The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-30
DAILY NEWS LETTER
By GEORGE R. HOLMES, International News Service Staff Cor
 


 respondent. Washington, Oct. 30.-Along in the autumn of 1920, when it became ap- i parer.t that only sudden death could prevent Warren G. Harding from be- coming the twenty-ninth President of the United States he was rendered a
 respondents at the old Marion Club, then the centre of political and social
 aetiivies of his home town.
 In the oourse of that dinner Mir Harding was continuously referred to and addressed as MT President
 And while he himself never had any serious doubts as to his election, he barrassed fby his new title.
 He made a little speech that night that was, never reported, but one that will long be remembered by those present It could hardly be dignified by the term 'tspeech''-it was rather an intimate chat among fellow news papermen-
 You know said MT Harding. as he traced patterns on the tablecioth with his fork, T don't kid myself that l am going to make the best
 I'd like to think so, but my common sense tells me I probably won't However, do honestly believe | there is one thing I excel in. That is in bringing men together, maintaining peace and restoring peace when once it's been shattered. I've been called among other things in a somewhat lieve I am.
 T can bring divergent minds to- gether-minds tkat perhaps are some what better than my own. If I have forte, it is that. And it seems to me today-we'Ve had too much pickering and quarreling among persons in the public eye."
 That was in 192o-a montbs before election.
 The two years that have gone by l since that dinner seem to have l borne out the truth of MT. Harding's estimate Of his own powers. Mir. Harding's administration is nearly two years old, and there has been just one
 change in the Cabinet that he took l with him into the White House. Of the ten men that comprised his first Cabinet only one has gone-WiII 1 H. Hays, the Postmaster General and Hays left not because of any personal 1 or political difficulties with his chief l but because he had a chance to make
 young fortune in the movies. 1 MT. Harding has had differences l with various individuals in his Cabinet 1 many of 'em-but they have all been | of such a nature as to preclude bitter | ness or open breaks. It is said of him that he is most amiable when he is having an argument with one of his official family
 MT. Wilson used to have differences with the members of his Cabinet that led to resignations and dis1nissaIs and scars. MT Harding has had argu- ments over policies with nearly every one of his official family but through them an the thread of amiabilitv and frfendliness has been kept unbroken He calls half of his official family by ] their first names.
 Not only in his official family. but in his party generally Mr Harding has managed to keep away from ser
 ious breaks. At any rate, no Repub-
 Heans have been read out of the
 party whatever may be their views
 on ex1stlng questions and however di- Vefgent they may be from those en- | tertained by the White House. It IS MT. Harding's philosophy that the Republican tent *~ big enough for all to get under" Right now there are under the tent such contra sts
 as Lynn J. Frazier, the ex-Non-Parti- san League Governor of North Dakota ana El1hu Ro t; Colonel Smith W, Brokhart, Of Iowa, and Charles Evans Hughes;. James B. Watson and Albert J. Beveridge, political enemies for 30 years; Herbert Hoover and Hiram Johnson; Robert M. La Toilette and Harry M. DaugF erty-the list runs on end1eSsly.
 There have been and still are nu-
 merous scraps" between the various members of the Cabinet A1hert R Fall has been at loggerheads with Charles D. Hughes for two years over,
 Mexico; Henry w. Wallace has had a row with Fall over forestry policies: Andrew w. MelIonrs fiscal policies nave met with strong opposition in the Cab1net-but none of them have
 been allowed to go to the point of | rupture.