The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-22
HARDING TO
TELL POLICIES
NEXT MONTH
Saws Sullivan-President-
Elect Has Put Aside All
, Matters of State for Period
of Recreation.
SENATE TO COOPERATE
By MARK SULLIVAN

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. PIT is
no secret that Senator Harding in his
speeches in New Orleans just before
he sailed for the canal zone, was ex-
pected to say something about the
financial and business situation 1t had
been announced in the dispatches that
he would. I have just returned from
New Orleans, where | was in touch
with Mr.. Harding and his party. and l
suspect those announcements had no
more foundation than the wish on the
part Of some that Mr.. Harding would
do this.
Undoubtedly good many passionate
messages have been going to the vaca-
tion party suggesting that the Presi-
dent-elect say something that would be
soothing to persons Writhing in the
pains of defation. Some OF the
suggestions have gone SO far as to
point out that it would help If Mr..
Harding would appoint at least his
Secretary of State and his Secretary OF
the Treasury at once and let them an
nounce their plans for the new ad-
ministration's foreign and fiscal poll
cies.
Harding Not Hurried.
Doubtless it would help to stabilize
things If business men could know
just what the programme is to be as
respects foreign trade and internation-
al taxation. At the same time to
appoint these two members of the
cabinet would be an obviously hurried
and excited thing to do, and excited
and hurried things are exactly the
things that are most unlikely to come
from Senator Harding.
I suspect that all the recent predic-
tions and hints that Senator Harding
had done certain things or was going
to do other things about various sub
jects, including Mexico, have Lad no
relation to anything that has really
gone on in his mind. He is in a serious
mood, but nevertheless a vacation
mood, The people who are with him
on his vacation are his playtime
"buGdies" rather than the advisers
who will be most to the front when
he is acting officially for the Repub-
licaH party or for the new administra-
tion, although one or two of these with
him are hard headed, surefooted men,
quite capable of giving him sound ad-
vice in case of emergency: but doubt
il anything important or conclusive
has passed through the Senator's mind
about public policy since he started on
his recreation trip.
Must Wait Till December.
| doubt also whether anything what
ever has materialized about this cab
met | doubt equally whether anything
will happen either as regards his pro
gramme or cabinet until Senator Hard
ing is back in Marion on Dec. 6. Fol
the present the public must be salts
fed with what will be the chronicle
of purely recreation trip.
After the return to Marion on Dec
6, We may expect to see succession
of conferences with the Republican
leaders and others, and out of those
conferences g. steady flow of decision
and public announcements about the
policy and personnel.
The senate meets in Washington or
the same day that Mr.. Harding returns
TO Marion and we may expect to see
the senate working hand in hand with
the President-elect, the various com
mittees getting ready and even per
haps some progress on the new pro
gramme for taxation and for other
subjects of public policy. The pro
gramme will move as fast as it can be
made to move, but there never will be
speed at the expense of soundness
Senator Harding makes increasingly
the impression of surefootedness, con
fidence, and the mastership that Is
inseparable from a right conception
of his office.
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