The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-13
Washington Alive
With Politics for
Presidential Drive
(By A Staff Correspondent

with keen interest the impending fate
Of two of their number, Secretary Of
State Frank Kellogg and President
Coolidge's "Great White Father
William M. Butler, erstwhile United
States senator from Massachusetts
before being trimmed by David l.
Walsh, democrat, and chairman of
the republican national committee.
In Bad With Boys.
Both are in office solely because
they are kept there by Coolidge. Both
are venomously hated by republican
leaders and their retirement will be
an occasion among them for loud
cheers and deep thoughts.
The causes for this widespread con-
tempt and hatred among republican
chiefs are interesting. They dispise
Kellogg because he was one of them
for many years and they know only
too well his genius for stupidities and
they hate Butler because he is rank
outsider and will have none of them.
The sole topic of party politics
these days among republicans is when
Kellogg and Butler will be given the
bounce. There are many who say
Butler will be out by September /.
This is certain, neither will quit I'M
less invited to do so by Coolidge
Their jobs mean too much to them.
Both are discredited politicians in
their home states.
Without their present positions
they would sink into utter oblivion
and this they are frantically DESTROYS
Of avoiding.
k9ll0Gg Stands Pat.
At a press conference the other
day Kellogg was asked if he intended
retiring.
81 have no intention Of doing so, y
he answered curtly.
Likewise Butler when he was in
Washington a few days ago prepare
tory to departing for a iunket
through the west for political pur-
poses emphatically denied that he had
any intention Of quitting. 1t is known
that among the republican national
committee there is much feeling
against Butler. Since he was defeat
ed last fall he has been in Washing
ton only few times. 1t is said thai
his communications with the nationa
republican headquarters have been M
more freniae--'-- s''rr~ ~ Igs't.
rms is particularly true in the
south. There, republican affairs are
in the hands of Negro politicians. who
If not watched, run amuk.
In this connection it is interesting
to note, that for the past several
weeks Coolidge has quietly been CON
ferring with Negro and white repub-
lican leaders from the south. This
fact and Buffers tour through tn
west certainly have much bearing ON
his future plans.
There is no question but that Cool
idge wants to run again. He will run
IT he can obtain the nomination with
out undue fight. If he has to fight
for it, he will quit. He has never had
to fight for anything, simply because
If he can't get what he wants with
out a fight he gives it up. So in
this third term business, if he can get
the nomination without a bitter
wrangle he will chuck the usual bull
about traditions and so forth and
grab it. If however, Dawes and some
of the others, like Moses, of New
Hampshire, knife him and put up a
battle, he will come out with some
unctuous statement about maintain
ing Sacred traditions" and give way.
Dawes Backs Lawden.
Insiders declare that Lowden is
Dawes stalking horse. They say that
he is trying to force Coolidge's hand
The western banking group of
which Dawes is leader is also none
too friendly to Coolidge.
Press Support Dubious.
As long as the reactionary press
persists in maintaining the Coolidge
myth-"great, strong, silent man in
The White House." he will be able to
make Roadway. Just now he is un-
oeatabie within the party, and per-
maps in the country. But if such (
papers as the New York Herald-Tri-
'une, The Philadelphia Public Ledger,
The Kansas City Star, The Chicago
Tribune, and other of the big journals
tart letting him down, he is through.
This summer Coolidge is going to
abor strenuously to fix his politica
ences. lie will no doubt take up a
ummer residence somewhere in the
niddle-west and put in the summer
alling in strategic leaders, dine
hem and pose them before the press,
While assiduously lining things up.
His great problem is the coming
ongress. The senate will be hostile.
he house practically evenly divided.
has ruined other third-term candi-
acies-such as Grants in 1875--and I
may blow up his. He has had little
ick with congress even when repub- ,
can by large majority. With a
ostile congress he will have even
'ss-all Of which is a matter of deep |
ain and anguish to him.. |