Political Notes

Telegram from the Vice President of the United States to a citizen: " I believe the people will demand the renomination and re-election of President Harding because of the great record of accomplishment of his leadership. I have no announcement to make at this time of my own plans for the future."

Forty Congressmen, mostly from the West, who have not forgotten the name of Roosevelt, want the present Assistant Secretary of the Navy to be the next Vice President. One of the arguments against Calvin Coolidge is that Massachusetts is too prominent in Washington--when it can number among her sons the Speaker of the House, the Secretary of War, the Republican leader of the Senate and the Vice President. But neither Coolidge nor Roosevelt is excited.

Another entry: Senator Carter Glass of Virginia for President.

Once again the attempt is made to buy Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, from Jefferson M. Levy, who has agreed to sell to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. Most of the 48 Governors, whether Democrats or Republicans, are expected to do their bit in the $1,000,000 campaign which begins April 16. The Governor of Virginia is chairman of the Governors' committee. Despite the Democratic lien on the spellbinding words " Thomas Jefferson," the campaign is to render non-partisan honor to the memory of the author of the Declaration of Independence. "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness " belong to both parties or neither, runs the editorial comment.

Candidates for the best-dressed man in the 68th Congress: Senator Edward I. Edwards, militant wet, of New Jersey; Representative Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, son-in-law of Roosevelt. Most Senators and Congressmen, with studied neglect, stay out of the race, or, like Senator Brookhart, Iowa farmer, they run it backwards.

"In the person of your excellency, the living embodiment of that moral elevation and love of truth and justice which constitutes the golden code bequeathed by Washington to the depositaries of the power and the glory of the Great American People "-- Augustin Edwards, President of the Fifth Pan-American Conference.

His Excellency, above referred to, is Mr. Charles Evans Hughes. The Secretary of State replied: I am profoundly touched by your eloquent tribute to Pan-American ideals.