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...Cleveland Convention. But the Convention was only its immediate cause. Its ultimate cause lay further back, in the selection by Mr. Coolidge of his political advisers. At the beginning, the President had Frank W. Stearns, Boston business man, whose hobby is politics. Next, the President chose C. Bascom Slemp as his Secretary. Slemp is a man whose element is politics. His assistance was as necessary to the newly-made President as the assistance of a social secretary is to a newly-rich woman. With the approach of the pre-Convention campaign, Mr. Coolidge selected (by and with the advice...
Butler let it be known that he had picked Senator Borah for that place? an error in strategy which gave the Old Guard, pure-political faction, an open-ing for revolt, a chance in the confusion to seize the power which had been taken from them. Slemp was at hand and in no sympathy with Mr. Butler's futile efforts at the last minute to swing the nomination to Judge Kenyon, Representative Burton or Secretary Hoover. The Old Guard, resenting Butler's domination and doubtless with the comfort if not the abetment of Slemp, seized the first candidate...
...issue in this case?" inquired a Committeeman. "It has .this to do with it: they selected a man that no white man or black man in Georgia will stand for." The turning point came when Mr. Johnson presented a letter written by the late President Harding to C. Bascom Slemp saying it had been a blunder to recognize the Phillips faction instead of the Johnson faction. Mr. Johnson added that President Harding had told him last Summer: "That has been the blunder of my life. I'm going to set it right as soon as I get back from...
Calvin Coolidge stayed at his desk in Washington, letting William M. Butler from Massachusetts and C. Bascom Slemp from Virginia carry his banners to the Convention Hall...
...Sawyer, White House physician, went along to see that everything was all right. During his inclusion, the President studied the Immigration Bill. He took three treatments of about 45 minutes each, in the second of which Mrs. Coolidge participated just to see what it was. Meanwhile Secretary Slemp, who had a private cold of his own, went to the Naval Hospital for similar treatments. The success of the treatment, which was discovered by the Chemical Warfare Service, has been such that the Bureau of Animal Industry is preparing to try it out on the cattle of California as a prophylaxis...