The Washington times., 1922-11-04

H%AN#l Mr. y at h a n
Sk', - Ss Miller has been
the chief conser.
WILLIAM HARD vativc Republi.
can ALTERNATIVE"
| to Mr.. Warren Gamaliel Harding
as the next Republican nominee for
| the Presidency. Many extremely in
| fluential Republicans have preferred
| him to Mr.. Harding as the next Re.
publican nominee. II now seems,
! however. that Mr.. Smith will de
| feat him and will thereby eliminate
him from all competition with Mr..
| Harding. What then will happen'
| calculate that what then will
| happen will be that conservative
| Republicans, who do not care for
! Mr.. Harding will turn to Mr.. James
| W. Wadsworth. jr, also OF New
York, and now United States Sena.
tor Mr.. Wadsworth is the ablest,
| perfect conservative in our national
public life. He is much more con.
| srrvatively uncompromising than
Mr.. Harding. He has many friends
and supporters. If Mr.. Smith elmi.
mates Mr.. Miller the eyes of the
right wing of the Republican party
will turn to Mr.. Wadsworth.
| That will be the first change
! which a Democratic e.ection result
in New York will produce in the Re-
publican national camp. The other
one will be in a way directly to the
contrary. 1t will have to do with
improving the political prospects Of
Republican progressives like Hiram
Johnson.
| 1t is not at all really unlikely that
| DR.. Royal :. Copeland. the Demo.
cratic candidate for Senator from
! New York, may defeat William NJ.
! Calder, who is the incumbent Sena-
tor and who is the Republican can.
didate for the succession to his own
seat Mr.. Calder. il is admitted
has his merits. He spends his
time in Washington doing just
about everything that he can for
any individual from New York.
! II the individual Is his constituent,
and II what he wants is not entirely
contrary to what the leaders Of the
Senate may want. then Mr.. Calder
rises early and retires late in his ef.
forts to get him what he wants from
any department, bureau, committee
or subcommittee. Mr.. Calder-as II
has been ably said-is the greatest
alderman that was ever a Senator.
| II happens, however. that Mr..
Calder has to defend three things
witch in certain quarters are max
ing him a lot OF trouble. He has to
/ defend his vote against the bonus.
He has TO defend his vote In favor OF
the compulsory anti-strike provision
which some Senators tried to add to
the Esch- -Cummins transportation
law. And he has to defend his enor-
mously successful efforts at Wash.
ington on behalf Of certain constitu.
ents of his who wanted enormously
high percentages of protection In
the Fordney- McCumber traiff law.
Meanwhile, in opposition to him.
there is DIR. Royal S. Copeland,
health commissioner OF New York,
whom some people have supposed to
be a weak politician because Of his
being a health commissioner and a
doctor and a scientist. DR.. Charles
+. Murphy. the leader of Tammany
Hall, does not share this view OF
DIR. Copeland. He has said to several
people that DIR. Copeland will get
/ even more votes than Alfred f.
Smith, and will lead the ticket"
This would mean that DR.. Cope
land would defeat Mr.. Calder rather
crushingly. That is Mr.. Murphy's
opinion, and report 1t as an opin'
ion. For myself, I notice that DR.
Copeland has the following elements
of strength:
Large numbers Of people regard
him as having conferred great
benefits upon them In regard to
their most precious possession
namely, their physical health. He
has n great reputation rs a reducer
of the death rate and as an adviser
on how to keep alive. New subjects
are more interesting to the average
inhabitant of this world.
In the place DIR. Copeland has
active political ideas and Is in
the Fordney.McCumber tariff law
and is equally opposed to anti-labor
legislation, and. in general, Is pro.
gressive; and this year is pro.
gressive year rather than a conserva
tive one. Moreover, he has tre
mendously increased the amount o:
milk that has been consumed In
New York, and he has earned the
deep gratitude of dairymen and OF
other allied agriculturists. Moreover
he Is a great student Of human
nature. 1 will prove that point.
II illustrates Copeland personally
very well. A man came in to see
him and very angry and talked very
loud. Copeland listened to him and
wrote out note to his secretary and
gave II to the secretary while listen,
ing steadily to the visitor. Present.
", the secretary came back with q
box Of hard candy.
IT like candy" said Copeland, and
took a larpe. hard piece of It.
"Have some." said Copeland.
The visitor took n large, hard piece
and started TO try to consume IL. lie
sucked II and he chewed II. One side
OF his face was very large with II
lie worked at II. And presently his
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