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able and never has mixed with the peo-
pie, it does not count against him here
We all understand him. We know that
r. his nature, and we like him all the
better because he is not windjammer
nor g four-fiusher in any sense"
Wants to BE Let Alone.
Later that morning the editor Of the
Northampton Gazette said to me-
MFR. Coolidge wants to be let alone.
He has told us Of the newspaper call
ing here that he wishes us to respect
his desire to be let alone. And we do
90. We never go to ask him for an in
terview on any subject. The only time
we broke that rule was when we heard,
last May, that he had bought the
Comey house and was going to give up
his home on Massasoit street and move
out there to the Beeches, as 1t is
called went myself to ask him about
It, and here is exactly what he said,
and all he would say about it" and the
editor took from his desk a slip of pa
per on which he had written at that
time, in lead pencil. the following
statement by Mr.. Coolidge:
II have purchased the residence OF
Mrs. Morris Comey You boys prob
D
place, with a little land. 1t will give
my doggies a place to exercise and will
enable us to entertain cur occasional
guests from out Of town more COM
fortably"
Modest But Wonderful.
'You will notice that he says It is a
modest place. with a little land" said
the editor MY gracious, IL is a WON
nj
most beautiful trees and house with
an all-copper roof and 16 rooms. A
modest place, indeed"
A little later 1 was able to see Mr.
Coolidge at his office, the same one he
used when he practiced law here.
Mr.. Coolidge's desk was across the
far corner of the room, and he sat be-
hind it, where the light from window
fell across his right shoulder to the
sheets of a manuscript before him. He
sat, very straight, as he always does,
and he reached his hand out across the
desk and shook hands.
"Sit down." he said.
AS I entered he had been fitting the
end of long and stout cigar into a
paper holder. He finished this, lighted
the cigar and asked about the drought
in the West, knowing had Just been
there.
ASKS OF drought.
'Have you had a chance to observe
The effects of the drought out there?"
was his first question, and he listened
most intently and interrupted with ques-
tons as I told him that had recently
eeen through Oklahoma and Kansas and
that on this very trip had come in a
motor car across Missouri Illinois, In
@iana and so on to Northampton.
He wanted to know the condition of
the corn especially; how much of crop
of corn would be actually gathered by
farmers in different sections and
whether any considerable number of
farmers would really need financial aid
this Winter. Then he asked about my
trip by motor car from Kansas City to
Northampton, how many miles we made
each day, and seemed surprised that
one might drive from Kansas City to In
dianapolis in one day and from there to
Buffalo the next day.
Remarkable" he exclaimed.
Answers in Autobiography.
Finally asked him the one question
I had come all that way to PROFOUND:
Mr.. Coolidge, every one wants to
know If there is any possibility that you
will ever be candidate again for the
presidency"
For my answer to that refer you