Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-05
HARDING PROUD Of
.HARvEY'S SELECTION.
WILSON ROW AIRED.
by DAVID WHENCE
Ieased Wire Service to The Journa1.)
(Cnnrrinht 1901

tOOpyEISuI, 15%I.l
WASHINGTON, April 2,-Presi-
dent Harding is proud of the selec-
ition of Colonel George Harvey as am
bassador to Great Britain. When he
authorized the Washington cores
pondents to announce that he would
send the nomination to the senate
soon their was a note of defiance in
his voice against all who had pre-
sumed to doubt that the distinguish
ed editor of "Harvey's Weekly" would
he finally chosen. The president was
eager to have it known that the So
called drive" against the Harvey APP
pointment had failed to move him,
and from the decisive manner in
which he spoke it was evident that
having made up his mind to appoint
Colonel Harvey he was trying to dis
courage any effort to dissuade him.
There is no doubt about 1.-THE
murmurs of opposition as well as the
published stories of "drive" against
stiffen the determination of Presi-
dent Harding to go through with his
original plan. Those who observed
Mr.. Harding's eagerness to have the
press record his choice of Colonel
Harvey thought they detected the
personal appoinJees as Woodrow Will
son used to exhibit whenever any one
made so bold as to suggest that pos
sibly the posts held by Albert Sid
ney Burleson or George Creole might
have been filled by others.
Just why the selection of Colonel
Harvey to go to the court of st.
r a he
cism and produce an undercurrent of
protest IN Republican circles ever
since his name was first mentioned
for the post may be somewhat of
there has been very little question
raised about the brilliancy of Colonel
Harvey's mind and his ready wit,
Rather has the opposition conferred
upon Colonel Harvey's alleged atti-
tude toward prohibition which is rot
ment here. 1t has been pointed out,
however. that Great Britain is not
prohibition country and that pre-
sumably sentiment in London would
favor the selection of man like
Colonel Harvey instead of one of
"Pussyfoot' Johnson's disciples.
Indeed the British governments re-
lee States said promptly that Colone'
Harvey was persona grata."
When Colonel Harvey goes abroad
as ambassador to Great Britain he
will have achieved lifelong ambi-
ton. 1t is not generally known that
the colonel was very anxious to have
President Wilson appoint him to the
same enthusiastically Long after
Mr.. Wilson and George Harvey had
their sensational controversy in
which the then candidate for the
presidency asked his editorial friend
to cease his support on the ground
that it was more harmful than help
full. the ambition of the colonel to
become ambassador to Great Britain
did not wane. When Mr.. Wilson hest
tated for some weeks before appoint
ing Walter Hines Page, the friends of
Colonel Harvey beseeched Mrs Wilson
to let byegones be byegones and APP
strumental in bringing the name of
Woodrow Wilson into the limelight.
But Woodrow Wilson was obdu-
rate. The same reasons which &C.
tuated him in declining Colonel Har-
vey's editorial upport-namely, an
apprehension that support by Harvey
would be construed out west as the
We're potent in the subsequent de-
cision against the sending of he
cclonel to Great Britain. Ever since
that episode, Colonel Harvey's pen
has been employed in an incessant
attack upon Mr.. Wilson and his poll
cies so much SO that many Republic
cans believe he owes his selection by
Mr.. Harding to the remarkable way
in which he exposed to satire the
ills of the Wilson administration,
Traditionally he. is not Republican,
though after his break with Mr..
Wilson, he supported the national
Republican ticket in 1915 and in
1920
The fact that Mr. Wilson was in
clined to select Colonel Harvey for
the ambassadorship and was merely
afraid of the colonel's supposed Wall
street connections is seized as con-
ability and capacItv for If fate ' had
brushed aside these circumstances
he might have served in the same
post under a Democratic instead of
a Republican administration.