Show COOLIDGE r I IGE VETOES TOES il lly ily L L. L A. A II T Teddy Roosevelt used t y j but i o 1 stick Tread softly Uy ca carry cany a n big ICk 1 Coolidge seems t to o be following that that Fours Four y years rs ago just before the Republican Rc convention at Cleveland Cleve Clove land laud bc he be threw Ms his defy into the face of or th the whole Republican senate or or Ol orthe the most of the leaders leaders who were fighting lighting him lie He was a candidate then He supposed to be one now but he uses his pen with an in indifferent indifferent in- in indifferent different defy and of what the poli poll may think He has vetoed the tho Haugen McNary-Haugen bill and also half half- million Coltons Colton's three three- and a dollar doUar road bill and threatens tocto to veto the big 75 million dollar road bill he because ause the t tax x was talon taken off of ot automobiles Of ot course rt Republicans Republicans pubU cans and Democrats are Threatening to pass these bills over dge's veto and the they did on one bill i but they seem to have lost their courage and arc are pretty apt to feel Ceel that those vetoes are arc hot pok pokers rs I I The writer has always rather ad- ad admired adI admired ad ad- mired Coolidge He Is quite a thinker think think- er and if il he thinks a l thing Is 5 s right I he lie is pretty apt ant to do as he thinks And sometimes he is wrong too but buta a man has a right to be wrong part of or tho the time Bu But t. t in refusing to ru run lun 11 for a third consecutive term as prest pre pres president ident he Is undoubtedly right And if he changes his mind he will wiH have erred twice A Aman man may err erl once on ot a vital matter but nut ir 11 it ne he errs twice on tho the same point then he lie is apt to tobe tobe tobe be a loser But his stubborn in vetoes toes are lia liable Je to force him Tr fo ro tho the front CrOf I for there Is a bitter el eloin nent ut sed s- s ed cd to Hoover for president ent and who iio will carry it to the polls if necessary But Dut the admirable able thing about Coolidge Coolidge Cool Coul- i idge ge is is- that t you cant can't ride ilde him that thatis is you ou cant can't ride him all the tho while hile and he has a habit of slapping back bark I have wondered if he is part Irian or Scotch But then the Irish and antI Scotch are not the the only fellows that th I can slap back either Perhaps he heis heIs I Is English with a little woo wooden cn shoed Dutchman mixed in Tedd Teddy when he di tiled died d must have willed that big stick sUck to Coolidge for Cor wielding it is one of Coolidge's pet I j And he Is generally right too when he be uses It ft If the fellows I who are fighting Hoover try to lo shove Coolidge in as a candidate that bi big bid stick is liable to assume the proportion proportion tion of a meeting house It is inconceivable Inconceivable incon Incon- I le almost that Coolidge may err at Kansas City and allow them to lo use him but if he shot should yield he will have made the mistake of or a Napoleon who ordered d the ch charge of or orthe the Old Guard across the sunken road load af or Ohain at Waterloo and po politically J speaking ho ho v vill wind u up I his his' career on the lonely Isle isle of or St. St Helena disturbed only by the y dashIng dashing dashing dash- dash Ing of the angry waves on Oli its rock lock I bond boud coast w. w f 5 1 |