AMERICAN POLITICS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20128, 23 April 1928, Page 7

AMERICAN POLITICS

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY MR COOLIDGE VOICES OBJECTION. Received April 22, 10.40 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) WASHINGTON, April'2l. Mr Coolidge has requested that further use of his name as a presidential possibility be stopped. He declared that efforts to press his candidacy in New York, Massachusetts and elsewhere would be most embarrassing to him. He said, “Particularly in Massachusetts a movement would tend to compromise me. ’ ’ In a letter to the chairman of the Republican committee in the later State he said, “While appreciating the compliment intended 1 request it not to be done. My name is being used in other states in a way contrary to my wishes. I have heard in New York it has gone so far as to be claimed. Such a use is with my tacit consent in my own State. To give countenance to such a movement would lend colour to the misrepresentation apparently being made in other states and I am therefore sending this public declaration of my position, requesting that such attempts be discontinued.”

This action was taken as an effort to discourage further activity on his behalf, although the President did not say he would refuse nomination if offered. Republicans in many states were just beginning to revive ‘ 1 draft Collidge” talk as a way out of the deadlock. Many fear that this talk has been quite strong in New York, where powerful Hoover enemies have ceaselessly urged Mr Coolidge's re-nomination and say he is the best man to oppose Mr Smith. Reports were circulated that in the event of a deadlock Mr Coolidge might accept nomination, but this statement again casts doubt upon the question.