New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
Rally to Harding
Issues That Remain. Though Wood
Is Defeated

Is Defeated
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There seems to be little doubt
that the will of the great majority of
Republicans was overridden by the
convention. General Wood was their
choice. He was recognized as the most
capable man for the Office and. more
over, he had beyond question saved our
country from defeat in the great war,
in spite Of the egregious folly of the
present Administration.
We have been deprived of the pleas
ure and the satisfaction of voting for
the man of our choice, but there is now
no time to think of it, We can remem
Der later the men who maneuvered this
result. Our present duty is to rally to
the support of Senator Harding. The
better we know him the more we shall
like him, and the fact stands out large
That he is better than the best man
who has been suggested or that can be
ramed by the San Francisco conven-
tion.
1t is refreshing to recall that in
few months we may vote denunciation
OF the Dacifist bunch which, with the
approval, If not under the direct or
ders, of the President, failed to prepare
Tor the inevitable conflict, failed to train
the men. failed to manufacture the
arms--falled in everything. Now is the
time to remember our troops training
with wooden guns under a Secretary of
War who thought it time enough for
them to obtain real guns in France.
The men who needed long training in
such lengthy subjects as the art of
navigation were feverishly studying it
for the first time more than a wear
after we were kicked into the war bv
contemDtuous Germany.
Roosevelt, in one of his last articles
summed the matter up as follows: Our
ing the war the Administration. often
incompetent to the verge of impudence
IN dealing with war problems and with
the Hun within our gates, showed itself
a past master in bullying, browbeatine
decelvlng and puzzling our own people"
There is now opportunity for the
people to rebuke the presumption of
the President in his whole course re-
spectlng the treaty. Roosevelt points
out In the same article that, following
Immediately upon the reputation Of
wilson and his policies at the polls
IN 1918 by the election of a hostile
majority in the Senate, he. who in any
other country would have been retired
TO private life, undertook to sneak
alone for the whole American people
and to that end seized. through his
postmaster General, the cables, OBJ
viously to control the news and to per
NIT both our people and the Allies and
our enemies to hear only what he might
desire to have reported.
If the League of Nations has anv
lie left, so far as our nation is con-
cerned, it is because the germ of the
IDEA had been iS existence before Wilson
was elected and has survived in spite
OF the treatment it has received ut his
hands.
However, it is not Wilson we now
attack. His power for mischief is about
ended. Those who richly deserve to be
called to account are the leaders of the
democratic party, without whose aid
and countenance the unbrokcn line of
plumbers and failures could not have
pcen committed and his consistent will
1ulness could not have BROUGHT our
country to the very verge of defeat and
RUIN. 1t is sickening to recall that.
mad these Democrats not civen aid
this amateur omniscient could not have
run his course unchecked. and that
mad we gone into the war when honor
ana interest alike demanded it. Russia
would not have been plunged into the
gull and we would have been saved at
least half the cost of the war both in
money and in the lives of our soldiers
Let every Independent voter and
every Democrat (and there are thou-
sands of them) who would have voted
1or wood turn to and roll up a mag
hlhcent majority for Harding
CHARLES f. MANIERRE
New York, June l6, 1920.