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Show ho did not fail to act at a critical time and has shown no sign of weakness since that time. The Democrats have ban casting about for a presidential candidate and in the last week or two Attorney General Gen-eral Palmer has been looming up as a possibility. His uominatiou will be contested con-tested by former Secretary of the Treasury Trea-sury McAdoo, Governor Cox of Ohio and others, so that he ia not likely to win without a struggle. After all, the naming of presidential candidates depends de-pends in a large measure upon the fate of the league of nations covenant, which w-ill be an issue in the campaign next year in case the work of the Paris conference goes for naught. GOVERNOR COOLIDGE. The reelection of Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts by a tremendous tre-mendous majority is generally regarded regard-ed as a victory for undiluted Americanism Amer-icanism and the governor is now being prominently mentioned in connection wi;h tho Republican nomination for the presidency. It is a little bit early for wire-pulling, but there are quite a number num-ber of receptive and avowed candidates candi-dates for' the Republican nomination, W a. I which most people believe to be equivalent equiva-lent to election when the people march to the polls next November. Until after the votes cast last Tuesday were counted, Mr. Coolidge had1 not been mentioned in this connection. Now his name has been added to the list of possibilities and his chances are thought to be very good indeed. There are a number of senators in the field and the usual array of favorite sons, but none of these so far put forward has developed any considerable amount of strength. The 'advent of Governor Coolidge as a candidate for tho presidency presi-dency comes at a time when the party chiefs are at sea and it may be that he will be taken up as leader in the campaign. Much depends upon the attitude of the members of tho national committee commit-tee when they assemble at the capital in January. Some of these committeemen commit-teemen hail from states having favorite sons. Others will attend the meeting with open minds and may swing to the support of Governor Coolidge. In times past the United States senators have had much to do with the selection of candidates and it has happened more than once that their choice as indicated at the meeting of the national committee commit-tee in January has been ratified by the Republican convention in June. Some of the senators are members of the committee and nearly all of them attend the convention as delegates. This time there are so many senatorial candidates it will be impossible for the senators to reach an agreement. So there is a good chance for the nomination nomi-nation of a man like Coolidge at the convention. This would be entirely satisfactory to the rank and file of tho party and would make assurance doubly sure so far as the election is concerned. con-cerned. Should Governor Coolidge be nominated nomi-nated and elected, he will be the third Massachusetts citizen to reach the presidential chair. John Adams was the first and his son, John Quincy Adams, the second. Neither of the Adamses wae popular with the masses, although both of them were men of great ability and patriotic to the core. John Adams succeeded the immortal v aBiiingt-on ana neia ine oiiice lor a single term. He was succeeded by Jefferson, who held Ihe office for two terma. Madison and Monroe cam next and both of them secured the exalted ex-alted position a second time. Then came John Quincy Adams, who was winner in what has been tenned "the great scrub race of 1S24." It has been said that Adams was a co.ililion candidate. This ia not true. There were four candidates for the presidency presi-dency in Adams, Clay, Jackson and Crawford. T'.c election was thrown into the house. Clay withdrew from tLe field and his supporters voted for Adams, who thus became president through coalition with one of hi opponents. op-ponents. !Ic was not a coalition candidate, can-didate, however. The Jackson men were furious over the rcsnlt and John Randolph of Tfoanoko characterized the Cloy-Adams combination as a coalition of "i'uritan and blackleg." Jackson triumphed four years later and held on for two terms. Oo'-ernnr Cooli'Jzo li doubtless atroogar with tha peopfo than eittaer of tha AdaUSMI, hut he mar have trou-Mi trou-Mi wit Ji the polliieians. Nevertheless, his maul nnit straightforward course daring and sin'e the Hoston riots will tend to make him n favorit with patrl-otie patrl-otie Am.rifans, who h'lreve th" time has come to atop the spread of Bol-hvim Bol-hvim in this 'onntr and deal sfriT Ir with those who op.nlr advocate Ihe KuasUa soviet, srstem. If A mcri';inim it) to le the 'lominnnt iijn neat vear, a fearleas and troad-mindd Amcric.in must be th" standard bearer of tho Ke-rrtjbllean Ke-rrtjbllean portr. Governor ' oolidge has BTM proof that ho ii voeh a m;m. there ara ra-iny other run in I lie party who wo iM fill tlM bill without doubt, tmt just now Ihe Massachusetts ex-"entire ex-"entire is in the publie erg because |