"PRESIDENT ON VACATION IN VERMONT"

COOLIDGE & DAWES TO CONFER ON CAMPAIGN

Plymouth, Vermont (JFK+50) On August 25, 1924, the Associated Press reports that President Calvin Coolidge and his Vice-presidential running mate, Charles G. Dawes, conferred today here in Plymouth.

Mr. Dawes is just coming off a speech delivered in Augusta, Maine in which he voiced opposition to the Ku Klux Klan.  Mr. Coolidge has not publicly commented on that speech.

The AP says this conference marks the first time the President has "entered into a discussion about the campaign" since coming to Vermont for his vacation nine days past.

It also marks the second conference between the members of the 1924 Republican ticket.

JFK+50 NOTE

According to the Miller Center, after the landslide victory of the COOLIDGE-DAWES ticket in 1924, "the relationship between the two quickly turned sour."

SOURCES

"Charles G. Dawes," Miller Center, University of Virginia, www.millercenter.org/

"Dawes To Confer With President," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., August 25, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/

 

 

Coolidge & Dawes

The White House 

Sammlung PD Bilder

www.getarchives.net/

"OPPOSED IMMIGRATION FROM SOUTHERN & EASTERN EUROPE"

'OLD GUARD' REPUBLICAN  SENATOR FROM VERMONT DIES 

Montpelier, Vermont (JFK+50) On July 13, 1923, The Evening Star reports the death last evening of U.S. Senator William P.Dillingham* (R-Vermont).

The Senator had been recuperating from an operation 3 weeks earlier but his condition recently took a turn for the worse.  He was the oldest member of the Senate in years and the third oldest in years of service.

The Associated Press says that he was considered to be one of the "old guard" of Republican stalwarts.  As head of the immigration committee, Senator Dillingham opposed immigration from southern and eastern Europe.

Vice-President Calvin Coolidge will represent the President at the Senator's funeral service scheduled for Sunday.

*William P. Dillingham (1843-1923) was born in Waterbury, Connecticut & served as governor of Vermont, 1888-1890.  WPD was US Senator (R-VT),  1900-1923.

SOURCE

"Veteran Senator Dillingham Dies," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., July 13, 1923, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/  

 

 

William Paul Dillingham

U.S. Senator

R-Vermont