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...Hughes Lowden Hoover Dawes...
...dwindled to the first couplet except as political poetry. The candidacy of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes may contain a trace of realism, but the G. O. Politicians distrust Mr. Dawes. He is so quick on the trigger, and he backed the McNary-Haugen bill.* As for Frank Orren Lowden, his candidacy has been buried alive by recent developments in Illinois...
...Lowden's candidacy for 1928 was really announced in 1924. It cannot be said to date back to 1920, when Mr. Lowden was robbed of the nomination by his managers' letting their lavish expenditures for him in Missouri become widely advertised. But in 1924, Mr. Lowden did what only one man ever did before. He refused to run for Vice President after actually being nominated.† There is an echo of this refusal in Mr. Lowden's otherwise rather meaningless campaign statement this year. Concerning his 1928 candidacy he has said: "I know...
...Lowden's 1928 boom has been a muffled one, as was his 1920 boom. Now as then his friends have been working with quiet skill assembling delegates while he holds back in dignified semi-detachment. In 1920, Mr. Lowden was a Business Man; now he is the Farmer's Friend, for reasons which it is hoped will also persuade Business...
...Politicians just about where they were before. Men as daring as Senator Fess said that the "Draft Coolidge" movement had been vastly advanced, since now it must be seen that the draft would be genuine. Others were vexed, not daring to boom for Mr. Hoover, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Lowden, Mr. Dawes or Mr. Whoever until sure that they could believe in a convention prediction which Senator Fess has reported President Coolidge to have made. This prediction was one word shorter than the famed "choice." The President said: "It won't work out that way. I will* not be nominated...