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Show Coolidge Quits Presidential Race for Renomination President Coolidge startled the country this week when he made an- . . .-iuncement at the summer white "house in South Dakota that he did not choose to run for the presidency in 1928. It was confidently expected by many that President Coolidge would again seek the nomination, many holding to the belief that if he was w renominated he would be re-elected t with an overwhelming majority. f The withdrawal of the president ,- ' from the race has resulted in mucn f speculation as to who -will be con-' con-' tenders for the Republican nomination. nomina-tion. Among those mentioned are v former Governor Frank O. Lowden ,, of Illinois; Vice President Charles ' G. Dawes, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the house of representatives representa-tives and former Senator James A. Wadsworth of New York. In a statement made In Washing-i Washing-i ton Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, I commenting on the announcement of the president said: "The only way I can construe the president's statement state-ment Is that if the Republican convention con-vention wants him to run for the presidency ot the United Sfates, he will do so, but that it he is left to his personal choice, he would prefer not to run." |