National Affairs: Procter v. Sprague

Where are the candidates of five years ago? Harding is dead. Requiescat. Cox exists. Requiescat. Coolidge sits in the White House, where there is no rest. Lowden is busy farming and perhaps planning for the campaign of '28. McAdoo resides not many miles from San Francisco, where he failed of the nomination in '20. And Wood? Wood is across the Pacific with the Igorots and the Moros and their more civilized but equally quarrelsome neighbors.

But in Chicago, Judge Thomas W. Slick sits on the bench sifting the chaff which is all there is...

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