Evening star., 1924-04-18
DAWES BEING URGED
FOR KEYNOTE SPEECH
Friends Backing Him for Tempo
rary Craftsmanship at G. o. P.
Convention.
CRISP STYLE APPROVED
General Still Being Doomed for
Vice Presidency.
RISP STYLE APPROVED
BY ROBERT r. SMALL.

NEW YORK, April 1S.-Although
they have but the slightest of hopes
that Gen. Charles G. Dawes would
consent to run for the vice presidency
leaders of the Republican party are
planning to make the most of his
prevailing popularity with the public
by asking him to serve as temporary
chairman of the convention which
is Ito Nominate Cslvia Coolidge at
Cleveland.
Gen. Dawes name has been sug-
Gested to the committee of arrange
ments for the convention and has
been received with the greatest favor
OF course the committee will not
move in the matter without the con-
sent of President Coolidge. His wishes
are to prevail in even the smallest
details of the coming convention as
well as in all the larger phases. The
party leaders have even agreed tina;
Mr. Coolidge should write his o=a
platform. and Secretary OF State
Hughes has intimated administration
approval of this move by announcing
that Mr.. Coolidge is his own plat
form.
Hughes Is Suggested.
AS temporary chairman of the
Cleveland convention. Mr.. Dawes
would have the task of delivering
the keynote address for his party. 1t
is believed he would deliver it in the
sharp, crisp sentences for which he
is noted. Coming home from a great
international success in Europe, Gen.
IDou he i'm
of the people. He knows Washing
ton like book. but happily is not a
part of Washington. This would
make him an ideal man to deal with
the Washington situation from the
Republican point of view.
Party leaders have been much at
sea in the matter of selecting a tenn
porary chairman of the national con-
vention. Secretary Hughes key
many persons to suggest him as the
keynote orator and temporary chair
man at Cleveland. Mr.. Hughes de-
voted himself largely to eulegy of
Mr.. Coolidge, and Mr.. Coolidge is to
be the real keynote of the Repub-
lican campaign this year. When Mr..
Hughes set his speech on that key he
knew he was on safe and popular
ground and would not share the fate
of earlier would-be "keynoters" who
nave De6H dl w lOH
soon after their utterances appeared
in the newspapers. But Mr.. Hughes
is a part of the Coolidge admins
tration, and it would be a better move
politically to have the national key
note come from some person not so
beholden to the chief of the party.
Dawes Fits Into Scheme.
Gen. Dawes fits into the scheme of
things at the Republican convention
from every possible angle. He
served for a year or more under
President Harding in establishing the
national budget system. Now he has
a notable service under
President Coolidge. He would come
to the convention, therefore, as a
shining credit to both phases of the
administrations of the
last four years.
Mr. Dawes intimates firmly believe
he would be the unhappiest man in
the world in the vice presidency. One
of his duties IL elected would be
to act as presiding officer of the
Senate. No one knows the restless
activity, the hell and Maria" GO
ahead spirit, Of Mr.. Dawes can even
family imagine him as sitting idly
in the chair of the President of the
Senate, compelled by old and musty
rules and traditions to watch the
waste of time and the waste of words
which goes on in national legislation.