| Show ONE MEANING TO STATEMENT BY COOLIDGE I FRIENDS AVER Could CoHIll Scarcely Have ilave Used II Any Ally Woid V ord Excepting Choose PRIMARIES ANGLE AN G L E EOne One Jurist Says His Brief Bricf Note Eliminates Him Himin in States CHICAGO Aug 4 t-By t Dy The TheA Associated A Press Frank Presa-Frank Frank O O. O Low- Low Lowden Lowden Lowden den former governor of Illinois widely mentioned as Republican lican presidential material came cane to Chicago o today to discuss politics with a group croup of friends In re response re- re response spouse to a telegram they t s-t Mm him at his summer home borne In Alexandria Cay Bay New York CHICAGO Aug ug 1 ty 11 By The Associated Press Iress The Daily I aly News said uld today that thai ice Mcc President President dent Charles G. G Dawns Dawn wEt ra not campaign for the presidency against Frank O. O Lowden Londen but If Lowden cannot be nominated and wants Dawes Lowden londen will sin 5 his support to the dIsc Chicago banker DETROIT Mich Aug Au 4 ny I. By The Associated Press Herbert Hoover Hooter was indorsed as the logical candidate for the Republican presidential nomination to succeed Calvin Coolidge e In a statement issued here today day by Henry Ford RAPID CITY S D Aug 4 By By The Associated Press The The opinion that President Coolidge's statement that he lie does not choose cheese to run for president in 1928 1923 might have more than one meaning dwindled further in inthe Inthe the summer capital today and the be belief be- be belie lid lief lie had hid become almost positive e that he unequivocally eliminated himself irons the occupancy of the White While WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House alter after March 4 4 1929 1920 Unlike Washington where a more rounded opinion alwa's Is obtainable on any public question of the first im- im importance Importance opinions which are reached In Rapid City Cily must necessarily be based upon the th Impression of the few who understand the president more moro Intimately In some quarters closest to lo Mr Coolidge there Is next to nothing be- be bein being beIng in ing said but when the shreds of In Information In- In Information information formation are put together it becomes rather plain that there Is no double meaning accredited to lo the president ills HIS ONLY ONTA WORD Several reasons for this belief come most prominently to the fore in Rapid City Cily First it is pointed out Mr Coolidge could scarcely have ha used any other than tha word choose choos in mak mak- making makIng making ing his pronouncement and still keep the country from thinking him to be presumptive to the extent of or believing believIng believing ing the nomination next year was actually act his Had he said I 1 will not run for president in 1928 he lse would have presumed It is held that the Republican convention would nominate him It Is argued further at the summer capitol that if Mr Coolidge had said saidI saidI saidI I I will wUl not be a candidate for the Re Re- Republican Republican nomination In 1923 1928 the same controversy would have ha arisen with wills the belief b lIef that the president was merely declaring himself not a can can- candidate but not that he would de decline de- de decline cline dine the nomination If forced upon him PRIMARY QUESTION WASHINGTON Aug 4 By 4 By The Associated Press Whether Whether President Coolidge would be eliminated from states having presidential primaries has added a new debatable phase to the speculation of political leaders and observers on the situation created by his announcement that he does not choose to lo run In 1928 1923 1 That the presidents president s statement dim elim eliminates him from the primaries was the of a Washington Wasl Jurist Associate Justice J oJ J. A A. Van Oradel of the District of Columbia court of ap appeals ap- ap appeals peals expressed In an address at Beatrice Neb Mr Coolidge by his announcement would preclude rum aim from filing flUng acceptances of nominations in such states according to the jurist Cursory interpretation of this an angle an- an angle angle gle however howe among congressional leaders here found little concurrence with wilh Justice Van s view Mew but It was expected that politicians today loday might devote ote some attention to lo the I question s o |
