The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-09
Bitter Campaign Which Will Be Waged Between Johnson And Coolidge Is Certain To Cause Serious Trouble ISSUES BETWEEN TWO HAVE BEEN MADE PLAIN World Court Question Is Des- tined To Be A Big Trouble Maker For Leading Party Aspirants
By RAYMOND CHAPTER tLeaSed Wire to The Age-HeraId)

WASHINGTON, Dec Son the question: of foreign policy. the re- publican party is divided as it was in 1920, but with less prospect of in- ducing truce for the period of the campaign.
 The bitter campaign over this is sue. which will be waged by Hiram Johnson against Coolidge, is certain to leave wounds which will be diff cult to heal after the nomination is decided and the party tries to pull itself together for the fight against the democrats. Unless the situation with respect to the presidential can- didates changes materially either Coolidge or Johnson will be the re- publican nominee. Coolidge is flatly committed to the court and Johnson is equally pledged against 1t. There fore the chances of compromise position during the campaign are minimized.
 To the public, the world court issue may seem somewhat academic and lacking sufficient vitality to cause party schism. But it must be remem- bered that a number of powerful political personages are afflicted with a League of Nations complex. AS NtHdlOi POi dH ItCtnIiH CApl CSoCd it, many of the irreconicilables are suffering from shell shock. So that violent emotions are aroused by the very meitfon of the world court, I nicA was provided for in the LeasuS @; &ations covenant,
 Sharp Line Of Cleavage.
 There is still the sharp line of cleavage between these constituting +l, -H idge, Hughes, Hoover and Root-and the anti-court group, embracing Hiram Johnson, Lodge, Moses, Nc Cormack and most of the irreconcil- able ring. Borah believes that the Harding Hughes reservations safe guard the United States against the league and he is ready to support Coolidge-with those reservation. But otherwise, the line of demarca ton between pre-league republicans and anti-league republicans holds with respect to the world court.
 Then. too, Hiram Johnson, for various reasons, finds the court issue well adapted to his purposes and in- tends to keep it before the country.
 Some have thought that Coolidge in his message endorsed the court with his fingers crossed" but Coolidge would not be guilty of any such mental dlSnoneSty.a IT ne had not De- lieved the court was a good thing for the United States to join, he would have said so. even thought it, might have meant the resignation of Secretary of State Hughes, it must be accepted that Coolidge is for the court sincerely and will work to ob- tain American partieipa tion-that is, he will work as hard for it as his theory of executive non-interference with Congress permits.
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 Hughes Tenacious Man.
 Furthermore. Secretary of State Hughes is tenacious person and having set out to join the tribunal, he will bang away at it as long as he is Secretary of State.
 Also the democrats intend to ex- ploit this difference within the op- posing party to the fullest extent. They will prod Senator Lodge when ever the opportunity offers and ask him why the protocol is not reported out of the foreign relations commit tee as desired by the President.
 So that the world court issue is destined to be an active issue and a serious trouble maker for the party until the next election is over.