Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-02-23

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President will not permit anybody
else to, and the country suffers as the
result
Des Moines Capita, We imagine
the sympathy will be largely with Mr..
Lansing.
SCeubenville Herald-Star He does
not want advisers. but manikins and
iaddists.
Knoxville Journal and Tribune:
The President has made big mis-
take, not so much in making the re-
moVal as in the preteXt given.
Sioux City Journal: The Presi-
dent overlooks one decidedly import
ant feature of the law in attempting
10 stop members of the cabinet from
consultation. Congress has imposed
on the various executive departments
of the government duties which be-
come theirs without passing to them
! through the hands of the President.
Akron Beacon-Journal: 1t should
! serve at least to drive the last nail
in the coffin of the un-amended, un.
American League covenant.
Cincinnati Times-Star: The resig-
Hatio nor dismissal, what you will,
sheds revealing Illumination on the
conclayes OF the American Peace
! commission. Perhaps they consisted
of good morning" from the Presi-
/ dent now and then.
1 Kansas City Journal: Robert Ian.
i sing has joined that increasing group
of former cabinet officers whose self
respect at last rebelled against the
/ In nl 1Ni TO af he n
| House.
Independent Democratic.
Dallas News; If needed pre-
text to pick quarrel with Mr..
Lansing, one could wish he had
! found a n)re plausible one
Nashville Tennessean: Il Is ape
parent that Mr.. Wilson has been The
victim of advisers.
Cleveland Plain Dealer. The
I President has acted in petulance If
! not In anger. He dispenses with
the particular member of the adj
minstration, himself alone except
ed, in whose abilities and judgment
Europe HIS most confidence.
New York Times: In the cir
eumstances of the case the possible
irregularity of the method chosen
for bringing about the cabinet con
ferences might with great propri.
city have been overlooked by the
President. The other causes of
difference the real cause Of the
rupture. are matters which mast
be considered wholly within the
Presidents personal convenience
and discretion.
Baltimore Sun: If it means.
among other things, that Mr.. viii
son is a full-working President
again. the country will be grateful
for that
Charlotte Observer: The public
is left to imagine that President
Wilson holds Secretary Lansing re.
sponsible for the tangle of the
Peace Treaty
Knoxville Sentinel: The country
and the world at least have notice
that until March 4, 1921. Woodrow
wilson is President of the United
States and is going to function Zoe
per cent in his official capacity.
Brooklyn Eagle: The Presidents
action amazes the country and
causes regret among Mr. Wilson's
best friends.
Greenville Piedmont: For his en-.
deavor to preserve the continuity
OF the administration, Mr.. Lansing
should not be condemned. but com.
mended.
Richmond News-Leader: That
public sympathy is with Mr.. Ian
sing is not so much due to his pop.
u)arity as to the appropriately of the
President. That the Secretary OF
State did not receive a square deal
is not SO apparent as that Mr.. Vii.
sons critics do not want to give
him a square deal.
Quincy journal: Mr.. Wilson has
done an irreparable damage to
himself and has demonstrated that
he is a very sick man.
Norfolk Virginian- Pilot: The Pres
dent cannot hide behind pretexts.
/ A fearsore. respect. for its effect on
the ratification Of the treaty stayed
/ the sentence OF dismissal for more
than a year. The President cannot
at tbtN 4dNS NHN uN resort 10
bubble, change the charge OF IN
compatibility 10 one OF insubordina-
ton.
Independent Republican.
Los Angeles Times: By his last
mad act the President has removed
any remote chances THAI might have
existed for Democratic victory in
/ November
Jersey Journal: The President.
himself man of strong convict.
ions, does not take such action with
out good reason, and it il. there,
lore, q safe guess that
mere is more to that charge of
usurption than has yet been made
( public.
Boston Transcripts: An object
lesson IN the extent to which the
President has sought to replace
democracy with autocracy, and to
ubsttute government by one man
for government by the constitution
and the laws
Topeka State Journal: Whether
the attitude he has taken toward
j Mr., Lansing he due 10 disappoint-