Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1920 — COOLIDGE SHOWS SPLENDID RECORD [ARTICLE]

COOLIDGE SHOWS SPLENDID RECORD

Republican Nominee for Vice-Presi-dent is Man of Ability and Sound Achievements as Strong Executive. —— • 1 —=■— ADDS STRENGTH TO TICKET - L .umiim ll— ■ w ■ Boston, Mass. — following Is the account of the life of Calvin Coolidge, the Republican candidate for Vice-President. “Calvin Coolidge was born on a farm in rugged Vermont, on the birthday of the nation. On July 4 next he will be forty-eight years old. He was schooled at a little college in the New England hills. In an old-fash-ioned American law office he learned to know and reverence the meaning and the purpose of the law. For almost twenty-five years he has been doing the varied tasks of a country lawyer. His neighbors saw him work; they knew the depths that underlay his quiet surface, and they gave him their trust. They elected him succes-. sively school director, member of the common council, city attorney, mayor, four times member of the lower house of the State Legislature, four times state senator, twice president of the state senate, three times Lieutenant - Governor, and, having found him faithful in lesser things, they made him ruler over many things—they elected him their Governor. And then there came to Massachusetts the searching test that has come before and will come again and again to the institutions of finite man—the test of law and order. He had a passionate belief in the supremacy of the law—of the law which the people themselves have slowly wrought for their own protection and the protection of their children. He went to the people on that great issue. He knew and trusted the men who labor with their hands on the farm or in the mill, and those men knew and trusted him. They proved that trust by rising in their might and triumphantly re-electing him Governor. Thus the man whom Massachusetts knew was made known to the whole nation. Sincerity Big Asset. “Because he would be independent, he has been frugal, and he has practiced frugality in the administration of public office. Because he would decide upon evidence rather than by impulse, •he has talked little and listened much. He believes in party government as the most effective method of achieving the ideals of democracy and his work has proved his belief. He has the gift of cooperating with other men, and . a talent in the selection of strong men. He has simplicity in thought and action. He is free from pretense. He has courage without bluster. He has patience. He has vision. He has tolerance, and in these days of suspicion and misunderstanding, tolerance is sorely needed. He has a deep and reverent faith in the principles of this government, and that faith has been builded out of priceless experience. He has worked for and sympathized with the countless types of human life that make up our democracy. He is a student of books, but of men even more. And when he speaks, plain men find their deep, unspoken need and aspirations uttered, because he himself is one of them. “It is sixty years since the Republican Party named its first President here. The city that was hardly more than a country village has come into its own. The nation that was a child among the nations now towers above them all. For sixty years our forebears and ourselves have tried to make this party an effective Instrument for the expression of the deep purposes of a mighty nation. Old problems have been solved; new problems have arisen. Men and manners have changed. But still stand the ancient virtues— frugality; simplicity, sincerity? courage, tolerance and faith—yea, above all, faith in plain people.”