Evening star., 1928-06-04

Washington reads motives into almost
everything a politician does. Even
Presidents OF the United States do not
escape the soft Impeachment. Mr.
Coolidge's apparent plans to be en- route
to Wisconsin about the time the Re-
publican national convention gets down
to business are now interpreted as a
deep-dyed plot on his part to be nomi-
mated before he can prevent III That
theory is put forth In all seriousness by
an authority who claims special knowl-
edge of the Presidents mental processes
He says the Washington to- Wisconsin
itinerary Is Coolidge cunning at its
zenith. The Chief Executives strategy
which provides for his being drafted
at Kansas City against his will and
without his knowledge, rests on Mr..
Coolidge's expressed desire for secrecy
about his travel arrangements. ON or
about June Is. so this precious theory
has II, the President will be tearing
through the wllds Of the Middle West
Thus no ong-distance telephone calls
or kilograms can reach him. The con-
vention will ballot. 1t will be too late
for Coolidge to say 1t nay, He will be
renominated. Tableau.
Therell be no undue privacy for the
Summer White House family II the
American Automobile Association can
have its way: or, rather, II Its enter
prising publicity chief at Washington,
canny Scot named Alexander j.
Montgomery, realizes his ambitions.
Almost before the ink was dry on the
story about the Presidents choice OF
the Lake Superior region, Monty" had
circulated glowing news-reiease
glorifying the beauties OF motor travel
In and around that neck OF the woods
where Wisconsin and Minnesota rup
shoulders. That thousands OF A. A. A.
members will route their vacation trips
via the Brule River Is now not TO be
doubted. Until amphibian fiivvers are
turned out, however. Mr.. and Mrs. Cool
idge will be fairly isolated at Cedar
Island Lodge, for their log cabin stands
in midstream The A. A. A. ballyhoo
chief is brilliant former member OF
the Washington press gallery. lie
rendered yeoman publicity service 10
the Coolidge cause at Republican ma
tional headquarters In 1924.
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As at Kansas CITY, so at Houston
there's to be n spirited contest Tor
second place. and the Democrats are
giving earnest consideration TO the Sc
lection of AL Smiths running mate
Several basic conditions are settled. the
vice presidential nominee mast be
Protestant and Eastern, He VIII
probably be dry Whether he shall be
taken from the South or the West Is the
question. The newest Westerner hon.
orably mentioned Is Huston Thomp-
son OF Colorado, whose friends, think
ing there's something In name. al
ready have coined the slogan Houston
for Huston" Many Democratic leaders
think that party strategy dictates the
choice OF tail-ender who Is both
Southern and Western-~like Cordell
Hull OF Tennessee or Jesse ii. Jones
OF Texas.
A lady whom II Ii permissible to de-
scribe as the WitticaL woman In WASH
ington~~~that narrows the guessing while
concealing the identity--waa asked the
other day 10 inscTibe portrait OF her
self with "a characteristic sentiment
and not an autograph-album sigma
ture," This Is what she wrote; ITO hell
with the League Of Nationsl"
DIR, Antonio Sanchez de Bustamente,
the Cuban juriat who was chairman OF
the Pan American Congress IN Ha~
vana last Winter, has arrived In the
United States. He comes to receive All
honorary Ill. ID, from Columbia Uni
yeraiLy. DF. Bustamente, who Is "A Judge
Of the World Court at The Hague, and
Is now on his way TO Europe, declares
that corporation among the Pan
American republics has steadily in-
| creased since the Havana conference,
! TO that happy result, he adds, The work
OF the United States delegation, par.
| tieularlU tha rnncuintorV tactics OF
Charles Evans Hughes, contributed In
! high degree. DR. Hustamente says that
President Eoolidges description of