Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-09
SENATOR OR PRESIDENT.

Washington Wednesday raises a question of the first importance in he election, says the New York fyening Post. "We have agreed said tAr. Harding, referring to himself and SOv. Coolidge, "that we will base the lampaign on an appeal to restore par y government as constitutional h!ubstitute for personal government" le added that in his opinion the vice resident "should be more than q aere substitute. in waiting;" he ought D perform an important service in rc-establishing coordination be- Ween the executive office and the rnAte." Brief as the statement was, VI significance, if it's words be taken lterally, is' of the highest. Senator Iarding did not say that one of the ssues of the coming contest was the Substitution of party government for ersonaI government. He said that 
 R;e and his running mate had agreed ksp basc the campaign upon this issue. Ehis means that so far he can de- ermine the matter the central issue the campaign will not be the league bH nations, but what he terms party rcrsus personal government at Wash- .hgton.
 {ating the league issue into the back TfOund, as he apparently anticipates, he question of his relation to the 3enate in the event of his election as iresident has been in everybody's hind from the moment of his nomina- Ton, and sooner or later would have nd to be answered. This is due in art to Harding.s peculiar close re- ttOn to the dominating group of re- 6blican senators. Moreover, the re- 4nblicans have made so much of Pres &smt Wilson's "autocracy" and "one- lfan rule" that the country would live demanded an explanation of That they meant to put in place of it. 1R 90 far as Senator Harding's state- mt can be taken to mean greater Willingness to seek and to accept ad- lfcs than President Wilson has mani ested, it will produce favorable im- tSression. There has been an appear Nnce of aloofness about the white Sousc that not only the senate but te country has presented. This is one R the counts in the indictment ainst the administration.
 S Hut Senator Harding's statement 2ils to answer the real question. The sOvernment. Driven to choose be- Neen an individual in the white 9ouse, the center of pitiless publicity, Smntry is not hankering to replace lne-man government by senatorial dnd number of senators in commit ee rooms and the public does not nOw where else, it would in all Probability choose the one-man ar Engagement that so deeply shocks Sen ftoF Harding's sense of political pro- risty. One part of his statement in- seod will actually increase apprehen- Hons of his subserviency to the sem & group of republican leaders. This
 What he says about the greater
 fyity of the vice president. A
 TIT place for the vice president TT bo possible and desirable, but latnr Harding rather gives himself TT in what he says of the direction
 W1tieh such change is to be made.
 Seos the vice-president playing an
 6Ffant part in "re-establishing CO.,
 Sation between the executive of Se and the senate"not congress,
 t&e senate. One would think that 1h . president whose senatorial 1S has just fallen from him the need
 1s-establisfing coordination be-
 TT the white house and senate was
 1 r persieularly pressing problem
 kat the country fears from Sena-
 Merdiss in the white house is
 S mueh ee~erdination with the Sen. v. II he has not realized this fact
 ' time that he was realizing it
 ' Y eae = the chief obstacle.