ike this 1 go back to All
afternoon that l spent about a year
ago with the Right Honorable Win.
ston s. Churchill at his home in
London.
Churchill is an extraordinary sort
of person-half American: more than
half American in the way he looks
at things. We were having a Scotch
and soda and he said to me:
Long, what Is your opinion of
this fellow Coolidge?"
A Fifty-Fffty Shot.
IT should say that Coolidge being
New EEglander is more an old
Highlander than any man in Ameri-
can public life. Which, leads me
to believe. that the election of
Coolidge by a popular election would
be one Of the most important events
in your lifetime and mine"
II think" quoted Mr.. Churchill,
that Coolidge understands most
of US mere in England sufficiently
well that we couldn't put anything
over on HIM, as you Americans say.
/ think that we know him, and his
type so we'll that you couldn't put
anything over on us. Therefore,
it's what you call a $3.50 propo-
sition."
There's only one thing that
seems to cloud the issue. That ia
your man La Toilette, from an
outsiders point Of view should
say that La Toilette was the best
man you have there. He's a man
a real man. He's the sort of fel.
low that we have now in our i'm.
portant positions in England-the
McDonalds, the Burnses, the others
who are showing US a new light
in English politics.
That's a talk l had last August
with the man, who to me, is the
most interesting figure in English
politics-Winston Churchill, q lead.
er of the opposition, the son of a
beautiful American woman, one of
the most interesting writer's that
has lived in my knowledge of
writer's.
What You ay.CalI.It.
l should like very much to have
Mr.. Churchill here with me In
Cleveland. studying our example of
Democracy as it is exempllfied in
this convention. A lot Of hot pers.
piring people. rushing around doing
a lot Of things which makes them
hotter and perspiring more-aIl for
what? In England they have a
clear cut issue. The issue is be.
tween the radical and the conser.
vative.
In Cleveland today the issue is
between the what.you.may-call.i
and the what-you.may-caIl.it. I
don't think / have seen since I
have been here anything which