The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-04-18
HAYS RESTORING
PARTY HARMONY
At WASHINGTON
Chairman's Handling of Present Sit
uation Tactful-Talking Soil
darity, Not Candidates.
By DAVID LAWRENCE.


Reprinted by permission of the New
York Evening Post. Copyright,
WASHINGTON, April 3.-Will
Hays, chairman of the Republican ma
tional committee, has come, has seen,
and has gone away with the impress
sion that the Republicans in the
House are going to compose their diff
ferences and give the country an ex-
ample of constructive legislation in
the next session which will make the
party go over the top" in 1920 as
it did in 1918.
Mr., Hays found a ticklish situation
and handled himself, as usual, tact
fully, lest the older heads in the party
| get the idea he was unduly meddling
Denials have been made that Mr.. Hays
sought to have the steering committee
enlarged, but that's going to happen
eventually, and on that steering COM
Dor and of farming interests ,as we'll
as other elements from which the Re-
publican party hopes to derive its
strength in -o20.
Unquestionably Mr.. Hays wants a
liberalization of the house steering
committee. These men are going to
control the fortunes of the party in
the next congress, and the Republi-
can national chairman has very vital
interest in whether the men who are
selected have the capacity and the
vision to deal with changing America
Party solidarity is what Mr.. Hays
is trying suavely and quietly to bring
about and there is much Significance
in his trip to Washington for with
a special session beginning toward
the end of May or Whereabouts, there
is little time for the Republicans to
get together and agree upon pro-
grams of legislation. In the mean
time. Mr.. Hays himself is losing no
time in making a systematic study
through body of experts of the va
rious questions which the Republicans
will endeavor to solve in the next
congress. for every practical politi-
clan knows that the country in 1920
will judge the Republican party not
by what it did in the days of Cannon
or Aldrich but what it did in the two
trying years of reconstruction which
are ahead.
| AS for the league of nations as an
issue, Republicans are not disturbed
Mr. Taft's warm espousal of the
league and the stand taken by men
like Wickersham and Root will, they
contend, prevent the Democrats from
making it party issue. Much salts
faction is derived especially from the
letter sent by E1ihu Root. Press dis
patches from Paris saying the Root
amendments are meeting with favor
there will tend to strengthen the inn
preston that the Republicans have. in
measure, assisted in making the
league of nations vital international
body. AS for the signers CT the
"round robin" ratification of the
treaty itself will be the answer to that
and no Republican of prominence is
TODAY predicting the failure of the
senate to ratify the compact that may
be eventually presented to the upper
house. This is largely due to the
cables from abroad saving that the
covenant is being rewritten to meet
Republican objection.
Mr.. Hays reveals on the whole
| therefore. an optimism about the out
look of the Republican party. His
talks with the various leaders there
have been earnest and persuasive, His
plans of campaign organization are
meeting with favor. His hand is or
the political pulse of the country con-
stantly. and if the Republican leaders
in congress are indifferent to his oh
servations of public sentiment and the
trend of thought of the nation as il
is brought to him through thousands
of political eyes and ears in variou:
parts of the country, then they viii
court defeat.