The Washington times., 1920-09-12

do not know what Senator Hardings attf
,stude would be on these questions today.
only know that he opposed the new way at
the time. and that this opposition was typical
OF him and affords an excellent illumination of
his type Of mind.
. His influence then was Of the kind for which
he seems to be noted that of deliberate counsel
and Of long conference behind closed doors on
the part Of few selfconstituted leaders.
These men caused the publication Of a weekly
paper, known as the Ohio Star, which was de-
voted to furthering the propaganda against
these progressive measures.
The Ohio Star was printed 'and published in
the office Of Senator Harding,s newspaper, the
Marion Star. Just, what part he had in its
editing do norknow. but have always un-
derstood that his was the guiding hand behind
the editorial policy of the publication which
could only exist subsidy and which. l am
glad to say, proved to be ineffective.
In countless other ways, which might be
tedious to attempt to rehearse in limited
space, Senator Harding has always stood for
the forces Of reaction. He venerates the past.
He now wants us to turn the hands OF the
clock back to the time Of Hanna. In other
words, he wants us to forget that this is 1920
and to go back to 1896. Do people In their
right sense think that this can be done?
Would the doctors of to-day discard all that
has been learned in medicine and surgery since
1895 and willingly re-adapt their methods to
those Of twenty-five years ago? There has
been little enough progress In legal procedure.
yet would the lawyers of the country be willing
to throw away the lessons of the past quarter
century in their calling? What would
ufacturers say IL they we're asked to carry, on
industry as did their fathers In the time ~of
Mckinley? Yet Senator Harding. and his
friends want us to run the greatest govern
ment earth in the antiquated method
Senator Harding would like to have the
country believe that the issue in the present
campaign. or a chief issue, is the dislike thar
he shares with his fellow Republican Senators
for Mr. Wilson. and his destructive opposition
to the policies Of Mr. Wilson. =
In this, as in other things. he seems capable
Of dwelling only in the past 1t seems strange
that he does not realize that Mr. Wilson is not
a candidate to succeed himself Whatever
happens on November Q the next President will
not be Mr.. Wilson, and It would seem TO be
more candid with the public to consider what
Is to be done next year than to strive either
to regain the remote past to bewail the
immediate past. H..
MY idea OF the Presidency is that II Is a job
requiring ever constant action by a busy execu-
tive whose acts must be guided by the light Z
the immediate present The right man there
must be ready at all times to take any situa
ton by the nape OF the neck and shake result
out of IT, II he stops too long to enquire what
the fathers would have done In his place II
may oyerwhem and bury him.
The constitutional tripartite division OF gov.
ernmental authority seems TO me exactly right
! would not have IL changed The executive
remain as they are. but the methods by which
the executive functions should be performed
seem to me to require a man of the 1920 model