AMERICAN POLITICS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 115, 11 April 1930, Page 9

AMERICAN POLITICS.

MR COOLIDGE’S PLANS. WILL NOT CONTEST PRESIDENCY. Received April 11, 9.10 a.m. NEW YORK, April 10. Mr Coolidge, writing in the latest issue of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, puts an end to the many rumours tnat fie might be a candidate for the Presidency, or for a Senator’s post. “When I left Washington 1 left public office,” he states, “it was an incomprehensible relief, and l have no intention of returning to office. If I were in the Senate it would be agreeable to many of my colleagues, and it would probably oftentimes be an embarrassment 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 greats ns to subordinate all other considerations would warrant it.”. Mr Coolidge continues: “Nor do I have any sympathy with those who are discussing again making me President. The service that 1 could give the people in that office I feel is done.”