Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-03
WEST INDIFFERENT
TO Sd TERM ISSUE
Predictions of Borah and
Moses Give Impetus to
Coolidge BandWagon.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Senator William Z. Borah has gone
on record in his home at Boise, Idaho
as predicting the denomination OF
President Coolidge in 1928. Report OF
his prediction was received in Wash.
ington with no little interest Indeed
Senator Borah's opinion that the Re.
publican party again will turn to Mr..
Coolidge as it's standard bearer makes
the suggestion well nigh una nimous.
1t comes with all the more force be.
cause Senator Borah says he reached
that conclusion after sounding out
opinion as he crossed the continent
from Washington to Idaho.
Another United States Senator, a
New Englander, who predicted not
many weeks ago that President Cool
idge would not be a candidate in 1928
TO succeed himself, appears also to
have changed his tune. This is Sem
ator George H. Moses of New Hamp-
shire. He. too, has been travelling in
the Far West. In an interview given
recently in Portland, Oreg., Senator
Moses was quoted as saying:
If the President wants it, he'll get
it, and what's more he will be re-
elected"
Placid Over Third Term.
The West, il the two Senators are
sound iii their Judgment, seems not
to be excited over the so.calIed anti.
third term issue. which the Democrats
and some of Mr.. Coolidge's Republican
opponents are preparing to raise
against him in 1928.
Senator Moses in his Portland inter.
view did not confine himself to the
head of the Republican national
ticket. but said:
And, as it now seems to me, we
will go into the national campaign Of
1923 with a ticket in my party repre-
senting the East and the West-and
L look to see Oregon giving the
country vice presidential candidate"
Although Senator Moses did not
mention the name Of Senator Charles
l.. McNary of that State, the infer
ence was clear that McNary was in
his mind. Whether Senator Moses,
who is President pro tempore of the
Senate and acts as presiding officer
in the absence of the Vice President.
has any inside information as to the
desires OF Vice President Dawes was
not disclosed. In some quarters it
has been believed that if President
Coolidge is again the nominee for
President, Gen. Dawes will have
second place on the ticket.
Working for Farm Relief.
Senator McNary's name has been
attached for several years to the farm
relief legislation for which the corn
and wheat belts have clamored, the
same legislation which was vetoed by
the President at the close Of the last
session of Congress, after it had
passed both Houses. After confer
ences with President Coolidge, Senator
McNary left here last Spring intent
upon working out q new bill which
would satisfy the administration and
at the same time give the measure
of relief which the farmers ask.
II he can span this chasm and
produce a bill at the next session
which will become law, it will be diff
cult to stop him if he enters the race
for the Vice Presidential nomination.
With Senators Borah and Moses
both foreseeing the denomination of
President Coolidge, provided the
President does not decline to have
to do with the nomination,
about the only Republican of prom.
inence who has not Joined the Cool
idge chorus is DR.. Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of Columbia Uni
versity and an ardent wet. DR..
Butler was the first Republican to
raise publicly the third term issue !
against the President, declaring he
believed The President to have too |
much common sense to seek another |
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