The Washington times., 1923-03-07
PARTIES LINING
UP FOR 1924
CA|NPMG
G. O. P. Will Stand on Harding
Record-Democrats Flay
Administration.

| Record-Democrats Elay
Administration.
By GEORGE F. DURNO,
International News Service Staff
Correspondent.
With the halfway mark of the
Harding Administration passed
and with the Sixty-seventh Con-
gress .relegated to history, lead
ers of the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties are losing no time
in making plans for the launching
of the 1924 campaign. Work in
the two camps got under. way
.feyerishly today in order that the
big guns might be ready for their
opening assault early in the sum-
mer.
Record Is Checked.
The absence of President Harding
from the Capital, along with chief.
| tians of both of the major parties,
has caused something of lull in
the actual stirring of the political
| pot, but the scouts and observers
! who remained are busy-and will
continue to be busy-sizing up the
situation
Achievement of the. Harding
| regime. to- date are being carefully
| and alphabetically catalogued by
| the Republicans SO the nation may
| be greeted, this summer with the
| usual election oratorical broad
side, Preliminary instructions are
| being doled out to the party work.
erS and organizers, and, by the COM
| ing of summer, the long trek that
| ends at the polls will be under
| way.
Failures Of the Republican adj
ministration are being chronicled
| by the Democrats for similar ma
| tional consumption. Chairman Cor
dell Hull, of the Democratic ma
| tional committee, is busy organizing
! Democratic clubs throughout the
| country and finding orators to
spellbind them All signs point to
Ia big opening in June
To Confer i'm Florida.
President Harding personally is
expected to blaze the way for his
party. With the President in
| Florida are his two foremost politi-
| cal !. advisors, Attorney General
| Daugherty and Secretary of War
| Weeks. and from a month of con-
| ferences between this trio, it is be-
| heved here, will come at least
] fairly definite understanding as to
| the manner of handling the coming
campaign.
Present plans will take the Presi-
| dent out of Washington in early
June for a two of three months
swing around the country during
which he hopes to deliver at least
twenty major speeches.
American participation in the
Court of international Justice and
the question of ship subsidy already
are assured of an important place
! in the speaking agenda, but equally
so will be an enumeration of the
not inconsiderable achievements of
the first two years of the Harding
Administration.
AS seen by the White House eyes,
the outstanding accomplishments,
all settling finally into what is con-
sidered a remarkable recovery from
postwar depression, are:
First, and foremost, the. solution
of the unemployment problem.
From, four and half to five mil
lion unemployed at the advent of
the Harding administration, it is
claimed, the country today finds
itself with "half a million jobs
looking for workers"
Second, the easing of. the credit
situation by prompt reversal of
extreme and drastic deflation," to-
gether with an effective encourage
| ment of the development OF foir.'Sn
| demand and markets for Amer ~ln
{ agricultural products.
| Third, an actually upward tend
ency in wages. Following some
early wage reductions" it is said,
| 1.-The tendency for long period
! now has been upward rather than
| downward"
! Democratic claims do not exactly
| coincide with these assertions. In
two years, the headquarters here
set forth, the Republican Govern
ment has failed TO advance
single constructive policy-foreign
| or domestic Democrats declare
/ the Harding administration has:
| ]. Adopted a tariff which STILES
rather than fosters American trade.
2. Revised the tax laws only for
| the benefit of the millionaire and
| profiteer.
| 3. Failed to formulate a merchant
marine policy based on sound busir
ness and patriotic policies.
| 4, Formulated no foreign policy.
Taken no step toward the promised
|"AssOciation of Nations"
| 5. Convinced no policy looking to
restoration of foreign markets to
American producers.
| 6. Blocked the Muscle Shoals
Ford project which would have
given the farmer cheap fertilizer,
| 7. Failed to solve the transporta-
| ton problem.
These statements of position will
mark the basis of the opening Of
the campaign by both parties, and.
according to both headquarters. the
campaign is to be prosecuted so
the full limit of money and time"