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Show WESTERN TIMBER FOR USE In sizing up the field of presidential candidates this election year, one finds the West and middle west brought strongly to the fore. Although no mjan from west of the Mississippi River has ever attained to the high office of the Predidency, it is largely due to the fact that in this country's coun-try's history, settlement and progress have moved westward not eastward. Also, machine politics, Tammany Hall, diplomacy dip-lomacy in catering to the voter, and other political devices, are largely eastern institutions. Men of the type of Reed, Borah and Wheeler, have been too out-spoken to find much favor in the densely populated voting sections of the East. This year however, it seems reasonable to expect that a man may be chosen from some section other than near the Atlantic sea-board. Previously, cynicism has prevailed at times in the minds of westerners as the dates of the party conventions approached. But this year, if one by in sympathy with Democratic policies, he can be a worker in the camp of either Senator Walsh or of Senator Reed, of Montana and Missouri, respectively. If the voter have Republican leanings, lean-ings, he can espouse the cause of any one of a galaxy of prominent men now being put forth by the G. 0. P. On this list will be found the names of Lowden and Dawes, of Illinois; Illin-ois; Curtis, of Kansas; Borah, of Idaho; and Hoover, of California. ' ' i :V The East brings out but one or two strong men, but among them looms the potent figure of Al Smith, who is strong enough to disrupt the Democratic party . if he so chooses; while one "Calvin A. Coolidge cannot-with a certainty cer-tainty be relegated to private life next year, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing his failure to get at the heart of the farm problem while at his South Dakota roded last summer, and his famous statement made to the press at that time. |