Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-29
Colonel House in \
Disfauor; Blunders
Cause Wilson Griei

New York, Aug 2s,--The Evening
Sun publishes the following from its
Washington correspondent;
"Col. r. NJ. House Is In bad favo.
with President Wilson and may never
again be known as the mystery man
OF the administration The strange
friendship which sprang up some eight
years ago between the then Governor
Wilson and the Texas president maker
is understood to have been strained
to the breaking point. ~
AT least, this is the story when
reaches the capital from source
which, viewed from every angle, APP
pears to be authoritative. The presi-
dent, it Is declared, blames Colonel
House for the bad advice which caused
him TO consent to the Shantung deal
in Paris.
THE Shantung thing, in turn, has
caused the president no end of en-
barrassment, and it is understood that
the president believes his program Of
ratification of the treaty would have
gone thru without serious obstacles II
the Shantung deal had not continually
bobbed up to make all compromise ef-
forts of the administration unavail-
ing and ineffective.
House Reviews Results.
Colonel House. usually optimistic
and cheerful in the face of the most
difficult situations. is now declared 10
be resting in England almost over
whelmed AT the result of his bad ad-
vice to the president on Shantung, feel
ing that he has put the president IN
the way Of his first serious political
defeat in the United states, and fur
Their that he has endangered the whole
idealistiC scheme of league of nations
which was to have been the monument
TO the life work of himself and Wood
row Wilson.
THE president. according to the in
formation obtained today, has about
decided that Colonel House will not
do as the first American representa-
tive on the council of the league of ma
lions.
House in turn. IL is declared, feels
that his mistake has been enough to
cost him the appointment which he
so much desired. and this has not
added to his peace OF mind.
Colonel Agrees TO Plenty.
During the time the president was
in the United States Colonel House
agreed 10 give Danzig and a strip OF
German territory to Poland, made the
famous Saar valley agreement that
was later overturned, and created the
Rhenish republic. The president re-
turned to find that the deals and trades
by which House had done these things,
and many others, were totally unac-
ceptable to him.
Then came the Shantung issue. The
japanese, inspired no doubt by tip
from the British. directed their cam
paign for Shantung thru the colonel
almost entirely. .ry
The president = renounced, as
Houses advice. not only the American
policy Of years standing toward China
but even renounced the promise made
to the Chinese by the. presidents own
minister to China, Dr. Paul F. Reinsch,
given to China when the United States
was persuading that country to sever
diplomatic relations with Germany.
Can Not Pass the Buck.
He took the colonefs advice, some
what reluctantly. but fully aware that
| the responsibility was his and could
rest no place else. .. ..+
TT is not related, of course, that
there have been strong words between
the president and Colonel House, or
| that anything approaching an open
| disagreement has been reached. But
| the story does relate that the presi'
dent is suffering the pangs OF man
who feels that his partner has led him
innocently enough, to bankruptcy, and
he knows that the partner feels as
| keenly about it as himself"