MR COOLIDGE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 154, 11 April 1930, Page 5

MR COOLIDGE

NOT SEEKING OFFICE. i UNCOMFORTABLE COMPLICATION “MINDING ONE’S OWN AFFAIRS.” .United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 10. Mr Calvin Coolidge (ex-President of the United States), writing in the latest issue of the “Cosmopolitan Magazine,” put an end to all suggestions and rumours that he might be a candidate for a third term as President or for a Senator’s post. “When I left Washington I left public office,” he said. “It was an incomprehensible relief, and I have no intention of returning to office. If I were in the Senate it- would not bo agreeable to many of my colleagues, and with all my desire to he helpful it would probably oftentimes he embarrassing to the Administration to have a former President in Washington exercising political power. It would result in all kinds of uncomfortable complications. Only the necessity for serving in some national crisis, so great as to subordinate all other considerations, would warrant it.”

Mr Coolidge continued: “Nor do I have any sympathy with those who are discussing again making me President. The service that I could give the people; in that office I feel is done.” Discussing Prohibition, Mr Coolidge states: “Considering that the people have differed for generations most radically as to the best methods of regulating the sale of. liquor, it is not likely to be settled for a long time to come.”

The ex-President concluded his article with a discussion of the advisability of minding one’s own business.