The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-03-01
HARDING SOON TO
|. REALLY FACE new
RESPONSIBILITIES
President ELECT Goes to White
House With Keen Desire to
Give the Nation Real
Administration
BY RoRERT q. SHALL

4. ing. February a. special.)-Hi play
time behind Warren Harding IS
A ties that await him at Washington.
4 ties that await him at WaschingtoE.
i During the last week these prospective
iI Responsibilities h weighed more
N and more heIvi1y upon IL. Always
II#heretofore there has been an apprecia-
FIJI BILE space Of time ahead of the FRESH
N dent-cysct but when his train pulled
cut ., ST. Augustine with the setting
sun of Sunday evening, he realized
that his hour of personal accountable
ii.ity to the people of the United States
was about to strike.
No man ever has approached the
4 presidency with keener desire 70
#' give the people an administration
(which will meet with their approval.
Mr.. Harding has little or none OF the
#Iiexo about him. He has no fixed pur-
VI pose to do what Warren Harding
III would like done. He wants to sound
1.-The wishes of the people and see In
what manner he can serve them best.
with all due respect to Presidents
i# who have gone before, it can be said
a that none has come within the shadow
Hi#of the White HOUSE with a more I'M
ming possesses. He does not feel that
N; the presidency belongs to him. He
HECTARES the office belo gs to the peo-
.#iiple and i. he can sound their desires
and comply with them, he will be a
very happy man.
#Ia TO BE PEOPLES SERVANT
!aM5 During the last 30 years the people
iHHiof the United States have become SO
i#iii accustomed to masterful men in the
siSi White House. men who are inclined
4#lito lead rather than to follow, it will be
to watch the progress of an
jai administration guided by entirely diff
!8literent principles. Mr.. Harding has no
will to impose. nor has he any strong
Al 1prejudices to satisfy. II the people
is want a servant rather than master,
#jil The administration of Warren g. Hard
##a.ng will be brilliant success. Just
##aow far man can go in sounding
ii#5oublic opin,on rather than expressing
IlHst remains to be seen. Many persons
HBiAHi contend that the greater the democ-
aa29ssi Sacy the greater the need of a leader,
:$$iIven willful leader. Mr.. Harding
##aleels that he should always listen and
take no hasty decision. 1t is in
Hl#Ehe spirit that he approaches the
H White House. Many interesting expert
iiHHinces await him there. Executive re-
8Htponsibility is entirely foreign to
Hi piiNs He has had the collective re-
3syonsibility OF the State legislature
33Biind the senate OF the United states,
#8 nov he faces the task OF indivi-
lual RECESSION
H##S HAS HAD FORETASTE
## Mr.. Harding has had foretaste of
H3 THAT awaits him in the making of hts
i.i sabinet. He has listened much as to
l whom he should appoint to this or
Il that position, but in the end mainly
Hiiie has made his choices. OF course,
aiiH he President-elect has not been en-
aa538Rrelv free agent in this respect;
Ba ieither was Woodrow Wilson. nor
aH William Howard Taft. nor Theodore
lH# Roosevelt. All of these Presidents owed
s.a ertain obligations which they were bound
i;G# b respect. So did Mr.. Harding but Mr.
i#H Harding perhaps has been freer than
H8a tther Presidents of the last two de-
i.H AIDES. In the first place his nomiria-
ION was a matter of circumstances
I##I hther than the result of long and
HIHHHHH duplicated campaign. When the Chi
.HsH ggo convea ton opened last June Mr..
I:E##H farding haG few friends. His financial
.!:sS Export had been almost nil. Many
4.#H#sHie rsons who have come to Mr. Hard
iFAAg during the last six weeks in
iIHs Forida, az Ing for favors and seek
HI# 1g Al adyantag eous position with the
Nv administration were men who had
III! Aughed immoderately last spring
hen approached with the suggestion
lending helping hand to a senator
#bH mo sought the republican nomination.
Harding's pre-convention support.
i#i3i4 can truthfully be stated, came chief
ssB from his old friends in Marion, sew
saai4lkal OF whom were lifelong democrats
#5iiind Who still adhere to that political
lGlHI tith. They sought nothing other than
#s#SIne elevation of their fellow towns
I#i tan land friend. A handful of them
H#@H#5jfill 20 in Washington to see Their
HH#fII fighbor Warren inaugurated. No
HEHHHs#ll pecial provision will be made Dor
3a#H Dem, but t " are ready to fight their
iiiHHsssay to the front ON the east steps OF
HHHHihe capitol SO they can see him sworr
8s.H3t and hear him utter his first word.
the twenty nil:th President Of the
###H##T United States.
a OWES NO OBLIGATIONS
So far as his nomination campaign
55i#iE concerned Mr.. Harding owes nc
bbligations The same may be said OF
### ne actual campaign expenses In fran.
#iHin g the cabinet, however, Mr.. Hardina
5s elt he was compelled to consider Ger.
I'D ain political obligations There .as
.#$i## 10 compulsion about his appointment
H# Harry Daugherty as Attorney Gen.
however. He wanted Mr. Daush-
III Irty near him as President and he
knew the best way to have him neal
iHiA Vas to make him Ia. Der of the Of.
u. Hcial family Mr.. Daugherty, it may
ile said, is Mr.. Harding's only persona
IA ##st ppointee. AZ to Mr. Hays and Mr.
III keeks and nu sber of Others Mr.
Harding feels that the honor he Is con
1errtng upon them is. the honor the
H8i party owes. r. Harding is a party
iHHH nan ana will always be so. As to Mr.
t Hughes and Mr. Hoover. they NAV be
HlHg5ss said to b. the representatives Of the
3S# whole people n the cabinet Mr. Hard.
HHsItrtg has chosen them as such ana he
aa##S%i believes they will serve the people
EH Faithfully and well