The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-29
CONFERENCE
TO STICK TO
2 SUBJECTS
Sullivan Says Hughes and
Harding Will Not Introduce
Topics Conflicting With
Mandate of People.
SENATORS ARE EXCITED
Ry MARK SULLIVAN

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-The one
thing definite and sure in all this talk
about a new or an enlarged confer
ence, which has overshadowed every
thing else since it came out of the
White House. is this: President Hard
ing is a man of marked tenacity about
what he calls his commitments: he
has told the country several times
that he would take steps leading TO
an association of nations, and he is
going to fulfill that promise. That
much of all this talk is solid rock.
The rest is of varying degrees of de
pendability
Such steps as President Harding is
likely to take in the near future will
not go so far as to justify the alarm
of the irreconcilables lest We are
about 10 be led into, or. as they put
it, be betrayed into, the league of ma
tions.
The apprehension of Senator Borah.
already forcefully voiced, is based on
the chaff rather than on the wheat
in what is happening.
So also is the presumed alarm of
Senator Borah's fellow irreconcilable,
Senator Mccormick, who is now on
the ocean on his way 10 conduct a
senatorial investigation in Hayti, and
whom Washington pictures as beg
ging the captain to turn the ship
around and bring him back to Amer
| lea that he may save the country
once more.
Know Harding Stand
Those of us who attribute to our
selves the superiority of not getting
as excited at the partisans on both
sides know full well that Americas
commitment not to enter the League
/ Of Nations" Is, on the whole, rather
more binding. because it comes from
/ the people. than President Harding's s
commitment to try to bring about an
association" of nations.
/ In purely good -humored raillery we
! laugh a little at the irreconcilable
/ leaders in terms of Johnny get your
1 gun and stand guard at the rat hole;
| but in all seriousness We know that
they are merely the spokesman and
| guardians of a mandate from the peo-
pie which cannot be reversed by any
means other than a future popular
election on the same issue.
Conference Is to be Limited
| There isn't any conflict between the
verdict of the election of 1920 and the
thing that Harding is about to do. For
those who want to keep their feet Sc
curely on the ground here is what is
just ahead of us: First of all, the
present conference is going to stick
strictly to the two subjects for which
it was called.
All the vigilance that Harding and
Hughes have exercised to keep other
| subjects from slipping in through the
cellar window is not going to be
thrown overheard The present con
ference is going to come to a success
full agreement on naval limitation
within week or ten days.
! Within a few days more it is going
TO come to an agreement about the
far east, slightly less definite in terms
because of the differing nature of tho
case. but no less successful than thl
naval agreement.
Then, and then only. after there +
complete and accepted success on
these two points, there will be a new
conference, or an extension of tho
present one, which will take up one
or more definite and limited subjects
Is Good Politics.
If President Harding's hint Of {
promise of a new conference provides
a stimulus for some nations to hell
- eagerly towards success of the pres
ent one, that is first class politics
The most obvious and immediate sub
| ject for the new conference will bt
the Limitation of land armament.
For that subject certain additiona
, nations will be invited, probably in
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