Pre-Convention

Republican. The figures representing the mounting numbers of Coolidge delegates to the Republican National Convention continued tediously. Following the Massachusetts and Ohio primaries and the Missouri .State Convention, the Coolidge total was 860—305 more than necessary. On the first ballot the Coolidge total may well be over 1,000 of the 1,109 votes.

Better than these figures, as indication of Coolidge's invincibility in the Convention, was the President's announcement that he wanted William M. Butler to be Chairman of the Republican National Committee—to manage the President's...

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