The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-06
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CALVIN COOLIDGE.

The sudden death of former President Calvin Coolidge has profoundly shocked the country. There is scarcely citizen who will not deeply feel the terrific loss to the Nation This will be felt more when the shock coming as it did out of clear sky without any previous warnings, has subsided. While he has not been particularly active recently 1he knowedge that he still lived and that, with his large ability vast experience deep love of country and patriotic courage he subject to his country s call caused the people to recognize him as great National asset He not old, having only last July passed his sixteth year, and he had shown time after time that he was still willing to serve the public when his services were needed.
 While history will probably not include MT. Cool dge among the countrys great Presidents it will undoubtedly recognize him man of large ability, great common and shrewdness and one who was always in complete command of himself He never stampeded or thrown off his balance. He was a man of remarkable boise. He had an even temper and could not be ruffed He could always apply his very best ability and draw upon his experience to meet any situation that might rise He had passion for public service and always did his best His character was above reproach. While --srandaI was rife at Washington when he took the Presidency, he met each situation as it came up with cool deliberation taking such action as in his mind would best conserve the public interest He came through it all unscathed and without stain
 The Presidents enemies insisted that his hand was forced in every action he took in connection with the Senate revelations and that thought of his own political future dominated. On the other hand his friends were equally positive in their declarations that he had met these situations with the same courage that he had the police strike In Boston which first brought him into National prom thence.
 Whatever the merits of this controversy, he emerged from the weter of investigations strongly entrenched in the regard of the people. The con- viction became general that MT. Coolidge was of high integrity, insisting steadfastly on hon. esty in government, and that what had transpired could reflect no discredit upon his Administration since all these had occurred before his eleva tion to the Presidency.
 Facing as he did from the outset a Congress plainly hostile, MT. Coolidge encountered the most serious difficulties in putting through any of the major proposals his legislative program. Republi- Insurgents, under the direction of the late Senator Robert M LaFollette, yielded their balance of power by repeatedly lining up their strength with the Democrats in direct opposition to the President
 The Chief Executive, moreover, found little material support forthcoming, from the constituted leaders of his party in the two houses prior to his nomination at Cleveland in June 1924 This absence of outspoken aid particularly noticeable in the Senate during all the long days of attacks the Administration in connection with the Senate investigations. Therefore, he was obliged to look elsewhere than to the halls of Congress for cham pions of his The immediate result was seen at the Cleveland convention, where Congressional leaders who had dominated party affairs for so many years became cogs in the party ma- chinery. The President placed his political fortunes in the hands of his personal friends, among them William M Butler, of Massachusetts, and Charles Beecher Warren of Michigan
 Without any organized opposition having devel- oped, MT Coolidge nominated on the first ballot. Although the Presidents nomination was accomplished in short order, hitch developed over the selection of his running mate and it there that MT Coolidge suffered his only reverse of the convention After former Governor Frank O. Low den of Illinois, had refused to accept the nomna- tion as the Presidential candidate some of the old-line leaders of the party blocked a plan to put Herbert Hoover on the ticket with MT Coolidge and forced the nomination of Charles G. Dawes
 Opposed in the campaign by John w. Davis, as the Democratic nominee, and Senator LaFollette in Washington, making but few speeches and left active campaigning to his running mate The November election swept Mir. Coolidge back into office, the popular vote for the Coolidge-D Dawes ticket exceeding 15000 0OO-nearly twice that giver the Democratic nominees and than three times as great as Senator LaFollette's total
 MT Coolidge had long felt that administration should be given chance to catch up with legisla tion in view of the great of State and Fedora statutes that had been placed on the books an nually for many years, and the program he an