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Show COOUDGE NOT CANDIDATE F0R1928G.O.P. NOMINATION DECISION STARTLES NATION President Believed to Be a Little Tired Of Job; "Drafting" Might Change Decision of Executive l!y PAUL It. MALLON (United Press Staff correspondent) RAPID CITY, 8. D., Aug. 3. (UP)-The politjsal hunderbolt which President Coolidge hurled against the vorld when he spontaneously announced he did not choose "-, be a candidate for the presidency in 1928 stirred the telephone tele-phone and telegraph from the far reaches of the country to he summer White House today There were messages of congratulations that he does rot intend to seek another term and telegrams of despair that eis giving up the job before it is finished. With characteristic silence Mr. Coolidge let the tele-graphic tele-graphic storm rage around him without a murmer and went about his business just as if he had not suddenly renounced 'he throne of the Republican party. The telegrams and telephone dispatches seemed to incline incli-ne that opinion was divided as to whether his terse 10-word announcement, "I do not choose to run for president in 1928," ja? really a renunciation or merely a notice that he was not . candidate. vnc Of rniiitclty who interpret the presideli-1 presideli-1 01,iniou usually follow his .,! o closely that they lose the I, nieauii.S of them. They nt-;.t nt-;.t to see motives hidden m them ,lo not exist. Ttrey know Mr. .'.ilirtce bas a kt'''n so,lst' 1 ,,,, ami a more thun ordinary m- .'iiinii of its results. m f the newspaper men who ,lrt, hH.n with him tor years nae .; called him the "greatest show -., earth." because of his abil-n abil-n to sense public feeling, lhey nv that the president mcrol t the statement as a torc-tiii-i, worded document to umet tho k "it a -third term' and to i n Ihe line of political opinion whims theoretically chased hue , earner to SMUee.e him out on i, subject us to whether he was a HjlMiite. Tim are others who say these ramrals are fallacious and I'-mi politicians here agree mm. ivni liecause n man who says lie i.t c andidate for office loses . per cent of his political n.onien- a He opens, they say, the way i tor candidates who otherwise mm stick under cover. The truth of the matter is, ac-r ac-r nling to reliable inl'orinalion fuv-: fuv-: l,l the Vniled l'ress. that Mr. r.k. is gelling just a little lived i. ihe job which has physically dis- ' or hindered the last two presi- "tree For AH" Likely If Hie politicians are right and '" t cent of Mr. Coolidges titlh is lost to him as a result ! bis announcement, a "tree for T' is sure to ensue over (he nues-' nues-' tins to who is to be tbe nominee. Those close to the president here (tot Mieve that be would in that ' attempt to sway his influence I" any one candidate. i'l'spite the insinuations of poli-" poli-" ians nnil newspapers, his impnr-' impnr-' il observers here think that: 11 Ip can he drafted despite his !- statement. 2 He made his statement in good 'Hi. desiring to retire from the I'-iileiitinl chair. '-lie docs not care if his closest ''ml is slighted by the statement. I Hf will take the conseiiicnces ' 'miller what they may be. Tlie possibility that the rims"-1'iins rims"-1'iins inny he ;in insislene d"-''iiil d"-''iiil Hint he run for re-eleel Ion 1 ' l no more or less to hiiu than '" mii-'gesl ion that an ambassador 1 ai'IKiiated to Mexico. |