Richmond Planet

THE RESULT
THE ELECTION of Hon. Calvin Coolidge, of Massachusetts as President and Hon. Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois, as Vice-President concludes one of the most stubbornly fought political contests ever waged in this country. It commits the candidates to a government of common sense, as stated by Mr. Coolidge and to common honesty as announced by Mr. Dawes, for common honesty is based on common sense and common sense on common honesty.

The election of the Republican ticket came as no surprise to those who have carefully watched past events. The Democratic National Convention left breaches in the ranks of the Democratic Party that could not be repaired within five years, much less within five months. It was attempted to appease the fighting elements that Hon. John W. Davis, an ideal American citizen was nominated. He ranks with the ablest diplomats of this or any other country and as a statesman, he has few peers and no superiors.

In naming him. it was necessary to name a radical from the other side and Hon. Charles W. Bryan, a leader of spoiless character. but a man of uncertain proclivities when it came to the recognition of the socialistic and communistic ideas as advocated by some of the revolutionary leaders in this country, who would undermine and change the Constitution of the Fathers as handed down to us. This led practically to a cry among Mr. Davis' friends as they turned to the Republican ticket.

Not that we love John W. Davis less but we hate Charles W. Bryan more.

The result is now told in the election returns and the indications are that the contending Democratic clans are now marshalling for another battle among themselves in 1928.

It will be a contest between the cohorts of Hon, William G. McAdoo, the favorite of the Ku Klux Klan organization and the followers of Hon. "Al" Smith of New York who has just achieved a most remarkable victory in his own State. It looks very much as though the scenes so graphically enacted in the Democratic National Convention this year will be duplicated in that same body four years hence.