Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-24
A SIGNIFICANT VICTORY

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The returns from the North Dakota Republican
primaries constitute the most significant incident that
has thus far anspired in the struggle for the noml-
nation at the Cleveland convention next June.
The North Dakota verdict places a conspicuous
of approval upon the record and the candidacy Of
Gavin Coolidge.
To date Mr.. Coolidge has won every delegate Sc
lected numbering about 175. No other candidate
has yet secured vote Many of these it is true, are
from southern states, that Republican candidate
will carry at the election The,incumbent of the preS
dency always has advantage there through the
power of patronage But Mr.. Coolidge has demon
strated remarkable strength in every other state
easily carrying such as Iowa and Minnesota, in the
heart of the middle west where the farmer is the
man to be reckoned with.
We have been asked to wait until the people OF the
states in which primaries were to be held had oppor-
tunity to speak directly through the ballot box First
came New Hampshire There among other distinguish
ed Republicans to be complmented by selection to the
Cleveland convention United States Sentor Moses
He avowed himself a Coolidge man but he would not
accept instructions to support the president. There
upon another brought out against him and Moses
defeated In the same manner North Dakota has
spoken, the most radical spot in all the country
the school for communism and crucble for every
cial and economic vagary Four years ago that state
gave overwhelming vote for Senator Johnson This
year Mr. Coolidge carries it by wide margin and SEN
ator Johnson runs third In the race. 1t is profoundly
dscouraging to the Johnson that La Toilette,
whose name was written on the ballot, beat him.
The verdict for Coolidge amounts to political
sensation 1t must be accepted the best evidence of
the faith of the people in the in the White House
Disaffected and impoverished farmers constitute the
where, they might be expected to show their disap
prova of the president upon the theory that those in
distress always turn against the party in This
rule has been conspcuousy set aside in favor Of Cool
idge.
The situation now presented means that Mr.. Cool
idge certain to sweep the whole field. The re-
action against the pusilanmous efforts of the peanut
politicians to snlirch him by implication and innuendo
has set in It bound to do this for the people will
not, at least, permit garng injustice. Mr. Coolidge
is coming out of the cloud at Washington unsmlrched
and unscathed Vituperatlve suspicion has been IN
dulged with reckless abandon. The more shining the
mark ghoulsh the gee with which aspersions
cast This is singular perverslty of human ma
ture.
The people of the country may rejoice that the
high office of the presidency is not to be degraded
Confidence in our government, In our very form OF
government, be maintained only when there are
such Coolidge, who will not betray It, IT the
people cannot depend upon Calvin Coolidge then we
can see no one in sight in whom dependence may be
placed He has been thoroughly tested in every public
place, from the lowest to the highest from the COM
mon council of his fitte town. district attorney, men,
ber of the lower house of the legislature, member OF
the state senate, lieutenant governor governor, vice
president of the United States and finally into the
white light of the highest position among all the ma
tions of the world-the presidency of the United
States And in every succeeding step he has been
shown increasing favor Never has he attempted poll
tical artifice cunning. Always he has stood four
square for honest and high purpose. He furnishes a
needed example of political success by reason of un-
mpeachable character
The farmers of North Dakota have not failed to
appraise Calvin Coolidge for what he is worth 1t is
quite plan these grasplng farmers have faith IN the
who that tragic night when the nations chief
lay dead and passed to the golden shores from the
Golden Gate Calvin Coolidge in the dim light of
lamp the old farm took the oath of office that i'm
posed upon him the weight of responsibility for the
welfare of hundred and ten millions of people They
have more faith in the who farms the farm than
a man who merely farms the farmers. He was verit-
able Cincinnatus taken from the plow. He is not to
be set aside in the supreme moment of his llus
trous of conspicuous intelligence and integrity
The smut of oil and the fumes of politics may
envelop Washington but it will be and needed in
spiration to have the president out of it unsul
lied. compilation has been made of the public ad-
dresses of Calvin Coolidge under the title Have Faith
in Massachusetts" There is not in our literature
superb outgving of patriotic fervor, Of epgram
matte expression of high ideals. Perhaps the people
of North Dakota had that book placed in their hands
to conform their faith in its author
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