The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-07-02
TRAINED LEGISLATOR
FOR THE WHITE HOUSE


Washington, June 21.-The Repub-
Iican Publicity Association, through
its president, Hon. Jonathan Bourne,
Jr, today gave out the following
statement from its Washington head
quarters:
"With the election of Warren G.
Harding to the Presidency, govern
ment by theory and intuition will give
place to government by experienced
experts, based on proved principles Of
sound national management. Instead
of a professor from an institution of
learning seeking to apply to the Fed
eral government the dogmas of col
Iege curriculum we shall have a train
ed legislator and executive who will
conform his administration to the les.
sons he has learned during term In
the United States Senate preceded by
two years as lieutenant governor OF
his State and four years as member
of the Ohio Senate.
"When Harding enters the White
House on March 4th, next he will have
completed six years service as Sena-
tor from his State-six years of ap-
premiership for the work of Federal
administrator. AS never before in the
history of the country, the past seven
years have demonstrated how neces-
sary it is that the Chief Executive
shall have had that previous acquaint-
ance with the legislative branch of
the Government indispensable to a
proper appreciation of his relations to
it. Mr.. Wilson's complete failure to
comprehend the point of view of Con-
gress, and his refusal to concede to
the duly elected Representatives of the
people the part the Constitution de-
creed that they shall play in national
affairs, have been responsible for the
almost constant friction that has ex-
listed between them. The cost to the
people of that lack of coordination
can never be expressed in dollars and
cents, but it has been enormous; and,
in addition, national prestige has suf-
fered a setback that will require the
most careful attention from Re-
publican administration to repair
"Not only has Senator Harding
learned in the school of experience of
the relations between the Executive
and legislative branches that must be
maintained if our Government is to
continue to express the popular will
as our forefathers provided in the
Constitution, but he has learned to
respect the opinions of his fellow
Senators and of others chosen by the
people to represent their views. 1t is
here, again, that the Wilson admins
tration has signally failed to perform
its allotted part in our scheme of gov
eminent. 1t has been totally impos.
sible for the Wilson type of mind to
conceive that it is not infallible, and
to realize that the views of the peo-
pie can be more nearly expressed
through the composite expression OF
their leaders than through the utter
ances of a single individual. His has
been a one-man government, uninf1u-
enced by the opinions of accepted au-
thorities.
every act of the Senate, and of
Congress, necessarily is a compro-
mise product-a composite of the
thought of the members who compose
the majority of that body. 1t is not
too much to say that an act of i'm
portance never passes the Senate that
is entirely acceptable to any Senator.
Every Senator has surrendered some
of his personal preferences in order
that the act may become law, and
in that surrender he has admitted his
own fallibility and recognized that the
voice of the many is more likely COR
rect than his own individual opinion.
"That is the school in which Senator
Harding's conception of popular gov
eminent has been formed, and to those
tenets he will hold the executive de-
partment once he has taken control.
His cabinet will be composed of men
Of recognized authority in the prob
lens of their particular department,
selected to act as real aids to the
President in the performance of his
duties, rather than to furnish plausi-
bic support for executive opinions al
ready made known. President Hard
ing will personify the policies adopt
ed by the Republican party as whole
and embodied in it's national platform,
and in the carrying out of those poll
cies the country will witness the clos
est cooperation with his official adj
visers and with his party associates in
CONGRESS-"