The New York herald., 1922-05-05

slightest difficulty in reaching the con-
clusion that the Republican party
would not only lose control of the
House of Representatives but that IL
was in danger of surrendering the
Senate. with the certainty of turning
the White House over to a Democratic
President.
The President kept his hands off the
Indiana primaries and the outside lead
ers of the party declare he will receive
as loyal support from Mr.. Beveridge
as he has always held in the case of
Mr. New.
The effect of the Indiana incident
on the Republican legislators mind
was quite as confused to-day as when
the defeat of Mr.. New became known
yesterday. The latter was highly es-
teemed by his party associates and
naturally the dominant sentiment in
the Senate and House favored him..
His associates believed the personal
friendship existing between the Presi.
dent and Mr.. New and their own good
will would exercise a favorable influ-
ence on the Indiena voting mind. Dis
illusionment on this score carried at
least one lesson which was not en-
tirely lost 1t was that citizens of the
Hoosier State were not favorably inn
pressed by the record of Congress.
The realization of this obvious fact
was largely responsible for the anxiety
OF members of the two houses who
must win party approval in tho pri-
inaries and State conventions to be
held during the next three or four
months. Members of Congress con-
vinced themselves that If the electors
of the country had any grounds for
complaint it was against the Harding
Administration pro- oked by dissatis-
faction with the executive and not the
legislative wings of it,
The Indiana result is properly in
terpreted as proving just the other
thing plus wholly natural reaction
against the party in power whether 1t
be republican or Democratic-the
same sort as was expressed in tie
PRESIDENTIAL contest two years ago.
The one feature which most greatly
disturbed Congressional candidates for
reelection was that it opened the way
for the sending of other statesmen to
keep company with Mr.. New. Party
leaders who have been snubbed and
ignored by Republican Senators and
Representatives during the last eight
cen months privately expressed the
hope that the voters in other States
Will retire some of their legislative
spokesmen who are much less poprl-
lar, but great deal more trouble
some than was the senior Senator
from Indiana who was defeated by Mr.
Beveridge.
"Never Would BE Missed.v
1t is the belief of these men that
some of the leaders in the two houses
who have been perniciously active In
discrediting the policies of the Ad-
ministration and repudiating the con-
vention pledges of the party can b~
retired to private life without involv-
ing any serious loss to TIE interests
of the national organization or to the
Government.
Some of these legislative leaders
have openly rebelled against the Ad-
ministration policies which were in na
wise impugned by popular Judgment
as expressed in primary and election
contests held during the last six
months. Tie manipulation of the
party machinery in the House by
Leader Mondell, Chairman Fordney
Of the Ways and Means Committee,
Chairman Madden of the Appropria.
tions Committee, and few others o:
lesser note, for their own personal
benefit. was declared by outside lead
ers to have wrought tremendous dam
age to the party as a whole.
In the opinion of these leaders
Messrs. Mondell. Fordney, Madden and
half a dozen others who have under
taken to initiate and execute party
policies in defiance of wiser judges
can very well be spared from Con-
gress. Every act which has resulted
in embarrassment to the Administra-
ton is attributed by the outside lead
ers to politically selfish motives of the
bosses OF the lower house.
The insistence on the bonus, which
will make ii impossible for the party
to keep it's pledges of economy and
retrenchment, is only one of the We
hicles used to embarrass the Admins
tration and President Harding. The