National Affairs: Booms

Coolidge. At No. 15 Dupont Circle, President Coolidge, Republican National Committee Chairman William M. Butler, and ten potent Republicans* breakfasted on grapefruit, bacon, eggs, sausage, hot cakes. They then listened to Chairman Butler's report on his just completed Western tour.

Said Mr. Butler, in effect: Western Republicans are very fond of President Coolidge. The third term bogey strikes terror nowhere. Nobody is considering any 1928 candidate other than the President.

Woollen. Thomas Taggart, boss Democrat of Indiana, likes to take his delegates to the national conventions...

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