Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-19
MOSES FINDS WIDE
3D-TERM ANXIETY
Senator, After Touring Ma
ton, Confident Coolidge Could
Be Re- elected, However.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Senator George H. Moses. Repub-
lican, of New Hampshire. after what
he calls a three-month ''circumnavi.
cation" of the United States. has just
returned to Washington with sugges'
tive impressions of the national politi-
cal situation. The President pro tenn
pore of the Senate adheres to his as
sertion, made a month ago in the far
Northwest, that Calvin Coolidge can
he renominated and reelected If he
wants to be. But Moses encountered
a surprisingly vigorous opinion, par
ticularly in the Western country, that
Mr.. Coolidge ought not to aspire to
what out there is universally referred
to as a third term" The New Hamp-
shire Senator is convinced that the
Presidents strength is sufficient to
permit him to f1y in the face Of the
anti.third.term tradition.
THE price might be, however
Senator Moses says, "a sullenly ac-
cepted administration after March 4.
1929. which could bode no good either
to it's head, to the Republican party
or to the country
Moses left Washington in April and
has visited meantime Havana, the
Panama Canal Zone. Hawaii. the Pa
cific Coast and Canada. He cleaned
ing yesterday, and then made haste to
return to New Hampshire. where he
win rusticate until Congress is con-
vened, either in special session or at
the statutory time in December.
Found Politics Everywhere.
Ell took my trip" Senator Moses
AYERS, Ito get politics out of my sys.
tenn for a while, but wherever Ameri.
cans foregathered. at various points
touched, politics turned out to be the
favorite indoor sport. Perhaps it was
because of my own reputation, for
better or for worse. as an anti-third
termer. dating from Taft-Roosevelt
days, that the question of Mr.. Cool.
idge's 1928 intentions casually, but in
variably, bobbed up.
There can be no doubt that the
possibility of his denomination fills a
good many Republicans beyond the
Mississippi with anxiety. Here and
there one encounters sage men who
belong to that distinguished minority
which thinks the President in due
course will withdraw himself from
next years presidential race. This
minority includes some who have per-
suaded themselves that Herbert
Hoover is the Republican to whom
the nomination, with administration
blessings, will be given. This senti.
ment is discoverable especially in
Hoover's home State Of California. It
finds utterance among leaders who
in the past have not been VIGOROUSLY
pro.Hoover."
Crop Results Hurt Prestige.
'In what state of mind is the agri.
cultural West toward Coolidge?"
Senator Moses was asked.
"A month ago." he replied, every
one with whom I talked was greatly
concerned over what the st. Paul
farm meeting this month would bring
forth. There seemed to be a feeling
that IL the corn and wheat belt peo-
pie who went to that meeting re-
manned welded to McNary- Haugen.
ism, the political effect upon Presi-
dent Coolidge's fortunes would be
serious, IL perhaps not disastrous. I
gather that the st. Paul council Of
war has not enhanced the admins
tration's prestige in the disaffected
regions Of the Northwest.
Conditions, OF course, are bound to
be aggravated by this years crop re-
suits. There is going to be q bumper