The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-15
Harding and Wilson

The personal affairs OF Washing
tons leading citizens, Warren G.
Harding and Woodrow Wilson are al
ways of acute interest in the national
capital. They stand in about the same
relation to the people in that city as
do mayors and ex-mayors in the ore
binary community. The frivolities of
the Hardings on the Mayflower and in
their social connections are always
morsels for the gossips. The Wood
row. Wilson's appear almost daily in
the indulgence of automobile trips and
on Saturday nights at Keith's vaude-
vile shows. They are always enthus-
iastically received by the populace, and
there seems to be steady determine
ton to let the ex-president under
stand that Eve love you still" Wash
ington is non-partisan enough so that
the same people give their applause to
both Harding and Wilson. Mr.. Hard
ings appearance would be described
by those who see him constantly as
colder" than when he went into office.
1t is known among politicians that he
takes his duties very seriously. and ma
turally the unusually heavy response
bilities that he has faced have made
him appear careworn at times. If it
were not for the little holidays and re-
laxations that come into his life Mr..
| Harding would not be apt to wear
WE'LL" physically. But the friendly
conspiracy of the White House ply
sician and the family of a president
has saved many chief executive OF
the American nation from a prema-
ture breakdown. This friendly con-
spiracy" got along very we'll with Mr.
Wilson until he went to Europe,
where he renounced his accustomed
golf games, only to collapse beneath
the weight of overwork and public
worries. Perhaps some people are old
enough to remember that as a profes.
sor at Princeton Woodrow Wilson
was a good deal of a bicycle enthus
last, while Warren G. Harding usee
to pitch quoits and indulge in many o
the very ordinary recreations.
Already the political conspirator!
are preparing to push Mr.. Harding in
to the background of political leader
ship. did you hear about the tri
umphs of LaFollette and Beveridge
and Pinchot," they ask-just as thougl
that indicates collapse of good oil
Republicanism And in the Democrat
ic camp the same human gloom-rnak
ers specialize on how Reed in Mis-
souri, "walloped" Wilson. OF course
they admit, Vardaman couldn't hel
losing in Mississippi, because job
Sharp Williams did not want him TO
his successor"
There are so many strings to tn
T political bows that it is impossible
guess which way the next arrows wi
fly. But one thing is certain and that
that the real leaders of the two Of
e parties are the president and the e'
II parties. Even so, it would not be ;
T all strange if these two illustrous gel
Q tlemen felt a good deal of concer
J. about the drift in national affairs an
wonder when and how the country
e to get back to political normally
l. There are as many strange bedte
l. lows as usual in political beds.
IL seems that lot of the old progressi'
le Republicans are determined to be
y Senator Lodge if possible. Form
n Senator Moses Clapp of Minnesota
is leading a group of opponents of Il
peerless man from the Bay State al
he is campaigning Massachuset
against his old colleague in the Sena'
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