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Fridk^Auj^wIlO^ftU would not here aal Uni may think It advlaable to more to n he Will position nearer the center o t the con disclose kin fused and Jarring Republican line. ship and th* oik<>r thin*» which brighten and aweetm human ' Inter- course har« aWoal n« Influence He consider It adrtssble to Mr Harding's claim to renomtna- I» the extreme candidacy, by Immediately returnldf home or by materially shortening his tlon rested eery largely upon his presidinlial record, which the party stay, ramalna to be teen. would not hare ' dared to repudiate, thè old dayt were such men aa he la. Presidency Biggest Prise cren had It desired to do so. Since Kven among hla o s n pcopie ha la re- The presidency Is now the biggest prise In the world, and he has heyn the Clell War no President elected by tardati as somethln* «f a menta I nnd ambitious to secure It tor many years the people ever has been denied a re- psychologlcal csarto-lty a clear rose Mr. Harding's death will giro him the numiaatloa. Hayes said early that he of reeersion to type t euildgn |k ili Hrain« bast opportunity he yet has had It did not want one and there would America's Greatest Political will also he' his last Johnson being hare been no denial in this case In Ho la all hrmlns. I» cool and calcu- Scribe and Best Forecaster on the ground, snd doing his utmost addition to his record, which Is f«r latlng. wlth few human sympalhles or to make the next few month* count. better than anybody hollered It would tender emotlona; whlle Mr. Harding, Eliminates Coolidge. La Kollette may feel he ought lo make be possible to make, considering the perhaps wlth lata Intellectual caphc- unsettled state of public thought. Mr. Ity certainly wlth Irta culture- waa abort work of It In Europe. Harding had a strong hold on the all sympathy and emotion. wearlng With the national convention thrown wide open, radicalism will be country because of bis winsome per bis lire oul tryln* io amooth thè stirred to Ua utmost I very much sonality. his transparent honesty and rough placet, pUtaoniil and politicai, doubt whether the Republican party kindliness and constant desire to | for thoae wlth whom he canto In contact will take a radical position; Ita his In temperament, habit* o f thought tory and precedents are against any and manner of speech, they have'been such thing. It may. however, want a A far apart as the poles, and If Mr I to try to fcheck the radical swing, and Harding, with all his lovable quali 'accommodate Itaelf t» other way* to ties. could get results from Con the country'* ugrest. If It does, gress. It la fair to assume that Mr. Johnson's stock will go up. Coolidge will be unable to do so. ! As between Johnson and La Fol- I do not mean io disparage him: | lette. It It decide* to move toward far from It. I am simply trying to I the liberal position. It will probably* tell Western readers whet manner prefer Johnson _ There is hardly a of man he Is. In Us favor It I* to be chance that It w lll'lak* a position ss said that he te honest and upright, extreme as that occupied by La Fol- a man of hlg^ moral purpose. God lette. If it turns towsrd liberalism, fearing and siheere In an hta deal Johnson will be Its limit. He has ings. Of ability he has more than the been cultivating the conservative* average man's share In public^ ttfe for a couple-of years, and trying to In Massachusetts he gave such' a fine place himself In a position where be account o f himself—among hit own could overcome their opposition to people— that "he was nominated for him growing out of what happened Vlce-Prealdent. In that office he has _______ __ ____ in 1»1J. This helps explain his strange spect. McKinley was avowedly hie model. borne himself with modesty and pro- Itmrtfee__The W g d m ' silence in the Senete. and his geo- Having a gift for public I veatare the pawp heey .'* ‘f » 1 inactivity otherwise, since Mrj. a«d hr was more nearly like McKin prtety. ley on the personal aide than McKin ■peaking and the making of telling ige, «a«» H tra a W . Juhn- Harding became President, ley was like any ot the other Presi epigrams, he has been on* of the rd Phschat will be a e a - Jehnsen Leeuts Large Harding administration's most con Repabllean ticket, and , Still assuming for the moment that dents. unless it was Lincoln. There w ill be conservative candi vincing supporters on the stump S M i HrAdee w f l ( he the Republican party will not adhere But be teems to lark the qualities lent ea the B i ms in di e rigidly to the conservative position dates for next year's nomination, and it took andar the latter's leadership. among them I think first ot Senator that are essential to White Hoose ; 'peetaliy |n thesq. unsettled Î ive a formidable op- Watson of indiana, who has iong hid he known What'wws oamhitg Whether New Knglaudlam In li. and one can eas lly understaad that thè Puritana ot SOI ASHINGTON. Saturday. Aug 4.— The death o f President Hard ing will throw the Republican nation al convention wide open next June, and possibly reaul' in the nomination o f Senator Hiram W. Johnson, who. Whatever may he thought about him tn thin respect, has at present a distinct advantage ever every body etas. For tunately for him. he has Just returned from Europe, and is la a position to take any steps that may be necessary to place hi* candidacy ia preliminary W Opposing him In the convention will perbepe be Senator Robert M. La AMletle. who represents the extreme left of Republican liberalism. This week he sailed for Europe, to go over much o f the ground that ha* been gone pver by Johnson. It 1* safe to aay he ponent la the convention la the per son of Gov. Gifford Pine hot of Penn sylvania, also a Ileo—vs It protege. who would not, hove been a candidate had Mr Harding lived, but who will be free to assert himself now. should he desire to do so. He has worked political miracles in Pennsylvania in the last' year, and shown himself to be a man of parts. He' Is the best known and one of the strongest gov ernors in the country. The old Roose velt following would have difficulty In choosing between MU and Johnson. OUler liberal Republicans who may be candidates are Kenyon ot Iowa, whom Mr. Harding placed on the fed eral bench, and who was. during the Utter years of this sedate service, the leader o f the Progressive«. In that body; and Secretary Hoover, who was the main source of liberal influence in the Harding cabinet. READ C A REFI LLT SOW, .' ~ PROM HERE TO THE END Can any Republican be elected next year? I ' id, doubtful. Mr. Harding certainty would 'have been defeated, as things have been going for the last year, and yet his renomination was inevitable. a liberal should be nominated— somebody of the Hiram Harding’s Wlnsoasr Personality Johnson type—-he would poll a large The Republican party would have ▼ole; but it la by no means certain heew compelled to adhere to the con that he would Win. The people will servative position had Mr. Harding lived. Now that he It gone, there is fa r Econom ical Transportât y CHEVROLET^ IMMEDIATE DELIVERIES EAST TEEMS L. Y . BILLINGSLEY MOTOR CO. Metrihutors Hawthorne Arsane at Eighth S t caliber. Secretary Hughes also comes to mind, a conservative on all the great domestic Issues of the day. even if he has believed that American duty as well aa interest demanded that we take a livelier part in world settlement* than we have been w ill ing to take thus far. It may be that there will be almost a dosen candidates before the con vention. /.It will he a presidential free-for-all, and nobody will be bhrred. Phom It niai Indorsement, iiand-runnlng It will be noticed that by Inference 1 have excluded President Coolidge from consideration. Only tour vtce- presldeuts have held the presidency through election—John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, a generation prior to the formation o f political parties as we now know them, and Van Buren and Roosevelt. I doubt wheth er Mr. Coolidge Is a candidate for the nomination next year; If-he la, he will be defeated. He ie a conservative of the ultra type, and of a stern and Unyielding nature. In Mr. Harding’s place for the last two and a half years, he would have been less tractable and tactful than Mr. Hardlngyraa. He has a keen, logical and JwKeriy mind. over which sympathy, good fellow When Old Age Comes Along Every county poor farm in the United States, every almshouse, every home for the aged, tells the story better than words o f tongue or pen — o f the man who did not save his money. Out o f five million people in the United State« today, sixty-five years old and over, four million o f them are without funds. If you are a young man, you may rest assured that thfcre is an old man waiting fo r you when you reach the age ‘o f sixty. I f you are a middle-aged man, you are now at the height o f your earning power, and it is well for you to consider what will happen if you reach old age dependent. Insure Your Life Today With an Endowment at 60 213 TILFORD BUILDING Our Mid-Summer Sale Continues with greater bargains than ever before Look over the following. 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Overstuffed Art vS ir $ 5 2 e* g Sale Price............ , we will* allow all they are worth aa part pay on new. Remember we charge no interest on In- etallment account*. [rqng; now they are weaker than Inc* parties were first formed In this Country. The voters were then (livid- hd into two well-defined groups now jkere are half a doten different kind* OooHdge may make oT the other half of flepubllcane. all rampant and eager for the fray, and several of the major Lacking la Magnetism groups are pretty evenly balanced In The American people admire traits Strength. If Roosevelt were succeed of this kind, when they are displayed ing. McKIpley at this (M r, hi* task under the restraining Influence of sound Judgment, It remains to be seen whether Mr. Codlldge has that Coolidge an World Court Judgment. Even If be has. he will - Mr. Coolidge will not be as ardent not draw pobltc men to him. No in his advocacy ot the wprld court as body will care anything for him on Mr. Harding was. He may give it his the personal side for ' he Is not a formal Indorsement, but It Is to be man who can awakea friendship* and doubted whether he will fight for It Inspire enthusiasm. IW is not In sym aa Mr. Harding would have don*. His pathy with the radlcaHnn of the Mld- New England training will stand in lle West nor with the development the way. The majority of the New of the bloc power in Congress He is England senators at this time are s graduate of the Lodge school of pol openly hostile to the court, and their itic*. and I doubt whether h e could people support them. <et the delegates froth any section of Mr. Coolidge, It is believed, will not '.he country, outside o f New England, oppose e soldiers’ bonus. He will put If a candidate for the nomination next the ship subsidy bill into the discard. year. He surely rould not do It now. Foreign relations Will be conducted Besides, the political scepter passed more after the Lodge rather than from New England after the Hughes plan, not becauae with the shifting of the center of Lodge will dictate, but because the population, and will not return. That two men think alike on that question. section does not think like the rest Mr. Coolidge may try to carry out the of the country on public questions; Harding policies, but I doubt If he and Ita public men grow up In an en- does It very vigorously. vironment that makes them unsym He also wants the Harding cabinet pathetic with the aspirations o f the to remain with him. It w ill,’at least teeming millions beyond the Alle for the present. Intimately, It la be ghenies where the political scepter lieved, Attorney-General Daugherty, now is. There Is Id Bess Today Andrew Jackson dictated the nom ination of Van Buren, tor he waa the political bos* of his day. There le''no political boss at thin time, in either party. Roosevelt «acceeded to the presidency on the death of his chief, tloni. The rest don't count for much as Mr. Coolidge has done, and .was politically, and may slay. . elected President la 1*04. But there Understands Public Affairs, has been but one KooMVelt. Mr. Cool It will be "easier for Mr. Coolidge idge bears not tn* altghthet resem to keep within range of the Harding blance to him. Thb Harding policies trill be con policies because he hss been an un tinued. to some «'iteat, an the McKin official member of the Harding cab ley policies were continued, but the inet, attending all Its meetings and difference between the two vlce-pree- participating in all ita dlacuaalona. •dents and between the times will No other vice-president has had that make Mr. Coolldge’g teak much more training, the value o f which will now difficult than Mr. Roosevelt's w aa The world waa then at M tace; now there la ao peace. Party tie* were and $30.00 $32.00 $86.50 Velour Chair . . . . . . . . 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