Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-30

Even before the President had
caught that first fish on his first day
at White Pine Camp. social and po'
litical Washington gossip was busy
! with the topic of the Coolidge sum
mer plans of next year. Opinion is
pretty unanimous that the country
will see and hear more of Mr.. Cool
| idge year from now. Perhaps not
swing around the circle after the man.
ner of his recent predecessors. put
considerable travelling and speech
making back and forth from the Cap
ital. Nineteen twenty.seven will be
an off, year politically. There will
be no delicate State situations
| which Mr.. Coolidge, by secluding him
; self in the Adirondacks this year, is
prudently avoiding.
1t is a fact that the pros and cons
of a cross-country trip by the Presi-
dent this Summer were carefully can
| vassed by his close political advisers
early in the Spring. The conclusion
was reached that there were too many
places where the Republicans were in
volved in sharp fractional rivalries to
risk it. The President could better
preserve neutrality" by staying out.
Whatever enhancement of personal
prestige might result from such a
trip whatever aid and comfort MS
coming might bring to some loyal and
desperately beleaguered candidate
would be more than offset by allenat-
ing those who would be sighted by
being left off the reception completes
or not admitted to the grandstapd.
The misfortune which befell Hughes
in California in 1915 and cost him the
presidency is still vivid in the minds
of the Republican strategists.
Next year politics will be adjourned.
Mr.. Coolidge will not be travelling TO
aid any candidate nor participating in
any contest. Not making any cam
paign speeches-merely appearing as
the President of the United States to
discuss great public issues. But If
such a program materialiZes, Wash
ington observers may take occasion to
recall to Mr.. Coolidge-lest by any
chance 1t escaped his notice-that
when next Summer comes, national
conventions will be ''just around the
corner" and a presidential election
only year away. The inference will
be unacceptable that his real objective
is another term in the White House.
** * \
A trip through the South figures in
the present picture of next years pro-
gram. The President has frequently
evinced a desire to see the south,
which he has never visited. And the
South would not lack in it's warmth
of greeting to the President and in
paving it's respects to the office, as the
White House spokesman SO frequent
! ly puts it.. 1t would esteem the better
it's honor and privilege in receiving
and entertaining SO distinguished a
guest, because such visits from Re
publican Presidents in the past have
been so few and far between. Re
publican electoral votes in the South
are not yet visible to the naked eye;
nevertheless there is an unmistakable
trend that way as the South advances
industrially and becomes more and
more a capitalistic region. Mr.. Cool
idge might prove an effective he.
publican missionary. Besides, what
better way to rob a speechmaking
tour of its political implications than
to make it through solid Democratic
territory? And in this age OF radio
and national" newspapers Cool
idge speech in Atlanta, Ga, would get
just as wide publicity in. New York
and Chicago as If delivered in either
of those cities.
Senator Borah, whose speechmak.
| ing tour this year has been interpret
"a as evidence that he, too, has an