New Britain herald., 1927-07-08
IA Toilette HITS
COOLIDGE OUTING
Declares His Vacation Is Poiti.
CQ Failure

WASHINGTON, July S-Senator Rop-
ert N. La Toilette raised dissent
mr. voice today to clash with the
chorus that has been predicting the
denomination Of President Coolidge.
The son and successor of the late
Wisconsin rebel, who used to disrupt
the political calm with similar
broadsides, called Mr.. Coolidge's
western vacation a political failure
and prophesied the farmers would
not be taken in" by this kind OF
guff.''
surrounded by newspaper report
ers and photographers declared
the young exponent Of western pro-
gressivism, with corps of publicity
men, the president is attempting TO
make the farmers forget his veto
OF farm relief legislation by wearing
a ten-gallon hat and catching trout
with milk-fed worms
The farmers. however. are not go
ing to forget that president Cool
,,iEe had given the great financial
=
they have asked for from the gov
eminent. while refusing to counte-
nance any genuine measure OF relof
to the basic industry, agriculture,
continued the senator.
Mad Rush Indistinct
There does not seem, at this writ
ing. to be any mad rush Of important
political leaders from the west TO
the Black Hills. II one excerpts that
great friend OF the farmer, Con-
gresham Tilson. republican floor
leader from Connecticut, who thinks
tax reduction more important than
farm relief or flood control, Gen.
Wood, an expert on agriculture
from the Philippines. and Avery, en-
Governor Of Nebraska. there does not
seem 10 be much political vitality in
the list of visitors to the summer
White House.
ITO date President Coolidge has
not Il de very suspicious start IN
Els campaign to break the third term
tradition An the United States.
Many political time-servers and
Job holders under the Coolidge ad-
ministra.ion insist there is no longer
any validity in the third term tradl-
ton and that, anyway, it does not
apply to the individual upon whom
their lobs depend They say the PEG
Die no longer fear the destruction OF
democracy by election of pres1-
dent for a longer tenure than eight
wears. / believe these gentlemen are
erayely in error in their analysis OF
public sentiment on this very I'M
portant question, particularly in the
northwest.
The American people are not I'M
aware OF the enormous growth o.
the power OF the executive since
wAshington's time. They have no'
overlooked the tremendous fedora
patronage machine. carrying with i
control OF southern delegates wher
the sitting president is republican
The Intelligent citizens of this coun-
try know that once a president mas
smashed the third-term precedent
there will be no effective limit &c
the tenure OF chief executive who
has come to exercise kingly power
which gives an INSCRIPTIONS man
~, opportunity to perpetuate him.
self in office.
Imminent. Not Academic
The danger that a president wher
no emergency exists. out OF mere
greed for office. may attempt te
grasp Z longer term in office thar
Washington, Jefferson or Lincoln en-
joyed, IL Imminent, not academic.
Every person conversant with
political conditions in this country
knows that President Coolidge:
power IN the republican party rests
largely on. his control of southern
delegates, who are bought and sole
with federal Jobs serving as the
medium OF exchange. 1t is his con.
troll Of this large bloc OF southern