The Omaha morning bee., 1923-10-30
Hughes Has
Free Hand
in Debt Plan
lsolationists' Power Nil. but
Move Is Seen as Chance for
Johnson to Seek
Presidency.
Envoy Tool Of Secretary
by Mark Sullivan.

plan. and all that Mr.. Hughes has
in mind as a present step toward
action about Europe, can be accom-
rlished by him within his functions
of secretary of state without embar-
rassment from the senate. and there.
fore without embarrassment from the
jrreconcilables and isolationists of his
own party. In this respect it is un-
like the world court for internatioal
justice, unlike several other steps to-
ward internal ational cooperation as to
which his hands are tied by the sen.
ate and the senate committee on for
eign relations.
But while the irreconcilables are
powerless to interfere with Mr..
Hughes officially, their reaction to
beis present step is one of hostility not
less intense than they have shown to
every similar attempt since and in
cluding the league of nations. De-
-Nelopments within the few days since
Mr.. Hughes published his note, make
it almost certain that the friends of
Hiram Johnson. who have been bring.
ng the strongest kind of pressure
on him to throw his hat in the ring
for the republican presidential nomi-
nation, have found in the present
episode the means of bringing their
hopes TO fruition.
1t will not be surprising if Hiram
johnson is candidate against Cool
fdge for the republican nomination
within the next three weeks. 1t will
be surprising If he is not. What
issue to furnish justification for
his announcing his candidacy. His
friends had hoped that this issue
would be found in President Cool
idge's annual address to congress in
December. While they held this as
q hope. they held it also as a fear,
because the date of this annual mes
sage on the assembling of congress
in December will be just a little late
for the announcement of Johnson s
candidacy to be made with the best
advantage.
Under the circumstances. 1t can be
talsen as almost certain that the de-
prrslopments of last week will be made
The basis for formal activity on the
part of Johnson's friends within
very short time. They have been
piqued and disturbed that Gov.
Clifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania was
about TO find in prohibition enforce.
ment an issue justifying the first
opposition to Coolidge's nomination,
before johnson was able to find one
in the field of foreign relations. As
things stand today 1t is extremely
probable that both Pinchot and john
son will be in the field in a formal
sense within a short time.
And once these two are in the
field several others will follow.
Related to Mr.. Hughes affirmative
gesture toward Europe is dissatis-
faction with the appointment OF ex-
Senator Kellogg OF Minnesota to be
aynba seador to Great Britain. The ir-
rsconcilables and the isolationists
hold this post to be key position
on the firing line in the fight against
what they call foreign entanglements.
They want this key position to be
held at all times by a man who shall
be no less irreconcilable than Colonel
Harvey has been.
With Senator Kellogg in this posi-
ton they feel that the attitude OF
the last two years will be reversed
and that the constant leaning of the
administration ambassador to Great
Britain will now he in the direction
Of cooperation rather than isolation.
For this reason there Ia strong dis
appointment over Kelloggs selection.
pat disappointment will be expressed
jn| the senate when Mr.. kelloggs
rame comes up for confirmation, but
i. will not be sufficiently strong to
prevent the ratification of the ap
pointment.
from the irreconciiables on account of
Mr.. Kellogg's affirmative attitude
toward Europe, and partly from the
radicals. like Senator Lafollette, be-
cause OF Mr.. Kellogg's conservative
attitude on public affairs generally.
Probably the determining influence in
the selection OF Mr. Kellogg was the
desire TO find somebody from the
west.
As things have been in the present
administration all our ambassadors
have been chosen from eastern states'
The most western Of them has been
our ambassador to France, Mr.. Her
rick, who comes from Ohio. The
fact, coupled with the present pre-
ponderance of the east and particu'
Iarly Massachusetts in the high places
of the government generally has
caused dissatisfaction among western
republicans. But while Senator kei.
iogg is satisfactory in this geographi-
cal sense, he is not satisfactory In
political sense otherwise.
The appointment of Senator kel.
logg, instead Of placatine the spirit
of insurgency among the western re-
Dpublicans, intensifies it. Senator kel.
logg Is one of the individual republi-
{ cans against whom the insurgent
&}entiment in the west has directed IT.
self.
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