Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-17
Politics at Large
By G.. Could Lincoln.

! President after March 4, 1917. WAT
then does he choose" to do after that
date? A clear thinker and student
of American political history, James
Morgan of the Boston Globe, suggests
| that Mr.. Coolidge may stick to
politics, rather than take n position
| in great law firm. If such were
offered him. Politics has been his
grand passion" says Mr.. Morgan,
adding that the President is likely
| to turn up somewhere in the political
field, perhaps in the Senate" This
suggestion gives food for thought.
Another President from Massachu-
sets. the sixth in order, John
| Quincy Adams. after leaving the
| White House, was elected to ana
served in the House of Representa-
tives--in a measure, a MASSACHUSETTS,
precedent for Mr.. Coolidge. John
! Quincy Adams had served in the
! Senate prior to his becoming Presi-
dent.
| X y
Massachusetts will hold an cleo
| ton for the Senate in 1928, When
Senator David l. Walsh, Democrat,
comes up for reelection. TWO years
later, Senator Gillett, Republican,
comes up also for reelection, If he
/
to succeed himself. 1t scarcely seems
likely that the President would per-
NIT himself to be nominated next
wear for the Senate while he would
| still be President. But If Senator
| Gillett should decide not to be can
| didate in $780, as it has been sug-
| gested in some quarters ne would
do. what would prevent the Presl-
dent from obtaining the nomination
and the election? His passion for
| politics" would have full sway in the
senate. Besides, he is familiar with
that body and it's procedure, for he
presided over it as Vice President
and President OF the Senate for two
and a half years before he became
| Chief Executive.
| idge should choose to run for the
Senate in 1928. He and Senator
| Walsh might stage a never-to-be-for-
gotten senatorial campaign--a cam
paign that would almost rival in in
terest the presidential campaign itself.
Senator Walsh is immensely popular
| in Massachusetts, where he, like Mr..
| Coolidge. has been governor In the
past If Mr.. Coolidge should eventually
| become Senator, he would be in a
position to bait a Chief Executive OF
the future, just as Senators have
undertaken to bait him.
| X X X
| They are still attempting to inter-
pref the Presidents 10Word announce
ment that he did not choose to run
| for President in 1928. Here and there
is found an expression of opinion that
the President might prefer to make
the race in 1882. when there would
be no question of a third consecutive
term, just as Roosevelt preferred to
make the race in 1912 rather than in
| 1908. But that is mere conjecture.
| Mr.. Morgan, with ample knowledge
of English as she is spoke in New
England, and particularly in Vermont,
says: Than that quaint little Saxon
| word choose as the President used
| it, there is none more stubborn in the
Vermontese vocabulary. When Il
Vermonter says, L do not chewse' to
do a thing, he has drawled a mouth
| full. closed the debate and arrived at
final conclusion, where he is as 'sot'
as his Green Mountains themselves"
| Mr.. Morgan gives President Roose-
welt credit for having been entirely
| honest when he declared that he would
under no circumstances be a candidate
| or accept another nomination after
| his election in 1904. He credits the
same honesty to Mr.. Coolidge. Yet he
points out that Roosevelt did again
become candidate, and adds, so.
| too, Mr.. Coolidge will run If there
should arise circumstances like those
that constrained Mr.. Roosevelt. If
nominated he would have to run"
X X X X
Senator Capper of Kansas, who.
too, is a newspaper man OF long stand
| ing, as well as a politician, was pres
ent when the President handed to the
newspaper correspondents his an
nouncement that he did not choose
to run for President next year.
Writing in his own Capper's Weekly,
Senator Capper says:
| PERSONALLY I do not consider the
| Presidents terse 10-wOrd sentence say
| ing that he does not choose to run
for President in 1928 a Valedictory,
although, quite probably, it will be
the last word which he will have to
say on this subject"
Senator Capper says he finds no
hidden meaning in the Presidents an
nouncement, but sincere and honest
message, showing that he has no per-
sonal ambition to serve another term.
| In other words" continues Sena-
tor Capper, "the President puts his
candidacy squarely up to the entire
Republican party. If the Republicans
should draft him l believe this will
make him all the stronger as can
didate."
Such Is the judgment of the junior
e.. a a
Senator Charles Curtis, senior Sena-
tor from Kansas, Republican leader
of the Senate. also seems unable to
get it out of his head that President
| Coolidge will be the nominee of the
G.. O. L. next wear. He is one of those
who look for a deadlock in the conyen-
ton with the leaders in the balloting
| killing off one another and staging a
setting for the convention to demand
! Coolidge.
| The Republicans of Kokomo, Ind,
have circulated a petition requesting
President Coolidge to accept the noml.
nation for President, so -four years or
Coolidge prosperity and Mellonwlse
financing may be assured The Pc
| tition asserts that the American peo-
pie will under no consideration accept
| mo" for an answer.
| Senator Capper. after he had left
the Black Hills and returned to Kan
sas, in newspaper interview. said
that he had remarked to the Presi-
dent that he had given the newspaper
men big surprise when he handed
them his announcement. THE Presi-
dent laughed" the newspaper story
continued, and said to Senator Capper,
| -Four years ago today / became Presi-
dent, and 1 thought it would be a good
thing to let the people know exactly
how I felt about things" Then Sena
tor Capper ventured the remark that
the people might have something to
say in that matter, and nothing more