POLITICAL NOTES: Stern and Rock-Bound

"Stern and Rock-Bound"

Politics today is poorer by the loss of the word " liberal." Fallen into disrepute because of its association with ineffectual angels, it no longer connotes the large and rhythmical grandeur of the Gladstonian and Rooseveltian days.

But " conservative "—two years ago the word of the hour—is also suffering a political change. " He represents a stern and rock-bound conservatism that is rapidly becoming obsolete, even in the camp of conservatives." The illustrative "he" is Calvin Coolidge. Once he was "our pride" because he would deliver us from...