The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-12-06
WILSON
COMEBACK
GAINS LABOR
.ReDoIts from White House
We're Alarming. Crisis
Shows Up Better.
RY WILLIAM PHILIP sIMMS
~@,urcv0unFnr A. RERVICt

STAFF CORRESPONDENT l. NJ sERylcEl
WASHINGTON. Dec. ~ freslcen'
woodrow Wilson'S come back as the
.f.arratio sic<-room coup at the White
lfouse has come TO be called here. VAL
70 a long way to calm the industr' al
and social unrest raging and increased
throughout the country during the past
Few months.
BOTH PARTIES ASSENT.
This is the belief Of the thinking men
o. all parties here, expressed IN sim
Sie paragraph
rhe republican leaders who forced
the issue. and demanded the appoint
fnent OF q committee of two composed
e Senators Fall and Hitchcock 70 call
unon the president and obtain his views
IN ne Mexican situation. performed a
real service to the nation. II is gener-
ally conceded. and the prompt reply
rom President Wilson granting an I'M
mediate conference IN his bed cham
b.r. put the finishing touches TO that
service.
REPORTS WE'RE ALARMING.
Alarming reports had been reaching
" ashinKton for sone time that there
vas unessinsss everywhere on account
a. NOT knowing just what was going
on in Washington.
Ths impression was undoubtedly
growing in the country that clique
scout the president was running things !.
raet he was a very sick man. much
s5cker than his encourage dared even
intimate and that while he reposed on
his sicl-bed. protected against the
visits Of even his cabinets officers.
x..te-ie was growing" IN his name.
= was openly stated by some that the
eaier executive had not been informed
on the even most pressing aTaifs OF
sfato. that documents bearing his Gig
nature we're not his work. but rather
the work Of this or that person be
ernring to his official household
The Mexican crisis was moro serious
srsn otherwise It might have been. &C
'serding 70 many. because the Carranza
x..-ernment Is understood to have been
led 20 believe that the president was
sn ignorance OF the Jenkins affair and
tbe quarrel over his case with Mexico
and that the U. S. could not call. what
ere Carranzistas believed. blum with
eut the presidents knowledge and con-
cent.
The social and Industrial unrest. It
IS believed. was increased, fed by these
eeports. Labor is known TO have grown
- SDtC1cuE OF tne EOHtI o1iA AtAafJ
leaders openly declared disbelief in the
Rresident's knowledge OF certain acts
EeveIed against thin. Puzzled and sus-
nicsous a large element in tho country
aot into the way of thinking the gov
ernnent was without a real head.
The president, by his action in grant
D. an trned late interview to the sen-
etorfai committee. appointed TO wait
IN him and hear his opinion GER
zain topics has. at & blow. 1t is be-
4ieved. killed all rusors and reports as
90 his condition.
Statesmen here generally praise Sen
Mtor Fall for his quick admission OF
his utter confidence in the ability of
his old political enemy to handle. not
MnIv the Mexican crisis, but any other
situation which might be brought to
his attention. The senator's pro-
nouncement that the president. though
physically weak, as the result OF his
Kong Illness and surprisingly and per-
rectly alert mentally. was the finishing
kt-olxs IN the restoration Of public con-
ndence In the domestic situation, and
sven his sharpest critics are forced to
credit him with that.