The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-17
coURTING MORE DEFEAT

In calling Congress into extra SEES
sion to pass the ship subsidy legisla-
ton and enact other laws he is desir-
Gus of placing on the books, does
President Harding think he will have
any greater control over Congress
now than he had during its last SEES
sion? Have the elections over the
country contributed to the strength
and magnetism of his leadership?
Mr.. Harding is counting failure in
his attempt to assert in his weakest
hour leadership that never existed
even in his strongest hour. The Pres
ident went into Office on the promise
that he wuold not interfere in the
business of the Legislative Depart
ment, and the legislators have held
him to his promise; they have not ex-
pccted nor brool1ed interference. Sad
~ enough, but too late, Mr.. Harding
discovered that the work of the Elk
ecutive and Legislative Department is
SO correlated and intertwined that, for
the President to be a forceful Exec
utive, he must be an active advisor
and leader of Congress, says The Ma
con Telegraph.
The people look to the President
as well as to Congress in their desire
for certain legislation. If it is, not
forthcoming, the President as well as
Congress is blamed. The mistakes
and omissions Of Congress fall upon
The shoulders Of the President as we'll
as upon its own; and where the Chief
Executive does not ifSa large sense
theoretically and forcefully guide
Congress, he is looked upon as a weak
President and inefficient. = In giving
ear to a quarrelling Congress that
was weed at President Wilson-as it
had been at President Roosevelt-for
making continued demands upon it to
secure the passage of laws the Exec
utive thought the people wanted, Mr..
Harding became a hands-off- Congress
candidate and President. And now
the people revolt, since they find no
strength in their Chife Executive.
The Old Guard selected Mr.. Hard
ing for the Presidency because they
did not want Leader; they desired
to lead, themselves. For two years
they have led, and they have just
been rebuked by the people for the
nature of that leader,lip. Even the
dyed-in-thewool Republican Boston
Transcript declares that "instead of
shouldering the obligations imposed,
instead of proceeding with dispatch
and diligence to obey the letter and
spirit of the mandate which resulted
from the great and solmen referen-
dunn of November, 1920, the party in
power has neglected its opportunities,
faltered in the face of grave and
pressing problems, played fast and
loose with the veterans of the Great
War, goose-stepped before organized
bands of noisy minorities, enacted a
tariff bill that we have repeatedly
said is "a disgrace to the Republican
party and a menace to the nation
lnsulted the intelligence and infiamed
the passion of the electorate in MANY
parts of the country by appointments
to Office that are indefensible on any
score. Nothing but good
should come from the wigging people
have given the party in power; it was
not only deserved, but timely; if the
warning it involves is needed during
the next two years, the Republicans
may win in 1924-but if it is not, the
party deserves nothing short of coun-
try-wide defeat"
The time to have manifested vigor
Gus Presidential leadership was be-
fore tht elections after!