The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-15
DECLARES HARDING
FACES ONE Of HIS
HARDEST BATTLES.
Upham Says However Presi-
dent Will Be Nominated.
Johnson Silent
by RALPH IL. TURNER
(Lensed Wire to The Aee-HeraIdo

LONDON, June 14.-President
Harding faces one of the greatest
battles for denomination that a re-
publican president has ever expert
enced. in the opinion of Fred Upham,
treasurer of the republican national
| committee. But, according to Up
ham, former Secretary of the Inter-
Tor Albert Fall and Ambassador Alec
| Moore all of whom are gathered
| here Harding will be renominated
and the battle will not effect split
such as to bring third party.
To this latter belief Hiram John
be housed under the roof of the same
London hotel harboring the other re-
publican leaders. would seem to lend
support. Arriving here on the last
leg of his European tour, the stormy
| Californian said he knew nothing
of any third party movement. The
fact that few friends were plan
ming a reception for him upon his
arrival back in New York, he added
| has nothing to do with any third
party movement.
To Fight World Court g Ct
In the opinion of Upham the big
| fight facing Harding will center
largely in the world court issue.
That johnson is returning to Amer
lea prepared to take up his cudgels
against the court where he dropped
them just before leaving for Europe,
was indicated by him here. He sig
nificantly stated that he could not
believe Senator Spencer of Missouri
uttered the words attributed to him
recently in Washington that "Sena-
tor Johnson seems to have some
foreign relations" Furthermore,
other members OF the republic
can quartet now here voiced the con-
viction that johnson is returning to
the United States not a whit altered
in his views on foreign relations
But from all indications Johnson's
fight on the court will begin and end
with the republican platform plank
covering this point. The party lead
ers pulled the ground from under
| him in 1920 when they met his re-
quirements on the League of Ma
lions plank depriving him of the is
sue upon which he expected to make
a dramatic fight from the conven-
ton floor. They will be able to do
so again on the world court in 1924.
if, indeed, that issue is not salts
factorily disposed of before then.
johnson Won't Talk. y
1t would seem that Ambassador
Moore, who sailed from America with
johnson, was still continuing his ef
forts at least to be nice to the re-
calcitrant johnson across the Span
ish border to London but whether he
was successful in smoothing john
sons feathers was not disclosed.
Certainly Moore regards Johnsons
views on the world court and foreign
relations in general as unaltered
from what they were before the SEN
ator sailed. Johnson refused to COM
ment on either American or Eurb
pean politics. declaring that he did
not believe in telling Europe how to
manage her affairs any more than
Europeans should tell Americans
how to conduct themselves.
He took occasion in conversation
with an English journalist, to pass
| a dig at the remark recently at
tributed to Premier Stanley Baldwin
| on certain Americans after his re-
| turn from the United States. Re-
| counting the numerous corners of
Europe which he had visited Johnson
snapped out that he had enjoyed
some of the "bucolic" country dis
tricts even more than the cities.
This reference, however to the
words of Baldwin was apparently
| lost on the Englishman. At least it
was ignored.
Johnson will remain here until
mid-July.