The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-04
AMERICAN GOOD
SENSE SEEN BY
BRIT0NS IN VOTE
Harding's Election Viewed
as a Blow to Radicalism
and AutOcracy.
cox DEFEAT CHEERED
Sentiment Veered When He
Announced His Stand
on Ireland.
STILL HOPE FOR LEAGUE
London Newspapers Believe
Harding Will Favor Accept
able World Wide Pact.
cox DEFEAT CHEERED
STILL HOPE FOR LEAGUE

Special Cable TO THE Nxw York HERALD.
Copyright, 1890. by THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
London, Nov. 3.
The Morning Post sounds the key
note OF British satisfaction over the
election of Senator Harding as Presi-
dent of the United States. 1t Is Joined
by large group of English news
papers Of all shades of political opinion
in seeing nothing but good ahead and
the clearing Of the fogs Of Wilsonian-
ism from the air. The view is ex-
pressed that whatever policy the new
Administration may adopt will at least
have a chance of acceptance by a
Congress strongly Republican. The
result is taken as blow to radicalism
The Times says there is no danger
that America will shirk her duty to-
ward the world with such men as
William Howard Taft, Elihu Root
(who, II says. may be the next Ameri-
can Secretary of State) and Herbert
Hoover having a voice in the affairs o.
The Republican party. It adds that y
is pleased to think that Mr.. Hardin
will not be his own Prime Minister
ana tOrelgn Minister.
The Morning Post (Tory) praises the
result of the election as 'the end of
Wilsonianism. 1t says 1t was truly an
election having international interest.
With the tariff, the Pacific problem, pro-
hibition. Mexico. immigration, maritime
policy, trade expansion and the League
OF Nations all as issues.
League Not Real Issue.
but the real Issue was not the
League of Nations, but the policy of
which the league was merely the out
ward and tatteredN manifestation" it
says. THE issue was Wllsonianism--a
system of government, rigid m Its con-
ception and autocratic in its methods,
passionately. ruthlessly applied by the
retiring President
:Mr. Wilson once was a professor,
and Is inflexible in his principles of
exalted egoism and has blind faith
in his own cure for the ills of the world.
all of which was harmless enough in the
sheltered groves of an academy, but
were dangerous missiles to use IN a
highly excited and dangerously tried
world. He called to his councils in
Paris men of his own party-only men
kho were obedient to his arbitrary
willard he shut his ears, until it was
too late, to the warnings by Senator
Lodge and the growlings of the Senate.
He CO me to Europe almost conqueror;
he left here a man who was disap-
pointed and broken and probably con-
WINGED of his complete failure. His
dream was already shattered and Up
per Silesia, Fiume. Mesopotamia, Ar
menia an anxious France and a dis
turbed Pacific are some of his legacies.
This was the issue. then, which the
Americans voted on. They have decided
against idealism. and we venture to
think that their decision will bring re-
lief to the world.
ITO some Mr.. Wilson Is a saint; 70
others he is crank. brt now 1t is clear
that the American people are going to
submit neither to the reign OF a saint
nor the rule of cranks They have de
cided, not In favor of strident. arrogan,
rrationalism. but against prying, unwork-
able internationalism. In home,y
'hrase, they believe In a people minding
their own business"
The Post says most of the troubles Of
the word to-day are due to President
Wilson's meddling, such as the delay II
the settlement in Asia Minor. resutins
m Mustapha Renal lording It in Ana
tolia and the Bolsheviki threatenln,