National Affairs: Booms

The new moon has waxed to the first quarter. Presidential candidacies now definitely pass into a new phase. Congress opens; the President's message is delivered. All those afflicted with the midwinter's madness of political ambition must soon speak or hold their peace for four years more— all at least accept the occupant of the White House, who has the privilege of intimating that he has forgotten even such a matter as a Presidential year in the press of official duties.

Calvin Coolidge has a candidacy. Nonetheless, the question now...

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