Gunnison news-champion., 1922-12-15
MIR. HARDING WORRIES

MIR HARDING WORRIES
New York World
The Republican party has never
l.quldated the progressive insurreetion
Of 1912. which explains why PreSi-
deaf Harding Is watching with 50
many mssgIgLngs the methOdIcal move
meuts Of new Republican left wing.
Roosevelt sold out the Bull Moose
party in 1916 In the hope Of Teyenging
himself on President Wilson, but the
really progressive element that had
followed him IN 1912 vas never deliy-
cred INTO the hands Of the Old Guard,
according 10 the terms OF the bargain.
That was beyond EoOs.yslI's power.
Some Of the FrogreSsiyes who had
supported MIN IN the campaign of
1912. UrUt oter 10 the Democratic par
Is after the betrayal IN 1916. Most
Uf them returned 20 the Republican,
party. but those who were really pro-
g1rsalse from principle and not from
aAp-u.uey, never accepted the status
quo that wa arranged for them by
E0r--ss.L and Perkins. What Eoose-
ve., u-Ttered away vas the Bull
....s party. rather than the FTogrez-
slice Ean-lllau movement, and II Is a
lIuETr..s.g Republican movement
aIIh Which Mr Harding has 10 deal.
], De- rata.. clumsy, 90 be sure, and Is
rar altogether coherent, but /. is quite
a- form Fa5'. a= anything that had
haups--i n rE. faH of 1910 after the
TAFT administration was beaten At the
polls.
It D.. no less formidable because its
u..ng spEt- are Senator BoTah and
Senator II EuI.etLe. who were too
a..-t.ea.ad 20 follow RoOseyelt's
..-..s.mp lu 1912 IN spite Of their
..aasu.rt nppu ilmu 20 Iafts admin
..frnrua. They knew Roosevelt, and
r.naIag Ew. they diatrusted him
/ .rur aalalauIy v.EtIcated their sus-
. rr.a--. They knew he would lead
. rEn lHIra party movement only 20 long
f4- D. promoted his personal political
|-ua.-.a... and that Ls would abandon
I .- t.. ...r.ert that BE- could make more
I -aL.- .lrtaEy arrangements elsewhere.
| Allau they lack Eoosevelt's popularity
/ and .LrT force, they were not born
Is gestrIIag. and they are experienced in
their day and generation. They have
2 SGT o-t on O campaign that may prove
/ fan wugr hazardous 70 Mr.. Harding
and Normally than the organization
|al uo9 party would be, because they
are going 20 fight frst for the control
%. thr Republican program in Con-
r gress.
/ l.; was the Populist uprising in 1892
/ that wrecked the Harrison Admins
/ tration. but the farmers Of that time
had . paHacca Of their own. free silver,
| for their economic troubles as a debt
OF class. This time they have no sim
liar remedy. altho they are again a
debtor class, 80 the Washington insur-
gents are proceeding cautiously, but
no less confidently. They know they
are backed by n formidable body OF
Republican discomfort, and that they
can confidently rely on the mistakes
iof the Harding administration 70
strengthen them from week to week
In the meantime they are taking care
that nothing comes about in the way
Of legislation except with their advice
and consent, and that II is a very
comfortable position for an insurgcn'
group. They have vote power and
none Of the responsibility for organic.
ing program.
II Mr.. Harding is worried, he has /
right to worry. Roosevelt never rep.
resented a real liberalism, but only the
Junker element in the Republican par.
IS plus these pTogTessiyes who Wert
dazzled by promises that were mad,
to be broken. This new insurgency
has roots, and roots that 20 deep mt
the soil. 1t is not dependent on N,
check book of a Perkins. and it docl
not center around the political ambi
tons of one man.
Had MIR Harding been wiser. h,
would have began to worry earlier
He listened too long to the adviser
who told him his 100000 pluralit,
was bill Of sale for the Republican
party.