The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-11-02
GOV. BONE PICKS HOOVER.

GOV. BONE PICKS HOOVER. Former Gov. Scott C. Bone has returned Q Coast from trip to Washington and \ ,rk where he sized up the political s.taat. comes back with the conviction that Pr mt Coolidge has no intention of permitting | if to be drafted for the Republican Pre- q Il nomination and with well defined bel at Herbert Hoover will be the Republic minee for President and that he will be eisc though he says. there will be a lively ca ign if. as appears to be likely, Gov. sm ould be the Democratic nominee Writing of the aspects of the Repabl.t litical situation. Gov. Bone says:
 Calvin Coolidge knows the game of politics Today he plays lone hand and keep his own counsel. listener his tongue under control ever measuring his words, his traits. inborn and ac- quired equip him ideally for the ordeal he is to undergo. But it is taxing hm 10 the utmost
 His 'I do not choose to run in 1928 dazed the politicians and set the cam paign pot to simmering Soon it began to boil and now 1t is fast reaching the seething stage.
 Experience in the hard school of New England politics taught him the wisdom of few confdants. Today, vir- tually he has none. With maneuvering going on about him, the atmosphere Of Washington charged with politics, he pursues his duties with serenity re- markable to behold Occasionally he be trays bit of impatienee, becomes ruff fled for moment when pressed to make q further statement but ordinary fly he is the same cool. dignified. self contained man the country has known and admired since he took the oath four years ago.
 Not choosing to run for a second elective term, he does not choose to amplify his announcement. Designing efforts to draw him out are futile. To date his will to keep silent on the situation he created is infexble
 Politically i'll this equation the White House has no spokesman, not even the devoted Chairman Butler.
 Imagine the lamented President Harding in like position Had he lived and grown weary, as certainly he was, and resolved to decline renominatlon, how different it would be- No senten- tious utteranees followed by profound silence, would have served and spared him. Responsive. ever trustful, his in- 
 from mouth to mouth, quickly would have become common property. kind ly expression about this aspirant or that construed into commitment. would have entailed no end of mingled joy and resentment. His closing year would have been fraught with political troubles unspeakable. Human frailty in his case. in such a situation, would have spelled his undoing Happily the ordeal was reserved for his prudent and better disciplined successor.
 Occupying a position of eminence rarely attained in American life, his administration signally successful, sober ublic consideration of Calvin Coolidge's announced decision robbed 1t of it's tenn porary startling quality Thinking peo- ple at once understood Why should he choose to carry the heavy burden long CT? He has earned relief by pre-emin- ent service Unique for its brevity, other wise his decision once rightly grasped, was accepted in the good faith prompt ing it and taken for granted Mature judgment of public and press accepted 1t as final He timed it aright. Resolved to retire. by plain implication. if not in actual words. rejecting the idea that he was further imperatively needed by country or indispensable to party, he dealt with absolute 1alrueSS toWdiu potH country and party in making his de- cison known prior to the year Of bat tie. And thus far he has escaped pit falls by adhering to the concrete fact and scrupulously avoiding the slightest semblance of dctation or favorltism Tn the struggle he preciptated.
 Master of himself, he is a veritabe pastmaster of the arts of politics. and has put would-be President makers to their wits ends to fathom and shape the future.
 Proposal to draft him, honestly advo- cated by many. receives insincere sup mort on the part of others while mark ing time and waiting developments
 The ordeal he is undergoing, this supreme test of his silence, may con tfnue indefinitely possibly until the convention meets
 Politics sometimes resorts to cruel tricks to promote ambitions and serve aspiring ends. The biggest prize in the gift of the Nation is at stake. Small things often turn the scale. Breaches nre made and feuds engendered by < .,..x...< and sxa r1,1ad fomenf The break