Show I 1 I CALVIN COOLIDGE TO HAVE HAVE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION I IN 1124 THRUST UPON HI HIM Death of Harding Leaves Progressives and Radicals With Nothing to Attack and G O 0 P Leaders Are Pleased With Outlook BY BT ROBERT T SMALL Standard Examiner d rd-Ei rd T Special Corre Corre- Copyright 1923 WASHINGTON Aug Auf 11 ln 11 Inho the calm that has followed the th storm the th leaders leader of the tb G O 0 P gathered hero bero h re tr from m every section of t the tb country profess to see Be In Inthe Inthe inbe I InI the of Calvin Coolidge than to the th presidency a solution rather problems than a complication of their lems Fate Pat plays play many strange pranks One Oita turn of o the political scope scope and the whole picture Is changed I The man the tho n can caa leaders had bad decided to shelve the man who was to bo ho cast aside after atter one term tenn In the vice dency presidency flashes to the th fore for and these same Barno cam leaders r arc are agreed reed to- to today to today day elay that he ho must be the th next nom nom- nomInee nominee inee nominee of ot the th party to succeed him him- himself himself s self lt In the White House They are waiting walting tor for his orders It bu has boon one of ot the most dramatic switches In a presidential situation ever known In Washington Men who two weeks w eks ago AKO shrugged their theli shoulders at tho the mention of ot Cal Cah- Cai name nam today attend him hin hat In hand They hove have learned that destiny sometimes rises above the dictates dict tc of ot a 0 a party council CHANGE OF or VIEW It had been decided that that Mr would lend no particular strength to a ticket In 1924 headed by Warren Warron Harding Mr Harding could pretty safely lately count upon the th New England vote anyway In the th i Interest of ot party success Mr Coolidge must torero forego any further r ambitions ho he might have havo had and 1 step aside to make room for tor some good rood man mon from the th west from west the home horn ot progressives and rad- rad radicals some BOme som one who might lend lenda Ien Iena a touch at least leant of ot progressive lv color to the tho national ticket All this Is la changed now Mr Coolidge can cn have the next regular I Republican nomination for tor the t I asking As a matter of ot tact fact It 1 would be b thrust upon him The leaders will wll not take Uko no tor for on an answer President They have faith In dent Coolidge They believe that In th the short time that Intervenes be- be be between tween the th preference primaries and the convention itself he h will Ush himself as the choice ASSAIL The conclusion that President t death has bs let left the th Party part In ii chaos chos Was vas erroneous The pro pro- pro progressives and radicals radical wings wines of ot the party were preparIng to descend upon Mr Harding Hardier In the presidential year Toor It will be b difficult for tor them to descend upon President Coolidge tor for he has hs done nothing upon which they can c n descend I Calvin Coolidge has ha assumed a 0 L leadership which must b be respect respect- ed respected d It must not be bo assumed a umed from this that progressive hopes are aro I aroI dead They are still in a mood to tight fight to tight fight somebody some some- someWhere some I where Perhaps they can find In the th Coolidge armor but the time Is short and he has liu all aU the tb advantage The Th homo borne of ot Hiram Johnson ot of LaFollette Foll tt of ot pinchot and nd the others who may m y have h v been bon con ered In line flue tot tor the presidential 4 I nomination were built upon an op- op opportunity of ot attack They are ar sud- sud u danly donly left lert with no one to attack l COUNTRY WAS WAR RI iU TIle The Harding administration Is gone cono from consideration It died with the tho th cy The Th lican platform dictated by the regular leaders will wll point to the administration with pride the In- In in sur cannot view It with alarm al tor fOr It to Is a thing thine over and done with Republican leaders no longer longcr deny that the country was restless rc at the time of ot President Harding death It was a restlessness sug- sug suc of a The country experimentation was in a mood for tor nta- nta tion Now through an act of ot Provi Provi- Providence Providence Providence dence the change has ba comp come There Is a new deal deaf at the White Whit House Housea D a new deal without any upset to toh the party In power without any schism within the ranks The lead lead- leaders leaders leaders ers e bello that much of ot the rest rest- re t restlessness will now be bo relieved that there will be a II disposition Instead to 10 give civo the new now man his chance They believe belleve there ther will nill be at ot least leasta leasta a temporary soberIng of ot the more radical thought They believe that any ony opposition to Mr ir Coolidge In Inthe the next Republican convention must be of ot such sueh a scattering na- na nature nature na nature ture as to be all nil but negligible The leaders lenders are here e to dIscuss the situation and the more mora they study it the better they are pleased pith Ith prospects So Bo much tor or the Republicans DEMOCRATIC TIO VIEWPOINT The Th Democrats view the situa- situa tion situation from trem an on entirely different angle They rhey too agree that the Harding administration is a thing thin of ot the past but they say nay that publican R-publican Re- Re Republican pUblican responsibility tor for tho the sItuation situation sit- sit situation which may confront the th country next year ear car cannot be shUt shift shifted ed from the party to the Individual id The Tho Democrats will attack the party and Its capacity to govern The Democratic attack will wil aw away y from the White House Hous to the tho capitol It was never nevel the tb Democratic disposition to make s a tight fight upon Mr- Mr Ur Mr Harding himself They have preferred all along to tc take tak the position that Mr InNing HaMing was a a good man m n a man trying to todo do the right thing but his party leaders In congress centres would not tup sup sup- support support port him In his personal policies sad and would not tall fall in with his hi PresIdent As 1 the tho Democrats see It It todo dent Coolidge will Bill III not be bo able to do much with a recalcitrant con oon- congress con cress gress S 'S that Harding could accomplish accomplish The Th Democrats will turn tun i their guns fins upon congress upon the t senate B nate In particular and believe that It if they can continue the tho swing away from the Republican party which was so manifest In tho the 1922 12 elections thC they can sweep the doncy doney presidency along alone with a possible con con- congressional congressional con gressional overturn oo 00 |