Evening star., 1924-10-02
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM EILE

"Coolidge luck" extends even to
base bail. Here is Washington. for
the first time in 3S years. winning a
pennant and giving the President of
the United States a chance to make a
White House base ball speech ad-
dressed straight to the heart of every
fan in America The President hap
pens to be Calvin Coolidge and Calvin
Coolidge happens to be up for cleo
ton. The world series is played
within five weeks of election day
The President candidate attends and
clothes the games with a distinction
they never knew before. To every
hamlet in the land will that fact be
hulletined. In every base ball bosom.
from the Maine pine woods to San
Diego, a new pride will swell From
the opposition standpoint it is un-
doubtedly an unkind fate that WASH
ington triumphed, for the base ball
vote now threatens to become a Cool
idge landslide. Incidentally, the
Presidents little speech of welcome
to the home team is the wittiest Of
his career.
Gov. "Al'' Smith will have much to
say on the stump this month about
paramount national and State issues
But he gave the game away in pri-
There's only one real issue before
the plain man and woman of Amer
lea" he said, that's the question,
Where am l going to park my carr"
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Senator Brookhart's smashing at
tack on Gen. Dawes is making all
the politicians wonder whether the
Iowa radical has now signaled a
bolt from the whole Coolidge ticket.
If Brookhart won't vote for Dawes,
he can't vote for Coolidge, for it is
impossible to split a preside ntial
ticket in the polling booth. Electors,
not presidential and vice presiden ntial
candidates, are voted for, as all the
world knows. There is no method of
instructing electors to support A for
President, but not to vote for B for
Vice President Until Brookhart noti-
fies an anxious country to the con-
trary, it will look very much as if
he had definitely left the G. O. p.
reservation, as far as the national
ticket is concerned. AS to the Sen
ators own preference. as between
Coolidge and La Toilette, there is
hardly any secret. But he wears the
official Republican label, and may
shrink, like Hiram Johnson and
George Norris, from publicly casting
it off.
4 X + 4
A presidential year is the season
when Uncle Sans diplomatic chick
ems, if one may speak SO irreverently
of ambassadors and ministers, come
home to roost. Washington Swarms
with American ENJOYS who have NOM
inally applied for vacation leave, but
are actually here because it's election
time. Mr.. Kellogg, who has remained
in London, Is almost the only notable
exception. Mr.: Herrick has been
home from Paris for many weeks.
Mr.. Fletcher recently arrived from
Rome, DR.. Schurman came from Pc
king in September. Mr.. Houghton,
from Berlin, and Judge Brentanp
from Budapest, have been In America
for several weeks. From Northeast
ern Europe have come Mr.. kagey, our
Minister to Finland, and Mr.. Coleman,
envoy to Latvia- Latin America is
represented by Minister Cook. from
Venezuela; Minister Geissler. from
Guatemala: Minister Bailly-Blanchard.
from Haiti; Minister Morales, from
Honduras; Minister Schuyler, from
Salvador, and Minister Ramen, from
Nicaragua Mr.. Dearing. who repre-
sents Uncle Sam at Lisbon, is home