The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-07-07
WHEN HARDING WISHES
WERE NOT PRESIDENT


There are times that wish fer a
little while that I were not Presi-
dent of the United State-President
Harding to the Women's Republic
can Club of New Jersey.
Recent events in President Hard
ing's administration make it posi-
BILE to specify some of the times
when the President would logically,
at least, have such a wish. For in
stance:
When he reflects upon the expos
ure of his personal appointee, polit-
ical 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 a 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 Kenyon.
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 Nat Goldstein, who
admitted taking $4,000 of the Low
den campaign slush fund when a
candidate for delegate to the Repub-
lican National Convention.
| When he reflects upon the general
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 Ma
tional defense and the oil-burning
ships of the Merchant Marine in the
carrying of American commerce,
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sponsibility therefor.
When he reflects upon the sorrow
and shame he has cast upon the lives
of old and faithful employees of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
whom he summarily discharged
] without warning and to whose pleas
for a hearing he refused to listen.
When he recalls his party's prom
Use to reduce taxes and then notes
the fact that the only persons who
have had their taxes reduced are
multi-millionaires and war-profi-
teers.
When he recalls the promise of
his party to revive industry and
trade and then sees a Republican
congress passing a tariff bill which
will inevitably destroy foreign trade
and work further disaster to Amer
lean 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 repu-
diation of a Do-Nothing Congress
and his own administration by
members Of his own party.
When he reviews the fifteen
months of the Harding administra-
ton and finds a minimum of accom-
lplishments almost buried out OF
sight under a maximum of failure
with his party breaking up into fac
tions, and scandals multiplying in
, his administration and the inf1uen-
tial papers of his own party press
. arraigned against the principal
: economic policy of his administra-
ton.
| But what's the use When Presi-
Ident Harding declares that there are
times he wishes for a little while
that he were not President of the
United States he simply shares a
wish that is common to an ever-in-
creasing number of his fellow-citi-
zens, and which, unless there is
great improvement in his admins
! tration, of which there are no pres