Evening star., 1928-06-05
Repudiating the President.

The i.0g9 delegates TO the Republican
national convention are to be calico
upon to repudiate the Coolidge admin
istration. Under the leadership OF
Iowden. Watson and other candidates
for the presidential nomination who
have supported the principles of the
McNary- -Haugen farm relief bill, II Is
planned to place in the Republican
national platform a plank declaring
for the passage of that bill. 1t is fur
ther planned to nominate man for
President in sympathy with that legis-
lation and prepared to sign such bill
if it were presented to him.
Repudiaiing the President and his
administration is likely to be more
difficult task than the gentlemen en-
saged in framing the anti-Coolidge
farm plank are willing TO admit. States
of the Middle West and the Northwest.
where the McNary- -Haugen bill Senti-
ment exists, are important. but they
fall considerably short OF being the
entire country. What of New England
and the great States OF the Atlantic
seaboard? What of the South, and the
States of the Pacific Coast?
The adoption OF an anti-Coolidge
farm plank In the national convention
would be Reputation of the present
administration The Coolidge admins
tration. however. has been acclaimed
and is acclaimed by millions of Repub-
lican voters. 1t is the record OF the
@. o. p. upon which the Republicans
must go to the country in their de-
mand that the party be continued in
power for the next four years. When
the delegates to the national conven-
ton are called upon to turn their backs
upon the President. they are likely not
10 turn them
The single rift in the Republican
ranks results from the farm problem
and the legislation which has been
urged as a cure-all for the farmers
Ills. This legislation has been declared
by the President unconstitutional and
q menace to the farmers and the con-
sumers. For months 1t has been sus-
pected that the political ambitions OF
certain candidates for the presidential
nomination Of the Republican party
have been responsible for the tenacity
with which some OF the legislators have
held to the McNary- -Haugen bill. de-
manding the equalization fee" the
heart of the measure, or nothing
When q year ago President Coolidge
had not yet made his Il do not choose"
statement in the Black Hills OF South
Dakota. and his denomination war
urged By the great majority Of the Re-
publicans, Frank o. Lowden Of Illinois
vas nursing a presidential boom. based
entirely upon his support OF the Nc
Eary-Haugen bill. which the President
had vetoed for the first time.
Before the Presidents Black Hills
statement. Lowden was the sole op-
position candidate on the horizon. But
since that time other candidates have
loonaed up. among them Vice President
Dawes, who Is expected TO inherit the
Middle West strength of Lowden II the
latter Is not able TO make the grade at
the convention. Instead OF being will
Ing TO put through legislation designed
to aid the farmer in the matter Of CO.
operative marketing and in the matter
OF financing. the supporters Of these
candidates and the candidates them
selves have insisted upon the McRary-
Haugen bill and have declined TO give
assent 10 other legislation which might
have taken The farm problem out OF
politics In the coming campaign and
at the same time have been real
benefit TO the farmers.
Population Of President Coolidge
and his administration by the farmer
politicians under all the circumstances
will be no small task. II IL Is finally
accomplished, IL will be without precs-
dent. in recent American politics al
least.