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What a pity that you are unable to see anything good or able in Fess-the keynoter. You slurred, in life, Senator Willis and now you turn loose on his friend and former teacher. If you knew Senator Fess as I have known him from boyhood, you could not belittle yourself by using the language concerning him which appears in your issue of April 16. Were this 1860, your small-bore magazine would see nothing in Lincoln worthy of commendation. He would be to TIME, a tall, bony, gaunt, ugly, poor-little-town-minded politician. This and nothing more-judging...
...respecters of Chairman Butler's political sagacity looked at it this way: Suppose the Hooverites are downhearted now. Suppose Keynoter Fess prepares to extol the Coolidge virtues and record. Then, suppose Candidate Hoover is allowed more and more to inherit the Coolidge virtues, record and support. The effect upon Candidate Hoover might be to make him thoroughly conscious of his party obligations, his privilege. The effect upon his friends might be to fill them with a delight more keenly felt after anxiety. The effect upon the country might be to make the Hoover candidacy seem inevitable, irresistible. Meantime, right...
Senators Moses and Gillett, both of them Hooverites, were being talked about for Permanent Chairman by the same committee that selected Keynoter Fess...
...Farther-sighted than any view-bordering, in fact, upon the visionary-was what Charles J. Thompson of Ohio saw in the elevation of Keynoter Fess. Bereaved backer of Senator Willis, loud admirer of President Coolidge, Mr. Thompson said of Mr. Fess: "All the rascals, high and low, will fade before his presence. They cannot help but respect him. He would make an Executive for the great Republic as wonderful and safe, as good and honest as Mr. Coolidge...
...opinion he [Mr. Fess] will be the next President of the United States...