Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-01-27
HARDING HAS JOB AHEAD;
BUT NOT LIKE WILSON'S
Treaty Ratification Fight Looms Ahead In Senate
But President Holds Better Position
Than Predecessor

the league itself was the more eff.
fective. One thing every politician
will concede is that it is easier to in
flame voters against a man than
thing.
Little Hostility to Harding.
There is no such latent hostility
no enmity existing toward Mr.. Hard
ing lying about the country to be
famed into cracking blaze. How
ever much individuals may differ as
to Mr.. Harding as a public man, they
will gree his is a likable personality.
So it is the opponents of the treaties
will have to beat the treaties, not
Mr.. Harding. 1t is a tougher job to
handle
The league was Woodrow Wilson.
Mr.. Harding has effaced himself from
the present conference so complete
ly that it is a source of constant Won
der to the foreigners here. He has
told the delegates to go ahead, he
has confidence in them, and they have
run the show-mainly Mr. Hughes
Such mistakes as the delegation may
have made particularly in the way
the American publicity has been
handled, have been the errors Of the
delegates, not Mr. Harding. There
has been no running of foreigners to
the White House to go over the heads
of the American Representatives. 1t
was evident at the start that such
course would get nowhere. And none
Of the foreigners tried it.
The president has tried to boost
the conference along by always keep
ing to the fore when he speaks, the
Importance of the idea of confer
ence rather than war, as a method
Of adjusting disputes. He has sought
to keep the couulrys eye on the bic
thing, not bubbles All this has
been helpful.
Twice during the conference, the
president has, in the opinion of many,
"gummed the cards" using slang TO
depict what happened. Both Incl
dents grew out of the fact that he
was too detached from the confer
ence, not trying to run it as Wilson
did His incidental reference to his
hope for an association Of nations or
recurring conferences was premature
at the time and did not make for har-
mony at the moment. His utterances
only last week on the Interpretation
of the 4-party pact helped magnify
what otherwise would have passed
over as minor conflict of opinion.
In both instances, the president was
not dipping in to run the show He
was merely trying to boost the game
along and his detachment from the
immediate situation led him to I'M
fortunate expressions he would not
have made otherwise.
Can Play Strong Card.
But when Mr.. Harding carries the
treaties to the senate for ratification
this same elimination of himself from
the conference will prove strong
card. There will be no pride of au-
thorship involved as was 50 contin-
uously charged in the lorx Versailles
treaty debate. There will be no
personal hostilities engendered In.
stead of asking for ratification on the
dotted line, Harding can and will be
the liasion between the delegation
and the senate recalcritants, with
two senators on the delegation to
back him up.
Still another element that must be
weighed in gauging the treaty fight
that is under way is the political sit
uation. Just now only one treaty is
Isigned-the 4power treaty. There
Rub.My- Tism, antiseptic and pain
killer, for infected sores, letter,