The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-11-03
IT SEEMS TOO EARLY TO DISCUSS
A SECOND TERM

The statement by Attorney Genera
Daugherty that President Harding had
not decided to eliminate himself from
| consideration as a candidate for re-
nomination attracted considerable edi-
torial attention because of the close re-
lationship between the two men. In
some quarters 1t was assumed that the
| announcement really was directed at
Governor Miller of New York and other
| potential presidential timber whose
| friends have been sounding their praises
as possibilities.
''Any man serving his first time in
the presidency, we suspect, has his mo-
ments of depression when he longs to
be we'll out of it," argues the Columbus,
o., STATE JOURNAL, Rep). The
burdens are terrible. the criticism is
whitening, the discourag ements are
grinding. The trials Of the office are
crushing, but the honor and the power
are great and he would be rare man,
indeed, who, having attained the presf-
dency. would voluntarily lay it aside.
President Hardings health seems to be
standing the strain well and he probably
knows that most of the fierce denuncia-
tons of his administration are not aim
ed at him personally but at congress and
it's record and at some few of the men
he has about him. He has his own
enemies and detractors, Of course, but
there is reason to believe that his own
personality is generally liked by the
people," There is belief voiced by the
Worcester, Mass, GAZETTE, Ond.) that
Mr.. Daugherty speaks up and the ad-
nainistration watches the trial balloon"
and the GAZETTE holds that 'if Mr..
Harding finds that there is healthy de-
mand for a second term he is human
enough to shape his course toward that
goal On the other hand, he is no fight
err. and is less in love with his job, prob
ably, than any other president we have
had for some time. If he becomes con-
WINGED that there is but slight de-
mand for him to lead the Republican CO.
horts again he probably will heave sigh
of relief and begin TO think OF the good
times coming at Marion"
The Minneapolis, Mimi, MORNING
(Rep.). is another paper
which listens attentively to what Mr.
Daugherty said because he has been
very close to the President in the politi-
cal sense-so close in fact that his APP
pointment to the post he now holds was
criticized as the payment of a personal
political debt If at the end of another
year or so it should be generally deemed
that the Harding administration has
been notably successful. it is almost in
evitable that the Republican party
would feel like drafting the President
to run again If he were not volunteer.
1t is in line with the presidents utter
ances for him to say that If his admins
tration does not measure up to the re-
quirements of the day it should be re-
placed by, another. Like all his prede- |
President Harding has made his |
but the fair thing is to wait |
and see how the ledger of debts and |
credits stands a year from next spring" |
Because it was Sentiment and not |
politics" that led the president to pur |
,hase his family's old farm property at |
Grove, Ohio. the Milwaukee, |
Wis. SENTINEL, Uep). holds that it |
vas unfair 10 asCribe an intention of re- |
iriuS TO that simple transaction and