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Show BV HARRY B. HUNT NCA Service Writer. WASHINGTON. Aug. .The national na-tional capital has become. overnUht, a bubbling, bo ng. we lag gauldroa ef pontic. Thle political serambls begaa arm the very Bight of Hardin, a daeth. There were eonfereneea snd esse -ee sad eoeeulta Uone. Which wav to Jump, aad hew. were the chief auh-jeote auh-jeote of dlecoe aton. The death ef Ihe preeldeat waa deplorable, regrettsble, toe bad. But draw upeverybody. The gas muat go oa and now there WW te a aew deal! . . roUttce la a cold aad practical bus I-aeee. I-aeee. Except aa It oaa oa pltailse the loyally and aympathy of the maeaee for a dead leader, ti leferrlng er ee-mealing ee-mealing that aympathetle alleglsn-s te the Bsrty he reaeeeeated. er to th. Individual who etaooeede him. It gtvee little thought te the dead. It meat keep Ha ey ahead. la thla situation, the effect of Harding's Hard-ing's desth oa the 1SI4 poutlcal alt -tioa has been gtvea much mors eerie consldersUoa than lla effect oa governmental gov-ernmental actlvltlee and ootlde Ths epecslation aa to the course to be fallowed fal-lowed by President Cootldge haa hinged much more closely around how hia acts would shspe the posltloa of his party politically Best year than en hew It would affect nation well- Thla appbes equs ny to those whe. within the Republican parti, see In Ihe death of Vreeldent Harding a chance to pry the O. O. P. nomination next year a war from the pre nt oc--eupant of the White House, and those who are working to entrench Coetloge eo securely In party leadership that he will ba the Republicans oae bast bee , . '- ' Oa the surface, te data, the latter as. pear to be meklng beet headway. That mar be becauee Coolldga and hia boosters 'have th. spotlight for the ... Pe4ltlra1y.' It le generally a greed the desth of President Hsrdlng lessened les-sened the likelihood of a third party BKfteuient. With Hsrdlng as candidate for re slectloa. other O. O. P. contenders would have had little look-In. The only real opportunity for the antl-Hardlng antl-Hardlng alemente would have been the launching of a new ticket designed de-signed to draw ths liberal and rarm-er-l bor vote and which eould eoo-oolldate eoo-oolldate the various factions of dlsoon-tent dlsoon-tent In all perttee. The Democrats ssw la this the big chance of their return to power. Now they're not eo eurs. e e e One month sso not one politician In 10. suggested t'sl Cooiidge ss even a remote poselblllty In the 19-4 campaign. cam-paign. Had Harding lived, -the aame odds would have run agalnat the likelihood like-lihood of CooHdge's rsaomlaa tioa svsn for vice pree ldent. But today, through the mtet position of Fste. aa the actual ocewpant ef ths Whia House, one ootid find even money that he will head hia party's ticket 1n the seat campaign. But If you tea closely, perhaps you ess hear a gritting, grating aound coming from the direction of the District of Columbia. Thet'e Ibe poUHoal grindstone, turning twenty-four hours s day. The loud bussing thst comes ss sn m-rea local overtone I. the swarming swarm-ing ef ths political beea. Wbea they est tu. eomebody. going te get stung. But who? . Aa-B- That's the .uestloa V |