Show A Washington Daybook By THOMAS S L. L STOKES WASHINGTON Sept 5 Calvin 5 Calvin Coolidge is the center of at much political cal gossip around the capital these days Has he aspirations for the Republican Republican lican nomination in 1932 That Is Js the que question Uon and as always in talking of at the canny New Englander Englander Englander Eng- Eng lander you ou can get many different Ideas His air of mystery the silence that he preserves today Just as he did didIn didin didin In the White House serves rather to provoke pro talk than to check it Many MallY politicians are thinking far more highly of the virtue of silence since they have seen the effects of or his practice of it Coolidge has been in and out of the picture since he left the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House and is always the subject of pleasant and speculative gossip I Iwas It was not until his former physician Major James F. F Coupal delivered himself of or a aery very ery brief but pointed statement a few days ago that his former chief might run 1 if he were drafted that tongues were really set to going again in a serious way DID DIDN'T T DENY STATEMENT Nobody else has spoken for CoolIdge Cool Cool- idge and the former president has hIlS not denied the Coupal pronounce pronounce- men ment t. t Apparently Coolidge's intentions depend upon the turn of circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances and certainly there are many factors which enter into the situ situ- There is first of course President Hoover himself As far as an anybody bo knows he lie h has no intentions of re retiring retiring re re- tiring after one term He has the machine which every ery president in office has Republican leaders generally still sun are standing by him No political leader can afford to get off the reservation reservation reser reser- as long as that reservation Is producing benefits for him If President Hoover wants the I nomination again in 1932 the only J way that Coolidge could get any any- any i I where at all would be through one of those poll political upheavals upheavals almost almost miracles they are that are that happen only once In many years ears Such an upheaval upheaval up up- may occur though none is insight in insight insight sight right now Another bad winter might contribute to such a situation No one knows RETIRE RETIREMENT NOT PROBABLE The other possibility Is the retirement retirement retirement retire retire- ment of Mr l Hoover after his first term That would be almost unheard of Even assuming that he did no not want to run again how could he Justify his retirement How could his party explain his retirement I It would be an admission of failure provided pro pro- vided there were no other tangible reason But no rio one believes here her that President Hoover has any such intentions Coolidge was the president during the days of prosperity but it is 15 th the view of impartial observers that h he had little to do with that Had he continued to be president the country country coun COlin try would undoubtedly have ha suffered the same depression Some who talk of his prospects in 1932 1032 argue that tha linked up in the public mind as he is with prosperity no matter how little he had to do with It he would attract strength on that basis There is always the third-term third bogey bog y in front of ambitious men who I want to come back Roosevelt tried for tor a third term and failed There still seems to be something to the third term bogey in the public mind though it is not believed to be very verj deep seated Coolidge has all these things to think about and those who know him are sure that he will keep absolutely silent unless he sees a real He will be very certain of his ground If conditions are not propitious propitious pro pro- for l his s reentry on to the po po- stage no one will ever learn from rom him what was in his mind dur- dur ng these days das He will continue to tojo jo Je silent |