Third Term Talk

Republican Presidential possibilities discreetly, anxiously, even feverishly await the day when President Coolidge decides whether or not he is going to be a candidate for a third term. Administrationists in Washington, D. C., say certainly; farm blocers in the Middle West say not a chance; the President does not say.

Last week Senator Albert S. Cummins, he who was defeated in the Iowa primaries by Smith W. ("Wildman") Brookhart, informed the press that Mr. Coolidge would not be a candidate in 1928, that he would have had enough of the Presidency by that time. But the Senator is naturally pessimistic.

The deciding factor of the Coolidge candidacy seems to hinge on the outcome of this fall's Congressional elections. In the Senate, the Democrats now have 39 members; are in danger of losing none; have good chances of gaining from four to ten seats. However, they do not forget the late Senator Medill McCormick's poignant remark after the 1924 Republican Convention: "All we Republicans have got is the certainty that the Democrats will ball things up for themselves, somehow."