The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1923-06-07
What Will President Harding Say?

paign for denomination what will
he talk about?
VIII he undertake to defend the
late unlamented sixty. seventh Con
gress in which his party had a
majority of 100 in the House and
"a in the Senate?
If so, what reply will he make
to the statement of his own Secre
tary of War, Mr.. Weeks, that
"the Legislative branch of our
national government probably was
never at a lower ebb than it is
today" or the statement of Will
r. Wood, Chairman of the Repub
lican Congressional Campaign
Committee, that "thepeople of this
country employed in every voca-
ton and in every character of bust
ness are giving this Congress hell. ;"
How will he answer the charge of
the staunch Republican Boston
Transcript that it was "the worst
Congress in twenty years. or the
Ohio State Journal Rep J which
denounced it as "a cowardly and
inept Congress- or that distin-
guished Republican economist and
publicist, Prof. j: Laurence Laugh
lin, who said, cit is doubtful if
we ever had a Congress more
stupid, dense, unframed in
economic analysis, and unfit for
its job" and many like references
from members of his own party.
Will he undertake to defend the
Fordney- McCumber Profteer's
Tariff act?
If so, what will he say in reply
to the New York Herald (Rep J
which called the wool schedule "a
national scandal" or to the st
Paul Pioneer Press (Rep.) which
said in effect that it was futile
attempt to fool the farmer, or to
the Boston Transcript (Rep.)
which called the Tariff bill "a dis
grace to the party in power and a
menace to Inclination. or to the
Fair Tariff League composed most.
ly of Republicans, whose spokes-
men said of this tariff act that
sit lowers the standards of public
morals; weakens the foundations
of governments, and blights orr
prospects of world leadership" or
to the Republican Chicago Tribune
owned by the family of Senator
Mccormick, Chairman of the
Republican Senatorial Campaign
Committee, which said of the duty
on aluminium "a monopoly con
trolled by the Melons, one of
whom is Mr.. Harding's Secretary
of the Treasury that ''such duty
does not protect; it exploits" or
the Republican Philadelphia Led
ger which said that the tariff bill
was framed by "the reactionary
mind closed to new ideas and new
conditions" and to the hundreds
of other leading Republican news
papers which denounced the pres
ent profiteer's tariff?
viii he praise the m embership
of his cabinet?
If So how will he answer those
Republican papers which have
demanded the resignation of Attor.
ney General Daugherty, that have
denounced Secretary Falls Teapot
Dome Oil Lease as scandle of the
first magnitude, that have CLASH
fed Secretary DENLY as a junket'
eer, have taken him to task for
his own lack of leadership, charged
Secretary Hoover with large
measure of responsibility for the
present speculation in sugar and
have spoken in the most uncomp-
limentary terms of Secretary of
State Hughes for his defense of
Senator Newberry?
Will he praise Republican lead
ers and spokesman of his admins
iteration in Congress?
If so, how will he answer the
Republican Des Moines Qowa)
Register, which called Senator
Lodge "a discredited, disgruntled,
mean spirited, backward looking
cynical old man whose day of useful
ness was over long ago." or the
Republican Manchester IN. H.
Union, which spoke of House
Republican floor Leader Mondell
as lending aid to the enemy "by
his bungling of job which has