White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-08-05

jority ever given to an American
president the hold of Mr.. Harding
on his following inevitably waned.
Attribute the vote to his personally,
to the opposition to wisconsin, the
league of nations or whatever YOU
will, the truth remains thai he
could not occupy the particular posi-
ton that he did and hold his own.
The election results of last fall ac-
tually lost him his grip on congress,
for while both houses are nominally
republican, the fact is that the in
surgents hold the balance of power
in both houses and the old school
republicans r in reality i'll the
minority. Yet on account of his pre-
jvious showing and the confession of
weakness in which it would involve
the party, had Harding lived, it
could not have afforded to have
turned him down as it's candidate
next year and he would have won
the nomination, probably by accla-
nation. But the nomination and the
ELECTIONS are far different things
these days. In the campaign he
would have faced the Johnson
Borah lukewarmness amounting to
opposition on international matters,
the La Follette-Magnus Johnson
Brookhart detection or practically all
major national issues, not to men,
ton the potentialies of the Henry
Ford candidacy. With all tender
ness and compassion for a good
hearted man who is gone it may be
said that Mr.. Harding is probably
the luckiest of the lot to be called
away from the strife he would have
been forced to face had the Ruler
of the destinies of all nations per-
mitted it.
AS it is the party's embarrass-
ment over the Ominous deadlock
has an out. If President Coolidge
lives up to his record of being as
progressive as he vas whna he
caused the passage of some rather
drastic railway laws while a mem
Der of the Massachusetts state sen.
ate, and his various acts on similar
lines while governor, he will have
seized the disappearing reins of con
troll before the runaway gains mo
mentum, saving what might other
wise have been irretrievably lost.
That the new president should have
said what he did, that he would fol
| tf,ur ont tbt. nn1iairc nf hio IA A1ayn.l
predecessor, keeping as many of his
cabinet as We're in harmony with
such policies, is but graceful and to
be expected. But Mr.. Coolidge long
since won his spurs in politics and
affairs for astutenesS, so never for
a moment think that he will let the
opportunity pass for turning pro-
gressive enough is his Judgment for
his party, with him as the NEST
likely nominee, to save its bacon in
November, 1924.
In other words, next years cleo,
tion will hinge on what Mr.. Cool
idge does. In intrinsic statesman
ship he has long been given a rating
above Mr.. Harding, though he is not
the mixer ncr the oonciliator. But,
fortunately for his immediate 20.
litical future, he has the Office with
out exhibition of these campaign
liabilities, SO that all in the world
he has to do now is to make good.
He can do that only by being pro-
gressive. The party is not going to
take the chance of nominating an
other r~eactionary, and the people
are not going to elect one. Victory
could be figured with Harding's per-
sonality as a campaign asset, but
there is no other member Of the old
guard in sight who would stand q
possible chance.