New-York tribune., 1920-10-14
Calls
Wilson Policy
Usurpation
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OF thoughtful Americans. instead of
selecting a non-partisan commission
composed of the most capable men the
country afforded, took upon himself
the sole task of negotiating treaty
of peace. Not content with settling
the issues of the war he undertook to
settle the affairs of the world for all
time and to crystalline in perpetuity
its existing boundaries and divisions
of sovereignty.
Impatient at any suggestion which
challenged his omniscicnce, he met the
objections of his Senatorial associates
in the treaty-making power, not with
argument but with the cynical retort
that he would see to it that the cove
nant of the league and the treaty of
peace were so interviewer that they
could not be dissected without de-
effect of this would be, and actually
was, to deprive the Senate of it's power
under the Constitution, by which it
was bound equally with the humbest
citizen in the land to advise with the
President in the making of treaty
And we have witnessed the persist
ent effort of the executive department
to dominate the legislative department
and the treaty advising Senate, in vio-
lation OF all that is explicit in the let
ter and implicit in the spirit of the
Constitution. During the last eight
years We have come dangerously near
overturning the constitutional theory
of separate and co-equal agencies and
putting in their place the theory Of a
master.
"One of the things I intend to do
when | am President is to reverse that
tendency. | shall undertake to bring
the government back to the Constitu-
ton. shall not submit treaty to the
Senate with the arrogant demand that
they shall take it or leave it. | shall
ask their advice and consent"
There were many Democrats in Sen
ator Harding's audience tonight,
friends of Senator John K. Shields, one
Of the Democrats who broke with
President Wilson and voted for the
ratification Of the Treaty of Versailles
with the Lodge reservations.
Senator Harding's reception here was
cordial and polite but not enthusiastic.
AS he rode down Market Street at the
automobiles, lent by a bipartisan
committee, there was some handclap
ping, but no cheering, in marked con-
trast to the greetings given him in
other towns he has visited
There was a cheer that had some re-
semblan.e to the kind with which the
Republican candidate is greeted in the
North when he reached Hotel Patten
this afternoon at the completion of
his tour of the battlefelds. Local
Democrats had an explanation even for
that cheer. They said it was made by
Republicans for revenue only"
Cox Adherents Boisterous
A new cry began to assai the ears
of Senator Harding in the night as his
special train halted in railroad yards
and at water tanks scattered along the
route of the Southern Railway from
the Kentucky shore of the Ohio River
to Chattanooga, where he arrived early
this morning. Mostly it was yelled
half 0efiantly by railroad workmen.
What they shouted was "Hurrah for
Jimmy Cox!"
Car inspectors, tapping the steel
of the candidates special train, sew
eral times during the night seemed to
find a special JOY in giving this war
cry about the time they were sure
their sledge hammer blows had awak-
ened everybody aboard In each case
the cry was given by a solitary IN
dividual somewhere out in the politl-
cal and physical darkness Of the South.
AS Senator Harding passed through
the station gate, escorted by former
Representative H. Clay Evans, Re
publican, who was once elected Cover
nor of Tennessee, but Counted out,
uniformed employee of the Southern,
lounging by the iron barred gate,
grinned and yelled, "Hurray for Jimmy
Cox," He was promptly rebuked by
another employee, who said: "I ou
don't have to be rude about your poll
tics" Senator Harding, however,
ignored the incident.
Mayor Welcomes Nominee
Flags we're hung from the trolley
wire supports the length of Market
Street in honor of the candidate S
visit. There were 250 representative
citizens on the reception committee,
which was non-partisan and included
Mayor Alex W: Chambliss, who in
proclamation of welcome, said:
'As official head Of the city, I take
great pleasure in extending to Sena-
tor Harding and his dissinguishe ed
party hearty welcome to Chat
tanooga. Regardless of party afilia-
tons, the citizens of Chattanooga will
unite in rendering to these gentleme er
every courtesy, with their best wishes
for delightful visit to our midst"
individuals were hearty in the wei
come. The crowds were merely polite
for the most part, but high UP or
Missionary Ridge this morning Sena-
tor Harding was given q welcome by
the children of the Ridge school that
warmed his heart. The school teachers
released the youngsters, about 800 ot
them, bare e-legged and brown and clear
in stiffly starched clothing. Senator
and Mrs. Harding shook hands with
all of them, and their principal formcc
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