Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-17

His anti-McNary- Eaugen reputation
10 tn. contrary notwithstanding. Calvin
Coolidge continues 10 be the farmers
fayoritc candidate for President In 1923
AZ least, that's the story told in the
March number of the Farm Journal,
For several months that widely circu-
lated Philadelphia magazine has been
straw-polling the hucolic brethren. Al
though Coo!.6;e's "choosc" dictum is
now more than six months old, the
farmers keep on voting for him. The
latest figures covering about 10000 bal
lots cas-, in all parts OF the country.
show the President far IN the lead. His
total Is 1893 Lowden comes next with
6.262. smith. with 4o33: Hoover with
1888 and Bo.ah, with $40. Senator
Jim" Reed polls 1893 farm votes. and
Dawes rolls up 1885. Some 5000 votes
arc scattered among otner candidates.
-
President Coolidge received about -
per cent OF the total above diSSecied.
The editor of the Farm Journal. after
analyzine the count Slate by State. e%-
presses the opinion that the Presidents
farm strength will eventually be split
between Lowden and Hoover. The poll
indicates that Lowder's popularity Is
sectional and confined for The most part
to the corn-bclt States Of the Middle
West. Hoover's support Is much more
widely distributed The Secretary OF
Commerce Is weakest In the regions
where Iowden is strongest. But the
oyer&hadowing feature of the agricul-
tural test vote Is that about one out OF
every three Republican farmers sim
fevors Coolidge. The Farm Journa! re-
marks: Their persistence Is remark
able circumstance. whether It indicates
the Presidents great popularity, or the
weakness o! other candidates. or both.
In the rooms OF the Senate commit.
tee OH post offices and post roads. n'
which Senator George II, Moses Re-
publican. OF New Hampshire Is
chairman. hangs small fortune
In pictures. They are only two III
number. but are both masterpieces.
One Is an original Gilbert stuart poG-
trait II George Washington. valued ~
$4,000. Across from 1t Is displayed
painting Of Henry Lawrence, president
Of the First Congress Of the United
States. by John Singleton Copley, emil
nent English artist. The Lawrence ior-
trait Is worth 100000 II was made
while the subject was prisoner In IN"
Tower OF London. the British having
captured the American patriot on inc
high seas while he was EN- route In the
Netherlands on q diplomatic mission Tor
the Colonies, The picture was ac'
CURED for the United States Govern
ment at London auction OF an old
English manor house collection some ~
L.. aafs t.uf al fRtt \
can be diacerned the faint outlines OF
the tower.
Former Senator Robert l.. Owen OF
Oklahoma depOaes and says he's inter-
ehtnd IN closer cooperation Of Pro-
gfesslvc Republicans and Democrats
father than In anything so formidable
as the formation Of u new Progressive
party owen thinks Senator Bfookhaf.
D,it the matter IN n nutshell this week
when ha told the Senate that n "Jrtfet-
Aou Democrat" and Lincoln Renub"
lican" are ~ about The same kidney, II
Is this idea, owen believes which Ii
leading tn effective cooperation In
Congress between Republican Progress"
hives and thc Democrats during the
present aeaalon. Owen may be heard
from before tho Democrats decide upon
their 1919 presidential NOMINEES, The
party still iabeia the Federal Reserve
act az Its greatest constructive achieve"
ment In modern times The Okla
h0man, of Indian ancestry, II accounted
by most authorities The principal arfhl"
teet oi ths system which has become
the bedrock 81 American economic No"
surity Many Democrats conaldrr him
worthy national timber
v
Louis Ludlow Washington corree
spoudent and late president Ut the Ma"
| tional pIeea Club addressed the Indiana
Democratic Editorial Association In In
dsnapolis last night on The timely topic
| ~ What's the Matter win tndiana?"
| Ludlow thinks there's nothing the mat
: ter With his Hnnslrf land, This Ii ihs
fsrsent fashion III which he dealt with