The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-06-07
WEEKLY news NOTES
FROM WASHINGTON
Especial Correspondent

Especial Correspondent
Washington, D. c., June 6.-Short-
ly before the election of President
Harding, Senator Lodge, Judge
men, whose names were thought suffi-
ciently impressive to make the people
believe an otherwise improbable tale,
issued statement in which they said
that the way to get into the League
of Nations was to vote for Harding.
1t is far from the province or the in
tention Of this writer to fall afoul of
those who may have their own views
on that momcntous question, but it is
healthful and harmless to laugh and
to rejoice at having been born Mis-
sourian, with all of the inborn in
credulity of that race, of Disciples of
Aristotle. For was it not that great
Greek philosopher who said that "In-
credulity is the source of all wis
DOM? How Lodge and Hughes and
the other twenty must chuckle
at the gulibility of the average voter.
Thousands fell for it.. Thousands are
now falling for that other great piece
of bunkum the Presidents claim to
great economies in the administration
of the government. When this ses-
sion of Congress sadjourns along in
the Dog Days of August, or later, it
will be found that the appropriations
for the support Of the government will
year, and that saturnalia of extra
vagance was also Republicn finan-
cial debauch.
H. H. Kohlsaat, for man years the
editor of Chicago's great Republican
newspaper and the friend of McKin-
ley and Hanna, tells in his autobo-
graphy little tale of Lodge which,
had it been known in the fall of 1920,
would have caused the public to take
with grain of salt his promise that
Harding would lead the country into
the League of Nations. Of course his
manifesto was given out in order to
hold to Harding those Republicans
who favored the League. Kohlsaat
tells how he urged Hanna to show to
Lodge the draft of the financial plank
on which Mckinley was to run-a
plank sawed out in the Offices Of J. P.
NJ. & Co., in Wall Street, just opposite
the New York Stock Exchange. Han
ma swore mighty oath and refused,
saying that Lodge couldn't be trusted
to keep it under his hat, Kohlsaat
Over-persuaded him, however and with
Hanna's reluctant permission, show
ed the plank to Lodge, who begged a
copy on promise fsecrccy. What
was Kohlsaat's chagrin to find that
the Boston papers had it the next
morning with Lodge head-lined as
the author 0 fthe plank, and the AS
sociated Press wiring it to St. Louis
under a Boston date-line. And thus
Lodge slipped under the canvas and
made al Massachusetts believe that
it was hs brain that achieved that
monumental! financial .hocus-pocus that
fooled the people in the year 1896.
Now the question naturally arises,
who engineered the hocus-p pocus Of
1920? No matter who is entitled to
wear the leather medal as the cham
pion bull-shooter of the party, certain
it is that they always have a number
of both experts and amateurs warm
ing up, to take their place in the
pitchers box in case the man assign
ed to the job should blow up.
The Memorial Day exercises in
Washington were very impressive;
the hub and center of the days cele-
bration was at the beautiful Greek
temple of white marble which the peo-
pie hav. erected to commemorate
forever tnc lie ana services OF the
Great Rail Splitter, Abraham Lincoln
This wonderful and cXquisitcly beau
tiful building stands in vast open
space on the bank fthc Potomac, on
an eminencc VOL above the river
level; while its back is toward the
river, it fronts the east, where lies n
long pool in which its beautiful col
ums are reflected. In all the world
there is no more stately memorial
none moro significance, none more
impressive. 1t We given by all the
people, north and south, east and
west, without reference to political
faith or "prcvious condition of scrvi-
tudc.' 1t represents the settled con
viction Of the American people as to
the character and services Of Lincoln.
On Memorial Day it was dedicated in
the presence of many thousands of
people. Able speeches were made by
President Harding, eX-Prcsidcnt Taft
and the negro educator, Motion, who
succeeded Booker Washington as the
head of Tuskcgcc Institute. This |
writer has heard dozens of opinions |
expressed by those who heard all Of
the speeches, and it is no dsparage-
ment Of the others to say that it was
the consensus Of these opinions that, |
of the three eloquent and able speech
cs. Moton's was the most impressive. |
lie made himself Il reputation that
day that will probably stand for
generations as the high water mark |
Of his race.
Even the Washington Post, whose
editor deserted the party of his faith |