The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-06-16
MAY DROP WORLD
COURT ISSUE soon
ONE MORE SPEECH, AND HE MAY
DROP THE SUBJECT.
BLOCK SENATE CALENDAR
Constant Circulation Of Rumors BY
Republican Leaders Who Resent
Presidents independence
Anglers White House.

Washington.-On top Of the persis
tent rumors inspired by Republican
senators within the last few days that
President Harding had capitulated to
the irreconcilables on the world court
issue for the sake of party unity,
there came more definite report
from what is ordinarily considered
reliable authority, that the president
intends to drop his court program al
most Immediately.
A prominent Republican senator
from a middle western state, who is
a strong reservationist, asserted with
positiveness following visit at the
White House that the president will
make one more speech setting forth
why he thinks it advisable for the
United States to join the couA and
that therefore he does not intend to
urge it. Announcement has already
| been made that the first speech Of
| the president en- route to Alaska
| that at st. Louis-would be devoted
| to the subject. According to his lat.
est information that is to be the last
| CuO SOuhIly may OAPCSI W AiSetA AioAA
it's chief executive in advocacy of the
| world court plea.
Notwithstanding the apparent relia-
bility Of the report prominent Repub-
licans and other advocates of the
| court doubt If the president will let
| the world court drop out of sight so
easily even if he is planning to ca
pitulate, which seemed unlikely in his
letter to Bishop Gailor Of Tennessee.
They think the most plausible stand
| in the event he does not care to ex-
ert unusual pressure, would be to
leave further responsibility for it
with the reservationists and irrecon.
cilables in the Senate.
| One plan already has been dis.
cussed for such procedure by which
the matter would be buried in
definitely on the foreign relations
there on one pretext or another, do.
mestic Issues, such as the railroad
agricultural and labor PROBLEMS would
be engineered into first place on the
| Senate calendar and block the way to
consideration Of the world court.
It is worthy of note that the ac-
| cumulating accounts of Mr.. Harding's
surrender to party expediency invari
ably issue from those Republicans
who have been outwardly loyal but in
| wardly disloyal to the president all
along The are Of the old guard con
tingent who are terrified by the presi
dents escape from their domination
and they are always unwilling to al
low their names to be openly attached
to their reports Of retrieved influence
at the White House. A few days ago
one of this number inspired the an
nouncement after a call on the presi
dent, that Mr.. Harding would urge
consolidation of the railroads both
during his Alaskan trip and in his
next message to Congress. Mr.. Hard
ing took the trouble to correct this
by issuing word through the White
House news dispenser that he was
competent to announce his own in
tentions himself and since he had not
seen fit to make any such declaration
of his own accord, others might safs
ly be regarded as unfounded
Both the Democrats and the irrec-
oncilables agree that the old guards
inspiration for these false accounts
must spring from one source-desper-
alton at Mr. Harding's independence.
They agree further that the president
cannot back down on his world court
stand without doing a somersault that
will make him ridiculous.