Coolidge will not actively campaign in the mid-term elections, but has spent his vacation meeting with bankers & business people, because of course he has, and developing the party’s issues: prosperity, no change in tariffs, cutting taxes and government spending still further, Prohibition enforcement, and helping farmers through cooperative marketing.
The New York Republicans, having failed to get anyone to agree to run for governor, plan to just draft someone at their convention on the 27th, ignoring any previous refusals.
Monsignor John P. Chidwick, who according to the NYT is “Department Chaplin” of the United Spanish War Veterans of the State of New York (does he do the mustache? probably) and was chaplain of the USS Maine when it was blown up, resigns from the veterans’ group, saying it’s been taken over by the Ku Klux Klan, noting the election of Sen. Rice Means (R-Colorado), who is indeed totally a kluxer, as National Commander in Chief.
Spain will hold a plebiscite on whether to call a new National Assembly or just continue Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship. Which is in increasing conflict with the military, with King Alfonso straddling the fence as always.
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