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Show f HARDING AND COOLIDGE Whether the voters of the United j "tates accept and make their own the ticket nominated at Chicago, or reject it for the ticket that, as we -lite, is yet to be named at San Francisco, those who support it 'will have no reason to be ashamed of hi character of their candidates. ' '' w'as an extraordinary contest that ; '"'led in the choice of Senator Hard-'ng Hard-'ng and Governor Coolidge. When 'lie convention began three candidates candi-dates shared among them in not very unequal numbers almost two birds of the delegates; half a dozen :r more favored sons were represent (1 by delegations from their states, and were waiting the chance to of-'er of-'er each his own solution of a deaden dead-en It : still other candidates, who did '.c;t come with the united backing if their states, were also ready to eize any opportunities that came in :heir way. There was a deadlock, and it en-!ed en-!ed when a "favorite son" who had hard struggle to appear before he convention in that role came tradually but irristibly to the hont. The deadlock was in no sen-e sen-e personal, but was occasioned by "' actual struggle between tendeci-"s tendeci-"s against certain tendencies that have not commended themselves to he party. It is easy now to" see '.hat Senior Johnson Iwhose. sup-lorters sup-lorters represented certain extreme 'lolicies. chiefly the absolute rejec-ion rejec-ion of the treaty of Versailles, could never have won a majority of the (invention. It is also evident that 'he large sum expended to promote Mie fortunes of one or two of the can i. uo.es greauy injured their pros-nects. pros-nects. Thereupon the choice fell upon one who was open to no eritl-"ism eritl-"ism on those points, and one in whose favor much could be said, for Senator Harding is neither a radical ior a reactionary, but a typical representative rep-resentative of moderate opinion. For a candidate for Vice President 'here was really no contest. Gov. Coolidge was chosen by a great majority ma-jority on the first ballot. He measures meas-ures up to the standard of the office better than some candidates in the "ast. and his friends deem him to be fully qualified for the presidency as of course every Vice President should be. He is a young man who showed himself master of himself 1 when he had to deal with a baffling situation in his own state, for he look a firm and courageous stand and maintained it in the face of a determined and ugly opposition. Although the Companion is non-political, non-political, it is permissible for It to congratulate dhe country on the outcom.e Candidates have been selected who both by character and by achievement are worthy to succeed suc-ceed the great men who in the past have honored their native land and themselves in the highest offices their fellow citizens can bestow. Youth's Companion. |