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Show Presidential Timber Scarce; Coolidge's Death Being Felt venerable Hughes off the supreme bench sgsin and when you look for possibilities among Republicans in privste life you are reminded that Coolidge waa the only one of them who was believed to possess Urge nstionsl influence and prestige during dur-ing the recent campsign. Hundreds of people with nothing at all to ssy are writing books Henrik Willem Van Loon, author. y RODNEY DUTCHES NKA Service Writer WASHINGTON. Jan 1 Cslvln Coolidge's desth accentuated the vacuum which confront Republicans as they look for a man to run for president In 1930. The next election 1 a long time off and intermediate political devel tex-Senator Jimmy WsdsworTh of New York. Wadsworth would take an enormous amount of "building up," some of which he might do for himself and so would Mills or Reed. No one is thinking of drsgging the opment are purely speculative, but since November the question of who could lesd .the psrty back to power ha been very serious business with the Republicans. Msny of them felt strongly that Coolidge was the best bet for salvation salva-tion in sight, without forgetting that much would happen in the meantime. mean-time. Consequently most discussions among Republicans gsve him a promt-1 nent place among the possibilities more prominent, in feet thsn Presi-I dent Hoover. Now they hsve to fell back on other possibilities and the list seems very thin. The sources from which presidential presiden-tial candidates are almost invsriably drawn are dried up. in so fsr a the G..O. P. is concerned. Only subsequent subse-quent developments in politics, with special reference to congressional leadership and the elections of 1934, can make them produce good material mate-rial again. No one now ha the vaguest ides' what will be happening to the coun-1 try in the next few years or how quickly the country may desire another an-other change, although it seems res-1 sonsble to suppose that there will be ' 1136 presidential election contest between Democrat and Republicans. ! Meanwhile, look at the field There's Mr. Hoover, who has led his party through the worst defeat any party has had. Tha only president presi-dent ever reelected following a de-feet de-feet was Cleveland, who had a popular popu-lar plurality even when he lost Mr, ! Hoover's chance for renomination seem to reat on the possibility thst economic conditions will become so bad under Roosevelt aa to cause mil-1 lion of persons to wish thst they hsd Hoover again. He is said to be intending to keep , hi books on the party machinery and undeniably he thinks he ha had hard luck and a poor deal. Circumstances Circum-stances and opposition within the psrty may cause him soon to abandon aban-don tha idea of conUnued control if he has it I The reorgsnlzaUon fight within' the party is being delayed until the Roosevelt administration come in, the political appointees and the lame 1 ducks depart from office and the leaders lead-ers can take stock to see which among them, if any, are the real leader. Other usual sources of presidential timber are the Republican cabinet the Republicans in congress, Republican Repub-lican governors, the supreme court ,and outstanding Republicans in pri-.vsle pri-.vsle life. Anyone In the present csblnet who Iregsrds himself as likely to be nominated nomi-nated in 1936, with the possible exception excep-tion of Ogden Mills, must be out of his head. Certainly no one else can see it Mill has ability, ambiUon and poliUcal influence. But he is also a multimillionaire commonly identified with the New York financial finan-cial crowd. No one would think of nominating him if he had to run under un-der present conditions. CondiUons conceivably might change in hi favor. Democrat elected more than 40 of tha 48 governor and the Republicans, Republi-cans, with their principal senste lesd-ers lesd-ers detested, can find neither a governor gov-ernor nor a senator of sufficient icaliber in any of the key states from which the most desirable candidate are drawn. The chief key states are New York end Ohio, but one may also count New Jersey, Massachusetts. Illinois and Indiana. Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania may be heard from. I But the ssd lack of material in congress con-gress is best demonstrated by the frequency with which is mentioned the name of Congressman-elect and |