"Stern and Rock-Bound"

"Stern and Rock-Bound"

Politics today is poorer by the loss of the word " liberal." Fallen into disrepute because of its association with ineffectual angels, it no longer connotes the large and rhythmical grandeur of the Gladstonian and Rooseveltian days.

But " conservative "--two years ago the word of the hour--is also suffering a political change. " He represents a stern and rock-bound conservatism that is rapidly becoming obsolete, even in the camp of conservatives." The illustrative "he" is Calvin Coolidge. Once he was "our pride" because he would deliver us from the snare of the Bolshevik. No--to continue with an editorial in that brilliant sun-paper (Baltimore Sun): " He is unyielding and unbending in a viewpoint which, whatever its virtues, certainly falls far short of meeting the needs of such an age as this, when social and economic amelioration is an inevitable part of political evolution. The Vice President recently announced that the renomination of the President is as certain as time and the tides; but there has been no corresponding courtesy from the White House, no intimation that the renomination of the Vice President may be taken for granted or that it would be acceptable to the Administration."