Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-10
CAMP PA|GN SIGNS
APPEAR IN CAPITAL
1923 Thunder Is Heard ID
Months in Advance of
Nominating Season.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Party weather maps are beginning
to reveal unmistakable signs OF an
early Spring and warm Summer IN
presidential politics.
A generous handful of months stu
must pass before local primary and
convention have developed the respec-
tive strengths of those who aspire to
leadership in the presidential year.
1928. but already the torchlights have
been fred in many a far precinct, and
washington is filled with questionings.
Three Main Questions.
Just at the moment three search
ing interrogations stand at the head
of the QUESTIONABLE of the politicians
Will Coolidge run again?
win prohibition be predominant
issue?
WIN Gov. Smiths religion prove
determining factor in his candidacy?
MANY diverse answers to these
questions are obtainaole among .ne
sunposedly we'll informed in the
National Capital. There are those
tvho think they know, those VINO nope
they know, and those VINO caIululy
concede that they can only guess.
R,It thew all agree that it will be
exceedingly fascinating to observe
what cnanges time will make in
nolitical picture which today. IA
months in advance of the nominating
season, presents so many high hgnts
to catch the political eye.
Smith Writes Reply.
AS it stands In its uncompleted
state this picture presents President
Coolidge silently busylng himself with
china Nicaragua and the budget
while his friends talk increasingly Of
another term for him and his poten-
tial opponents make their plans on the
assumption that he will be candi-
date; Gov. Smith, taking night or
amid his assiduous labors at Albany
to pen a vet unpublished pronounce
nent of his conception of the tenets
OF the Roman Catholic Church, or
which he is a member, as they might
relate to a man in the presidency;
and both Republican and Democratic
chieftains poo-pooing the idea that
prohibition will become a party
issue while two distinguished Re
publicans, Senator Borah and Nicho-
las Murray Butler. debate that very
question before applauding voters,
and such celebrated Democrats as
Senator Glass and Edwards keep UP
a long-range wet-and-dry argument
by means of statement and interview.
Nor are these the only important
unknown quantities. Republicans are
wondering what will come Of the Low
den boom, which within the week has
emerged from it's native West to set
up a branch headquarters in New
York, the center Of a district that in
1920 gave the former Illinois governor
some of his most able support. If re
Lowden candidacy proves a washout,
ask the politicians, will Vice President
Dawes, also a McNary- -Haugen sup
porter, step into the breach; and
again, if Coolidge steps out, will Sec
retary Hoover or some other wheel
horse of the administration fall heir
to his leadership?
McAdoO Is Enigma.
on the Democratic side there are
at least two major enigmas-whether
the McAdoo legions who fought so
valiantly in 1920 and 1924 will again
go into action in 1928; and just what
presidential maneuvering may be ex-
pec.ed from the resourceful Senator
"Jim" Reed of Missouri. To compli-
cate matters, the usual Democratic
phalanx Of favorite son candidates in
cludes this year such unusual repeat
ers-in-office as Cows. Ritchie of Mary
land and Donahey of Ohio.
In the end. Washington specula-
ton on all of these subjects returns
to the question of another nomination
for Mr. Coolidge. In few other mat
ters has the President so genuinely
fulfilled his traditional role of silence.
Even those who have gone to the
White House to hand over the sup
port of tempting blocs of delegates
say they came away uncertain
whether the offer would be accepted.
Some of those closest to the President
declare he has net made up his mind
whether TO stand Tor a term which
would carry his service beyond the
eight years which heretofore has rep
resented the maximum tenure of
President. But in great numbers his
followers have accepted the assump-
tion that he will run, and the move
ment for his denomination already has
shown definite outcroppings in many
States.
The campaign to make Gov. Smith
the Democratic nominee likewise has
developed reactions that are almost
wide. Holding as much as
possible of the great bloc Of strength
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