The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-04
DIFFERENCE
IN ADVICE
TO HARDING
Mark Sullivan Says President
elect Faces Confusion of
Counsel in Advisors But
Majority Will Rule.
WILL Be NO DISPUTES
By MARK SULLIVAN.

which has, however, no more than a
whimsical significance, he arrives ex-
actly two years after the day when
President Wilson went out on his un-
precedented trip.
Many of the questions which Pres
ident Wilson went to Paris to settle
are today almost as unsettled as they
were then, and those questions which
have ben the burden of the last two
years Of domestic and international
politics will again be the principal
questions that Mr.. Harding will take
up with the advisers he has summoned
to confer with him next week. During
these two past years forces of nature
and the laws of economics have made
some little progress toward healing,
but the statesmen and the politicians
have been less successful.
The public curiosity is chiefly intent
on whom Senator Harding has chosen
to come to see him and talk with him,
and is focused on finding out what the
President-elect says to his callers. But
no less importance attaches to what
the callers say to Mr.. Harding.
Counsel Is Varied.
And this latter is for the present,
with reasonable accuracy. Within the
mast two or three weeks have talked
with most of the men whom Harding
has invited to counsel with him and
it is comparatively easy to predict
what counsel they will give him.
This counsel will be varied in sub
iect and on many points contradlc-
tory. The more eager one might say
the more excitable-of his visitors will
urge Mr. Harding to put his mind in
stantlv and exclusively on what they
refer to as business conditions.
Several of the Republican senator's
and other leaders believe that the suf-
fering of the business men from recent
events in the financial and economic
field is not only matter OF 1mmedl-
ate concern, but tends to run Into an
economic condition which may affect
large numbers and all classes or the
community, and may reverse the pollt1-
can conditions that gave Harding and
the Republican party so large major
ity last month. These leaders will
p!ead with Harding that the most i'm
mediate duty is to take such measures
as are possible for quick relief, and in
addition to make announcement or
policy and of appointments of a char
acter to create confidence for the
future.
Advise Announcement.
Specifically. some of these leaders
will advise Mr. Harding to announce
the names of his secretary of state
and his secretary of the treasury as
early as possible without waiting to
name the rest of his cabinet, so that
the public generally, and business men
more especially may get from the an
nouncementS some assurance as for
eign policy and financial policy upon
which they can base their future
actions
Further than this. these leaders will
suggest to Senator Harding that he
should call together Immediately the
members of the finance committee of
the new senate. and have them go to
work at once upon such subjects as
the tariff, the refunding of the public
debt, taxation. and the extending OF
treasury or banking relief to farmers
and other classes who are now suffer
ing from the fall in prices.
Without going into many details,
the advocates of immediate announce
ments of policy and of appointments
in the field of government finances and
taxation have in mind acts which can
be accepted by the public as definitely
outlined in the policies that are to
last for a long time to come.
Two Groups Appear.
This brings us directly to the ques-
ton of foreign policy. On this subject
Senator Hardings advisers fall into
two groups: One group says that the
recent election was an overwhelming
verdict Of public opinion antagonistic
to the League of Nations whatever
The senators and leaders who take
this view are not the largest in num-
ber. but are decidedly the more ag-
eressive in spirit.
Opposed to them IS a group who will
tell Senator Harding, with all the en-
phasis they can command, that moth
ing that he can do and nothing the
Republican party can do and nothing
the country can do can stabilize bust
ness permanently until our relations
with the rest OF the world are first
made stable. Specifically. these lead
ers claim that in the economic end of
the word. as ii stands today. there is
ore indeterminate factor which so
long as il remains indeterminate, will
prevent everything else from becom-
irg stabilized. That factor is the
amount OF the indemnity which Ger
many is required to pay
Want Fixed Indemnity.
Senator Harding will be told that
the amount Of the Germany indemnity
must be made fixed sum. so that
Germany will know how much she has
10 nav ard can order her economic
future ACCORDINGLY. and so that the al
lins will kr0w how much thev are to
receive and can order the fiscal flu
lures accordnp'v. The leaders say
that the si2a Of the sum which Ger
many is 10 be mode to Dov is not so
imnortant as tho fact that it should be
f~od @rm a"6 rot an indefinite sum.
with this i"@0torm;rate factor is
trrncd into p fivCd ard known quantity
Tho" '">d"rS Soy. there can be no
st"N'''+v in fo"oion exchange. TO
. s'~h'''+v in foroi"n markets, and no
STABILITY in domestic business.
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