ABSTRACT
Frank Orren Lowden had served two terms in the House of Representatives and was elected governor of Illinois in 1917. Lowden declined nomination for Vice President in 1924 and thereafter interested himself in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and other virtuous and semi-virtuous causes. The philosophy of a substantial alignment is the premise of Lowdenism. Historically it is a real premise, no matter how unreal it may prove to be in the years to come. The Lowden campaign is not based on any diagnosis of the social system. The impulse behind the Lowden campaign is that an election is decreed by law for the year, that a man must be elected to the office of President who will do the job well. The logic of Lowden is excellent on the premise that the present mood of public discussion is a true reflection of what the next President must face.
