Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-27
PRESIDENT KEENLY
WATCHING PACIFIC
Senate Campaigns There and
in Maryland Are of
Great Interest.
By j. RUSSELL YOUNG.
staff Correspondent of The Star.

WHITE PINE CAMP, n. Y. Au
gust o7.-There is to be a brief lull
in the number of callers at the Cool
idge camp during the next few days
because of a desire on the part of the
President to give a goodly portion of
his time to the consideration of sew
eral important matters of govern
ment. However, it is not his inten-
ton entirely to abandon his daily fish,
ing expeditions. These have become
a real fixture In his routine at the
camp, but he is cutting down his fish.
ing periods until he has concluded the
study of the more important business
now pressing him.
As a result of this program of
plenty of work and very little play
for the immediate present. White Pine
Camp is to be very quiet affair over
the week end. Except for Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank w. Stearns of Boston.
there will be no guests during this
period. William p. Jackson, who was
Senator for Maryland for brief
period, and is now Republican ma
tional committeeman, and Mrs. Jack
son; also Mr. and Mrs. w. +. Whit
ing Of Holyoke. Mass, are guests at
the camp today. 1t was stated Off
cially that the visits are purely So
cial.
Interested i'm Two States.
Reports received by the President
this Summer regarding the political
situation in Maryland are known to
be of a nature to cause him to feel
rather sure that this State, which has
habit of going Democratic in the
off-year elections. will run true to
form this year. Thus far the Presi-
dent has received no news of an en-
couraging nature regarding the pros
poets Of Senator Weller. who is en-
gagged in struggle to maintain his
seat in the Senate from this so.called
border State. 1t may be possible that
National Committeeman Jackson to-
day brought to the President reports
of a more cheerful nature. but init
mates of the President up here doubt
it very much.
Senator Weller was swept into the
Senate by the Harding landslide of
six years ago. He is being opposed
for denomination by Representative
John Philip Hill, one of the leading
vets of the House. and views ex-
pressed here are to the effect that the
chances of these two to win the nom
ination are about $3.50. What the
President is most interested in is the
outcome in November. Naturally he
would like to see Republican win in
Maryland, but there is little he
can do materially to help the cause
along except to make a wish and then
to hold the thought.
However. the real political event on
the horizon which is of more than
ordinary interest to Mr.. Coolidge is
the primary to be held in California
next Tuesday. Because of his per-
sonal fondness for Senator Shortridge,
who is being opposed for the Republi-
can nomination. and the activities on
the part of Senator Hiram Johnson to
capture control of the Republican ma
chine in the State, the President is
anxious to see how it all is going to
turn out. There is added interest
on the Presidents part because Sena-
tor johnson has injected the World
Court and other apparently settled
national questions in an effort to over
throw Senator Shortridge and to land
the dictatorship of California.
Sheffield Rumors Secuted.
There is a strong possibility that
James r. Sheffield. American Ambas-
sador to Mexico. will present himself
at the Coolidge camp next week, when