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

EeCn so misguided by an overburden
eli mind as to have ill-adviscdly ask
ed for the resignation.
Cheyenne State Leader: The rca
grounds for the break should have
been put forward frankly and bluntly
by Mr.. Wilson at the outset. with nc
striving after forcing Il break.
Rock Island Argus: DR.. GraysOu
does not seem to have been entirely
Dlameless. -. lie even attended cabi.
net meetings as the representative
Of the President. That he deceived
the cabinet as to the Presidents real
condition and laid down rules under
, which it would be impossible for the
deception to be discovered is now be
ing charged.
putte Miner: There can never be
the slightest doubt that MIR. Lansing
jcted for what he thought was the
best.
Daily Oklahoman: 1t is unfortl-
mite that the President did not base
his request for the resignation on
/ something else than the Secretary Of
States course in holding cabine.
/ meetings during the chief executives
illness.
Chicago journal: Mr.. Lansing's
usefulness ended months ago, when
he failed to deny the statement that
he had opposed the Presidents policy
] III Paris, and that he disapproyed the
treaty in general and the League of
Nations in particular.
Birmingham News: The country
will now be happier. Their man,
the President who is the only leader
of all the people, has demonstrated
anew his strength and will lead them.
Columbia State: The President
/ has done nothing that the executive
of a private corporation would not
have done.
Youngstown indicators The cor
respondenee is painful to read, and
one wishes that Mr.. Lansing had
made it unnecessary by terminating
/ long since a relation which every OBJ
server knew could only grow more
disastrous the longer it continued.
Dayton News 1t has been appar.
ent for q considerable time that Mr..
Lansing was not in sympathy with
the Presidents policy. That alone
should have prompted Mr.. Lansing s
resignation on his own initiative
long ago.
Raleigh News and Observer: Those
who have observed the difference in
+ the viewpoints of President Wilson
/ aud Secretar yof State Lansing have
wondered that the break between
them did not come sooner.
Republican.
New York Tribune: The whole
country must have read the letters
With heavy heart and a sense of
uncertainty as to the future.
Omaha Rec: That the incident
Will widen the cracks that have APP
! peared In the fabric of the admins.
tration's machine IS the only certain
thing.
Philadelphia Inquirer What use.
after all, has Woodrow Wilson for a
cabinet? Egotism such as he unf0r-
tunately possesses is supreme.
Philadelphia Press: The CORE.
spondence shows Woodrow Wilson at
his worst.
Buffalo Evenings News: II they
are not 10 be permitted to convene
without the Presidents summons. we
must have immediate assurance then
i that the president is able to sum-
mon them.
Minneapolis Tribune The admin
+ istratjOn Of the government has suf.
Tered for months because of the Pres
/ ident's disability. and now a most
faithful and LOYAL servant, for doing
+ what it was plainly his duty to do.
I is unceremoniously kicked out of of
/ ice.
Canton Repositor: President VII.
Sonu shows about as much respect
tor the cabinet he invited to advise
with him as he displayed in ignoring
/ the senate.
ST. Louis Globe-Democrat. The ir-
ritability of a sick man might be set
up as an excuse were it not for the
fact that the same uuwillingness to
4 permit any independent thinking in
/ his official family has been frequent
I ~ revealed in the past
/ Portland tMel Express: The
Presidents political as Well as medi-
/ cal advisers would do well to keen
/ him for little longer in a state OF
lunoCuoUs desuetude.
Springfield Union: Many comp,i-
/ cations would have been avoided had
I the Vice President functioned in the
presidential capacity until such time
as the disability of the President
were removed
Hartford Couraut. The excuse,
+ given so often, that Wilson is an in
valid AN! should not he hsid rosHon-
sible, carries with il the acknowledge