The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1920-11-05
IS NEW yoRK VIEW


ic newspapers in the country. 1t is
we'll worth reading:
i The American people wanted a
change and they voted for change. /
They did not know what kind of a
lchange they wanted, and they d } not
know today what kind of change they
have voted for. All of the restlessness
and discomfort bred Of the war has
| finally found expression in the ballot
box and the result is Warren G. Hard
ing.
'Mr. Harding is well-meaning,
amiable man who has shown during
the campaign no understanding what
ever of any of the real problems of
peace and reconstruction. His politi
cal career has been without distinction
/ of any kind whatever. He has been
simply Republican politician of I'M
swerving regularity who has taken up
any policy of the party leaders and
supported it with fidelity and such
| ability as he could command. When
ever there has been a division in the
party councils he has followed the
| line of least resistance. with marked
preference for extreme conservation.
The day he was nominated for
President he was the choice of the
Republicans of no State in the Union.
Even in Ohio the Republican voters
had divided at the PRIMARIES aud he
was unable to obtain a united delega-
ton from his own State. i5ad Tie
question: of his nomination been sub
mitted to the rank and file Of thu parry
throughout the country i; may be
doubted if he would have received
100000 votes out Of 13,000,0Oo Yet in
spite of his pitiful lack Of popula. SUP
port he was named for President ~
the Republican bosses and he has
besn elected President because he was
The Republican can1 date
"Nominally. therefore, Mr.. Harding
is to be President OF the United States.
WHO the actual President is t. be ard
what the policies Of the new Admins
tration are to be nobody knows Mr..
Harding himself does not know nor
does he pretend TO know. He will dc
what the strongest faction Of III Re-
publican Party tells him o CO. IL, Mr..
Root and Mr.. TAFT acd their friends
gain the ascendency, ;hey VIII control
the foreign policy oe the AIulilistra-
ton. Ii Senator Johnson end Senator
Borah and The Bat alion If Death gain
control they will dominate the foreign
policy. A similar game If nance will
determine the domestic p"l;ti"s as
we'll
What is certain that the country
has returned for time TO reaction, in
the naive belief that Republican poll
tics can cure all lie economic evils
that were. produce l,y var in whicl
100000 lives hive been lost ana
100000 100000 n property destroyed.
mo President Of The United States
at the time OF lis election ever showed
fewer qualifications fer the task that
confronted him man Mr.. Harding has
! displayed in this campaign. Apparent
ly his mind has soltdifaG and retains
no political i'm DrassIons that were
made since the days OF Mckinney AMI
Hanna. He has shGwn no capacitJ
for leadership s'nce his nomination.
Wh3ther he wll snow any capacity
for leadership afSoc his Inauguration
remains to be Sc Il.
"The American people have display
ed the same kind Of political .ntelli-
sence that the people of New York dis
played in 1917 when they threw out
the Mitchell Administration and mad.
John f. Hylan Mayor Those exploits
in political prejudice are always TX
pensiye, and four years from now the
country will be in better position to
estimate the cost OF tn s latest mani
Hesitation of its worst qualities
AS to Mr., Harding hir.self, The
World can only wish him well. He is
chnfronted at best with a task thar i,
impossible in its entirety. since nc
President that everliyed could redeem
the campaign pledges tlat have been
made in his behalf, some of them by
himself. 1t is easy to abuse W"a.'row
Wilson, but to succeed Woodrow WI
son in the White House is man.
job, and Mr.. Harding will not have
The aid either of uaited party or Ct
those dominant qualities that caa bat
tcr down opposition. He will have 10
go with tide that runs eratically anc
treacherously, and the very voters that
have put him into the Presidency to
do the impossible will be ready to deg-
troy him at the first sign of failure
The World, quite apart from any
issue Of political principle, cannot re-
gard Mr.. Harding as the typa Of nan
who ought to be President at this time.
But recognizing the seriousness o. his
task, we shall Try to help him rather
than hindp,. him and ir,1,,o oogo .t,..fr