Mr. Coolidge. The suspenseful drama of to-be-or-not-to-be, created and acted about the unresponsive figure of President Coolidge by his fellow Republicans, progressed last week as follows:
Republican National Committeemen arrived in Washington for their first real caucus of the 1928 campaign. Some of them were said to have heard President Coolidge say: "I wonder who could beat 'Al' Smith if I didn't run?"
The Republican town committee of Sudbury, Mass., voted almost unani- mously (6 to 1) to "use every art and effort" to draft President Coolidge, advising the...