The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-06-15

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among Republican politicians to ditch
Harding as the party, standard bearer
in 1924 furnishes the latest sensation
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Attacks by the Republican natl Oilal
committee on the Republican admins
istration feature an amazing situation
which indicates two things.
Revolt by a powerful faction In the
| Republican machine against the
Hughes, Hoover control of Harding.
Fear by large number, of party
leaders that denomination of Harding
will mean Republican defeat and pos
sibly- overthrow of the machine by the
PrOgreSSiVeS. - +
- This anti-Harding faction has chos-
len the world court issue to spike the
machinery put in running for the
presidents denomination. :
There is no. Disgusting of, the fact
that the national committee hates
Hughes and is equally bitter against
Hoover. 1t, holds these two. who are
the chief spokesman for the internaa
tional bankers and other big. business
interests in the, Administration, to
blame for Harding's world court COM
pick. - 49,
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The sensational statement of Ma
tional Republican Chairman John T.
Adams in which he plainly implied
that the Republican party does not
support the world court or any form
of foreign alliance was interpreted as
attacking Secretary of State Hughes
directly and the president indirectly.
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publicity issued from national party
headquarters denouncing the allies
and charging them with ''jobbing" the
| United States out of $250,0OO,0 900.
Through this statement the official Re-
publican, news service announced to
the public that the Republican state
department was about to give up try
ing to collect the cost of maintaining
the American army on the Rhine.
! According to gossip, Hughes whisk-
erS curled when he saw this statement
and he ran over to the white house
to demand that the president use the
big stick to have it withdrawn. In its
embarrassment. the administration
tFle to make lit appear that the
bright young publicity man of the ma
tiOnal committee was responsible.
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But it reckoned without Chairman
Adams. The latter in his statement
1 made clear that the attack on the
allies was meant as an official utter
| ance of the national committee.
No one here believes that Adams
spoke for himself alone when by inn
plicatioh he attacked the presidents
world court plans is a cautious
politician without the force or initia-
tive to originate an unprecedented rdi-
| Yergence between the head of the Re
publican national committee and the
president, YEho7is the real head of the
party. Using. him as their nlouthpiece
arei p0werfah politicians who feel. the
same desire not 70 arenOminate Hard
ing as existed, in the party. when Ben
IanllR Harrison sought 2 second term.
,7sEheE regard the president as lack
ing an aggressiveness and believe that
his world court issue Will be drowned
by the thunder of La Toilette, Borah
and other PrOgressives as they clamor
for action on the big. domestic, issues.
Senator Curtis of Kansas, Republican
whip, has returned to Washington an
nouncing loudly that the people out
west are interested most in the rail-
road question, when the prices of food
and coal are coming down and when
crop prices are going up. 1
The latest development is announce
ment from the white house that the
president isn't going to ask Chairman
Adams to resign and the national COM
mittee isn't going to issue any more
embarrassing statements. In undiplo-
matte language this truce means no
more public washing of G. o. P. dirty
linen. All the dirty business will be
done in the secret councils of the par
ty hereafter. The white house also
emphasized that the president would
speak as loudly as ever on the world
court issue. Chairman Adams YER
sion of the truce had not been heard
up to the time of this writing. 1t was
strongly intimated in Republican
quarters that the president did not
dare ask for Adams resignation
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