Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-20
BUSINESS UP-TREND HOLDS
1882 ASSURANCE FOR C. O. P.
Cotton, Corn and Other Commodities
Doubled i'm Price in Short Periods.
Draft Coolidge" Hopeless Slogan.

his disappointment by voting with The
Democrats in 1892. The Back to
Coolidge" cry is sure to help the Demo-
Gratis; and there Is enough Of this
Back to Coolidge" cry to give concern
10 the Republicans.
A Back to Coolidge" cry has been
emitted in Akron, Ohio, by the Beacon
Journal run by ex-Congressman G. L.
knight. Mr. Knight Is q Republican
though the regular organization Repub-
hcans in Ohio assert hts Republicanism
Is tfnged (the word they use Is
''tainted'O with insurgency, so-called,
and other forms of heretical impulsive-
ness. In any event. Mr.. Knight was
Republican enough to have been dele
gate to the 1915 convention which
nominated Charles E. Hughes, and the
1924 convention which nominated Mr..
Coolidge. Apparently Mr.. Knight was
so well satisfied with that performance
that he now wishes to nominate Mr..
Coolidge again. He prints a powerful
editorial entitled Draft Coolidge" and
vivid carton in which Mr.. Coolidge
has the role Of the sun in the heavens.
no less, with beneficent rays emanating
from him labeled, among others, high
prices" steady work" good wages"
prosperity" political wisdom" "po-
litical harmony"
The Draft Coolidge" editorial is, Of
course, an indictment of Mr.. Hoover's
administration. That Is inherent ex-
idge" cry. Mr.. knights editorial as
serts fatty that President Hoover can
not be reelected. He says harshly that
eff the Republican party any longer
possessed any intelligence or even O
modicum Of courage" 1t would make
sane and courageous effort to save it
SELF by nominating Mr.. Coolidge.
This particular Draft Coolidge cry
is so shrill and excited that, quite with
out intending to, it proyukes smile.
For instance, after laying all the real
and fancied Ills Of mankind at the
Presidents door, It asserts that the
country would prefer Tom Helm to
Hoover"
Handicap to Republicans.
The point Is, Mr.. Coolidge win not
be drafted, nor otherwise nominated.
But the effect Of this Draft Coolidge"
editorial, and other Draft Coolidge
cries, wherever they appear, will re-
main to handicap the Republicans in
the election. The Back to Coolidge"
cry arises out Of today's business con-
ditions: its effect win remain to take
votes away from the Republicans In
November, 1882, and this win be true
| even II business conditions improve In
the meantime. So far, for example, as
| the Akron Beacon Journal expresses
| dissatisfaction with the Hoover admin
istration. that attitude win tend to con-
ttnue through TO the election next year.
So far as the Akron community Is in
| fiuenced by the indictment Of the adj
mfniStration, the community will tend
| to express itself In Democratic votes IN
1892. In short, however conditions i'm
prove, the Republicans viii carry into
the 1882 election handicap arising out
Of today's conditions,
| Incidentally. this Draft Coolidge"
editorial from former Congressman
who is at least nominally Republican,
in an Ohio newspaper, suggests that
the whole OF the Back TO Coolidge"
cry may come to q climax In that
State. Presumably this former Con-
gresham and others who think with
name in the Ohio primaries. Under
the Ohio law, the name Of a candidate
cannot be entered unless and until the
candidate gives his consent. II and
when former Congressman Knight, or
any one else, asks Mr. Coolidge to con-
sent in writing to be a candidate for
the Republican Presidential nominal
ton. he will receive pointed information
about Mr.. Coo1idge's wishes On the sub
ject.
Amateur Politics Seen.
Inc CHIEF WEAKNESS IN the BACK 10
Coolidge" cry is the argument It in
herently carries about the unfamiliar
ity with politics Of those who make
the cry. It must be q very amateur
politician indeed who can think the
Republicans would stage q fight for the
presidential nomination between Re-
publican President Hoover and Repub-
lican former President Coolidge There
viii be no 1882 duplicate of the 1912
fight between Republican President
Taft and Republican former President
Roosevelt. The present is time OF
crisis for the country. and of incidental
crisis for the Republican party. In
every crisis that arises in any area Of
life, people tend to group themselves
into categories. There is always q
group that tends to get historical and
express itself In .shrieks; there Is usually
| a group that expresses itself in recrimi-
nation, blaming somebody. Finally,
there is always group that instructive
" and automatically tends to concen-
trate its whole vitality upon helping
to keep the boat steady. Mr.. Coolidge
belongs in the latter group.
Meantime and all times, let those
tempted to bet on the 1882 election re-
member that 1t Is no inpossi5ility,
not even a novelty, for cotton and corn
and wheat and other commodities to
double in price within the space OF :.
year.