The Chatter-Box
CALVIN COOLIDGE C,ALV*K COOLIDGE has been elected by a huge majority, his vote taking on the dimensions of a landslide. All ' we can sty it that for the people who want that kind of a...
...As President his first official act.,..was to appoint ths notorious C. Beseem Slemp as his private secretary, less than a year after Mr...
...Tife/unipeakabl...
...Very*.well...
...H* sat in the chair in the Senate and heard tht truth about the corruption that...
...He did not dtre discharge the unspeakable Daugherty...
...Coolidge early lined • himself with those seeking to reduce taxes for the very .w^thyn-notably, Mr, Mellon, whose $1,100,000 annual income tax would bear slashing, Coolidge thought...
...And he vetoed the bill to pay livng wages to post-office clerks...
...Coolidge was eager to turn aver to Henry Ford the fabulously valuable water power site at Muscle Shoals at...
...one-seventeenth of the cost of development to date...
...He sst in the President's Cabinet and heard the naval oil leases discussed...
...Daugherty was a delegate . to the convention that nominated Coolidge...
...H? has taken'a stand on every publie question on the side of reaction, on the side of the plunderers, on the side of the few...
...And during all the months of th...
...Stamp's correspondence, offering publie...
...They deliberately gave him a mandate to go ahead in the way that he has gone to date...
...campaign, he said not one word on the subject in everyone's mind, the Klan...
...WhenDenby was forced out of the Cabif iet in 'spite of Coolidge's spirited defense, he -'President took occasion publicly to • than* hint JejK his patriotic services to the Tlation...
...the people have chosen and Orey, deserve the kind of Government they haver . : , Meanwhile, there is no hope for America except in the early creation of a large, active, growing, functioning party of those who do the country's work...
...Coolidge was elevated to the Presidency by accident, just as he rose to the Vicepresidency by Accident...
...There is nothing hidden in Coolidge's reebrd...
...And to that catise we dedicate ourselves...
...A few months later, when the country rocked with the Oil scandals, he was silent, ' .When fact- after fact was reveapd, show'ing corruption in the very highest places, President Coolidge remained silent, speaking only on one occasion, and then to castigate, hot those who had disgraced his administration and the country, but those who hsd i exposed the corruption...
...Mitchell Palmer's stock in trade...
...Up to Isst week, it was possible to say that he was not the chosen head of the nation, and therefore he i t t not representative of it: Today," intelligent people stand aghast that such a man, with such a record and running on such a platform...
...As Vice-president he was utterly colorless, his only emergence from complete obscurity hiving been when articles appeared In ' a women's magasine signed with his- name, warming over all the anti-"red" garbage that had been A...
...All ' we can sty it that for the people who want that kind of a President, that is the kind of a President they went, and the country has the President it deserves...
...people knew all that, and they elected him...
...representing a party like the G. 0. P., with its recent record, should be the deliberate and overwhelming choice of a civilised nation...
...They gave him a huge majority...
...offices for tale, had been published, creating a i nafeion-wide sensation...
...accompanied the leasing of the ell reserves— and he said nothing...
Vol. 1 • November 1924 • No. 43
