Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-01-27
DIsPELLnG THE FOG
By Charles Nicholson

Let me today greet fellow fog
dispeller in the person of Senator
Vandenberg, who has just announced
first, that "I shall not seek Repub-
lican nomination or any other Presi-
Dental nomination in 1940," and
second, that CT hope I shall never
run away from any public duty or
obligation which confronts me.''
However, there is the following
sentence that I admit is not quite
clear, for he says, apropos of his 9th
er statements, that II have no IL
lusiens in these directions as respects
the 1910 situation"
, Perhaps 1T would clear the residue
nists of the Michigan Senator ideas
on the subject to interpret his remarks
in this wise: eff it looks as if there
was Chinaman g chance Of the Re-
publican candidate for president get
ting anywhere in 1910, IN be John
ry-on- the-spot, but I do not propose
becoming a burnt offering if things
do not look any better than they
looked for Governor Landon IN
1896"
OF course in this glorious. free
country Of ours anybody can interpret
anything in any way he pleases. AS,
for example, when the President of
the United States says he wants to
cooperate with every honest business
and is hostile only to the mere hand
full who would abuse their opportnn-
tiles, a Republican editor can accuse
him of setting up straw men to knock
down. But that is a aggression. We
were discussing possible Republican
candidates for the presidential nom
nation two years hence.
When you come to think of it, Sem
ator Vandenberg, assuming that he
was avid for the nomination, could
hardly declare his ambition at this
cine because if he did, he would STIR
Up all the possible rivals for the emp
ty honor and thus make determination
more difficult. On the other hand, II
he wanted to avoid it, he could hard
ly place himself IN the position of de-
Ginning SO long II advance nomina.
ton that might never be offered him.
In short, the Senator is keeping
strictly in line with the cropping Of his
party, which appears unable to make
up its mind on what it is going to do.
Professor Glenn Frank, ex-president
Of the University Of Wisconsin and
now chairman of the Republican par
tvs program committee, gives US the
Illuminating fact that cit is not the
business of this committee to write
platforms for the 1888 or 1910 cam
paign.'' And Mr.. Frank E. Gannett
chairman Of the National Committee
to Uphold Constitutional Government,
which is the residuary legatee of the
liberty League, in declining member
ship in Professor Franks committee,
specifically explains that he cannot
join in any platform making organi-
cation because of the non-partisan
character Of his own. ct wish,' wrote
Mr.. Gannett to DR.. Frank, "you and
yosr associates success, and hope you
will! draft platform that will help
solve the great problems we face"
A party platform is declaration
of the party's principles Its purpose
is to tell voters the aims and policies
because of which their suffrages are
asked. In fact, in the call upon Pro-
fcssor Frank to take the Craftsmanship
lit was expressly stated that the pur-
pose of the Committee Of One Hun
dred was to formulate just such a
declaration. To quote Professor Frank
himself, the committee twill seek to
play its full part in a sincere, open
minded, responsible search for princi-
pies and lines of national action that
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