The Topeka state journal., 1921-06-29
ON SECOND THOUGHT
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A Letter to President Harding.

A Letter to President Harding.
Friend Warren-I see where a gent
by the name OF Holt has wrote you
letter saying what are you going to
do about an association of nations and
that everybody is anxious to hear.
Wen, sir, when I read that letter 1
went back into the little cubbyhole
my antique Remington and laughed
my head off. Adelaide heard me and
she said, What are you doing; laugh
ing at your own stuff" and / says,
No. they are something in the paper
this morning good deal funnier than
my column" and she says in her sar-
castle way, 1T isn't possible" and !
showed her the piece, but she could
not make head or tail to it and still
they talk about women running poll
tics! / tried to explain 1t to her.
said this Mr.. Holt don't care nothing
about what Warren is going to do
about the association of nations. All
he hopes is that Warren is not going
to do anything about 1t, and the reason
he wrote him this letter and give 1t
out To the newspapers was that he
wants to put Warren in the hole and
show him up If he can. If he really
wanted to know what Warren was go-
ing to do he would of wrote him pri-
vate and he would not of given the
letter out to the newspapers before
Warren got to see it. But what tickled
me most about Mr.. Hollis letter was
where he said he was going to put
the issue up to the country and elect
Democratic congress in 1922 unless
you done something. Well, Mr.. Holt
put it up to the country last fall and
ask you was there any Democratic
congress elected that you heard any,
thing about?
II W al A6 -
lot of birds used to come UP and set
around and say, You ought to do this
and that, and this would help your
administration and the people are de-
manding that you go out and bring
the gas company to time and we want
to help you all we can because we are
interested in making your administra-
ton great success And after I'd
let them ramble along awhile I'd say,
Where was you in the election? 2"
AND they'd get red in the face and
KIND OF stammer and say, "Well, we
voted for Mr.. Beaky on account of
him and us being old friends for
years and him giving UP practically
all OF his business. but we are for you
now and want to see you do we'll"
voted for Mr.. Beaky, and he is good
man and has not got nothing much to
do. You go to him and maybe he can
do something for you, but my time is
very much taken up and my secretary
says l have got an engagement at 8
warren, is when you get q letter like
this Mr., Holt wrote, you write and ask
him wher, was he in the election, and
when he stammers and says he was
for Governor Cox on account of the
governor being for the League of Ma
tions, you tell him to go to Governor
Cox and get it fixed UP. You can take
my word for 1t that it works out all
right because they didn't elect no
Democratic congress on me. OF course,
you are Mr.. Holt's president and my
president and everybody else's, but you
take a fellow who has been against
you in the election and when he comes
to you and asks you what you are go
ing to do all he hopes you are going
to do is to fall and break a leg or
something. 1t is not human to be any
thing else.
| Now, do not know what you are
going to do about an association of
nations, and don't care. When you
was elected president 1 said to myself,
| Well, that relieves me of the respon-
| sibiiity fo- the next four years, and all
got to do is go out and brush up on
my golf and maybe can break an 80
| before the summer is over" but have
| not done 1t yet. I expect maybe an
| association of nations would be all
right and I was pretty strong for it
! till I heard somebody say it was an
1 ideal and then I was not so sure be-
cause they do not never work out. But !
| do think 1t would be worth trying only
it can't probably never be done. The
| trouble is that the little group of Sc
rious thinkers is for it. You let the
little group of serious thinkers be for
a thing and it has not got much show.
| Because. if they are anything this
| country loves to do 1t is to hand the
raspberry to the little group. Just
intimate that the little group of Sc