The Archive · 1920

Tae Propte Win at Last

The delegates were completely worn out and were anxious to yo home, and when the cry was raised "Coolidge for Vice-President": t was eagerly taken vp and the Governor of Massachusetts was chosen as the vice-presidential candidate by acclamation. From every point of view, except perhaps that of policy, no' better choice than this could have been made, but it was a nomination that could only widen the breach between the Republican party and organized labour.

Yesterday Senator Johnson said in a public speech, "It does _not make any difference if a few poli ians sitting in the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago said 'The people be damned.' The time is coming wh the people will come into their own.""

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