PRESIDENCY OF AMERICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19928, 23 April 1928, Page 12

PRESIDENCY OF AMERICA.

{POSITION OF MR. COOLIDGE. EMBARRASSED BY FRIENDS. ; NAME USED TOO FREELY. 'Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received April 22, . 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 21. The President, Mr. Coolidge, has requested that the further use of his name as a possible candidate for the Presidency shall be stopped. He says tho efforts to press his candidature in New York, Massachusetts, and elsewhere are most embarrassing. The movement in Massachusetts particularly would tend to compromise him. In a letter to the chairman of the ltepublican Committee of tho latter Stato Mr. Coolidlgo said that while he appreciated the compliment intended he requested that it should not be done. His name was being used in other States in a way contrary to his wishes. He had heard that in New York it had gone so far as to have been claimed that the use of his name had his tacit consent. For his own State to give countenance to such a movement would lend colour to the misrepresentations which were apparently being made in other States. He was, therefore, sending this public declaration of his position and requesting that these attempts should be discontinued. This action by the President is regarded as an effort to discourage further activity on his behalf, although he did not say he would refuse nomination if it were offered. Republicans in many of the States were just beginning to revive the cry of "nominate Coolidge" as a way out of the deadlock in the party. Many people fear this cry has been quite strongly raised in New York where the powerful enemies of tho Secretary of Commerce, Mr. H. C. Hoover,' have ceaselessly urged the nomination of Mr. Coolidge for another term. They say he is the best man to oppose Mr. A. Smith, Governor of New York.

Eeports are in circulation to tho effect that in the event of a deadlock Mr. Coolidge might accept nomination, but his latest statement again casts doubt upon the question.