The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-06-25
TRAINED LEGISLATOR FOR
THE WHITE HOUSE

THE WHITE HOUSE
The Republican Publicity Associa-
ton, through its President, Hon.
Jonathan Bourne, Jr, today gave out
the following statement from its
Washington headquarters:
with the election of Warren g.
Harding to the Presidency, govern
ment by theory and intuition will
give place TO government by exper-
fenced experts, based on proved prin-
ciples of sound national management.
Instead Of a professor from an insti-
tuition of learning seeking to apply to
the Federal government the dogmas
of a college curriculum we shall have
a trained legislator and executive who
will conform his administration to
the lessons he has learned during a
term in The United States Senate
preceded by two years as lieutenant
governor Of his state and four years
as a member Of the Ohio senate.
when Senator Harding enters the
White House on March 18th next he
will have completed six years service as
a senator from his state six years of
apprenticeship FOR the work of FEEDER
al administrator. As never before in
the history of the country, the past
seven years have demonstrated how
necessary it is that the Chief EXecu-
tive shall have had that previous
acquaintance with the legislative
branch of the government indiSpens-
IDLE to a proper appreciation Of his
relations to it. Mr.. Wilson's com
plete failure TO comprehend the point
Of view Of Congress, and his refusal
to concede to the duly elected cepre-
sentatives Of the people the part the
Constitution decreed that they shall
play in national affairs, have been re-
sponsible for the almost constant
friction that haseXiSted betweenthem
The cost to the people of that lack of
coordination can never be expressed
in dollars and cents, but it has been
enormous; and, in addition, national
prestige has suffered a setback that
will require the most careful attention
from a Republican administration to
repair.
Not only has Senator Harding
learned in the school Of experience Of
the relations between the Executive
and legislative branches that must be
maintained If our government is to
continue to express the popular will
as our forefatherS provided in the
Constitution. but he has learned to
respect the opinions of his fellow SEN
ators and Of others chosen by the
people to represent their views. 1t is
here, again, that the Wilson admin
istration has signa!iy failed to per-
form its allotted part in our scheme
of government. 1t has been totally
impossible for the Wilson type of
mind to conceive that it is not infal-
lible, and to realize that the views Of
the people a be more nearly eX-
pressed through the composite eX-
preston Of their leaders than through
the utterances Of a single individual.
His has been a one-man government,
uninfluenced by the opinions of
accented authorities.
Every act of the senate, and Of
Congress, necessarily is a compromise
~product-a composite of the thought
of the members who compose the
majority Of that body. 1t is not too
much to say that an act Of Importance
never passes the senate that is entire
ly acceptable to any senator. Every
senator has surrendered some of his
personal preferences in order that the
act may become a law, and i'm that
surrender he has admitted his own
falIibility and recognized that the
voice of the many is more likely cor
rect than his own individual opinion.
That is the school in which Senator
Harding's conception OF popular gov
eminent has been formed, and to
those tenetS he will hold the exec
utive department one he has taken
control. His cabinet will be composed
of men of recognized authority in the
problems of their particular depart
ment,~ selected to act as real aids to the
President in the performance of his
duties, rather than to furnish plausible
support for executive opinions already
made known. President Harding will
personify the policies adopted by the
Republican party as a whole and
embodied in its national platform,
and in the carrying out of those
policies the country will witness the
closest cooperation with his official
advisers and with his party associates