The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-06-23
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE % 1922
WHEN HARDING WISHES HE
,sWERE NOT PRESIDENT. D.


There are times that I wish or q
little while that I were not Presi-
dent of the United States President
Harding to the Women's Republican
Club of New Jersey.
Recent events in President Hard,
ing's administration make it possible
to specify some of the times when the
President would logically, at least
have such a wish. For instance:
When he reflects upon the expos
ure of his personal appointee, pOliti-
cal sponsor and former campaign
manager, Attorney General Daugher-
ty, in connection with the pardon OF
Charles w. Morse, reads the demands
in the Republican press for Daugh-
erty's, resignation. and the resolu-
tions by Republican Congressman for
an investigation, noting, as any in
telligent man must, the loss of pub
lie condemnation of his appointment
the head of the great Department of
Justice.
When he reflects that the seating of
his personal friend and associate,
Senator Newberry, in a purchased
seat has been condemned from one
end OF the country to the other and
recalls the exclamation of the then
Tudoa
my God! you can never lower the
dignity of the Senate after this day."
When he recalls the general pub
lie condemnation of his appointment
of the notorious Nat Goldstein, who
admitted taking $4,000 of the Low
den campaign slush fund when a can
didate for delegate to the Republican
National Convention.
When he reflects upon the general
protest against the leasing of the last
Of the naval oil reserves to subsidia-
ries OF the Standard Oil Trust after
they had been. set aside by his pre-
decessors for use of the oil-burning
ships in the navy in national defense
and the oil-burning ships of the Mer-
chant Marine in the carrying of Amer
Jean commerce, and that he assumed
personal responsibility therefor.
When he reflects upon the sorrow
and shame he has cast upon the lives
of old and faithful employees of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
whom he summarily discharged with
out warning and to whose pleas for
hearing he refused to listen.
When he recalls his party's prom
fse to reduce taxes and then notes the
fact that the only persons who have
had their taxes reduced are multi
millionaires and war-profiteers.
When he recalls the promise of his
party to revive industry and trade
and then sees a Republican Congress
passing a tariff bill which will inevi-
tably destroy foreign trade and work
further disaster to American indus
try-the high protective tariff bill
which he himself advocated.
When he reflects upon the returns
of the primary elections in Indiana
and Pennsylvania containing "a re-
pudiation of a Do-Nothing Congress
and his own administration by mem
bers of his own party.
When he reviews the fifteen months
of the Harding administration and
finds minimum of accomplishment
almost buried out of sight under
maximum of failure, with his party
breaking up into factions; and scan
dals multiplying in his administration
and the influential papers of his own
party press arraigned against the
principal economic policy of his ad-
ministration.
But what's the use. When President
Harding declares that there are times
he wishes for little while that he
were not President of the United
States he simply shares a wish that
is common to an ever-increasing
number of his fellow-citizens, and
(which, unless there is great improve
ment IN his administration, of which
there are no present signs, threatens
to become general