The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-02-26
WILSON MOT CRAZY" SAYS
COLONEL GEROGE HARVEY
Letters to Lansing Reveal President
as His "Old True Self" Is This
Editors Opinion.

as his Oiu Aiue oeh, Is IHiS
Editors Opinion.
After Analysing the Wilson-L Lansing
correspondence, together with the
statements by Secretary Lane and
William c. Redfeld, bearing on the
Presidents actual knowledge that in
formal Cabinet meetings were being
held while he was incapacitated, Col.
George Harvey concludes in the cur
rent issue of Harvey's Weekly that
President Wilson has not gone crazy.
He advises persons who Jumped to
that conclusion to put the idea out of
their minds, for, as the Colonel is
convinced, "Mr Wilson is himself, his
old self, his true self"
After terming the letters to Ian
sing the "most insulting and infer
entially mendacious statement" ever
signed by President of the United
States, Col. Harvey writes:
mo Mr.. Wilson is not crazy; he is
just mad, not as halter, but as
hornet that has been sat upon; so mad
that he cannot bear it without sting
ing and Heaven knows he has reason
enough to be. Think of it, Only
year ago Woodrow Wilson was not
only the greatest man on earth, but
the greatest man that had ever been
on earth or anywhere else, so far as
we know. .... He had fixed immuta-
bly, the basis of peace in Europe; hold
ing the prestige thus gained he had
detiantly ignored the expressed wish
OF his own country and sailed away on
floating palace to assume personal
direction of the affairs of the whole
world; he had received a tumultuous
welcome from devastated France as
the dispenser of the bounty of the
United States; he has been catered to
and fawned upon in England as no
ruler before him; he has defied and in
suited the existing governments of
both countries by threatening to zap
peal" to their respective peoples if
his demands were not complied with;
he has swept across the continent in
blaze of glory, not only being claim
ed Messiah by the peasants of Italv
but tacitly accepting the amazing des-
ignation as his just and proper due.
Now a Fallen Idol
Intoxicated by his success abroad
he perceived little difficulty in re-
peating his fiuke of success as having
kept US out of war, and in crushing.
by like delusive appeals, the hardly
discernible spirit of America under
his own iron heel. One year almost
to day marked the climax of the
glory of Woodrow Wilson-one short
year. And now.
Every bubble bursts. Hated by It
ally, reviled in France, camly ignored
by England and waiting in his own
country verdict, if he should permit
one to be rendered of violent repudi
alton such as has never been recorded
in the history of the Republic. No
gracious greetings of obsequious Per-
miers at the White House, as had been
! planned, by the Master of the League.
and future President of the World. No
league at all for the United States un-
less thoroughly Americanized, and
perhaps not then! No further control
even of his own party which in caucus
of the House of Representative con-
temptuously rejected his military pol
icy by vote of 106- to II, None of
his original Cabinet left except Sec
rotary Wilson, the. delectable Daniels
breakdown in administration, a par
tial breakdown in body and complete
/ breakdown in all but the husks of
authority-all absolutely irretrievable.
Is it not remarkable that he has not
broken out before with something
that would have seemed equally
crazy? Quite likely poor Lansing
happened to be the first suitable goat
to appear. Anyhow, the first letter
was indited-oily, crafty, insulting
and utterly false in all its implication;
in word, as we have remarked,
wholly normal"
Col Harvey writes that the evidence
proves absolutely that the President
had known for months of the un-
official Cabinet meetings. He quoted
Mr.. Redfeld as saying that at the
first meeting the members present