Show WHY THE PRESIDENT TOOK ACTION A new meaning is given to President dent Coolidge's withdrawal from he presidential race Judson C C. Welliver widely known publicist who has served both Presidents Harding and Coolidge as ae a conS conS- advisor and now editor of a Pittsburg newspaper declares s in inbe he be Review of Reviews that the presidents president's famous I do not hoose statement was intended as asAD n AD unqualified renunciation of ot a candidacy and not as has been as a subtle moans means o ot of I leaving buying lc the way ay open for his draft t ins Log by the Republican convention The last thing In his mind was waso to 0 o have uncertainty about his mean mean- mg nig it Is said uld Of Ot the several considerations a s prompted Mr Cool Cool- CoolIdge idge idee to deliberately deli e tel forestall a probable Mr lr Well Well- Weller Welliver ver er er counts as first the presidents president's feeling eeling that the public while recognizing recognizing the calm efficiency ot of his ad administration administration ministration is ripe for tor the excite excite- excitement ment ot of heated political issues The need of ot a new issue has been apparent to him for a long lens longtime longtime time Ime time says the article We have gone about as far as we can on the be issue of ot reducing taxes and sound economy econom he was reported to have haye said on one occasion more than a year before the great elation lation We have reached the low point in the cost ot of government It will go up from this forward tor ward That ThatIs Is s inevitable He Ho did not feel that his administration was to blame for this his but he realized that if It a II con con- continuous program of lowering gov gov- government government government costs was all all or or most all that that his bis administration had to commend it then It must find some new Issues and slogans But Mr Coolidge does not really rUlly drum up new issues continue Mr lr Welliver who holds that the president president dent Instinctively withdrew from political opportunities based on ar ar- artificial issues He is precisely not the tile kind of ot a man to try taking faking a pose He would rather not be a candidate than to be an Insincere one he declares These considerations on top of ot othe the he failure of ot the Geneva naval conference which robbed the ad ad- administration administration ministration of ot a campaign point and nd the continued sentiment in congress for farm relief through the he plan which the he president has has' unalterably op- op opposed opposed posed are held beld in the Review of ot Reviews articles to be chiefly re- re responsible Islon for the presidents president's de de- i |