The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-14

have been a direct defeat for Wood and johnson
whereas Hardings nomination is only indirectly
since he represents compromise choice a reason
able solution to the deadlock. Wherein lies the guile
Of the Old Guard Harding, whose campaign at best
passive, in position to receive that which
Lowden, out of his pocket, expended almost half
a million dollars for and couldn't get
When the campaign first opened year ago, Re
publican leaders convinced that any bear
ing G. o. p. label could win in November, 1920
developments since that time have changed the
poets The history 1916 being repeated at pres
ert. Ignoring the real issues party leaders have,
in the of Mr.. Hughes, nominated a coorless
candidate, one who has not offended any element
within the party, not a two-fisted candidate such
a both Wood and Johnson showed themselves to be
AS for the personality of Senator Harding, moth
ing could be significant than a prophesy
early this year by William Brown Meloney writ
ing in "Everybody's" Magazine Under the caption,
You're Going TO Be Handed Something" Mr.. Mel
oney described the ideal Presidential candidate
"a man as resoute as Washington as patient as Lin
roln modern Roosevelt man who knows the
facts history; a who believes in the distiny
o democracy. Continuing he declared: Min
gle with the pundits OF the Republican party and
listen. They not thinking of resolute
as Washington, patient Lincoln, modern
Roosevelt. They thinking in terms of the times
which produced Folks, and Pierces Fillmores
They are thinking in terms 1884 1888 and
1896. = > The foremost in their thoughts
and who would please their desires most Gov
ernor Lowden, of Illinois, Senator Harding of Ohio,
and Senator Watson, of Indiana" Is there any sig
nifcance in the that Senator Watson chair
of the Resolutions Committee of the Republi-
National Convention and Governor Lowden came
rear to nomination. failing only when Senator Hard
Ing chosen the nominee.
And why the desire for a of that type?
Party regularity him is a thing supreme A stand
of the type of Mark Hanna and Senator Quay,
colleague of Penrose, seeing issues with all the
conservatism of the Old Guard, with record of
being able compose factiOnal differences in his
State, he contains all the qualifications desired by
party leaders of the conservative stronghold, Lodge
New, Penrose, and others. The beginning of the
end of the nomination fight in the convention fight
came in sight Saturday morning when Senator Pen
rose, from his home in Philadelphia, word that
Harding acceptable to him boss of the
Pennsylvania delegation. Southern delegations
trolled largely by the Old Guard, took the hint, and
climbed aboard the band wagon, and, again the sig
nficant feature, Lowden's delegations swung over
to the Harding side, the thing accomplished
Time and its revelations alone tell whether
the outcome the result of careful planning and
canny foresight, whether the Old Guard merely
seized its opportunity at the eleventh hour, but the
fact remains fairly clearly established that the Old
platform of "face-both- ways And to paraphase
the writer quoted above, The rank and file of the
Republican party has had something handed to
them" But handing it to the country is entirely