Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1922-06-08
WHEN HARDING WISHES HE
WERE NOT THE PRESIDENT

There are times that / wish for a
little while that | were not President
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 possi-
BILE to specify some of the times
when the President would logically
at least, have such wish. For in
stance:
When he reflects upon the expo
sure of his personal appointee po-
litical sponsor and former campaign
manager. Attorney General Daugh-
erty, in connection with the pardon
of Charles w. Morse, reads the de-
mands in the Republican press for
Daugherty's resignation, and the
resolutions by Republican Congress
men for an investigation, noting, as
any intelligent man must, the loss
of public confidence in Mr.. Daugh-
erty as the head of the great De-
partment of Justice.
When he reflects that the seating
of his personal friend and associate,
Senator Newberry, in purchased
seat has been condemned from one
end of the country to the other and
recalls the exclamation of the then
Senator Kenyon, now Judge Ken
yon, 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 Ma. Goldstein, who
admitted taking $4,000 of the Low
den campaign slush fund when a
candidate for delegate to the Re-
publican National Convention.
When he reflects upon the gen
eral protest against the leasing of
the last of the naval oil reserves to
subsidiaries of the Standard Oil
Trust after they had been set aside
by his predecessors for use of the
oil-burning ships in the navy in
national defense and the oil-burning
ships of the Merchant Marine in the
carrying of American commerce,
and that he assumed personal re-
sponsibility therefor.
When he reflects upon the sorrow
and shame he has cast upon the
lives of old faithful employees of
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing whom he summarily discharged
without warning aid 20 whose pleas
for bearing he refused to listen.
When he recalls his party's prom
ise to reduce taxes and then notes
the fact that the only persons who
have had their taxes reduced are
multi-millionaires and war-proff-
teers
When he recalls the promise Of
his party to revive industry and
trade and then sees a Republican
Congress passir- tariff bill which
will inevitably destroy foreign trade
and work further disaster to Ameri
can industry-the high protective
tariff bill which he himself advo-
Gated.
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 5v mem
bers of his own party.
When he reviews the fifteen
months of the Harding administra-
tion and finds minimum of accom-
plishment almost buried out of sight
under maximum of failure, with
his party breaking up into factions.
and scandals multiplying in his ad-
ministration and the Influential pa
pds of his own party press arraisn-
ed against the principal economic
policy of his administration.
But what's the use. When Presi-
dent Harding declares that there
are times he wishes for a little
while that he We're not President of
the United States he simply shares