The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-01-01
Political Writer Says Thor
oughgoing Cleavage is CO.
ing on Between Harding and
Irreconcilable Senators.
NOW LOOK TO HARDING
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

pIeSluSuC-oI0CL III camp, OF eiSe TIRE"
a challenge into Harding's teeth. My
own judgment Is that the latter is what
happened and that thorough going
cleavage is nov on between Harding
and the irreconciliable senators, be-
tween those friends Of the League Of
Nations who have been to Marion re-
Gently and who thought that Harding
would build his new association on a
part of the present league. and on the
other hand, thoa irreconcilables who
insist that the present league must
be scrapped, killed, buried and kept
buried.
Not all the eptode is on the public
record, and partsof the narrative must
be pieced out b. deduction. Knox
made it clear thathe came in response
to a telegraphed tvitation. My guess,
in the light of oher events is that
tha invitation wa sent by Harding
because he had hard that there was
incipient rebellion among the irrec-
onciliable senators and he hoped to
smooth it out.
Apparently the Jews had come to
Marion that the ireconcilable sena-
tors were mutterini about Harding re-
peatedly consultinswith such friends
of the league as TIT, Hoover, Bryan,
Straus and others. There is evidence
that Harding's frs reaction 10 this
discomfort was to ;end the trusted
4 Harry Daugherty I Washington to
pour the vicarious d on the waters.
Closed Conerence.
That failed and ten followed the
invitation to Knox } come to Mar
ion Knox came. f arrived before
breakfast He tookbreakfast with
Harding and severa others Then
Knox and Harding ent into Hard
,ing's office and cked the doors.
Nearly two hours l;er, Knox left
Harding's office and tepped briskly
down to the house Fhere all the
newspapermen are. Ts was nothing
unusual All the "bes minds" al ter
they have had their difference with
Harding come down I talk to the
newspapermen. This the routine.
But there was all Indifference in
the world between th manner in
which Harding came. al the way in
which the recent "besrninds'' have
come trailing an aura eingratiation
and peace from their lattontact with
Harding.
|. There was all the Offence in the
J world between the inno&s words OF
harmony that the best tlinds" have
been giving out, and thaistinctively
here l stand" manner q words of
Knox. Someone asked kk the stock
question if he felt that riding was
going to achieve a plan foin associa-
tion of nations that woulde satisfac-
tory Knox said, .1 am Ssured he
will" but he most distinc did not
4 &
ance out of his conferencesth Hard.
ing; decidedly not. He haQistin ctly
the air of meaning that heas sure
the plan would be satisfacto, because
he and the other irreconcble pro-
posed to stand by and makt salts
factory.
irreconcilabie Stand
Satisfactory, that is. to th,rrecon.
cilable. Then someone ask if he
and the other Observation-Disclosures
had been disturbed by repe that
Harding was veering toward FIT and
the friends of the league, q that
Harding's new plan was gointo in.
clude entering into modifiedrm of
the present league. Knox billed
with unmistakable significance at he
had heard such reports but Il he
hadn't allowed them to distm him
because he knew they were htra-
diction of all Harding's cahign
promises and the verdict of the bple
In the election. There was somSore
talk with the same drift, andhen
Knox, of his own initiative, dthe
= unusual and Enthusiastically bebse
thing. He said that before lesng
T, Washington he had prepared a he.
ment of his position, that he haze
1ivered this statement to Harding d
left it with him. and that he hato
objections to letting the newspsr
men have a copy of it
AS a man who had carefully stas
: the episode he drew the paper fl
his inside pocket making at the So
time the controversially lawyer
introduction that this is my sugs
tion to Harding and in no sense (
sumes to reflect what is in Sena
Harding's mind"
To Introduce Resolution.
The statement recited that immt
ately after March Knox will re
troduce his resolution for a separ
peace with Germany, parenthetics
he added that he was sure the sen
would pass the resolution. The sti
II ment repeated the text of the rest
ton providing for separate pc
!. with Germany by Joint resolution
congress, for the disposition of c
man property in the United States
other necessary details of such
peace, aud for the president to neg
ate a new treaty OF commerce
amity with Germany, to this res
= ton for peace with Germany by jc
action of congress, Senator Knox S
he woulr1 add a paragraph as folio,
This being of course in effect Knt
substitute for the league of nation:
''It Is the declared policy of
United States in order to meet fl
and fairly our obligations to oursel
and to the world that the freedom
peace OF Europe being again threat
ed by any power or combination
powers. the United States will reg
such situation with grave conc,
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