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Hull did two years ago was to apportion the debt among the 48 States-put it up to each national committeeman to raise the quota for his State. Only eight States came through. They included Connecticut, Rhode Island, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Colorado, Delaware. A number of others partly raised their quota. . . . The plan failed. A new one has to be found...
Calvin Coolidge. The boom of Mr. Coolidge last week took on definite, organized form. William M. Butler, Republican National Committeeman from Massachusetts, was made titular head of the Coolidge organization, and announced that he would open National headquarters. There he will be in close touch with James W. Good of Iowa and James B. Reynolds of Illinois, sub-chieftains. Secretary C. Bascom Slemp takes responsibility for the South. Meanwhile, bending their constant efforts, practically taking bed and board at the White House, are Frank W. Stearns of Boston and Colonel George Harvey of Peacham...
...White House announcement emblazoned his refusal in these words: "Hon. R. B. Creager of Brownsville, Texas, has been tendered the post of Ambassador to Mexico by President Coolidge, as had also been done by President Harding. Mr. Creager, since the death of President Harding, has been chosen National Committeeman and has become the head of the Republican Party organization in his State and a very influential party leader in the Southwest. He is unwilling to give up this work that his fellow citizens have entrusted to him, and has therefore declined for the present the opportunity to be Ambassador...
...comedy of appointments came to an end. In June, 1922, President Harding nominated Joseph W. Tolbert, National Committeeman from South Carolina, as Federal Marshal. Senator Dial of that state charged Tolbert with political simony and the Senate failed to confirm the nomination. Subsequently...
...Charles D. Hilles, Republican National Committeeman from New York, conferred with Mr. Coolidge in Washington. Mr. Hilles, once the Secretary of President Taft, is a power in Republican politics throughout the East. His welcome at the White House much resembles that accorded John T. Adams, Chairman of the National Committee. I ¶Taking the trowel with which George Washington had laid the cornerstone of the National Capitol, Mr. Coolidge spread the first mortar laying the cornerstone of a great monument to the first President. The memorial is being executed by the Free Masons of America, not far from Mount Vernon...