Evening star., 1927-08-31
Will Be Ready to Do Anything
President Wishes, One
Leader Says.
DEMOCRATS SEE HOPE
FOR SMITH CANDIDACY
Fuller's Popularity Puts Him in
Running as Possible Vice Presi.
Dental Nominee.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.


will send a Coolidge
delegation to the Republican national
next June.
"The delegation will be ready to do
anything that the President wishes,
according to one of the most innu'
entail of the party leaders in the Bay
State, and especially it will be ready
to vote for the denomination OF Presi'
dent Coolidge if opportunity offers.
While some Of the Republicans here
nrofess to have believed that the
president would not stand for re"
even before he issued his
"I do not choose" statement In tne
BLACK Hills, most of them nave
scarcely vet recovered from their
dazed surprise which followed his an
This is so far true tnat
if NAV be said Massachusetts at TINS
time has no second choice Tor Fresi'
dent.
Hope for denomination.
Many of them still cling to the hope
and the belief that circumstances VIII
arise which will force the renonllnd'
ton of the President. All OF theLll'
however, credit the President with pc
ing absolutely sincere when ne sald
that he did not choose TO run ZOE
President. :, an.
Here and there, however, Is talk
of Hoover and Hughes and some OF
Dswes. Lowden has little support,
annarently. Secretary Hoover appeals
to MANY of the business men and 10
a large group of Massachusetts Re-
publicans who admire him for his
work during the war and afterward
and because he is a picturesque ng.
,,re as Uncle Sans trouble man.
Those who discuss the situation are
talking also somewhat OF Hugnes.
Much will depend upon whether the
President maintains an absolutely neu-
tral attitude toward the various presl'
Dental possibilities which the 6. o.
p. boasts. If 1t should become known
that Mr. Coolidge favored any candl'
date for the nomipation4 the leaders
say that beyond a doubt the Massa-
chusetts delegation would back that
candidate.
Sees Hughes Favored.
One very astute Democratic poll.
tician, who believes implicitly that
the nominee of the Democratic party
next year, ventured TO predict that
the Massachusetts, Republicans would
favor Mr.. Hughes. His reasoning,
which Is not unsound, is that Massa-
chusetts will prefer an Eastern man
to a Westerner; that the State is 50
close to New York that 1t will sup.
port Hughes rather than another,
particularly if 1t appears fairly GER
tain that Smith is to be the Demo.
cratic standard bearer, and the Re-
publicans wish to carry New York.
If Mr.. Hughes had not said shortly
before he went to Europe that he was
too old" to run for President. 1t is
Hughes sentiment would have been
stirring here. AS it is they are wait
ing for a further statement from the
former Secretary of State to clear the
Politics around Boston. and, indeed
throughout the State, halted for sew
eral weeks to give the right of way
to discussion of the Sacco-VanZetti
case. That case, by the same token,
has brought Gov. Fuller more prom.
inently into the consideration of the
people for political preferment than
ever before. and he has been one Of
has produced for many years. Gov.
Fuller is not talked OF now as a pos
sible nominee for President. No one
believes that Massachusetts, could sue.
cesSfully offer another candidate for
the Republican nomination after hav-
ing had President Coolidge in the
White House for a term and half.
But many of them are asking them
selves why Gov. Fuller is not good
material for the nomination for Vice
President. particularly il Secretary
Hoover or some other westerner
should be nominated for President.
There is reason to believe that Gov.
Fuller would welcome the vice preSi-
Dental nomination, although he has
said that he has no ambition to 90 to
as Senator.
Resented Outsiders Efforts.
The Sacco-Vanzetti case aroused
even more interest and excitement in
his State than did the Boston police
strike, which brought President Cool
dge so strongly into the limelight
while he was governor, and resulted
finally in his nomination in 1920 for
Vice President. The people of Massa-
,husetts generally resented bitterly
he efforts of outsiders to have the
verdict against the convicted men set
aside. They regarded these efforts as
IN attack upon the laws and courts
If Massachusetts,. Gov. Fuller up.
1eld the verdict, and gained in
strength thereby. He stands forth to-
lay as the defender of law and order.
lust as Mr.. Coolidge did after the
police strike.
The governor, in spite Of his evi.
lent popularity with the voters of the
State. has not been a favorite in the
past of many organization Repub.
leans. They have regarded him as
IN outsider, an interloper. But Gov.
Tuller's appeal to the people has been
90 strong for the politicians. He
las one element of strength which
'ther Republicans nominated for Of
Ice have lacked. He is strong with
he Catholic vote in the State. His
wife is member of the Roman Cath.
lie Church.
nd have been generous in their con-
ributions to charity and the church,
ividing their gifts between the Prot
stant and Catholic Churches. Be-
ause of this connection with the
'atholic Church, the governor Is said
n some quarters to be as strong and
s acceptable to Catholic voters as
enator David /. Walsh himself. In
he last election, in 1926, Gov. Fuller
oiled up great vote against Col.
iaston, his Democratic opponent.
he vote stood 595.006 for Fuller to
07,3S9 for CASTOR. Yet CASTOR had
ome within a few thousand VOTES NJ