The Cordova daily times., 1921-04-21
CONGRESS HAS
 BACKING FROM
 NEW PRESIDENT
BY COL. WINFIELD JONES

the Wilson administration but in this administration it now seems to be
 changed to congress plus executive. l In the Wilson administration the
 president was nearly always at log
 gerheads with congress. When the
 congress was Democratic under the
 Wilson administration MT. Wilson was the boss.
 MT. Wilson cracked the whip and congress jumped-that is the Demo cratic majority then in control of
 the house and senate answered to the lash. The Republican minority fought back and raised row when
 ever the opportunity offered. Be. yond secuing publicity for it's pro-
 tests, the minority was helpless be- fore the majority steam roller. The Democratic majority was merely a
 rubber stamp" to register MT. Will sons will and they so registered it. 1 The whip that MT. Wilson wielded 1 over congress was the patronage
 lash. Woe betide any senator or rep resentative of the Democratic ranks | who kicked over the traces. He
 soon found his patronage cut off and without patronage, in nearly every in stance, became a defeated candidate for reelection. There were some men singled out by the president for just such punishment.
 When the Republicans captured house and senate in the 1918 elections this was changed but a big row start ed between congress and the eXecu- tive, MT. Wilson, still having the
 patrinage distribution in his hands,
 was able to continue to dictate to the then Democratic minority. The new minority was as servile as be- fore. But not so the new Republi-
 can majority. It was the new Repub-
 lican majority in the senate that de- feated MT. Wilson's pet project, the treaty of Versailles and the League of
 Nations. It was this majority in the
 house that set on foot the investiga-
 tiOnS into the conduct of the World at every opportunity. Election of the
 war, and which assailed the president
 Republican majority to the Sixty sixth congress was the beginning of
 the end of the Wilson administration.
 But conditions are somewhat diff fercnt now. There is a Republican president in the White House and huge Republican majority in house and senate. The conditions appar- ently are the same as those that ex- isted at the beginning of the Wilson administration, with Republicans sub
 stituted for Democrats.
 But there is this vast difference MT. Harding is not of a dictatorial mature, as was MT. Wilson. Mr Hard ing is perfectly willing to allow congress all it's functions, without the slightest interference from the White House. The new president is willing to work in cooperation and harmony with congress instead of browbeating the national legislators to his will, as was a regular per formance for the past eight years Even the Democratic minority has a kind of admiration for MT. Harding But this kindly feeling does not go so far that the Democrats will fail to take advantage of any mistakes made
 by the Republican majority in con- gress or by the president himself
 But the Republican majority will be
 unity behind the White House. | This condition cannot but prove great factor in the success of the Harding administration. With a con-
 gress and president friendly and
 united the first big step toward a
 successful administration has been taken. The only other Republican
 problem now is to avoid mistakes and give the country and the people a
 good government. If this is done the Republicans will succeed them |selves in control of the federal gov
 ernment and congress four years hence.
 But if congress and the president
 begin to picker, and particularly if
 the vast reconstruction problems are
 not solved by wise legislation, the Democrats will have a good chance
 to "come back" in 1924. The first
 indication of the success or failure
 of the Harding administration and
 the Republican congress will be seen
 in the 1922 congressional elections
 This is one thing which makes the special session of the Sixty-seventh congress so important. The country
 will watch closely this session. If legislation is passed for the benefit
 of the people the Republicans will be