Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-03

Comment by outstanding newspa'
pers on President Coolidge's statement
follows:
The Evening World. New York
| president Coolidge has definitely tax
en- himself out Of consideration as a
possible candidate for reelection in
| 1928.
Had the statement been longer,
the skeptics might have found a
| catch somewhere: but the brevity of
| the announcement leaves no doubt OF
| the sincerity of the declaration.
ut is futile to speculate on the rea-
sons impelling the President To this
| voluntary remuneration OF an honor 10
which every one has assumed that he
aspired 1t is pleasant to believe that
he entertains a wholesome respect for
the old tradition against more than
two terms for any President"
The Evening Post, New York:
while in form Mr.. Coolldge's state
ment is not final, since at later
time. in response either to his own
desire or to public Demand he could
choose to run practically he has shut
the gate against his entrance into the
presidential race of next year. OR,
rather. to be accurate, he has formally
withdrawn from a race in which ms
silence had already informally entered
him.
The Sun, Baltimore-"On the whole
the probabilities are that the Presl-
dent has been influenced principally
by the third-term issue. Opposition
on that ground has undoubtedly been
growing.
"He has withdraw as a candidate
too soon, and that is distinctly to his
credit. He has given his party and
the country ample time to survey
the field and formulate judgment.
The Courier-J0urnal, Louisville" 1
do not choose to run for President
in 1929 carries no conviction that
he may not later on choose to rum
or that he would not run If MAJOR
ity of the Republican national con-
yention insists that he run.
AS it is the Courier journal &C
cents the Presidents words at their
face value. 1t believes that 1t IS ms
present will not to run. Whether ne
NAV change that will within the next
IL months is another question:
problem to which his brief announce
ment offers no solution.
The Herald-Tribune, New York: 1.-THE
statement seems to be more an ex-
nression of personal feeling with re-
gard to a situation in which the Pres
ident could hardly escape the appear
ance of being actively candidate 10
succeed himself. What would the
President do II he had 10 choose
between his personal inclination ana
his obligation as a citizen ana an
American? We believe firmly thai
such a call will come ana tnat ne VIII
respond to it,
The Kniclierbocker Press. Albany,
y. Y: 1.-THE announcement will be the
signal for the raising Of presidential
lightning rods all the way across the
country, or at least into ldaho. But
hack into the excitement of the mo-
noent. caused by the brief word from
ont of the Black Hills. there will TURK
a strong surmise that in this respect
the last word has not been spoken.
The Daily News, ChicagO:~ There
10 no nrecedent in political history Tor
the astonishing way in which PreSl-
dent Coolidge has announced his de-
cision not to seek another nomination.
But Mr.. Coolidge's party, with such
men as Lowden, Dawes ana hoover,
to mention no others, available Tor me
post of national leader, need emit no
shrieks Of anguish over Mr.. Cooiidge
hvsteric nine words and four ARABIC
numerals even If it chooses 10 accept
them as irrevocable.
The Evening Ledger, Philadelphia
Mr.. Coolidge, in announcing that ne
does not choose to be a CANDIDATE LOT
the Presidency in 1928, appears to
have expressed his own well matured
decision. It seems necessary to as
sumo, for the present at least, that his
decision Is final. 1t is worth remem-
bering that even those who have been
close to him politically have had no
definite reason to suppose that ne
really desired another. term in the
White House. Talk of his candidacy
next wear has come exclusively from
the soothsayers of both parties
The Evening Sun, New York-"The
utterance naturally deserves to be
read as it was written. While the
President does not choose, he does not
forbid
ut may be that the President, re-
sentful of assertions that he was
carefully paving the way to his re-
nomination, decided that he could best
make his attitude clear by declara-
ton that he was neither an active nor
a willing candidate. He has not ex-
planned why he does not choose to
run next year; his reasons are his own
business. But he has not said what
he would do if the Republican Ma
tional Convention renominated him. !"
The State, Columbia, S. Gle will
not ask the crown. but would not,
like Caesar, put it by thrice upon the
| lupercal. 1t was not necessary, and
| therefore a blunder for him to thrust
"a hi
sertion."
The Norfolk ian-Pilot-"Given
! a Nation sufficiently depressed by this
manifesto and sufficiently demonstra-
! tive in it's demand for another four
years cooling off with Coolidge. and
! it may develop that yesterdays Ia
| comic declaration has a stable back
| door through which the President, not
overly large in stature, may make a
dignified temperance In the cam
| paign."
| The Asheville, \. C., Citizen-"Nich-
| olas Murray Butler was not speaking
prophetically when he said that Cool
| idge would not be candidate for a
/ third term He knew the man and
| he knew the sentiment of the leaders
Of his party, who obviously are tired
| Of Coolidge and think 1t is time to
replace the mouse with a man. In
! this sentiment and not in the anti.
| third-te sentiment is to be found
| the genesis of the Coolidge renuncia.
/ ton"
| TIE Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock:
| $50 sure did Mr.. Coolidge seem of the
| Republican nomination and so favor
| able the prospects for his reelection
barring things now unforeseen-that
he will be accounted to have declined
third term in the White House"
'.Ile Evening Bulletin, Philadelphia:
| His statement is clear and sufficient.
The choice is his and he chooses not
| to run.
THE American people have no right
to interpret it other than the straight
forward. uneQuivocal declaration Of