The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-09

MR. COOLIDGE'S second maya
1V1 zine article raises an issue
which threatens to supersede the
seating of Mrs Gam as the para
mount issue now before us
In this article Mr.. Coolidge moo
estly AYERS that he has been ASSURED
he would have been nominated at
Kansas City had he not sent his
secretary, Everett Sanders, TO pre-
vent it.
Political leaders say they feared
until the very last an effort to man
ufacture q movement for Mr.. Cool
idge at Kansas City, but none of
them discovered Mr.. Sanders in the
act of distributing White House
finalities to uprising delegations.
a1ame with Coolidgian zeal, and
they do not believe he did so, for
the reason that no such uprising
delegations were visible to the naked
eye.
If Mr.. Hoover's leaders really
wandered around in darkness, like
the rest of us, regarding the true
import of that Black Hills announce
ment, Il do not chose to run, then
we have unloaded at our very feet
a revival of the gossip concerning
the real inwardness of the whole
proposition.
GONE gentlemen who we're as
- close to Mr.. Coolidge as his
B. V. DIS insist that he did not in
tend to subtract himself from the
1928 campaign when he made that
announcement in the summer OF
1927, but that he did hope thereby
to remove the only obstacle in the
way Of his denomination and re-
election, namely, the third term
criticism.
These gentlemen insist that Mr.
Coolidge over estimated his hold on
his party and on the country that
he thought his Il do not choose
statement would bring one hundred
and twenty million people to their
feet, tearing their hair and demand
ing that he reconsider and hurl
himself upon the Well-knOWn altar.
Of course, such a spontaneous
cl,nnbljstiOn of American sentiment
would have swept all third term
criticism into the discard, but the
combustion refused to combust, the
people almost entirely continuing
to keep cool with Coolidge
Whereupon other statesmen
erected their lightning rods and
Mr.. Hoover doomed forth larger
than a flock Of elephants.
It will be recalled that MI. Cool
idge rather coyly dallied with the
nations widely different interpreta-
tons Of his statement and at no
time violently assailed any who IN
sisted that he should be forced.
True, once or twice, he rather
YEARLY brushed Senator Fess aside.
but the elephantine methods Of
Fess made that imperative,
Il
THE statement that he has been
L told he would have been NOM
mated had he not stopped it, is most
unusual, coming from former
President, particularly from such a
reservoir of silence and such a para
gon of propriety as Mr.. Coolidge.
Of course, it argues that the rnedi-
tations aroused by his information
we're far from displeasing and it also
savors OF a lack Of affection for Mr..
Hoover, limitations Of which have
been current for some time
n
The astrologers Of politics doubt
less will find in the Coolidge state
ment sufficient proyocation to train
their telescopes upon the stars to
divine signs Of future conflict be-
tween the former and present Presi-
dent, and in their astronomical
vigils they will also bear in mind
that genuine affection seldom eX-
lists between White House tenants.
BuJ to return to the milk IN the
cocoauut-A1r. Sanders did not pre-
vent the nomination Of Mr. Coolidge
at Kansas City; Mr.. Hoover pre-
vented that-he and the people Of
the United States.