Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-10
WEIGHING AND
MODELLING BY
PRES. HARDING
Correspondent Sees Signs of
Impending Republican
Defeat.

Editor Indiana Daily Times-Let's be
done with wiggle and wobble. Let's also
have an end of normally" But it ap-
pears that we are not to hear the last
OF either very soon, nor to escape their
evil effects.
The other day when the bonus" bill
was being considered in the national
House Of Representatives, Representa-
tive LongwOrth arose and very solemnly
and emphatically stated that he had just
come from an interview with the Presi-
dent, and he felt very sure that Mr..
Harding would sign the bill then under
discussion, If it passed through Congress.
Thereupon Representative Snyder arose
and very earnestly and conyincingly as
sured his fellow Representatives that he,
too. had consulted the President and
that he felt sure that the President
would not sign such a bill. SO it still
wiggle wobble, and so 1t has been from
the beginning. All through the last cam
paign hardly any two men could under
stand Mr.. Harding's position alike. The
people witnessed the amazing spectacle
Of men high up in the councils Of the
Republican party running up and down
the country telling the voters to elect
Harding and kill the League Of Nations,
while men Just as prominent and infuen-
tial In the party, were assuring the
voters that the only way to get the
League of Nations was to elect Mr. Har-
ding. 1t Will he remembered by most
people that at one stage OF the cam
paign Senator William E. Borah Le-
came so disguised with the policy Of
wiggle-wobbie that he got off the stump
and went home. By the way, it has been
pretty clearly demonstrated that Mr..
Borah was about the only honest one in
the whole bunch, and l venture TO say
that be has, without doubt, been very
sorry a good many times for the part
be played in the election Of Mr. Harding.
There has never been in the entire his
tory Of the Republic a campaign so
ridiculous and dishonest, conducted by
any party, as that conducted by the Re
publicans in 1920. Millions Of men and
women voted for Mr., Harding fully le-
LeyIng that he would put America into
the League Of Nations, while other mil
Hons voted for him just as sure that be
would not.
Mr.. Harding wiggle-wobbled himself
Into the presidency by an enormous ma
jority and now it seems that he will
wiggle- wobble himself out by about the
same vote.
We have the Boston Transcript, the
ablest Republican pc per Of New England,
telling the President very bluntly that he
and Congress are leading the party to
certain defeat and disaster, Munsey's
New York Herald, the New York gri-
bune, the Philadelphia Public Ledger
and others are all singing the same sad
and mournful song. 1t is significant
that these papers are distressed because
they see certain defeat coming to the
Republican party, and that they do not
seem to mind that their policy OF wiggle-
wobtle and vacillation has brought IN
paralIeled disaster upon the country
They wiggle wobbled Us out of our
prosperity. They wiggle- wobbled six
million men out Of employment and sent
them webbing down the roads of this
country. begging for bread. They wig
gle wObbled soup houses and bread lines
into most Of our cities and brought
about such serious ccndltlons that men in
tho United States actually fought for
Jobs. They wiggle wolbled US out Of
our good reputation for business integ
rity and high moral standing in the
world and made Of Us the laughing stock
Of all creation, hated and despised by
civilized mankind everywhere They
wiggle-wobbled hundreds of thousands
Of our soldier boys into condition where
they were forced to beg for bread.
Again. say, let's be done with wiggle-
wobble and yacilatIng demagogy and
net back to the Woodrow Wilson brand
Ct statesmanship and prosperity. We
are going to begin next November ly
eIecting an overwhelming Democratic
majority in the next national House Of
representatives.. .
HARVEY q. COLLINS.
Huntington, Ind