Show washington letter by NATIONAL PRESS SERVICE PRESIDENT Iii Washing washington con D C september the republican presidential situation Is no newer a clearing than it was has a week at ago ill although official proclamations are still missing and the gentlemen have attempted to clothe their thoughts in tic phrases the candidates of hoover hughes dawes and lowden are generally recognized and so accepted the most noticeable event of the week however has been an increase of 0 the outi out i in the open demand that coolidge be force u to run again there is a natural question as to how hov much sincerity la is back ol of this call it 1 Is being hinted that the clever ones oes are availing themselves ol of the coolidge slogan so as to hold bold their own forces in line making a final selection when things are clearer but whatever the in motive ve declarations in lavor favor 0 of coolidge as etire recently made by C bascom slemp fol ormer secretary by will wid R wood chairman chalsma bior 0 f the congressional campaign committee by national leaders in washington and biegon and tennessee as well as other states which might be named are giving a substance to this coolidge thought all tills this Is operating as might be expected to clow down the development of all other booms politics still has an element of 0 selfishness in it and the business ol of being in right with the new president Is still a primary consideration in the minds of 0 many it Is dally daily becoming more evident that months will elapse before the canny ones in the political told fold will have confidence as to which way they should jump 4 0 NO AM r CATION Ples president ident coolidge will neither amplify nor explain his original statement not that he has any desire to continue a state 0 of doubt in the minds of the people or any ambition to profit by what b tome 0 me observers have been inclined to designate as the ambiguity ol of his remarks but the president believes that in the ability to express exactly his intentions through the written word he has acquired considerable skill under the circumstances his issuance of any additional statement would inevitably be a direct admission that at a most critical moment when clearness directness and forcefulness were the primary necessities he had failed to meet the situation his friends intimate casually that those demanding amplification or his original statement as an undercover bid lor for belong to a class who would not be satisfied even it if I 1 the ten words were explained by ten tell thousand in ill short these persons belong to that group which has been characterized in the old saying none are so BO blind as those who u will III not see FACTS IIER HEREAFTER LAITER the literary critter has been raising old hob bob in the department of agriculture during the past week the examples ot of his activity which have reached the public have inclined some to the belief that hat it is about time to take some men aloin aiom the larm farm and put them into the department and give the literary experts in n the department a chance to go back to the larm farm the department it appears released tor for publication an article on the price situation into which there was written the statement it Is likely that prices will ill decline in the next lew few months this sentence arrested the attention of the cotton market as it ao neared in the part ot of the pamphlet discussing cotton and sent the cotton market tumbling six dollars and fifty cents a bale meanwhile another official ol of the department part ment of agriculture discussing trading in wheat futures said raid that of 0 the total transactions in futures only about five per cent are based in actual wheat in hand and about ninety five per cent of the transactions in grain futures made on american grain exchanges are of a speculative character now mow the grain people are up in the air with a demand that it if government officials are to make such declarations they shall at least be ready to submit sustaining facts president coolidge has let it be known that be regards government department predictions on prices as hazardous and a positive order has been issued to stop all future adventures all AH this brings to the front the question RS as to whether government reports should not be confined absolutely to statements tate ments of facts and be devoid of prophetic I 1 or interpretive comments IN IOWA dante pierce of iowa editor agriculturist and publicist who in his day has grown red in the face over farm conditions lias has begun to wonder and does it to the extent of a half column in the ro iowa w a homestead as to whether iowa zar farmers eners are not a little veary w eary of hearing a gospel based on the idea the that they are hopelessly insolvent and hea headed tor for peasantry in ill a recent issue of 0 the homestead dante wrote that when more than persons most of them farmers and their wives are able to visit the iowa state fair in ten days time there Is reason to 0 believe that conditions are tar far from desperate mr pierce was also aroused by the fact that while not more than attended the free address on tarm farm relief legislation which was being given on the fair grounds by congressman charles brand of ohio some fifteen thousand rho usand paid from fifty cents to a dollar to watch the horse races and hear sousas dousas band TIMBER roil FOR CONGRESS one happy result of the determination of the president not to be a candidate again is the likelihood of a stronger list of congressional candidates and a stronger congress elected in 1928 than would have otherwise have been our lot with coolidge as the probable can candidate on the natural assumption that t at he e would be elected by a tro tremendous mendo wide sweeping vote political leaders in n t the 6 several everal states had bad made e up thel their ml that they could take a 9 chan chance W with congressional candidates on the that the coolidge cooledge impetus or a tight ight grip on the coolidge cooledge coattails coat tails would rould carry these men into the seats ol of he mighty accordingly there were weak republican publican Ee senatorial and I 1 candidates good follows fellows rather ather than able men who were to be re yarded warded this time round with coolidge out ot of the running the situation Itu atlon has entirely changed without my any disparagement ot of any ol of the candidates now in the field there s a growing feeling that they will need ill the strength they have tor for their own ends and that strong senatorial and representative candidates will be needed to help them get the proper popular vote there will be some heart burnings among the men who are now due to be thrown into the discard but the public I 1 at large will profit as far as congress goes toy by this appreciation ot of the tact fact the man who wins will have to be able to stand on his own teet feet and carry his is share of 0 the load AD W FLOOD RELIEF assurance irom from secretary hoover that tbt there are sufficient funds tor for the relief ot flood sufferers until the end ot of the year ye a r and that there may be a million dollars surplus in flood relief funds plus the further statement that the reports ot of the engineers will not be ready for presentation until toward the close of this year form the basis of 0 the presidents present feeling that there Is no need of summoning senate and house in extra session for a time senator jira jim reed was one ol oi the most a assiduous s in d landing demanding that the national lawmakers be called to washington tor for the primary burp purpose 0 se of dealing with the problems left b by y the raging of the lower mississippi but even lie he on learning the true state ot of things suii subsided sIded like unto tile the waters for weeks not a word has bas the falchion lal fai chion chlon oi of the dem ot of the southwest said eald on the subject the attitude ot of speaker longworth as outlined to the president was determined only after consultation by the speaker with many of the house members me m bera democratic as well as republic republican on n it if the president had believed that an extra session would have been of benefit he would have issued the call had the speaker believed the public interest would have been served in ili any way he he would have urged sued such a course upon the president I 1 |